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 FRAMPTON, Jordan John
DATE OF BIRTH: 8 March 1985, Poole, Dorset.
BRITISH CAREER: (2004) Swindon II, King's Lynn II, Sheffield II; (2005) Sittingbourne; (2006) Plymouth, Mildenhall, Weymouth II; (2007) Somerset, Oxford II; (2008) Somerset, Poole; (2009) Newport, Coventry; (2010) Rye House, Swindon.
CLUB HONOUR: Knock-Out Cup winner: 2008 [Somerset]
2010 STARTING AVERAGE: 6.81 (PL), 3.40 (EL).
ADDITIONAL INFO: Frampton first straddled a speedway machine as an eighteenth birthday present at the Reading training track in 2003. After saving up for his own machine, he subsequently went on to win a Southern Track Riders' meeting at King's Lynn, before impressing in several second-half spins at Swindon towards the end of that season. Indeed, his first recorded race on the main 363-metre circuit took place on 4 September, following an earlier Premier League match that had seen the Robins defeat Rye House 49-41. This saw him appear against Jack Gledhill, Marc Andrews and Darren Smith. Unluckily, he took a tumble and the race was awarded as a win to Smith ahead of Andrews, while Gledhill was credited with third place after falling and re-mounting.
Frampton continued to be a regular second-half competitor at Blunsdon until the end of the campaign and the promise was there for all to see as he improved week-on-week. To further his experience, he attended a Nicki Pedersen Training School at Newport on 31 January 2004 and, after being given the nod by then-team boss Martin Satchell, he went on to represent Swindon Sprockets in that year's Conference League.
Since representing the Sprockets, the talented youngster has made solid progress in recent seasons and established himself as a consistent performer in Premier League circles. He assumed a ‘doubling-up' position with Coventry in 2009 and, at the beginning of May, the club announced that they had completed the signing of Frampton as a full asset after a series of eye-catching early displays in the Elite League. The Poole-born rider was purchased from the former Somerset promotion, and continued to race for Premier League Newport while also ‘doubling-up' with the Bees.
However, following Coventry's decision to sign Scott Nicholls as an interim replacement for the injured Olly Allen and negotiations with the BSPA over the re-declaration of their team line-up, the Bees agreed that Frampton would stand down from the side until Allen was fit to return to the saddle. His place in the squad was therefore filled in the interim period by Robert Ksiezak. When Allen was fit to resume in the Coventry side in July, this saw the release of Nicholls and meant that Frampton was permitted to return to his ‘doubling-up' role alongside Josh Auty.
Unluckily, the rider from Dorset crashed in his first ride (heat three) for the Bees at Wolverhampton in an Elite League fixture on 20 July, sustaining a broken scaphoid and medial bone in his wrist. As a result, Coventry temporarily dispensed with using the ‘doubling-up' facility and this meant an extended run in the side for Filip Sitera, who had previously been covering for the injured Ben Barker. Both Frampton and Auty were recalled to the ‘doubling-up' position with Coventry at the end of August, though, upon the release of Sitera.
Frampton went on to complete fifty-seven official meetings between his two clubs, representing Newport thirty-seven times and scoring 305 points for a real-time 7.36 average. For the Bees, meanwhile, he made twenty appearances and yielded 91 points for a 4.72 average. Just after the calendar had clicked into January, Rye House announced that they had acquired Frampton's services on loan for 2010 and, shortly afterwards, Swindon unveiled him as their second ‘doubling-up' rider, alongside Cory Gathercole.
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