AFTER serving an apprenticeship of more than five years in flat track racing, Singleton rider Alex Kenworthy-Jones has followed his school mate Billy Van Eerde’s footsteps – and made the full-time leap to road racing motorbikes this season.
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While Van Eerde is living in Andorra, Spain, and competing on international circuits in Europe and Asia, the local youngster is representing the North Coast Road Racers Club on tracks from Lismore in the north to Tamworth in the central west of NSW.
This year’s season has been successful for Kenworthy-Jones at club level, winning three of the five club race weekends he has attended.
A typical race weekend includes seven races ranging from six to 12 laps in length.
Kenworthy-Jones currently holds a seven-point lead over his nearest rival in this battle.
He’s also contesting the 2018 NSW Short Course Road Race State Championships, which is conducted over three rounds at tracks around NSW.
Kenworthy-Jones has picked up some good points at the past two rounds, taking third in the first event and a win in the second.
He is presently leading the championship pointscore by six, heading into the last fixture.
This third and final round will be held in Tamworth in late September.
Kenworthy-Jones is competing alongside another Singleton high school road racer Josh Adams at the championship.
Adams has just started racing with the North Coast Road Racers Club this year, so the organisation and the youngsters’ families wish both of them the best of luck for this upcoming weekend.
