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Hi my name is Jason Douglas and I would like to tell you about my experience at red bull rookies for a chance to race in the Moto GP.

I applied for this with thousands of other kids from all over the world. Out of these thousands there were 39 picked and out of Britain there was 2 picked I was one of them, a massive achievement.

We flew out on Sunday morning and once we got to Italy we went straight to the race track and had a look around . Monday we had to go to the track at night for a meeti… Continue

well Jason has reached the red bull rookies test he is 1 of 2 from united kingdom there is only 39 from the world this is in my mined a major achievement and Jason would like to thank red bull and it sponsors for without them Jason and other riders hoo at the moment don't have the chance due to only family backing but red bull give the chance to ordinary kids hoo love the sport to have a chance to shine jazz#21 long may it continue

Saturday
We had practise to see how the bike goes and what gearing to run. We had six practise sessions on that day and they all went well until in the second last practise I came out of clearways at brands hatch and high sided at over a hundred m.p.h I was ok but the bike wasn’t I bent the seat Frame smashed the fairings up and ripped my leathers but apart from that the rest of the bike was ok so I did not go out in the last session.

Sunday
Was qualifying and race in the afternoon after lunch… Continue

Friday
We arrived at the track for the Friday practise I had never been to Friday
We arrived at the track for the Friday practise I had never been to Anglesey before so it was all new to me. After a days practise I really enjoyed the track my time of the day was 1:19 so I was pleased with that.

Saturday
The weather was really bad and the meeting got delayed by an hour because the wind was really strong. It would’ve been ok for the bigger bikes but not for the 125s because we would get blown awa… Continue

sorry for the delay, well off we go to motogpto race with thundersport gp3 we had 20 min qualifying on Thursday. So off we go to the holding area with slicks and tyre warmers but the weather was not looking hopeful and in true British tradition the wets went on . So we had wet qualifying in the session Jason was having problems with quick shifter but with only 20 mins he had to keep going and make the best of the time he in the end up he was in 22ed which is not good but nothing we can do we rac… Continue