Vietnamese Female Racer Participates in French Motorsport Tournament for the First Time

Nguyen Gia Bao has become the first Vietnamese female racer to participate in the FIA Motorsport Games, with the 2022 version of the event underway at Circuit Paul Ricard in La Castellet of Marseille in France.

Racer Nguyen Gia Bao. Source: CNoto

Bao, who is the first Vietnamese professional racer licensed by FIA, competed in the Auto Slalom category. She is also the first Vietnamese woman to join the FIA's Women In Motorsport Commission.

This year, FIA Motorsport Games attracts many famous racers from 76 countries and territories globally.

According to FIA website, Auto Slalom is a race against the stopwatch through a series of low-to-medium speed corners at the famous French racetrack, during which the fastest competitors will run against each other to earn gold, silver, or bronze medals for their nation in a discipline encouraging equality and diversity through compulsory female/male pairings.

Joining the fight for an Auto Slalom medals will be teams from Germany, Peru, Poland, Nepal, Lithuania, Georgia, Belgium, Brazil, Ukraine, Chinese Taipei, India, Latvia, Estonia, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, Slovakia, Hungary, Kosovo, Croatia, Israel, Slovenia and Vietnam.

Racer Nguyen Gia Bao. Source: Thanh Nien newspaper

Gia Bao was a famous racer in the Vietnamese sports community. Since 2012, she has set goals and a roadmap to conquer tournaments according to her ability from domestic to regional and international.

In order to realize the challenging goal, she actively trains for 4 hours a day, gets used to the environment, the actual competition weather, and implements a rigorous technical training regimen to be able to strong strength and spirit, in order to conquer the speed race in France. Being able to participate in the FIA ​​Motorsport Games this time is the sweet fruit of her many years of efforts.

Racer Nguyen Gia Bao. Photo: VNA

Gia Bao said: "Participating in this competition, I do not set high goals for achievement. This is an opportunity to learn and connect, so that the Vietnam's national red flag would appear on the international sports map of Motorsport.”

Accompanying this tournament, she also received active support from the FIA's representative agency in Vietnam - Motor Vehicle Sports Association Co., Ltd (VMA LLC).

Nghiem Anh Quan, President of ASN of FIA in Vietnam - shared her thoughts on the event.

“This tournament is one of the important tournaments in the development plan of Motorsport in Vietnam of VMA LLC. Because of the specific competition rules of the category, each team needs to have enough male and female riders. Gia Bao is the only female racer who meets the requirements. This is also an opportunity to bring Vietnamese sports car racing closer to world motorsport."

After more than 10 years of experience participating in learning and rubbing with the international motorsport culture, Gia Bao said she hopes to soon organize major events professionally of international stature in Vietnam. aims to connect the community passionate about speed sports and gradually bring Motorsport Vietnam to develop closer to other countries in the region.

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