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…
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Added by jason douglas on October 14, 2009 at 4:18pm —
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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
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Added by jason douglas on October 2, 2009 at 11:58pm —
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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…
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Added by jason douglas on September 9, 2009 at 7:55pm —
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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…
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Added by jason douglas on August 20, 2009 at 5:06pm —
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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…
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Added by jason douglas on August 3, 2009 at 7:36pm —
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Mallory park for emra to give Jason and me some time with the bike as i am learning about the bike and set up as i don't have the help or knowledge that some other riders do. we were first to qualify Jason was complaining about chatter and lack off power we were running the bike rich so we made some changes with jetting and suspension for the first race i qualified 8th. So in the first race it was warm and getting hotter in the race the started to slide and it got worse but i had a good race and…
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Added by jason douglas on June 15, 2009 at 12:53pm —
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well another race this time at oulton park we were at thundersport. Friday we had a test day which was warm and sunny we had about six sessions this was good for me due to the lack off track time for me. things went well and we think we found a good setting for Saturday but come Saturday the British weather stopped that idea so we had to get the wets on and change things we went with dunlop wets for qualifying i have not used them before so i was not sure about them. When the i came back in i to…
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Added by jason douglas on June 9, 2009 at 9:32am —
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well after Mallory bike pros and not getting to race we moved on to call this is a circuit i love we arrived for practice on Saturday it was wet the bike felt really good bridgestone wets working great no problems with bike it was working well. We moved on to Sunday weather was cold and there was a wind found it hard to keep temperature up in bike so qualifying was not so good the bike felt slow on the straight but in and out corners was very strong. On the first qualifier i was in 17th with a 1…
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Added by jason douglas on April 16, 2009 at 1:07pm —
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hi guys looking forward to first round as last year was a long time ago. I have not been able to do any testing so i will just have to wait and see how things go. The bike has been painted and new tyres on ready to go just cant wait hope weather is OK will update my blog at let you no how it goes just looking forward to racing again not looking forward to travelling?? PS good luck to tom weeden and the rest of the guys going to bsb and Spain
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Added by jason douglas on March 5, 2009 at 9:25am —
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hi guys looking forward too the start off the season ? I will be doing thundersport on my honda gp 125 if i can get money and hope to do the last round off bsb what about every one else let me no cheers.
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Added by jason douglas on January 16, 2009 at 7:17pm —
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hi guys was at mallory on sunday on my 80cc metrakit it was a good turn out for all clases . The formula 125 cc was helped by thunder sport which put 39 riders on the grid it was a mix off metrakit 80 and aprilia 125 . which made for good racing for me i qualified in 14th in 1.05,812 out off 39 riders i was top metrakit so in the first race it was real fun it to the first corner i was on my metrakit which is not as big as the aprilia there was a lot off good faring bashing i had good race with t…
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Added by jason douglas on October 21, 2008 at 11:30am —
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hi there racing coming to an end. was at knockhill at the weekend weather on saturday was cold and wet qualified 8 on the grid will have to learn to qualify but got a good strart and had a good race with andrew tasker and i finished third in front off andrew .
in the second race it was warmer got a good start the pase was quicker again had to work my way threw the pack it was fun this time had a good race with matthew paulo so this time i took second place. there was a a big crowd at the hairp…
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Added by jason douglas on October 8, 2008 at 12:14pm —
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hi guys just an up date I was at cadwell park in august with the new metrakit 80cc.
I have been testing it at brands and cadwell i took second place against the 125 aprilias which is the best result for a metrakit 80cc in the mro i all so got rookie off the day so i was happy. I all so got black flag due to smoke from the bike my dad could not find where it was from the problem would cause be probs all weekend until the last race my dad found the leak something to do with hydraulic clutch…
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Added by jason douglas on August 12, 2008 at 5:13pm —
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hi guys this is an update of my weekend racing at Brands Hatch.
On friday I was out on the new 80cc Metrakit nice bike spent most off the day trying to get a setup with the bike i.e. carb and suspension it was getting good we then made some more changes to the bike but in the last session it was raining so could not test but the bike feels good.
saturday
on saturday it was qualifying i went out on my old bike due to lack off set up with new one . I qualified10th my lap time was 58.442 and i…
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Added by jason douglas on July 25, 2008 at 9:59pm —
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just a quick up date on my racing? knockhill saturday 21st got out bed got my leathers on then went to get my bike checked so i could go racing ? I went back and waited till qulifying I went out and qualified 12th because my bike broke down on the 4th lap.
so I went out on my other bike which was bought for me by garrion bridges garden centre . I had not tested this bike it is the new shape but it was not long before i got used to it.
In race one i finished 2nd and I got the fastest lap in my…
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Added by jason douglas on June 25, 2008 at 7:31pm —
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went to knockhill to race on sunday 25th may weather was nice unlike down south we had sunshine. i was racing my metrakit 80cc which i race for fab-racing hoo import metrakit in to the uk .it was a good weekend i qulifiyed 8th out off 17 rs arilias my bike is a 77 cc wich is cl…
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Added by jason douglas on May 27, 2008 at 3:47pm —
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well here we go again back to knockhill here is hoping we get to race will pst results on moday then on thursday on my way to brandshatch with mro and bsb should be a good weekend here is hoping good lick to any one racing hope you all havea good one
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Added by jason douglas on April 30, 2008 at 9:35pm —
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hi guy just a quick note . east fortune was good at the weekend i qulifyed 3 on the grid but there was gp125 s in front so had to get buy them off the strart i did this then they went past on the straight but in looked good in the first race i took first place and niall campbell took 2ed and d chappell 3rd . then the second race this was good got not so good strart gp bikes in the way but still beat them in to first corner and then they went by on the straight niall cot up with me as i went to s…
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Added by jason douglas on April 23, 2008 at 9:00am —
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GOING RACING THIS WEEKEND AT EAST FORTUNE IN SCOTLAND HOPE THEIR IS NO SNOW LIKE KNOCKHILL . WILL POST RESULTS AND SMALL REPORT AFTER WEEKEND THEN IT IS OFF TO CADWELL PARK FOR THE M R O ON THE 22/23 OFF APRIL ANOTHER NEW TRACK TO LEARN ONCE AGAIN HOPE NO SNOW Continue
Added by jason douglas on April 14, 2008 at 8:54pm —
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