Jake Dixon had a comfortable career in front of him in 2017. Having stepped up to the British Superbike Championship in 2016 for a part-campaign that was interrupted by a broken hip following a brake failure at Oulton Park, he bounced back with his first race wins in 2017. The youngest ever rider to make BSB’s old showdown championship-deciding format, in 2018 he was runner-up in the standings.
Money was coming in, trophies were piling up. Dixon likely would be a multiple BSB champion by now, perhaps trying his luck in World Superbikes. But in 2019, he chucked that all in to chase his MotoGP dream and joined the Aspar squad in Moto2.
