INTERVIEW
P82
ELENA MYERS
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN J. NELSON
R
acing is an unkind business. It is sport at
its most brutal—there's nowhere to hide
on track or the timesheet—you live and
breath by your results. So on paper, Elena
Myers' first foray into the hotbed of AMA Su-
perbike competition may not seem like she's
setting the world on fire.
But that's not the whole story. Already the
most successful female racer in the history of
American road racing, being a rider is just one
of the caps she wears on a race weekend.
She's also the team owner, sponsor entertainer,
unofficial poster child for aspiring female racers
across the country. There's a steely determina-
tion in the eye of this 21-year-old Californian.
While most women her age are finding the
wonders and terrors of legal drinking, Myers
is trying to find ways of going faster, ways of
improving her chances of making a living out of
Into the shark pool of
AMA Superbike this year,
Elena Myers is proving
the doubters she's up to
the job.
EYE OF
THE TIGER
