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 DATE OF BIRTH: 30 October 1992, Coventry, Warwickshire.
BRITISH CAREER: (2008) Rye House II; (2009) Scunthorpe II; (2010) Dudley.
2010 STARTING AVERAGE: 5.06 (NL).
WEBSITE: www.rfracing.co.uk/
ADDITIONAL INFO: Franklin, a former Coventry mascot, regrettably sustained injuries to his back and pelvis whilst representing Great Britain in an Under-21 Test match versus Australasia at King's Lynn on 11 July 2009.
The accident, in heat four, saw the Coventry-born racer catapult over his handlebars and into the fence after opposing rider Shelby Rutherford had locked-up on the fourth corner of the initial lap. The injury meant a spell on the sidelines and he was replaced in Scunthorpe's National League team by Sean Stoddart.
However, Franklin returned to the Scorpions' declared line-up near the end of the same month, when he took the place of John MacPhail.
The youngster was subsequently forced to miss another sector of the season in August, when he had to have an operation to remove his appendix.
In early-February 2010, he was named as a member of the new Dudley side - who had entered the National League - riding their home fixtures out of Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
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