We at the moment are accepting nominations and functions for the twenty ninth Annual Roadracing World Younger Gun Awards, highlighting up-and-coming younger street racers from North America.
To be thought-about for the Younger Weapons characteristic, a racer should be no youthful than 11 and no older than 18 on January 1st, 2025; have completed within the prime three in a sanctioned Skilled-level motorbike street race or Championship and reside inside the US, Canada, or Mexico or be a citizen of the U.S., Canada, or Mexico.
Riders can nominate themselves. Race sanctioning our bodies, sponsors and race groups are inspired to appoint younger riders, however riders or their dad and mom should request after which submit accomplished functions and supply images appropriate for publication by our deadline to be thought-about. (This works like a race: In the event you don’t enter, you gained’t get on the grid. Or extra particularly, if no person nominates you or your favourite younger racer, you or they gained’t be included.)
Riders who’ve beforehand been acknowledged as a Younger Gun ought to e mail [email protected] to replace their profile data and prepare submission of up-to-date images.
PDFs of the 2024 Younger Weapons characteristic within the print journal seem under. Every rider was additionally featured individually on roadracingworld.com .
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An instance of a person rider characteristic on roadracingworld.com will be seen by clicking on the picture under:
New candidates who want to be thought-about for the 2025 Younger Weapons characteristic ought to acquire, fill out and return a 2025 Younger Weapons questionnaire to Roadracing World by January thirtieth, 2025. Requests for questionnaires must be despatched through e-mail to [email protected].
Questionnaires should be crammed out utterly in English and be returned as a Phrase doc. Accomplished questionnaires must be returned to the identical [email protected] e-mail tackle.
An instance of a correctly filled-out 2024 questionnaire follows:
Rossi Moor
2024 Age: 16.
Present (2024) residence: Portland, Oregon.
Present (2024) peak/weight: 5′ 11″/153 kilos.
Present (2024) college grade degree: 10th grade.
Started driving at age: 2.5 years.
First street race: 2014, McMinnville, Oregon, Oregon Superbikers, 125cc four-stroke, 1st place.
2024 main racebike: Suzuki GSX-8R.
2024 staff/tuners/mechanics: Imaginative and prescient Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki/Brian Robertson/Robin Hawley.
2024 Main race sequence: MotoAmerica Twins Cup.
2024 Sponsors: Imaginative and prescient Wheel, M4 Efficiency Exhausts, ECSTAR, Suzuki, Mission Meals, Arai, RST, R&G, Hotbodies Racing, Vortex, EK Chains, TechSpec, Cordona, SportbikeTrackGear.com, HEL, 1-833-CJ-KNOWS, Roadracingworld.com, Workforce Hammer, Polyglass, 2Fast Monitor Days.
Current racing accomplishments: 2023 season, completed 2nd in MotoAmerica Junior Cup Championship (2 wins, 5 complete podiums), crashed out of the lead on final lap of CIV Aprilia RS 660 Cup race at Imola, gained 12 CVMA race wins; 2022 season, gained Northern Expertise Cup Championship (5 wins, 10 complete podiums in 12 race begins); 2021 season, completed 3rd in Northern Expertise Cup Championship (3 wins and 6 complete podiums in 14 races), completed 22nd whereas racing as a wild card within the FIM Moto3 Junior World Championship occasion at Valencia; 2020 season, gained MotoAmerica Mini Cup 190 Championship, gained FIM Ohvale 190 Mini Street Racing Championship; 2019 season, positioned 2nd in CIV (Italian) Ohvale GP-0 190 Nationwide Championship, gained MotoAmerica Ohvale Expertise Cup at Pittsburgh Worldwide Race Complicated, gained Ohvale GP-0 190 races in Hungarian Nationwide Championship, earned pole place and led a race at Ohvale World Championship, completed 25th in European Expertise Cup race at Jerez (was youngest participant).
2024 racing objective: Win MotoAmerica Twins Cup Championship.
Racing profession objectives: Win MotoGP World Championship.
Racing heroes: Valentino Rossi, Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Rainey.
Favourite tracks: Assen, Sachsenring.
Favourite hobbies: Gaming, biking, doing wheelies.
If I wasn’t racing I’d be…: A fighter.
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Along with accomplished questionnaires, candidates should additionally submit an motion photograph and a head shot (a photograph clearly displaying the rider’s face with out sun shades) appropriate for journal copy (head photographs taken with good telephones are normally acceptable). Every submitted photograph should embody written permission (an e-mail is appropriate) from the photographer (even when the photographer is a dad or mum) particularly giving Roadracing World Publishing the precise to publish the photograph(s) freed from cost within the Younger Weapons characteristic and on www.roadracingworld.com.
Digital motion images should be high-resolution, or 3000 pixels vast or tall at 4 inches. All images should be accompanied by the title of the photographer together with when and the place the photograph was taken, together with the title of the racetrack. Images should have no watermarks or graphics added, and photograph modifying must be saved to a minimal. Digital images are most well-liked.
Late and incomplete submissions will not be thought-about.
Younger Weapons options up to now have appeared within the November 1997, March 1999, February 2000, March 2001, February 2002, April 2003, April 2004, Could 2005, June 2006, April 2007, April 2008, April 2009, April 2010, April 2011, April 2012, March 2013, April 2014, April 2015, April 2016, April 2017, April 2018, April 2019, April 2020, April 2021, April 2022, April 2023, and April 2024 problems with Roadracing World & Bike Know-how. The Younger Weapons Courses of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 had been additionally featured individually on www.roadracingworld.com.
Please familiarize your self with our beforehand revealed Younger Weapons options earlier than contacting us to ask questions.
In the event you nonetheless have questions, e-mail [email protected].
The Roadracing World Younger Weapons sequence began as a solution to critics who stated North America lacked up-and-coming younger riders. Present or former Roadracing World Younger Weapons have: Raced in all lessons of the MotoGP World Championship (together with the Crimson Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup sequence) and FIM Superbike and Supersport World Championships, successful races and capturing World Championships; competed in European Championships and nicely as British, Canadian, Chinese language, Czech Republic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish Nationwide sequence; raced within the MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Championships (successful many races and Championships in all lessons, together with a number of Superbike titles); completed on the rostrum on the Suzuki GSX-R World Cup and the KTM RC Cup World Finals; gained Superbike Shootout races within the Superbike and Professional Sportbike lessons and gained the 2014 Dynojet Professional Sportbike Championship; gained Suzuki Cup Championships within the U.S.; earned WERA Nationwide Problem, Nationwide Endurance and Sportsman Nationwide Championships; gained ASRA/System USA Grand Nationwide and CCS Nationwide Championships; collected USGPRU titles; and gained many native and regional Championships.
Riders who’ve been featured in Younger Weapons embody:
2017 MotoAmerica Superstock 600 Champion Jason Aguilar (R.I.P.);
2013 AMA Professional SuperSport East Champion, 2022 MotoAmerica Inventory 1000 Champion, and MotoAmerica Superbike podium finisher Corey Alexander;
AMA Professional Daytona SportBike race winner Tommy Aquino (R.I.P.);
2008 Crimson Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Champion, two-time MotoAmerica Supersport Champion, and MotoAmerica Superbike race winner J.D. Seashore;
five-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Cameron Beaubier;
MotoAmerica Twins Cup race winner Jackson Blackmon;
former Canadian Sport Bike Champion Tomas Casas;
MotoAmerica 2024 Junior Cup Champion Matthew Chapin;
three-time Canadian Sport Bike Champion and 2014 Canadian Superbike Champion Jodi Christie;
MotoAmerica Supersport podium finisher and Canadian Superbike race winner Torin Collins;
former AMA Professional SuperSport East Champion and MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 race winner Josh Day;
2011 Daytona 200 winner Jason DiSalvo;
2014 AMA Professional SuperSport Championship runner-up and present MotoAmerica staff proprietor Dustin Dominguez;
2018 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Champion, 2019 MotoAmerica Twins Cup Champion, and 2021 Canadian Superbike Champion Alex Dumas;
four-time Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb race winner and former motorbike monitor document holder Carlin Dunne (R.I.P.);
Canadian Superbike race winner Bodhi Edie;
two-time AMA Professional Daytona SportBike Champion, two-time AMA Professional XR1200/Harley-Davidson Champion and four-time Daytona 200 winner Danny Eslick;
2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion and 2020 and 2024 MotoAmerica Superbike race winner Bobby Fong;
2010 Crimson Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Champion, 2014 AMA Professional Daytona SportBike Champion, 2015 MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North America Superstock 1000 Champion, and three-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Jake Gagne;
two-time MotoAmerica Supersport Champion and World Superbike podium finisher Garrett Gerloff;
2017 MotoAmerica Superstock 600 Championship runner-up Michael Gilbert;
2014 AMA Professional SuperSport Champion, 2023 MotoAmerica Inventory 1000 Champion, 2023 MotoAmerica King Of The Baggers Champion, 2024 Loudon Traditional winner, and 2024 MotoAmerica Inventory 1000 Champion Hayden Gillim;
2002 AMA Superbike Champion and 2006 FIM MotoGP World Champion Nicky Hayden (R.I.P.);
2007 AMA Professional 600cc Supersport Champion, 2014 AMA Professional Superbike Championship runner-up, and 2017 MotoAmerica Superbike Championship runner-up Roger Hayden;
eight-time AMA Professional Superbike race winner and two-time AMA Supersport Champion Tommy Hayden;
2013 AMA Professional Superbike Champion, 2016 MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 Champion, 2022 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion, and 2024 MotoAmerica Superbike Champion Josh Herrin;
MotoAmerica Supersport podium finisher Teagg Hobbs;
AMA Professional Superstock race winner Jake Holden;
2000 AMA Professional 750 Supersport Champion, 2001 AMA Professional System Xtreme Champion, 2011 British Superbike Championship runner-up, MotoGP podium finisher, and World Superbike common John Hopkins;
2015 Supersport World Championship runner-up, 2019 MotoAmerica Supersport Championship runner-up, and 2023 MotoAmerica Superbike race winner Patrick “P.J.” Jacobsen;
2021 MotoAmerica Supersport Champion, Moto2 World Championship competitor, and MotoAmerica Superbike race winner Sean Dylan Kelly;
Canadian Superbike race winner Kevin Lacombe;
two-time MotoAmerica Junior Cup Champion, MotoAmerica Twins Cup Champion, MotoAmerica Supersport race winner, MotoAmerica Baggers race winner Rocco Landers;
two-time MotoAmerica Inventory 1000 Champion Andrew Lee;
2021 MotoAmerica Inventory 1000 and Superbike Cup Champion Jake Lewis;
MotoAmerica Supersport race winner Sam Lochoff;
MotoAmerica Superstock 600 race winner Nick McFadden;
AMA Professional SuperSport race winner and MotoAmerica Supersport race winner Stefano Mesa;
Elena Myers, the primary and solely lady to win AMA Professional Supersport races;
AMA Professional XR1200 race winner, multi-time Loudon Traditional winner, and 3-time Baggers Racing League (BRL) Champion Shane Narbonne;
2012 Canadian Superbike Championship runner-up Andrew Nelson;
2016 MotoAmerica KTM RC Cup Champion, 2019 British Motostar (Moto3) Champion, MotoAmerica Supersport podium finisher, MotoAmerica Superbike racer and two-time Daytona 200 winner Brandon Paasch;
2012 Daytona 200 winner and 2010 AMA Professional Supersport West Champion Joey Pascarella;
2016 MotoAmerica Superstock 600 Champion and MotoAmerica Supersport podium finisher Bryce Prince;
AMA Professional and Canadian Nationwide race winner and multi-time N2/WERA Nationwide Endurance Champion Chris Peris;
two-time AMA Professional SuperSport Nationwide Champion, British Supersport podium finisher, 2020 AFT Manufacturing Twins Champion, and 2024 MotoAmerica King Of The Baggers podium finisher James Rispoli;
2015 MotoAmerica Superstock 600 Champion, MotoAmerica Supersport race winner, and 2023 and 2024 Moto2 World Championship race winner Joe Roberts;
2023 and 2024 MotoAmerica Supersport race winner, 2023 Loudon Traditional winner and 2024 Daytona 200 podium finisher Tyler Scott;
former Crimson Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup Champion and former FIM Moto2 European Championship competitor Benny Solis, Jr.;
three-time AMA Professional Superbike Champion, 2009 Superbike World Champion, MotoGP race winner, and AMA Bike Corridor of Famer Ben Spies;
multi-time AMA Professional race winner and four-time total WERA Nationwide Endurance Champion Chris Ulrich;
MotoAmerica Supersport and Inventory 1000 podium finisher and former World Superbike competitor Jayson Uribe;
2017 MotoAmerica KTM RC Cup Championship runner-up, 2018 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Championship runner-up, and MotoAmerica Supersport podium finisher Cory Ventura;
Canadian Superbike race winner Alex Welsh;
former AMA Professional Superbike Rookie of the 12 months, Chinese language Superbike Championship race winner, MotoAmerica Supersport podium finisher and 2024 MotoAmerica Tremendous Hooligan Champion Cory West;
MotoAmerica Junior Cup and Superbike Cup race winner, and 2024 Superbike Cup Champion Ashton Yates;
and two-time AMA Professional Superbike Championship runner-up Blake Younger.
