The 5yr old racing wonder

Most of the good riders today started of pretty early. John Hopkins (Team Kawasaki, MotoGP) for instance started testing motor cycles at the age of 5. Following his footsteps to MotoGP is Karoon Moorthy from India. Karoon is the son of x-racer Kaushik Moorthy who raced with TVS Centigo Racing in the Indian racing scene.

Karoon is doing his first grade at Chennai in “GRT Vidhyalaya”. He is five years old and is easily the youngest competitor in our country. The lad’s closest competitor at present is twice his size and thrice his age. He owns two or more 30cc Pocket bikes (Two strokes) and rides them around the MMSC race track every alternate weekend. He is already a part of Gutzy Roadies Racing team which is based in Chennai. He is being trained by his father and other fellow racers. He has more than a 100 laps at the Chennai track and a few laps around the Kari-Speedway Coimbatore, tugged in as his experience. He holds the record for the Youngest Fastest Indian, and the youngest karting kid (covered by CNN-IBN and TIMES NOW). Karoon is also nominated for the Amazing kids award of 2008 by POGO. Witnessing him in action at the Kari Speedway, he was christened “The Indian Valentino Rossi” by UCAL & ROLON.

Now Karoon never shuts the throttle of the 30cc pocket bike at the tracks. This made Karoon long for more power on the straights and corner exits. Well everyone could notice the smile vanishing in his face when he saw the straights, and his dad made a note of it too. He was immediately presented with another pocket bike which runs on a 100cc mill. With his new bike, Karoon now evidently poses a threat to all the fellow racers in the Indian Racing scene.

- Varun Kumar.V