* Georgia - Keeping up with the eightteen y(o trucker
-- Rosalee Ramer became a professional monster-truck driver shortly after her fourteenth birthday. She spent the majority of her high-school career competing in regional monster-truck events with her father, Kelvin Ramer, who has been building and driving monster trucks for more than a decade. And then there was her truck: a 1932 Ford pickup atop a custom chassis stuffed with a five-hundred-and-seventy-two-cubic-inch, eight-cylinder, custom-molded, super-charged engine that runs on methanol, throttling its energy through a power-glide transmission and into hot-pink wheels wrapped in sixty-six-inch tires. Her license plate, tacked onto the rear of the truck’s frame, reads, “Princess” ... On a Thursday afternoon in late January, Rosalee hustled across the Georgia Institute of Technology campus, where she is a freshman studying mechanical engineering. She had to finish packing and get to the airport. She needed to bring her reading assignment for English class, her multivariable-calculus homework, and the first two chapters from her mechanical-physics textbook. Plus her laptop. Last summer, after she turned eighteen, Ramer signed on with Monster Jam, the largest national circuit for monster-truck racing. At the airport, she called her father, who had just arrived in Phoenix, for that weekend’s monster-truck show, where they would both be competing... After the competition, Ramer’s father took the motorhome back to California, monster trucks in tow. She took a cab to the airport to head back to Georgia. Although she loves her life as a monster-truck driver, Ramer hopes to use her affinity for mechanics to get into consumer automobiles, while keeping monster trucks as a pastime. She spent the plane ride back to school studying for her physics test, slated for the following morning. A few days later, the test results were released. She got an A...
(Photo, by KAREN MCCROREY: Rosalee Ramer became a professional monster-truck driver shortly after her fourteenth birthday. Nearly five years later, she is going up against—and beating—competitors twice her age) -- Atlanta, GA, USA - The New Yorker, by IAN FRISCH - Feb 17, 2016Labels: female drivers, young drivers
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