SPEED-SEEKER Brad Jackson has been propelled into Europe’s drag racing elite barely three months into his rookie season.

So impressive has been the wheel-searing way Jackson has burned up the tracks in his first competitive campaign of drag racing that he has attracted the endorsement of a Continental king of the circuit.

Andy Carter, the current European champion who regularly sits behind the wheel of a machine that zooms from nought to 320 miles per hour in a phenomenal four seconds, has taken the Naburn-based speedster under his wing.

Explained Jackson’s dad Wayne Jackson: “Besides the sponsorship Brad gets from top American supplier Lucas Oil, Andy Carter has also said he will provide some sponsorship. He thinks Brad shows promise.”

Now on a summer break from the sport until August 29, the Fulford School pupil is currently leading the Apira Junior Championship based at the Shakespeare Country Raceway at Stratford-on-Avon.

He is also eighth overall in the UK Junior Dragster Championship in his debut year.

His one major blip has been making the final of one of the Apira events at the Shakespeare Raceway only for the showdown to be called off because of rain to deny him a chance of bagging his first race victory.