'Alisha Abdullah' ICON OF INDIAN WOMEN in speed barriers

Alisha Abdullah

Alisha Abdullah (file photo)

hasn’t just been breaking speed barriers, but several glass ceilings as well. she is india’s first female national racing champion, india’s only women supper bike racer, and has won the overall national championship at the age of 16,beating 22 men.

In 2016, Alisha launched the Alisha Abdullah racing academy, through which she is continually on the lookout for talented racers to support. One of her recent initiatives is the “inter-college battle” racing competition an opportunity for colleges around the city to compete against each on the track. The idea for this was inspired by student who would approach her enquiring about racing.

The event took place in December at the madras motor race track, irungattukottai , in Chennai , and so five colleges  take part of it,

The drivers drove Alisha’s formula LGB 13000 category modified swift cars. The event also saw participation from girls, for whom the served as a platform to compete with men, albeit at an amateur level.

When Alisha started, she was lucky because she had the support of her parents. In fact, her father, R.A Abdullah himself is a famous bike racer and a seven-time national champion. He gifted a 600 cc superbike on her 18^th birth day and said “you are going to race”. As exited as she was, it was a huge 240kg machine; all she could say was , “are you are kidding me ?” he clearly wasn’t.

Alisha , who has done her masters in human resource management with a specialization in sales and marketing , wanted to become an auto mobile engineer –“dismantling and fixing engines is what I want to do”...