Jenny Tinmouth is already fired up for the next British Superbike Championship season after achieving a landmark success in the campaign that has just finished.

The Ellesmere Port rider, 35, became the first female to score a British Championship point in the history of the sport during 2013.

Tinmouth aims to collect more points next season with her Two Wheel Racing team and progress to a stage where she can regularly challenge the leading riders in a sport dominated by men.

She said: “Taking that first championship point in a race at Snetterton in July was a real landmark for us.

“It was a target when we set out in our first season in 2011, when just competing was an achievement. Now we are looking forward to next season.

“We want to be front runners, in pole position on the grid.”

Tinmouth is no stranger to breaking new ground in the sport. She is the female Isle Of Man TT lap record holder, breaking the record in her first ever TT in 2009 and again in 2010.

She is the first female to compete in the British Superbike Championship and the first female to qualify to race in the British 125 GP Championship.

The winter break will see the Two Wheel Racing team seeking additional sponsors and working on the bike, a 1,000cc production-based modified Honda. With 200-brake horsepower, it is capable of racing at 200mph.

Two Wheel Racing are an independent team based around the Ellesmere Port garage of the same name, jointly owned and run by Tinmouth and team mechanic Steve Bradley.

Principal sponsorship is provided by Greg Turner of Max Glass and Glazing. They have to compete against teams backed by the big-name companies in the sport.

“We are just a private team,” Tinmouth explained. “We run with our own funding and look for sponsors.

“Everything we make is ploughed back into the team.

“At the moment we are trying to put a portfolio together to present to prospective sponsors.”

They should be helped by expanded TV coverage of the sport in 2014, with the British Eurosport Two channel showing the races on a regular basis.

Tinmouth said: “The race meetings attract big attendances, often in the region of 40,000 people, but the TV coverage will make a big difference. It offers more to the sponsors and we need as many sponsors as we can get.”

It was TV coverage that first attracted Tinmouth to the sport.

“I watched it at home with my parents and it grabbed me,” she said. “I started going to watch motorbike racing at Oulton Park, which is only 20 miles from home. My mum took me to races on Anglesey and as soon as I was 17 I got a bike on the road.”

The sport has its dangers. Tinmouth’s worst accident was in 2004, resulting in a broken arm, broken collarbone and broken ankle.

She said: “The sport is quite risky and that’s part of the challenge. I think you become a safer rider as you become a better one. You learn by your mistakes.”

Jenny Tinmouth features in a documentary film, TT3D: Closer to the Edge , to be shown on ITV1 on Friday at 10.35pm.