On Friday night we went to the Maryland State Fairgrounds at Timonium for some indoor motorcycle racing. The Baltimore County Trailriders Association has been promoting a series in the Cow Palace every December for the last 33 years. I stopped and picked up my daughter and my grandson and brought them along. It was like old times for Sheri and I. I was a single parent for ten years and was always dragging Sheri to races up and down the Eastern seaboard. She likes motorcycle racing. Mike was less interested, but that might be a good thing. It’s a dangerous sport, perhaps he will get interested in something less risky.
The video clip is the “Dash for Cash” race. Out of the 150 to 200 entrants they take the five fastest qualifiers and put them in a five lap, winner take all, race. The guy in the pole position on the yellow #30 bike that won the race is Jason Issenock, a pro rider who is probably ranked in the top fifty riders in the nation. But the real story in this race is the rider on the green #25 bike. That’s Shayna Texter, a fifteen year old girl. Her father is Randy Texter, a former pro rider and owner of Lancaster Harley Davidson. To qualify for that race she beat several active pros (including her older brother Cory) and a bunch of retired pros and experts. They have a class for girls but she races against the men and wins!