At the 2006 WMRRA season end awards banquet, XLSR Racing’s rookie Jake Frame was named the 2006 WMRRA Rookie of the Year. Frame is following in the footsteps of his XLSR teammate, mentor, and good friend Joshua Ellingson who was named the 2005 WMRRA Rookie of the Year. “I feel very privileged to have been awarded this honor” said Frame of the award that is decided upon by the staff and board members of the Washington Motorcycle Road Racing Association. “My number one goal for this season was to win this award. I am very happy to be keeping it in the XLSR family.” Frame continues to say; “I really owe this award to Joshua who listened to my goals at the beginning of the season and recognized what I needed to do in order to achieve them and then put me on his coat tails and showed me the ropes.” Frame took the mentorship of the 2005 Rookie of the Year and put together an impressive second half of the season. On top of his new Rookie of the Year honors he ended up with a total of 12 podium appearances where 7 of them were victories; 2 championship podium appearances, and 1 class championship in Portland. When asked about next season Frame tells us that he will be continuing his relationship with XLSR Racing and will surely be out on his Suzuki SV650 Superbike. “I know what I want to do next season but need to see how the money works out. I’ll be racing the SV for sure but would like to add an inline 4 or a triple to the line up. I need to find some bigger grids, bigger sponsors so I can earn points towards my AMA license and keep the dream alive.”