Ladies: Come Race at Infineon Sears Point April 25!

This morning I emailed all the women racers I know who may be interested in racing with the AFM’s Formula AFemme’s debut race on April 25th at Infineon Raceway. Just in case I missed some of you who happen to read my blog, I’ve reposted it here for you. Please forward this announcement to any lady racers who might like to come join in on the fun!

Also, Ninja 250R’s are available to rent through RaceBikeRentals.com and there is already one long time 250 racer, Lisa Mazurkiewicz, who will be racing in AFemme on the 25th. So no excuses if you can’t bring your bike from Ontario or Ottowa or Florida or Minnesota or wherever you might be from! Come party with us at a beautiful racetrack in California’s wine country!

Hello to my awesome, bad ass, beautiful, wonderful, fellow lady racers!

As you may have heard, the AFM recently approved two rounds of a women’s racing class. Two races are scheduled for the April and May Infineon rounds, with a reassessment scheduled for the June AFM board meeting (please plan to come to this meeting to show your support for the class and help convince them there is good reason to continue it the rest of the year). For information about joining the AFM, or for the racing schedule and additional details, please visit http://afmracing.org/.

It’s run what you brung, as long as you’ve brung a 125 two stroke or larger. The race will be held on Saturday afternoon, after morning practice, as a wave gridded up behind Clubman Lightweight, the AFM’s “intro to racing” class for bikes 599cc and smaller. Provided that you meet the cut off times for racing on Sunday classes, you may race in your respective co-ed classes as well.

I sincerely hope that you will consider racing with us. A lot of work by a lot of people has gone into this effort and I hope it will be a
success. There may be some non-AFM sanctioned contingency and sponsorship, but the details haven’t been hammered out yet. I hope you will consider racing simply to support the class and help it become a year long series, and to help us attract more sponsorship and interest for an even bigger and more lucrative series in 2010.

To race in the regular Sunday classes, you must meet the following lap times in Formula AFemme on Saturday:

Open Superbike: 1:58
Open Production: 2:00
750 Superbike: 1:58
750 Production 2:02
600 Superbike: 1:59
600 Production: 1:59
650 Twins:2:05
Formula IV: 2:05
250 Superbike: 2:09
250 Production: 2:20

New AFM licenses are $140 for the season and a reciprocity license is $70. For a reciprocity license, you must have documentation from a road racing club that you are a current member and stating your classification (novice, expert, amateur, etc.). Saturday practice in April will cost $115, your first race will cost $80, each additional race you enter will cost $60. If you are already a racer and will be racing with the AFM for the first time, you can show up and apply for your reciprocity license and sign up for your races, but everyone else MUST pre-enter with the AFM. You must enter the Sunday classes you would like to qualify for and if you do not qualify, I believe you get some or even all of your money back.

Please forward this email to any women racers you know (or possible women racers) who might like to race with us. If you live far away and are not able to transport your motorcycle to the event, you can rent race-outfitted Ninja 250 race bikes for $250 per day, and we already have one woman signed up for AFemme who races on this type of bike (that means you Lisa!) so you may have someone to play with.

Please feel free to contact myself, Joy Higa or Svetlana Gorina if you have any questions about how to join the AFM or sign up for the class.

Love and peace and safe riding to everyone,

Christie Cooley
AFM #958

Joy Higa
AFM #25

Svetlana Gorina
AFM #933