A “DREAM” will come true for Lewis Rollo when he lines up on the grid of the premier class of British motorcycle racing next month.

The 24-year-old has been racing bikes for nearly 20 years with a view to competing in the British Superbikes and now gets the chance to do so this season.

Official testing takes place next weekend at Donington Park before the green flag is waved at the Circuito de Navarra in Spain a fortnight later.

Rollo said: “We have finally got there after many years of trying!

“I am buzzing.

“There were a couple of years in 2021 and 2022 where they were obviously really hard years for me.

“Last year, getting back with the Aprilia team, I like the bike, I had a good year and I was back out getting my confidence back up – then, finally, being able to get the team and sponsorship, everything in position so that we can make that step-up.

“It is just absolutely brilliant for everyone.”

Rollo, who lives in Gifford, has been on a bike since he was just three before starting schoolboy motocross just two years later.

Since then, he has been racing at circuits up and down the country and returning home with a string of podium finishes and race wins.

The latest step, which will see racers compete over 11 rounds between April and October, takes him to the top of the sport on British shores.

Rollo said: “The British Superbikes and going up to Knockhill or going to Donington are some of my first memories of motorbike racing.

“I would be going up to Knockhill on the back of my dad’s bike to watch it or going down to Donington Park to watch the MotoGP and World Superbikes.

“As a wee boy, that is what we looked up to.

“Even from five or six years old you watch it on television and they were people you looked up to.”

This year, a pathway class has been introduced into British Superbikes to help those making the step-up to the high-adrenaline action.

Rollo and his team will be looking to catch the eye there as they attempt to quickly get up to speed.

Alex Olsen and Billy McConnell, who competed alongside Rollo in the National Superstock series last year, are also making the step-up.

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Rollo was targeting competing alongside them and said: “When you move up, it is pretty much trying to beat people you were racing against but, it is the same again, you take it as it comes.

“I’m quite level-headed, I am not one of them who is going to say I am going to go out and beat everybody.

“They are the best in Britain and you have got riders from Australia coming across to race too.

“We have set a realistic aim for points first, which is the top 15, and then aiming for the top 10.

“Once you get into the top 10, you are not far away from getting podiums.

“You never know, if it rains we might be able to do a good ride and get on the podium!”