\n Junior motorcycle drag racer Alfie Barraclough, 12, of Thornton, had a CBBC documentary made about him, called My Life: The Fastest Boy in the World.\n<\/p>\n
\n It has just been nominated for a Royal Television Society NW award in the Best School-Age Children\u2019s Programme.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alfie Barraclough on the drag racing track(Image: Andy ‘Tog’ Rogers)\n<\/p>\n
Alfie Barraclough on TV show<\/p>\n
\n Alfie started riding motorbikes when he was just four-years-old.\n<\/p>\n
\n The documentary follows the youngster as he competes in a drag racing championship and attempts to break land speed records.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alfie\u2019s father Karl Barraclough said: \u201cThe BBC contacted us in January or February last year about Alfie\u2019s talent.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDrag racing is quite a unique sport, and the cameras followed him around all of last year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alfie Barraclough on the drag racing track(Image: Andy ‘Tog’ Rogers)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe show has been put forward in the Best School-Age Children\u2019s Programme category and it\u2019s now a shortlist for the awards, alongside shows like Blue Peter.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWinners will be announced at a ceremony on Friday, November 21, where they will be rolling out the red carpet.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Alfie Barraclough at the start line on the drag racing track(Image: Andy ‘Tog’ Rogers)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s massive with Alfie being from Bradford,\u201d said Mr Barraclough.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cGetting put forward as a nominee is unbelievable.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut Alfie himself always just takes in his stride.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe\u2019s more bothered about his racing and achieving his next goal.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Alfie Barraclough in the studios filming for the documentary(Image: UGC)\n<\/p>\n
Alfie hits speeds of over 60mph<\/p>\n
\n In the drag racing junior championships, the 12-year-old has reached top speeds of over 60mph.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, his dad said: \u201cSafety is paramount for Alfie.\n<\/p>\n
\n “For example, if there is a strong crosswind during a competition, Alfie won\u2019t race.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe respect his decisions and never push him to race.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe\u2019ll watch how other riders handle conditions, and if it\u2019s not safe he won\u2019t race.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAt the end of the day, he\u2019s riding a bike at over 60 mph.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
‘Alfie’s grown up with it’<\/p>\n
\n Mr Barraclough, who is a fire rescue medical technician and attends drag racing events as part of his job, explained: \u201cAlfie has grown up with the racing scene.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He sat at these events from being in a pram, coming and watching.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHis father and grandfather are rescue technicians, so Alfie\u2019s grown up with it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe\u2019s just always had a keen interest in both the racing and rescue of the events.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Alfie has also had another successful racing season.\n<\/p>\n
\n He recently just finished and won the Melbourne Raceway Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship 2025 in the age 8 to 16 category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Junior motorcycle drag racer Alfie Barraclough, 12, of Thornton, had a CBBC documentary made about him, called My…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-217372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}