Finnish Women’s Motocross champion Sanna Kärkkäinen got a taste of thumb-throttle action on the occasion of the FIM World Snowcross Championship’s visit to her country.

Sanna visited the Finnish village of Tuuri to witness first hand this exciting sport and to get some inspiration for this year’s MXD Motocross-Liiga –the Finnish Women Motocross Championship- where the 16 years-old has regularly been on the top step of the podium. The young Finn has also been participating in some of the Finnish Junior Motocross Championship’s events, racing together with boys aged between 14 to 18 years-old.

Most importantly, the KTM rider is already anticipating what will be her first step into the FIM Women World Motocross scene by taking part on the Vaanta WMX round next June alongside more experienced women riders: “I’m very much looking forward to the Vaanta event, I’m very glad that I’m going to be riding there. For me this opportunity is a good thing, I actually don’t know what will be my position riding in this race, it’s very difficult to know. I’ll try to do my best to race well against the other riders.”

In the past years Sanna has been dreaming to enter a round of the FIM Women World Championship and practicing this winter in tough tracks like Lommel or riding next to the Junior class boys has provided the aggression and pace the Finn champ believes will be the much needed extra boost: “I have been looking at the videos and I know the level of the other riders and the names of the good ones there but it is again very difficult to know where I stand against them.”


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