The FIM Women’ s Circuit Racing World Championship( WorldWCR) is a groundbreaking single-make series exclusively for aspiring female riders, featuring the Yamaha R7. Building on the success of its inaugural season in 2024, which saw Ana Carrasco crowned, the series aims to continue advancing women’ s motorsport by fostering new talent and showcasing competitive racing on a global stage. Our own Avalon Lewis is now racing in this series. The 32-year-old, busy mother-of-one juggles parenthood and a job in marketing with an international racing career. Born and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband, Jake, and baby boy.“ We only moved in June last year, a big move motivated by my husband’ s work. We’ re from Christchurch in New Zealand so where we are now is about a four-hour flight away. We had a six-month baby in tow too, but it’ s a great opportunity for him [ Jake ] in terms of work and he now runs the Australian arm of a motorsport electronics company called Link Engine Management. I work part-time for the company too and they’ ve really supported us during the move to Australia.“ Our son is not yet 2, and so life’ s just chaos, like
absolute chaos. I think it’ s important to just be flexible, that’ s something you definitely learn as a parent! If you try and stick to a routine, it gets blown out anyway. We have different plans pretty much for every round, so while my husband and son came to the first Assen round, they stayed home for Cremona. At home, every day you’ re just trying to fit in training really. Trying to wake up and train with a baby is nearly impossible, so at times I’ m doing 20-minute sessions just to get something done. Living in Australia is great because the weather’ s good to go to the park and he can chase a ball around while I exercise. Being flexible is key, but it’ s a massive juggling act.”
AROUND THE WORLD AND BACK Avalon first went to Europe to compete at just 19, travelling across the globe to fulfil her racing dream...“ After one year of university in New Zealand, I realised I really wanted to race overseas and so was trying to find sponsorship. I basically went from riding a 125GP to a 600 four-stroke, with only a couple of months of training time before heading to one of the most competitive countries in the world – yeah, I don’ t recommend that pathway to anyone!”
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