Motocross is set to turn all lady like
May 07, 2008
After the quick development of the FIM Women’s Motocross World Cup throughout the years following the first edition in 2005, the series was upgraded to World Championship at the end of 2007. It will see its first World Championship round get underway this weekend at Sevlievo, Bulgaria, representing a brand new course for the women riders.
Katherine Prumm enters Sevlievo holding the red plate but will face a strong opposition in the likes of arch rival Livia Lancelot, Maria Franke, Larissa Papenmeier and lots more.
Prumm set for Bulgaria
After winning the 2006 and 2007 World Cups onboard a Kawasaki machine, Kiwi Katherine Prumm is ready to start the 2008 season inside the Yamaha Van Beers Racing Team. Having completed a solid winter of preparation in Europe, Prumm is fit and looking forward to Sevlievo.
Prumm’s arch rival Livia Lancelot will ride her second season with the Kawasaki satellite team GPKR and is extremely hungry for success. The French rider held the red plate in 2007 but lost to Prumm at the final round in Lierop, collecting the runner up spot in the Championship after ending third both in 2005 and 2006.
Kawasaki Elf Pfeil’s Maria Franke was one of the talents coming out in 2007; the rock solid German ended third in the Cup, being level in points with Lancelot, and will be back with Title ambitions this year.
Compatriot Larissa Papenmeier won the opening round in Teutschenthal, Germany, last year, to finish a solid fourth in the points standings; during the winter Papenmeier has moved into the Suzuki Inotec team after racing the previous three seasons onboard a Honda.
Swedish Marie Romlin completed the 2007 Cup’s top five and will be aiming higher for 2008, facing also the opposition of American Ashley Fiolek, Czech Jana Bartova, Dutch Marianne Veenstra, Irish Natalie Kane, Kiwi Nikki Scott, Italian Stefania Padrini and 2005 World Cup winner Stephanie Laier from Germany, to race onboard KTM machinery.
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