![]() ![]() “It’s a huge loss, it really is, and I would give anything to get him back,” Herbertson said. Over 2000 people attended his funeral at Emmanuel College, Gateshead. Tragically, this shared success was cut short when Rouse died aged 26 after succumbing to injuries sustained in a British Superbike race at Donington Park on Sunday, October 2 last year. “We changed things and Chrissy was always that driving force and we worked together as a team to build it,” Herbertson added. One of the first podcasts of its kind, the concept grew to gain thousands of weekly listeners plus a YouTube channel with almost 10,000 subscribers and guests including six-time WSB champion Jonathan Rea, and 23-time TT winner John McGuinness. ![]() “We were living at each other’s houses and meeting up every week and we were ringing each other all the time to get this thing going.” “I’m a road racer, and he was doing Superstock 1000 and we were like ‘what are we doing?’ “We were a couple of Geordie gibbering gobsh***s with no media training at all,” Dominic reminisced. It was to be a new show providing fans of the sport an inside line into all facets of racing, with Chrissy set to compete in that year’s British Superstock 1000 Championship, and Dom lining up for another year on the roads of Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. Back in January 2019, two charismatic Geordie bike racers Chrissy Rouse and Dominic Herbertson sat down to record the first episode of their Chasin’ The Racin’ podcast.
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