ROKiT Racing Star TV Documentary Series Now Available to View Online
July 01 2024 - 6:22AM
Business Wire
The first 2 of 6 episodes can now be viewed via the ROKiT
Flix app and online free of charge
Conceived and implemented by the Chairman of ROKiT Industries,
Jonathan Kendrick and the late Bob Fernley, the ROKiT Racing Star
documentary series tells the incredibly exciting and emotional
story of the search for new young driving talent in a highly
ambitious and first-of-its-kind 'sim to circuit' competition with
the hugely valuable prize of fully-funded drives in the British
Formula 4 championship for the winners.
Commenting, Jonathan Kendrick said: "We launched ROKiT Racing
Star because we know the biggest barrier to top-level success and
progress in motorsport is money, or the lack thereof, for most
aspiring young drivers. Motorsport is terribly expensive and way
beyond the reach of most people, so Bob and I wanted to offer a
couple of talented young sim racers the chance to drive
fully-funded cars in the real world of the ROKiT British F4
championship. We saw it as a way to give something back to a sport
we have both been heavily involved with for many years."
Launched in 2022, ROKiT Racing Star was a series of sim races
run on several virtual race tracks with thousands of young drivers
from across the UK competing to post the best possible times.
At the end of the races, 23 of the overall fastest sim drivers
then attended the ROKiT Racing Star Grand Final at the University
of Bolton's National Centre for Motorsport Engineering (NCME) to
compete for a chance to win up to 2 coveted drives in the
real-world 2023 British F4 championship, with truly remarkable
results.
The first 2 episodes of the ROKiT Racing Star TV documentary
series can now be viewed free of charge via the www.rokitflix.com
app and online at ROKiT Racing Star S1 EP1 - ROKiT Flix with a new
episode to be added every week over the next 4 weeks and you can
watch the 2 minute trailer here 2024 - ROKiT Sizzle 1 - V2 on
Vimeo
Jonathan Kendrick added, "I'm delighted that Bob and I were able
to put this unique project together before he sadly and
unexpectedly passed away, but I know he shared my view that giving
young talent the chance to progress and succeed in top level
motorsport, without financial obstacles, is a tremendously good
thing to do and I know he'd be enormously proud of the effect the
project has had so far. I'm pleased to say now that the second
ROKiT-sponsored competition will begin shortly and will be global
in scale."
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