LEWIS Rollo’s first taste of the 2013 Monster Energy Motostar British Championship happened at Oulton Park this last weekend. Following a steep learning curve in the Aprilia RRV450GP Challenge from the beginning of the racing season, Lewis swapped his four stroke Aprilia for a more familiar two stroke Honda. Having competed at the Cheshire track [...]
KARTSTART Kirkcaldy played host to the first round of the Scottish Minimoto Championship and it is a well known track to North Easterner James Alderson. The youngster had a busy day on his hands practise, qualifying and the racing all in one day, not only that but James would competing in three categories Junior C, [...]
ROWRAH in Cumbria hosted the third round of the Fab Racing Minimoto Championship. Charlie Atkins would be the Sole YRF Junior representative with James Alderson concentrating on the Scottish Championship. Contending the Junior Production class aboard the Minimoto Racing/Scott Redding academy sponsored GRC production Minimoto and the MiniGP50 class on his Metrakit Mini GP50, Charlie [...]
THE recently redesigned and fast flowing Snetterton 200 circuit in Norfolk hosted round three of the Thundersport GB series. Young Scotsman Lewis Rollo used Friday’s practise sessions to set up the two Aprilia RRV 450 GP machines he would use in both the Aprilia RRV 450 GP Challenge and the 650 Minitwins class. Saturday’s qualifying [...]
EAST Fortune in East Lothian hosted the first round of the Scottish Road Racing Championship at the weekend. Local hero and Young Riders Funds very own Lewis Rollo was in attendance to compete in the Minitwins category and gain more valuable track time. With mixed conditions, it was the perfect opportunity to work on a [...]
THE 2013 season got well underway with rounds one and two of the FAB-Racing British Championship at Llandow in the south of Wales. The YRF Junior’s James Alderson and Charlie Atkins, have spent all winter waiting for this weekend to showcase their race craft to new sponsors. NGK supported rider James Alderson got the ball [...]
DONINGTON Park hosted the Robert Fearnall Trophy, round two of the Thundersport GB Championship. Although the meeting landed on the start of summer, it very much resembled the depths of winter, with early morning practise sessions being red flag due to snow on Sunday morning. Lewis Rollo had yet another challenging weekend ahead of him. [...]
THE 2013 season was kicked in to gear for YRF newbie Lewis Rollo this weekend, with a 400 mile trip from his home town of Gifford, Scotland to Brands Hatch, Kent. And due to a slight mishap at the Mallory Park test, a stop off at the Scott Leathers factory in Barnard Castle was required [...]
THE Young Riders Fund is pleased to announce that we will be supporting Lewis Rollo in his 2013 campaign. At the age of 13 the youngster from Gifford in Scotland, has already had quite an impressive racing career. He has dominated the Scottish Minimoto Championship for the last three years and in 2012 competed his [...]
WITH the ‘Off Season’ almost at an end, YRF Junior James Alderson took to the track for a little bit of fun in the annual Scottish Minimoto Winter Endurance race at Kartstart Kirkcaldy. The race is two hours long with a team of three picked randomly at sign on at the beginning of the day. [...]