Mark and Somer Brown want to open their family’s personal dirt-bike track to train young motocross riders like their 7-year-old son, Dayton.
He uses a beginner machine with a smaller engine than those of adult riders, such as his father, who started racing as a child and still competes.
Differences in age matter because there are fewer training opportunities for young people starting out in the sport, the Browns say. That’s why they want to host training sessions and camps on their track in the rural Blackwater community in southern Virginia Beach…