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   QuickChick
   

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   Elena Myers is a 16 year old chick from the US who became the first woman to win an AMA race recently. Punters are pegging her to be the first woman to ride in the highest echelons of motorcycling in MotoGP when she comes of age (and experience :p).

   I think she's amazing and an inspiration to women, especially younger women riders looking to break into the traditionally male bastion of motorcycle racing.

   There's also a rapidly growing class of Asian women racers, especially in South East Asia. Also in drag racing! Imagine pint size chicks on souped up Hayabusas at local raceways (yes I've been there and seen them LOL).

   Anyway, back to Elena: below is Suzuki's press release on her win.

   Do you guys think this girl has what it takes to improve her performance and hopefully, one day, get into GP?

   Suzukicycles.com Goes Pink in Honor of Elena Myers

   Elena Myers, who recently turned 16, made history at Saturday's race at Infineon raceway by claiming the first win of her career in the AMA Supersport class aboard her No. 21 Lucas Oil Roadracingworld.com RMR Suzuki GSX-R600, and became the first female rider ever to win an AMA Supersport Class race. To commemorate and honor Elena's historic win, Suzukicycles.com is going pink to show just how proud the company is of her achievement.

   "Elena is a great example of a Suzuki racer. She has a lot of heart, a lot of talent, and now this amazing win to show the world she's a tough competitor," said American Suzuki Motor Corporation's Communications Manager Steve Bortolamedi. "We at Suzuki are proud of her, and glad that she's riding a Suzuki GSX-R600. Changing our Suzukicycles.com homepage pink in her honor is our way of supporting her young and promising racing career."

   With six rounds left in the 2010 season, and each event being a double header, Myers will have plenty of opportunities to add to her growing list of career wins. As a way of celebrating her achievements, the Suzukicycles.com team will be turning the site's homepage pink for five days following every podium finish for Elena. Keep an eye on the Suzukicycles.com for updates on Elena's races!

   

   

   

   

   Goooooooooo Elena!!

   Ruth

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   G'day Quick Chick,

   Thanks for sharing the info on Elena.

   Having a quiet day in the workshop, I decided to see if any other women have raced in World Championship Grands Prix. As much as I dislike Wikipedia, it did give me the following info on women racers.
   

   Women in Grand Prix

   • Inge Stoll
     (Germany) competed as a female passenger during the world sidecar
     championship between 1954 and 1958. Also, the first female to race at
     the Isle of Man TT in 1954.
   • Beryl Swain was the first female to compete in the solo class at the Isle of Man TT and finished 22nd in the 1962 50 cc Ultra-Lightweight TT riding a Itom
     motor-cycle. This led the male dominated world of motorcycling to
     revoke her international licence due to the perception of the sport
     being too dangerous for women, and the resulting ban on female entrants
     persisted until Hilary Musson competed in 1978 Isle of Man TT.
   • Gina Bovaird (United States) is the only female motorcycle racer to compete in the 500 cc class (1982 at France Moto Grand Prix - DNF).
   • Katja Poensgen
     (Germany) is the only female motorcycle racer to score points in the
     250 cc Grand Prix class. In 2001, she raced 250 cc at the Italian Moto
     Grand Prix in Mugello and finished fourteenth.
   • Taru Rinne
     (Finland) scored a total of twenty-five points in the 125 cc class
     throughout the 1988 and 1989 seasons, and was second in practice for
     the 1998 German Grand Prix [1].
   • Tomoko Igata (Japan) scored a total of thirty points in the 125 cc class throughout the 1994 and 1995 seasons.

   Have fun.

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   Hah cool!

   Here's another one: Alisha Abdullah, a 21 year old racer from India, who comes from a line of racers.

   

   

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   Mistress Helz
   

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   It's not so much as look at these women in motorcycle racing, but more of a welcome back.

   Case in point, in the 1930s a woman by the name of Fay Taylour set the record for Speedway and won a world title. Women were then promptly banned from Speedway, (and other motorsports), with the ban still being upheld in Speedway in 1983, the year that she died. They even took her name out of  the record book.

   There is a fabulous book about her called "Fay Taylour - Queen of Speedway", if anyone is interested.

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   ??? Why was she banned? I can't seem to find a reference to it online. I'll go to Borders to try and find a copy this arvo. She sounds amazing.

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   I'm gonna chase that book up, too.

   Might try Amazon.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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