Robbie Stewart is this year’s winner of the Dorna Academy Cup which rewards the Perthshire schoolboy racer’s determined performances with a career enhancing visit to the Red Bull MotoGP Academy in Spain.
Bradley Smith became the youngest ever British rider to take a top three finish in the World 125cc Championship in the weekend’s French Grand Prix, at the same time becoming the first British rider since 1989 to claim a podium finish in this category. The 16 year old Oxfordshire schoolboy has been groomed for stardom at the Red Bull MotoGP Academy, run by Dorna, and is now in his second year riding for the Repsol Honda team, but, he spent the formative years of his short career in the British 125GP Championship.
Talented young British riders will again be given a career boost in a joint initiative between the Motorcycle Circuit Racing Control Board and Dorna, the commercial rights holders of both the Bennetts British Superbike Championship and the World MotoGP Championship. The Dorna Academy Cup is a race within the main British 125GP Championship and is held at each round of the country’s premier motor sport series, the British Superbike Championship.