My daughter’s first race

So, I am a proud dad right now. We just got back from rd. 1 of the Swapmoto series, and my kid threw down!
She didn’t win, but we put her in the “beginner”’class, which is actually a step above their true beginner, or “starter” class. Several of those kids were clearly what I’d call “Novice,” or “c” riders.
My little girl almost looped out on the start, but reeled it back in and stuck her wheel in on some dudes. She made a few passes and got passed back but landed in 16th out of 21 riders in Moto 1. She was running 16th again in moto 2 but crashed on the last lap and couldn’t get started for awhile. I think she ended up in 20th. We’re waiting for the results to post so we can see her overall.
A neat thing about Swapmoto is that we ran a transponder, so I got to see lap times. She was within a one second margin on all 5 laps, and on the same second each lap as guys who finished as high as 8th. Now we’ll work on her starts and see how it it goes.