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Location: Knowledge Box
Subject: Life as a female Power Boat Racer
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Shelley Jory is one of the United Kingdom’s leading powerboat
racers and the top female in the world.
Shelley, from Hampshire, runs a successful family bridal
business - a far cry from the world of powerboat racing.
2010 Season
The 2010 season saw Shelley enter the 2010 Powerboat GPS World
Championship with a new team, new Boat and new Sponsor in Rotary
Watches. Shelley was ready to power her way to the top and claim
her coveted World Title. The season got off to a flying start and
after the first grand prix Shelley was second in the world
championship and her and her new partner Patrick Huybrieghts were
favourites to win the title.
Shelley’s bid for a World Championship title however was
shattered at the third event of the season when her boat Spirit of
Belgium sunk in Sardinia and both Shelley and her throttleman ended
up in hospital and forced to retire from the rest of the
competition and left Shelley questioning her future as a racer.
In 2009 Powerboat driver Shelley made history heading up the
first all female team to enter the Powerboat P1 World Championship
series. Partnered by Malta’s throttlewoman Audrien Ciantar the
ladies of Team Iko Casa shot to the top leaving most of their male
competitors in their wake. Racing a 41 foot Chaudron in the
Supersport class with a pair of 525 EFI V8 Mercurys the ladies took
their first Grand prix win in Istanbul, Turkey.
Shelley entered this prestigious race series as a rookie in
2008, but certainly not a novice. Making history in the
process Shelley became the first women to compete
in the Evolution class of Powerboat P1 - the
formula 1 of powerboat racing. Partnered by American Nigel
Hook , Shelley raced in a 38 foot Mercury Powered
Skater. At speeds in excess of 115mph Shelley more
than proved herself amongst her male competitors, with a second-
and third-place finish in Italy and a final podium of
Spain, earning her a sixth place in the World
Championships.
Anyone who has come to know The Lady Racer -Shelley and her
power boat racing career will know that she is still looking for a
world championship to add to her trophy cabinet and will not stop
until she gets it. A classic example of Girl Power, she
really is a woman in a mans world. It is no wonder that Honda
included her in their Hondamentalist TV campaign; appearing
on the ITV Formula One adverts as well as being a well respected
BBC Radio presenter for the past three years.
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