2007 Aprilia Superteen Champions
Magnum Motorsports are pleased to have one of UK’s most talented riders for the future Wayne Ryan using our race tuned and prepared engines for 2009 season.
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Wayne with MotoGP star James Toseland who was an ex-superteen rider.
British Moto Academy Rider Rogers improves at Assen
British Moto Academy rider Fraser Rogers started to show the form expected at round four of the Red Bull Rookies Cup at Assen. The youngest in the field of 27 Rogers has had difficulty in adapting to the KTM 125 machine over the earlier rounds.
One of the brightest young stars to emerge through the Aprilia Superteen Challenge series, Fraser is tipped to follow former Superteen competitors Bradley Smith and Danny Webb to compete in the 125 world Championship. The youngest rider to win the Aprilia Series in 2008 at just 12 years of age he shows remarkable maturity and control around the high speed machinery.
When not competing in the Rookies cup at Moto GP, Fraser is keeping his hand in on the British Moto Academy 125 Magnum Motorsport Honda in the ThundersportGB GP2 125 championship. The championship caters for stock and kitted 125 cc machines running both championships in the same race. This season ThundersportGB has fielded a grid of over 30 riders in the GP3 class due mainly to the slick management of Dave and Bernadette Stewart and the team behind them. It is fast becoming the championship for young 125 hopefuls and not forgetting the older 125 riders who want a weekend of top quality racing!
Whilst Fraser has struggled in the earlier rounds of the Red Bull series the standard of riders he is competing with has brought him on very quickly, and has carried the experience through to the domestic series. At the moment Fraser is leading both stock and kitted championships in the GP3 series no mean feat when you consider the stock Honda produces around five brake horsepower less than a fully kitted machine!
John Davies operational manager of the British Moto Academy ‘I watched Fraser a lot last years when he was competing in the Superteen Challenge, it was clear he had a lot of natural ability; when we sat down to consider the first recipient of the Academy scholarship Fraser was really the only choice despite a number of very good riders competing in the series he fitted our criteria perfectly. The aim of the Academy is to provide the right calibre of British rider an opportunity to place themselves in a position to move to the higher levels of the sport, without the grief usually associated with the undertaking’.
Fraser and his family provide regular updates throughout the Rookies cup weekend and give a fascinating insight of the progress of the next crop of Moto GP stars.
Ian Harris Fraser’s step dad is in the thick of the action as part of the two man pit crew which looks after the 125 KTM’s and produced the reports for the British Moto Academy team back in the UK:
‘After not a fantastic start to the season, Fraser showed real improvement at Assen. Free practice on Thursday went OK and finished 26th with a 1’56.959 he was right on the tail of Brad, Hayden and Deane.
With a 45min window while the Dutch Supersport guys were out Fraser had time to get his breath back and a drink while the crew changed the wheels and refuelled the bikes ready for qualifying. Qualify 1 got off to a really good start and at the midpoint Fraser was in P16 but unfortunately slipped off on the back chicane which left him in a P22 with a 1’53.815 but still his best position so far and another session still to go. Friday Qualifying 2 didn’t go quite as planned and just 7 laps in to the session Fraser fell at the same chicane whilst trying to pass Nico, unfortunately Fraser couldn’t rejoin as the crash had broken the front brake, this unfortunately meant Fraser was pushed back to 25th on the grid.
The race saw a unusually poor start from Fraser but with a bit of squabbling was 23rd at the end of lap one and got into a battle with Brad swapping place regularly and losing a couple of riders meant Fraser was 17th at the start of the last lap – as they say though ‘bad luck comes in 3’s’ and a bit too much throttle onto the back straight saw the bike swap ends and highside Fraser out of his best position yet – he managed to remount the bike and finish the lap in 2nd gear (footpeg and gearlever broke off) to bring it home 21st of 22 finishers. The outcome of the weekend meant the whole family went home high spirited and looking forward to Germany where hopefully Fraser can match or better his performance (without the crashes) and can taste some points coming soon, not forgetting he is Fraser is still only 13 and what he is achieving is still a fantastic result for such a young boy!’
Fraser and the British Moto Academy Team now move to round 6 of the ThundersportGB series at the superfast Snetterton circuit in Norfolk on 11& 12 of July.
Fraser getting to grips with the Red Bull KTM
13 year old Fraser Rogers on the JDF-Magnum Honda RS125
