It started with a group of mates, their bikes and the beach. It's taken almost a century, but the Motorcycle Beach Races now has an all-women class — and they're revving to go.
abc.net.au/news/queen-of-the-beach-women-in-motorcycle-racing/102786636For one day each year, motorbikes tear along the sand of a North Queensland beach at 200kph, blasting the skin of any competitor who falls behind.Women compete in their own class for the first time in a unique motorbike race at Grasstree BeachChloe Purvis took to social media to rally enough female riders to compete
Her efforts to attract female competitors to this year's Grasstree Beach event, which is held just south of Mackay, meant, for the first time in the race's 97-year history, there were enough riders to create a separate women's class. She started riding with friends in 2019 and, just a year later, was called up to compete in the Queensland Dirt Track Titles."I think there were only one or two girls and we had to have a minimum of five girls in flat track to get a class, and they hit me up," Purvis said.
"My brothers used to race, and I used to just be in the pits kicking around in the mud," O'Brien said.Mum-of-four Brittany O'Brien has recently found her love of racing."When you're out there on the straight and you're looking over and there's another girl pushing you, that makes you want to do your best," O'Brien said.
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