WATCH: Pocket-sized biker Jimmy Lee Parker is a Facebook star
An eight-year-old mini moto rider from the Black Country - who started rising at the age of just six - is quickly becoming an internet sensation.
Jimmy Lee Parker, a pupil at Short Heath Junior School in Walsall now has more than 1,200 Facebook fans, after posting photographs and videos from competitions across the country.
The fearless rider races youngsters as old as 13 in the British Mini Bikes Championship, travelling with his mother Joanne, 37, and father Lee, 40, across the UK to get to events.
Joanne said: "So far we've been up to Scotland, Daventry, Redlodge and Rednal.
"He's currently second on the Championship grid, he's doing really well.
"He's had first, second or third for each round that he has done, he's always achieving and progressing."
Jimmy has now been racing competitively for the past 12 months, with the journey starting at six years of age when his father bought him a mini moto.
Joanne said: "He has been a riding a bike since he was two. He had a KTM and we were thinking of getting him into motocross then his dad bought him a mini moto and he went to Ace Karting in Walsall.
"He liked mini moto as soon as he started and when we saw the British Mini Bikes Championship competition come up and we entered him and he's doing really well.
"We used to take him to Daventry on a Tuesday night every week for training but we don't do that anymore, instead he practices at each of the rounds that he races.
"He will practice on a Saturday to fathom the track and then on a Sunday he will have practice, qualifying, race one and then race two."
His racing is a big commitment for the family - with the events lasting all day.
Good day on the pitbike and mini today, 10mm restrictor in the mini made it very slow, tried the 14mm for half the session
Posted by Jimmy lee parker on Sunday, 1 March 2015
Joanne said: "The races he does are part of an all day event, it can start at 10 in the morning and won't finish until five at night."
She said Jimmy's school, Short Heath Junior has been really supportive of his quest to become British Mini Bikes Champion, adding: "All the trophies that he wins he takes to school and does a bit of a show and tell and one of his teachers has said that he will try to come and watch one of his races. Everyone has been very supportive.
"He really loves riding his bike, if he's not on his mini moto he's on his trials bike.
"Racing is his passion, we tried to get him into football at school but he only went once - he's made for a bike.
The British Mini Bikes championship kicked off in March at Daventry's Whilton Mill, with the season coming to an end on October 25 at Redlodge, Suffolk.
There are 10 individual races, of which he has taken part in five so far - taking first place in the last one.
The winner will be the rider who has amassed the most points over the season.
The family is now looking to find sponsorship for Jimmy, who has a total of 312 points and is just 27 off leader Chloe Jones. His next race will be at Lydd, Kent in August.
Jimmy said: "I really enjoy it, even though it is quite hard work."
The requirements for British Mini Bikes' mini moto junior 4.2 novice class are that riders are aged between six and 13 years of age, with their bike having a maximum engine capability of 40cc.
All riders must wear full leather protection with body armour and back protection inserts, good quality protective gloves, full length race boots and a suitable helmet.
For more information on Jimmy's upcoming races and past triumphs visit his Facebook page.
Full details on British Mini Bikes can be found at www.britishminibikes.com
