Jordan eyes bike big time

The 18-year-old enters this year's Thundersport 600 Championship as the series favourite after an encouraging 2009.

Jordan finished sixth in the Thundersport 500 series, bagging two lap records and six front-row starts in the process.

His achievements led to him being named the Thundersport GB Young Rider of the Year.

As reported in the Advertiser, his redundancy-hit parents even sold the family caravan to raise funds to keep him on the track.

Now he's swapped his Honda CB500 for a Yamaha R6—paid for out of his own pocket—with the aim of making the step up to British Superbikes in 2011.

Dad Andy said: "Jordan is determined he's going to win the 600s and there no reason why he shouldn't.

"If he does well, we can use it as a stepping stone to get more funding with a view to joining British Superbikes next year.

"The good thing is that the whole 500 series was televised last year and there will be even more coverage this year."

Jordan, from Conisbrough, will start practising on his new bike in the next week or so ahead of the first Thundersport 600 meeting on March 12, 13 and 14.