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Alisha Abdullah

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Alisha Abdullah has a unique distinction of being India’s only super bike racer and the fastest Indian car racer too. She is well known for her daredevil attitude, standing up to the boys of the motorsport world and for scorching racing circuits across the world. Alisha is one of the few women who harbors a love for speed.
Alisha Abdullah was born on 24th July 1989 in Chennai. Alisha as a kid was fascinated by racing. At the age of nine, she was drawn to go-karting. She shares, “I began riding on the road and then slowly practiced on race tracks. People used to make fun of me, but nothing stopped me and I guess it was my father’s confidence that pushed me through to achieve the impossible.” Indeed, it won't astonish to say that racing is in her genes, for her father RA Abdullah was a well-known bike racer and seven-time national champion. She began to win go karting races when she was eleven years old. In the year 2002, she won the MRF National Go-Karting Championship and the …show more content…

It is important to note that she was only 16 years at that time. In 2007, she had entered the national car racing championship and placed herself in the 5th position. In 2009, she entered the national superbike racing championship in the 600cc class and finished 3rd overall amongst 20 men who had participated in the event. In the JK Tyre National Championship, she secured the 10th standing amongst 24 men who had participated from various states from India. In 2011, Alisha was seen as the first woman to create history in Volkswagen by securing the 3rd place on the podium. Alisha made history by being crowned as the first women to win the VW Polo Cup at the age of 22. Since then, she has been raging forth into various challenging expeditions including participating in International Car Racing tournament, the first Indian woman to do

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