In 2011 Rowan has been mainly racing in Spain (CEV) we teamed up with Cougar Red on a development bike, unfortunetly the bike proved to be uncompetitive and by June we were out of funds (the idea was that qualifying would sustain the finances)

In May Rowan got tailgated on the Cougar red bike at Pembrey resulting in the bike being too damaged to continue, Steve Bostock stepped in and offered Rowan a Ride on the NGRRC club bike for the Sunday, Rowan duly did 3 laps of practice, then had a machanical in the first race (tank cover came off!) in the second race Rowan started from the back of the grid and got to second place with fastest lap!
results here
http://www.ngroadracing.org/results_data/2011/pembrey_15may/gp45mt.pdf

Since that point Rowan has had one outing at Brands Hatch riding the Neatafan 450 Machine in Thunderbikes, once again we were offered the ride at short notice, the bike was puled from under a staircase (I kid you not!) cleaned off and put into service, Friday and Saturday were spent getting the thing running right with Row only managing a few laps, on Sunday once the gremlins were out Rowan got two second places missing out on the win by 0.4 of a second against an assortment of Ducati 996,748s and Aprillia RRV450 etc
see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkhIWZtswI&feature=related

I cannot find the official results for this - however here are the championship standings showing Row in 19th place along with his points for that weekend.
http://www.thunderbike.org.uk/results.php

So its been a bit of a frustrating year for us (Rowan espcially) seeing some of his contempories doing so well at BSB GP125 has been galling to say the least!

Looking forward to 2012. since September I have been saving every spare penny!
I have also been building a MOTO3 bike for Rowan, the project is backed by Neatafan and the plan is to run the bike at BSB and CEV in 2012 funds permitting.
If you wish to know more detail please email me on oldboyonrgv@gmail.com

We are not down hearted, its been a big learning year, Rowan will be back stronger next year

Gary Miller

Racing in the U.K and Spain in British superbikes and CEV
on board a Honda RS125.