Super bikes could not satisfy the 23-year-old Loumarie Grobler’s need for speed so as a joke she started drag racing.
Macho men everywhere secretly might hope it’s a joke but a year ago the father of this super-bike rider – who even has competed in Spain – decided to enter his daughter into a drag race. Now she is speeding her way into South African motorcycle drag-racing history.
When Grobler did the 400m in 9,98 seconds in her very first drag race at the South African National Drags at Tarlton Raceway the experts all agreed that she could become a tour de force in this adrenaline-fuelled sport.
In July she also did the 800m in a time of 15,05 seconds, reaching a speed of 291km/h. This brought her within one hundredth of a second of the record of 292km/h.
Last month she became the first woman in South Africa to take first place at the South African National Drag Racing Championships.
Now Grobler is aiming to do her first 1km drag race next year, hoping this finally will cement her place in the record books.
Grobler will compete at Tarlton Raceway again on 24 September.
