Newport BMX prodigy Parker, four, comes third in under-16 competition

Not content with just BMX, last month Parker came in second place in a downhill mountain bike race in Gloucester.

“That was an under-six category, so that was a bit more his level,” said Louis.

As for Parker’s future, Louis said he’s got his sights set on joining his idol, Austrian mountain biker Fabio Widmer, as a Red Bull athlete.

“It’s his ultimate dream, which I can’t imagine is the case for many four year olds,” said Louis.

“He’ll do a jump and go if ‘I do this, well, Red Bull sponsor me’, and I have to tell him ‘not yet, mate. I don’t think they want children’.

“We watch the (extreme sports competition) X Games religiously, and he’ll go ‘yeah, I can do that’.

“He can’t,” Louis joked.

“But there’s no doubt in my mind that he will be able to.”