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WERA Women's Superstock Racing

Yes, We Have No UmbrellasWera Women's Superstock RacingJanuary 4th was more than the 2009 season opener for WERA West. It was the premiere of an all-new, all-female class: Women's Superstock. So, was the inaugural ladies' race the equivalent of Jackie Robinson striding out for the first time with the Brooklyn Dodgers? Maybe if you don't count that WERA had a 125cc GP Women's Class in the 1970s, or that women have been roadracing professionally in the Canada Women's Honda Pro Oils Cup and UEM Women's Road Racing in Europe for some time now. Despite all the pre-roll, the all-woman, eight-person wave in the 11th race of the day at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, sent bilious stereotypes swirling, sped by the magic of the Internet. All this fuss over the teensy question that WERA had the good sense not to ask the masses: "Should women have their own class?" News of the series for the knee-dragging subset of the fairer sex spread fast and furious through Facebook communiques and BBS posts.


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