The fourth FIM Girls’s Speedway Academy (WSA) takes place this coming Thursday and Friday (10-11 July) within the Stadion Milenium in Donji Kraljevec, Croatia, the place a world class of seventeen up-and-coming riders will assemble for instruction in all facets of the game.
Organised by the FIM Girls’s Fee (CFM), the FIM Observe Racing Fee (CCP) and the group behind FIM Speedway Grand Prix fixtures on the venue, the WSA is supported by HKC Koopmann, Kineo and Anlas with the FIM Girls’s Speedway Gold Trophy (WSGT) happening on the venue the next day – Saturday 12 July.
The WSA was created to advertise gender inclusivity within the self-discipline with the inaugural occasion staged in Diedenbergen in Germany in 2022. This was adopted in 2023 by a second version on the Nationwide Speedway Stadium in Manchester, Nice Britain, earlier than the WSA returned to Germany final yr for its most up-to-date version at Teterow.
For the Donji Kraljevec occasion, riders aged 13 years and over on 250cc machines and sixteen years and over on 500cc machines are travelling from as far afield as Australia to obtain tuition. Complete instruction will cowl areas together with using approach, race craft, machine set-up and diet in addition to bodily and psychological preparation and steering on coping with sponsors and the media. An anti-doping briefing may also be held.
The knowledgeable WSA teaching group includes four-time FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Champion Greg Hancock, FIM Lengthy Observe Race Director and former top-flight racer Glen Phillips and CCP Director and multi-time Italian nationwide champion Armando Castagna.
Different specialists in attendance embrace Laura Manciet, the Sequence Director for FIM Speedway World Championships at promoter Warner Bros. Discovery Sports activities, together with Paul Burbridge, the Press Officer at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports activities.
Janika Judeika, FIM Girls’s Fee Director, mentioned: “The FIM Girls’s Fee is devoted to selling inclusivity in motorcycling and I’m vastly inspired on the approach the FIM Girls’s Speedway Academy has continued to thrive and generate a lot pleasure and positivity.
“The WSA group works extremely onerous and on behalf of the CFM I want to thank everybody concerned together with the sponsors who’ve made this occasion attainable. The fee is dedicated to growing feminine expertise – each on the observe and behind the scenes – and offering an open setting during which ladies can thrive and collectively we’re making Speedway more and more inclusive.”
Armando Castagna, FIM Observe Racing Fee Director, added: “The FIM Observe Racing Fee along with the FIM Girls’s Fee are delighted to have the Girls’s Speedway Academy in Donji Kraljevec. A lot work goes into the WSA, and I do know we’re all immensely proud to see this necessary initiative, with the assistance of many individuals and companions, proceed to flourish.”
Phrases by the FIM Observe Racing – Photos by Jesper Veldhuizen
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