Gender	Female
Industry	Sports or Recreation
Occupation	Motorcycle racer
Location	Spratton, Northampton, United Kingdom
Introduction	M.B.E., Motorcycle racer, Founder of Woman on a Motorcycle, After dinner speaker, stunt double and TV presenter. Maria has also published her autobiography 'Queen of Bikers'.
Interests	Motorcycle racing, cycling, training, snow boarding and newbie scuba diver.
Favorite movies	Man on Fire, Black Hawk Down, Iron Man, Top Gun, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Lost Boys, Stand by Me, Man on Fire, Transformers, Indiana Jones, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Golden Compass, Kill Bill, Sherlock Holmes.
Favorite music	AC/DC, Mumford & Sons, Band of Horses, The Killers, The Prodigy, Muse, The Pixies, Traverso, Wolfmother, Blondie, The Eagles, Hope&Social, Ellie Goulding, The Unthanks, Kasabian, Stereophonics, Kings Of Leon.
Favorite books	Queen of Bikers - Maria Costello and Steve Pitts. Touching the Void - Joe Simpson. Every Second Counts - Lance Armstrong.