Brit Jenny Tinmouth Makes History As First Woman to Race British Superbike  Jenny Tinmouth at 31 years of age, renowned British road racer will be the first woman in the British Superbike series to line up on the grid and tackle the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship (BSB) under her start number 100! She will be riding within the Splitlath team and will step up to England’s toughest motorcycle racing series when the 2011 campaign gets under way at Brands Hatch on Easter weekend (April 22-25). Jenny worked her way up to BSB from national level since 2003 when she raced in the British 125GP Championship, proving to be consistently quick. She became the first female to ever win a British Supersport Cup race on her way to finishing an impressive third in the championship, set a new record for the fastest lap by a female competitor at the famous Isle of Man TT event lapping at an incredible average speed of 119.945mph and won the final round of the Hottrax British Endurance Championship at Cadwell Park in November. Jenny has always been interested in racing ever since she watched her cousin race cars – she wanted to race bikes. Jenny runs her own Two Wheel Workshop centre in Ellesmere Port. "I'm over the moon to be in BSB this year and I still can't believe it. My ambition has always been to race in BSB; I've been trying for some time and I think all my hard work over the past seasons has finally paid off. I know it will be a massive learning curve but hopefully now people will see that girls can race too and then hopefully more will see it is possible if you work hard enough at it and get into racing too,” Tinmouth said in a statement for the press. Tinmouth will now begin full-time training for her season ahead, and recently began testing in Spain with last season’s machine before she gets onboard her new Aprilia RSV4. The MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship season opener is on Easter weekend, from April 22-25 at Brands Hatch. Though it’s still surprising that Jenny is the first woman to compete in UK’s top motorcycle series, we are certainly happy to see that another "first" has been removed for women in motorsport! Join us in cheering her on!