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In this new Our Lives documentary, Suzi Perry travels to Northern Ireland to meet three women who compete in the exhilarating yet highly dangerous sport of motorcycle road racing.

Suzi Perry is no stranger to the adrenaline-fuelled world of motor sport. For many years she has been a familiar face at the glamorous and international race circuits of Formula One and Moto GP.

There is, however, one form of motor sport that Suzi has never encountered – the exhilarating yet highly dangerous world of motorcycle road racing. Until now.

In Suzi Perry’s Queens of the Road, a new documentary for BBC One and produced by DoubleBand Films, Suzi travels to the Cookstown 100 road race in Northern Ireland to meet three extraordinary women who compete in this male-dominated sport. It is an experience that both thrills and astonishes her.

Motorcycle road racing is hugely popular in Northern Ireland. It is a sport in which riders compete at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour, not on purpose built tracks but on narrow country roads that on any other day are used by normal traffic and are lined with hedges, walls and trees.

“It has been an incredible experience for me to come to an Irish road race, to see up-close this unique form of motor sport that I have heard so much about over the years – and to meet three of the women road racers,” says Suzi.

“Road racing is a grassroots sport – dominated by amateur riders who risk everything to compete. It has a unique family atmosphere that has the ability to bring people of all ages together. To meet three very different women racers has given me an incredible insight into the sport and why people take part in it,” commented Suzi.

The women racers that Suzi meets in the course of the documentary are: Melissa Kennedy, Veronika Hankocyová.

“These women may have different experiences and outlooks on life. But what unites them is their passion and commitment to this dangerous yet addictive sport. Meeting them at this race in Northern Ireland has been an extraordinary experience for me,” said Suzi.