ra Price takes that to another level. The 17-time motocross national champion is oblivious to breakneck speeds, gravity-defying
ra Price takes that to another level. The 17-time motocross national champion is oblivious to breakneck speeds, gravity-defying
in News 29.05.2019 07:28von jj009 • 1.455 Beiträge
Tyler Wright has always called her professional surfer brother Owen her inspiration.But a serious injury to him last December changed her mindset and put her on the path to world title glory.Owen was chasing the world title himself when a shocking wipe-out at Pipeline derailed his campaign and left him with bleeding on the brain.Wright said at the start of the year the injury had motivated her to seriously pursue the world crown for the first time in her five years on the world circuit.Prodigiously talented, she had come close twice - finishing second in 2014 and 2013 - but admitted she didnt really care about the result.Wright said that the injury to Owen had made her grow up.Owen has always been an inspiration to me but the last couple of months have made things so much clearer for me, Wright said after winning the opening world tour event of the year on the Gold Coast.It made me realise that I want to win a world title and I want to do it my way.Under new coach, former pro surfer Glenn Hall, the 22-year-old then added a further two titles from the first four events to set herself up for the world title tilt.With American challenger Courtney Conlogue stumbling in the semi-finals in France, Wrights dream has been realised.She became the seventh Australian to win the womens world title and the first since six-time champion Stephanie Gilmores last triumph in 2014.Wright grew up in Culburra Beach, a sleepy town south of Wollongong, in a surf-mad family.Three of the five children are professional surfers - Owen, Mikey and Tyler - while theres also Tim and older sister Kirby, who had a brief stint on the circuit.A popular surfer on tour, Wright counts fellow Australians Gilmore and Nikki Van Dijk, as well as inspirational Hawaiian Bethany Hamilton, a mum who surfs with one arm following a shark attack, as her close friends.Owen, 26, is yet to return to competitive surfing but is back in the water while 19-year-old Mikey has overcome a serious ankle injury that hampered his results.Before the injury Owen was asked who the best surfer was in their family and he had no doubt.Tyler, shes got it for sure. Physical and mental strength combined with a love for surfing, he saidIts letting her go places.Including to the top of the world rankings. Swell Traveler Norge .com) - The Montreal Canadiens will try to halt their longest losing streak of the season when they host the struggling New York Islanders in tonights clash at the Bell Centre. Swell Bottle Butikk . LUCIE, Fla. http://www.swellflaskenorge.com/ . Klitschkos management company says the bout will be the Ukrainian fighters 25th world championship fight. The 1.83-meter (6-foot) Leapai defeated the previously unbeaten Denis Boytsov in November to become the WBOs mandatory challenger. Swell Flaske Marmor . -- Lou Brocks shoulder-to-shoulder collision with Bill Freehan during the 1968 World Series and Pete Roses bruising hit on Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star game could become relics of baseball history, like the dead-ball era. Swell Flaske Norge . -- There were so many positives from the Orlando Magics first victory of the season that it was hard for coach Jacque Vaughn to stop praising his players. Young race drivers know no fear. Sara Price takes that to another level. The 17-time motocross national champion is oblivious to breakneck speeds, gravity-defying jumps and, if anyone was wondering, the credentials of her competitors.That became abundantly clear earlier this summer during the IndyCar weekend in Toronto when Price made a jaw-dropping impression as the first woman to compete in the Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks Series.Most who drive the high-flying Super Trucks for the first time are content to keep the off-road beasts from taking a bad roll. Price, in the second race of a weekend doubleheader, bolted to first on the opening lap, taking the lead when former Champ Car and IndyCar star Paul Tracy overshot a corner and plowed his truck into a tire barrier.If Price knew who Tracy was, she apparently didnt care.What I would say is, Paul Tracy knows who Sara Price is, said Bill Hynes, the team owner/driver who has given Price a full-time ride in the series.Price, who turned 24 this month, races again this weekend in the Sand Sports Super Show in Costa Mesa, California. She wound up eighth and ninth (out of 12) in her debut in Toronto and, and in her first start with UFD Racing last month on The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, finished a solid fifth and sixth. Each Super Trucks weekend features two races.?Price, a one-time beauty pageant contestant, said shes exactly where she wants to be.This is the coolest thing right now in off-road or anything of its sort, she said. Theyre trucks that are jumping the biggest things you can ever imagine. Getting here was in the back of my mind for a while, and sometimes I was like, Man, how am I going to make it happen? And then [sponsor] BitTorrent stepped up to get me my first race, and after my first race, Team United Fiber and Data signed me for the rest of the year and all of 2017.The daughter of an off-road racer and brother of a motocross racer, Price began racing at age 8. She started collecting motocross championships before long and became the first female factory driver for Kawasaki and an X Games medalist.When she turned to four wheels, she became a force racing UTVs (Utility Terrain Vehicles) and other off-road machines. In fact, it was at a UTV race in Costa Mesa two years ago that she caught the eye of Robby Gorddon, the former longtime IndyCar and NASCAR driver and off-road champion who owns the Super Truck Series.dddddddddddd.She actually led that race and was going to win it until she had an axle break or something like that, Gordon recalled. You know, Ive been watching Sara for a while from motorcycles to the UTV side of things. I think shes one of the better female drivers weve seen in a long time.Gordon called Price after that Costa Mesa UTV race and told her he wanted her in the Super Truck series. A sponsorship deal fell through, though.He had a falling out with the company that was going to fund it, so it didnt happen right then and there, Price said. But it sparked a thing in my brain where it was like, Oh man, I really want to do this.Price found her own sponsor for the Toronto race and made her own break. She was so impressive that weekend that Paul Morris, an Australian V8 Supercar Series veteran who drives for Hynes in the Super Truck series, flew her to Australia the next week to put her through some testing.Soon after, Morris called Hynes from Down Under and said UFD Racing needed to sign her.We were about to do a deal with [accomplished veteran] P.J. Jones, and we had a decision to make, Hynes said. There were a couple of other drivers in the mix, but she, fair and square, beat them out. Shes the driver we wanted in the truck. Shes not the female driver, just the driver.Price immediately justified the showing with her poised run at Charlotte, on a course with a massive over-under jump featuring one lane of traffic flying over another. As Hynes tells it, two-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Matt Crafton tried the jump one time, got out of his Super Truck and said you couldnt pay him to try it again.Hynes is quick to debunk any notion that signing Price was about publicity.You might see pink on her truck, but shes going to put a bumper on you, he said. Shes going to race you like every other racer in the series. You mess with her, she has all the tools to pay you back.Shes going to be a great teammate for me and Paul. The three of us are going to work well together, and were going to get all of us on the podium. Itll be fun for sure. ' ' '
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