January 30, 2013 at 5:54 p.m.
Like father like son...
GP 125 bike racer’s getting caught up — by his six-year-old boy
Jazari is the youngest competitor at the Southside track.
But his taste for high-speed racing should come as no surprise given that his dad is former Bermuda champion Shannon Caisey.
Firefighter Caisey, who is currently second in the GP 125 standings for this season, said his nerves had been shredded watching his son attempt daring overtaking moves on tight bends and pushing the pedal to the metal on the straightaways.
"He's always playing Moto GP on the PlayStation now he's putting it into practice. I was more of a nervous wreck than my wife was. I kept thinking - he's not supposed to be going this fast, this soon.
'Faster, daddy!'
"Now he wants to beat everybody. He keeps telling me to make his bike faster but that's not going to happen just yet."
Caisey jnr. crashed out on the first race but got back on the bike and finished third.
Second time out, he was bumped out again and this time his clutch didn't recover for him to finish the race.
But the youngster was not deterred.
"He fell both times but he got right back on. He was mad that he didn't win.
"That was only his fourth time riding the bike, I took him out over the Cup Match holiday to see how he made out.
"But he really surprised me on Sunday. That was the first time I had seen him go that fast.
"After the first race he told me he'd pulled the front brake too hard on the corner and that's why he'd decked out.
"I was amazed at how he could work out what had gone wrong. He's going to be a quick learner.
Jazari rides a 40cc mini-bike. It can touch speeds of up to 60mph but his dad has currently got it modified so it won't go much faster than 35mph.
"He wants to go faster but I don't want to scare him just yet."
If it was up to Jazari, he would already have been riding for several years.
He's been following his dad around to races since he was a baby and as soon as he could walk he has wanted to ride.
"He's been begging me and begging me since he was three-years-old to let him ride.
We have had the bike for a couple of years but it's been in pieces and I've been slowly assembling it.
"Once he found out it was assembled he badgered me all day and all night. He was pulling it off the trailer and pushing it up and down the neighbourhood and up and down the pit lanes on race days.
"He's always been around bikes. He eats, sleeps and breathes motor-racing, When he's home he's playing Moto GP, when he's at the track he's always watching the other racers and trying to learn.
"If you ask him what he wants to be in life he'll tell you he wants to be a bike racer."[[In-content Ad]]
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