Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

Racer Mark Brereton’s recently released DVD is gaining fans. The DVD, titled RoadRACE, contains on-bike footage from several 2003-season WERA races.

Brereton, 31, who moved to the United States from the United Kingdom in 1998 and began racing with WERA in April 2002, compiled the 80-minute DVD from over 30 hours of footage and did all of the production and editing in-house.

According to Brereton, “I wanted to make something entertaining, that showed club level road racing at its purest. I was inspired to a certain extent by a Roadracing World article at the start of the season that was critical of current commercial TV coverage of road racing, at the AMA, World Superbike and Grand Prix levels. So, I wanted to see what I could produce in the way of innovative camera angles, etc.”

RoadRACE features nine different camera positions, including views of the rider’s knee-puck, rear tire from under the bike, rear suspension and foot, as well as the more traditional front- and rear-facing footage. It also features a track library of on-board laps from Barber Motorsports Park, Road Atlanta, Roebling Road Raceway, Virginia International Raceway, Nashville, Jennings GP, Talladega and Carolina Motorsports Park.

The DVD is available at in the sports section of www.customflix.com/205296, and for every DVD sold Brereton donates $5 to the Roadracing World Action Fund. To date the DVD has already generated $1850 for the Action Fund, which promotes the use of soft barriers to increase rider safety.

For 2004 Brereton will film and produce another DVD. “I will film next season as I did this last season. I’m planning to use more camera angles, and to try to be more daring in the placement of the camera. I’m going to buy a second camera to shoot more trackside footage – which has been difficult when the only camera I had is attached to the bike. I’d like to put the camera on a variety of bikes, and capture more racing from other classes, too. I’d like to get many more tracks on film, also.”