WARRINGTON-based J & K Ross has announced sponsorship of two up-and-coming local motorcycle racers, Adam Perks and Ben Dale.
Chairman Chris Ross said: “I’m a massive fan of all classes of two-wheeled motorsport from grassroots right up to MotoGP, both short circuit and road racing’ so it is a great pleasure to be able to support these two guys in this our first season of sponsorship.”
Adam Perks, Electrical Engineer, aged 31, rides a Triumph Daytona 675. He got his first motorbike, a PW50 for Christmas when he was nine-years-old and remembers jumping on it straight away and taking off, using that for a couple of years, riding where he could whenever he could!
On turning 11 he started racing minimotos and as soon as he could get a full unrestricted motorcycle licence he did and started doing track days on a GSXR600, which he later turned into a race bike and raced 4 rounds at Darley Moor in
2021.
His results got better and better in 2021 so he bought a Triumph Daytona 675 for the 2022 season.
Thanks to Chris and the team at J & K Ross for the sponsorship, it means he has been able to enter both the Darley Moor championship and the Thundersport championships in 2022!
Adam in action
In the future – he would like to try some road racing as well as short circuits.
Meanwhile, Ben Dale, a bricklayer, aged 33 from Warrington passed his bike test at age 21 and spent a few years stunt riding hence the name “EndoBen ”
He passed his ACU in August 2020 and chose Darley moor for three rounds that year as one of the cheaper places to ride, coming away with 3 top 5 finishes. This made his decision to do a full season there 2021 an easy one.
He ran in the pre-Electronic 600 class aboard a CBR 600 FX 1999. Scoring full points at every round and breaking the overall race record based on an 8-lap race by 4.5 seconds.
Always wanting to push a little further, he chose to run Formula 600 for 2022 aboard a triumph 675. Once again due to the rising costs of life in general, he’ll be sticking with Darley Moor as the prize for winning the previous championship is free entries the following year.
For the future, more rounds at various clubs and tracks would be nice. Ben believes that he and his team, Neil Percival and Brian Crank, could do well at most circuits when more funds are available.
Ben in action
