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Norton Racing- Team Members (1)

Youth before Beauty! Therefore the youngest team member Christine "Minzi" Seifert first. Starting rather late she first rode on a race track in Most 2004, aged 14. Ever since she would like to ride on race tracks every weekend! In her first season she progressed from the 1937 Norton 16H (Most) to a standart Commando Fastback (Sachsenring) and finally a Racing Commando (Rijeka). The coolest of the team by far she likes to explain the finer points of racing tactics to her father-
	- unless she is denied that pleasure because she has to mail her agent about her renumeration for riding next season, or she has to haggle with one of the many prospective team sponsors about the size of the sticker he can expect on a team bike per million $US.
Katrin "Maunzi" Seifert was spotted at various European race tracks at a tender age, first to support her father psychologically, then to train on a BSA kids bike in the paddock. Having held a driving license for over two years to ride on public roads, she had trained on the track on legendary Norton 16H previously. Her idol is Marco Melandri, whose career she followed from the very start. Fortunately she has declined to take to the gravel as often as he does, in spite of her enthusiasm for him........ Legendary lap times were recorded for her on the 16H in Most, 2003.
	Those may be due to the hot advice she tends to get from her teamboss/father. "Ride as slowly as I do and nothing can happen to you" mischievous bystanders swear to have heard here!  After awakening her suspicions at a soapbox race years ago ("Don't brake for the bend after the finish line, just carry on" which ended in her turning the soapbox over and nearly ending up beneath it) Katrin tends to distrust all her fathers tactical advice- she is not stupid! In the background can just be seen the oft-lamented, legendary "heavy MB100" team bus, which, returning from Rijeka in 2004, announced its imminent death with a very audible gearbox problem- after only 10 years and about 200.000km a blow for the whole team!
Tim sees himself as the up-and-coming Star rider of the team. Since spring 2004 he practices with his unrestricted Aprilia RS125 on public roads. The teamboss finds the Aprilia only marginally different to ride to his short-stroke 500 Manx. Tim was greeted by the driving instructor, who had schooled his sister the year previously, "You are a Seifert, so you can ride  motorcycles". His first race track experience were some laps of the Hungaroring during lunch break at the age of ten.

His standart race ware is the Family Commando. In Rijeka 2004 he equalled his fathers best race lap time in training- at the Pannoniaring 2005 he was a bit slower but had lots of fun in the race, fighting it out with his prospective brother-in-law, who rode his own 750 Commando.