Jenny Tinmouth是英國曼島摩託車賽的女圈紀錄保持者，她在2010年創下了平均速度為119.945英裡（193.03公裡）的記錄。她也是第一個也是唯一一個參加英國超級摩託車比賽的女摩託車手。
至於曼島TT的大名，參見 本號前文《什麼是曼島TT》
曼島又稱曼島，是位於英格蘭和愛爾蘭之間的小島，是英國的皇家領地。每年的6月，這個地方就會舉辦一次環島機車耐久賽。這場比賽全長60公裡，彎道200多處，是全世界最長的賽道。沿途有街道、山路等等十分複雜的環境。比賽勝負的條件很簡單，就是誰用最短的時間跑完6圈的比賽，誰就是冠軍。
賽道上摔車，車手滑出賽道的話頂多撞輪胎，或者什麼都撞不到，而這裡……懸崖峭壁、樹木、欄杆、觀眾……撞到最起碼是個骨折。
（PS，摩託車比賽中出事故很普遍，但是死人重傷的很少，原因就在於車手們出了事之後是滑出賽道，動能被摩擦力克服，身上護具保護車手不會被傷害，但是護具可以保護摩擦卻很難保護高速下強烈的撞擊）而在曼島TT，車手在上坡之後往往扭一下，就出現劇烈的搖晃，原因是那個路是個弧形的坡，車直接跳出去了……配合著平均200的時速，掌握不好就會出大事故。
曼島TT沒有獎金，只有榮譽。全世界的高手絡繹不絕的前來挑戰，依靠的是四個字：榮譽、挑戰。對於一個男人來說，面對這種挑戰，贏了自己就是勝利，超越自己，升華自己的心靈。而榮譽，世界最快車手的榮譽。曼島TT比賽，是最勇敢者的遊戲，是人類勇氣與技術的結晶。他代表的，是一種挑戰自己的信念，是一種朝著勝利衝鋒的旅途。
這個比賽，賽車的平均車速超過200公裡，最高車速超330公裡！
這與汽車不一樣，因為汽車有減速玻璃，當跑到330公裡時視覺是跟得上時速的。但是摩託車沒有。
這樣很危險，至今已有超過246人在比賽中車禍身亡，曼島TT的死亡率達到了1年1人。
Jenny Tinmouth是該賽的女圈紀錄保持者，她在2010年創下了平均速度193.03公裡的記錄，至今沒有人打破。這個比賽，中國只有一人參加過，並活著回來的：張煒安。2013年，他以原裝組第50名的成績完成比賽。至今，還沒有第二個中國人挑戰這個比賽，沒有中國女選手出現過。
下面是 Jenny Tinmouth接受採訪的英文原文：
Jenny enjoyed her best race weekend at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire aboard her Honda Racing CBR1000RR Fireblade, the Ellesmere Port rider completed both 18 laps races coming home in 22nd and 20th position respectively, setting a new personal best lap time of the 2.18mile circuit and a new personal race record in race 2.
Free practice 1 and 2 on Friday went without hitch and Jenny, her crew chief Roger Smith and mechanics Darren Nicholson and Andy Perkins worked through an array of bike chassis settings to alter her machines geometry to help her wrestler her 200bhp machine through the tight and twisty all action nature of the unique Cadwell Park circuit.
Tweaks to bike set up continued during FP3 on Saturday morning and into qualifying where Jenny set a personal best lap time of 1.31.117 to qualify in 26th position for Sundays races.
Jenny made a great start in race one and settled into a race long battle with Aaron Zanotti chasing him home all the way and crossing the line just 0.061 behind at the flag.Race two was equally as good but this time Jenny managed to pass Aaron early on and settled into a similar race long chase of another rider John Ingram. Jenny improved on her pb lap time and completed race distance over 27seconds faster than in race one, with more consistence faster laps times over the 18 lap race distance.
Rider Jenny Tinmouth said:
「I’m absolutely over the moon with my Cadwell Park weekend, I love the circuit but its my bogey track and one I always struggle at, it’s such a physical circuit and its really important to get the bike set so you are not fighting it all the way around the track and tiring yourself out quickly. I』ve never had the benefit of an experienced team before to impart their knowledge of bike set up that works at Cadwell and everything we did helped me massively and I had my most successful weekend at the circuit, I’m pleased with the improved lap time and more importantly race two, which was a vast improvement over race one, our constancy was much better and we were strong to the end even at such a physically demanding track so I’m really happy, it was a great learning weekend with all the set up changes and we finished it strong so I'm now looking forward to my home round at Oulton Park」
The next round of the championship is at the Oulton Park on the 4th-6th September, all the races can be seen live on British Eurosport 2
Published: 06 July 2015
Jenny Tinmouth may be at the back of the BSB grid but she』d blitz the fastest of track day riders. Here’s why…
BSB is the fastest domestic superbike championship in the world and the grid is so deep with talent you』ll quickly drown if you don’t have the speed.
To even qualify for a BSB race takes some doing. It’s almost impossible for any armchair race fan, internet keyboard warrior, road rider, trackday rider or even club racer to really appreciate just how fast these guys and girls are.
Once the flag drops, some people might look at the racers further down the order and think: 『I could do that』. But of course, they』d be wrong.
Jenny Tinmouth is one of those racers near the back of the BSB grid… for now. You might not think she’s quick, but she’s actually blisteringly fast. She’s earned her place here after coming up through the UK racing ranks on 125s, 600s and 1000s. She’s club raced, competed at the TT and been a BSB privateer, twiddling her own spanners on her own Honda Fireblade.
But now she’s got what any aspiring racer dreams of: a factory ride. She’s part of the Honda Racing team on one of the best bikes on the grid, with rapid team-mates Dan Linfoot and Jason O』Halloran.
Jenny could easily turn up and finish at the sharp end of a Thundersport GP1 race – the fastest superbike/superstock club in the UK. But the step up to BSB is huge.
And there’s a few fundamental reasons why: 「BSB riders brake ridiculously late,」 she reveals. 「They’re happy for the bike to be moving and squirming around, buried on the front end with the back wheel off the ground. They』ll just anchor-up as fast as possible, point the bike at the apex, then fire it out.
「When I was club racing, lots of the enjoyment came from corner speed and feeling like a hero at full lean. But in BSB the way to go faster is to go through the corners slightly slower and turn harder, so you can stand the bike up on the way out and get the throttle on. It’s a very exaggerated version of the old saying of 『slow in fast out』.
「That was the main difference after stepping up to BSB. I knew from reading articles that’s the way you had to do it, to get the most out of the bike and a faster lap time.
「I found it came easier, actually. It’s a less physical way of riding because you’re not wrestling the bike through the corner. You』ve pretty much stopped it and because you』ve got it turned hard and the exit right, it’s just a case of twisting the throttle, hanging on and letting the bike do the work.」
Being part of the Honda Racing BSB team, Jenny no longer has to work on her bike or traipse to the Pirelli truck to get her tyres changed like she did when she was a privateer. She now concentrates more on her riding technique: 「Now I think about my riding before and afterwards, whereas before I』d be preparing my bike.
「I don’t have a riding coach, but my team-mates help me. I was also lucky enough to get Dan Linfoot’s crew chief, Ian, while Dan was out with his broken wrist. He’s fantastic because he’s got so much knowledge. He can translate the data and encourage you to try certain things on the bike.
Jenny has discovered that BSB-grade lap times come from going as fast as possible down every straight, long or small, not hammering through corners.
「Getting to full throttle as quickly as possible, once the bike is upright, is the key,」 she says. 「Very often you’re thinking about the next corner coming up and it’s easy to roll off. You don’t realise you’re doing it. You think you’re at full throttle but you’re not.
「But if you make a conscious effort to go full throttle, it’s like cheating a lap time. It won’t actually feel like you’re going any faster because gaining 5mph is really hard to judge at 155mph. It’s free lap time and completely safe.
「Using the correct lines and using the whole of the track is also important. So too is using the very outside of the track to tip in and getting your apexes in the right place, whether it needs to be a middle of the corner apex, or two thirds the way around.」