{"id":537042,"date":"2026-07-07T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:00:11","slug":"familys-eccleshall-pride-as-superbike-winner-storm-stacey-spreads-mental-health-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537042\/","title":{"rendered":"Family’s Eccleshall pride as superbike winner Storm Stacey spreads mental health message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: This article contains themes of suicide and mental health<\/p>\n

For the family of a rising motor-sport star, it is not just his wins that are making them proud of him, it is also how he is raising awareness around mental health, after the death of his father.<\/p>\n

Storm Stacey was 13 when he found out his dad had taken his own life.<\/p>\n

A rising star in the British Superbike Championship, he has spoken openly of how that major life event affected him<\/a> and how he channels it into his sport “to go faster and be better”.<\/p>\n

For his older sister, Lola Stacey, she remembers how traumatic it was at the time, losing their dad.<\/p>\n

She supports Stacey at his races along with the rest of their family and documents his achievements, along with recording videos for his social media.<\/p>\n

“Dad was such a massive advocate for positive mental attitude,” she told me. “He had bipolar disorder, so obviously he was really struggling with the things that were going on his brain.<\/p>\n

“It was hard for [Stacey] to figure out where he was going to go and how he was going to make it happen.<\/p>\n

“But the thing is with Storm, is that he will make anything happen if he wants it to happen, and we did get that from our dad.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: This article contains themes of suicide and mental health For the family of a rising motor-sport star,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-537042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}