Six-year-old Abby Seidel puts on her gear and revs up her engine for Bikes, Blues & BBQ Motocross race at Parson's Stadium in Springdale.
“I'm going to do jumps and those whoop de doo's there, like this,” says Abby as she explains the race track. This is Abby's first Arena Cross race. But she's been practicing at River Valley Raceway in Watts Oklahoma. “Last night and yesterday I went to practice here and I didn't fall over any times on my new bike,” says Abby.
Abby says she loves everything about motorcycles and racing, even her macaroni and cheese. “You know what my favorite kind of macaroni and cheese is? Wheels. They are shaped like wheels, they are, and that's why I started riding dirt bikes."
At just a year old she loved motorcycles. “If he left on a motorcycle and she didn't get to go, there was a temper tantrum,” says Susie Morgan, Abby’s Mother. So every birthday her wish was to get a bike and her parents finally gave in. “We went out and got her a little used motorcycle about a month before her birthday and she maybe rode it ten minutes, fifteen minutes but, every weekend she kept telling us she's going to race, she's going to race," says David Seidel.
She’s already making a name for herself. She has 18 trophies and says she's running out of room in her bedroom. “I have a little thing for them and I'm kind of running out of space, I only have room for two more trophies," says Abby. At the pace she's winning awards, Abby's parents may soon have to add a room to display them all. But it’s not just about winning for Abby, it’s also about having fun on the track. “I just have fun on the track because I have a little friend out there that I try to beat all the time."
Being the only girl biker in her first grade class at Leverett Elementary in Fayetteville makes her one of a kind. “They thought it was cool. At first when I showed them the trophies they really didn't believe me but, when I showed them the pictures, they believed me," says Abby.
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