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Atta Girl, Jennifer Snyder
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[QUOTE="Bob Brooks, post: 75043, member: 21253"] Jennifer will do a lot for female motorcycle racers. She is very talented and fast and that has nothing to do with her sex. While I agree that there are a lot of sexist, chauvenistic people in the motorcycle world, and in the world in general, I think the reason a lot of people were taken aback at Harley's decision to hire her had more to do with her lack of experience than her being female. Professional dirt track racing is a very tough business. I tried it myself for a number of years and it is very DIFFICULT to be successful. The great Dick Mann used to say that racing on oval tracks is easy, but doing it better than everyone else is the hard part. Harley-Davidson is the only factory team currently involved in dirt track racing (although Suzuki seems to be picking up interest recently) and unlike motocross, factory rides are obviously limited. Last year, for example, there was only one full-blown factory rider and that was Rich King. And that's why a lot of people, myself included, were a little confused as to why Harley hired Jennifer Snyder this year. She's only 17 and up until this past weekend she hasn't had much of chance to prove herself. Not to take a thing away from Jennifer, but it was hard to see how she was worthy of a factory ride when so many others have paid their dues for years and years. At least for me, my reservations and opinions had nothing to do with Jennifer being female. I would've balked if Harley had hired any unproven racer instead of looking at so many talented riders waiting in the wings. But she won a national this weekend and that is an awesome achievement. Evidently, she has what it takes to run with the big boys and I enjoyed a little "crow" with my breakfast this morning!! My hat is off to her! She won a dirt track national and that's something thousands have tried (myself included) and precious few have ever accomplished. Incidentally, Jennifer isn't the first female rider to taste success on the national dirt track circuit. Back in the late 80s, I raced against Tammy Kirk from Georgia and she was FAST. She never won any nationals, but she did very well at the national level and turned a lot of heads. She was very aggressive, always fast and really successful on the bigger tracks. I believe she is racing stock cars now. Harley and Bill Werner obviously saw something special in Jen Snyder and she proved her mettle this weekend. Congratulations to her and anyone woman who rides! [/QUOTE]
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