ANA CARRASCO RETURN TO MOTOGP

Ana Carrasco is going to race again in the MotoGP World Championship. The Murcian rider, the first and only woman to win the motorcycle world championship, will leave Supersport 300 to participate in the Moto3 world championship with the Spanish team BOE SKX.

She is a sudden signing and she will once again put a feminine face on the grid of the speed world championship. Carrasco thus puts an end to her career in the Superbike World Championship, where she has played five dream seasons with Kawasaki in which she has relaunched her career and etched her name in the history of motorcycles. motorcycles.

"Racing is tough, not only on the track, where people see you, but also at times like this, when difficult decisions have to be made. My ambition is always to grow as a driver, set myself new goals that others see as impossible, and achieve them." , explained Ana Carrasco in a video that she has shared on social networks.

Carrasco was already in Moto3 for three seasons, between 2013 and 2015, with very modest results. Her best performance was an eighth position at Valencia 2013, and she also scored fifteenth in Malaysia that same year. It seemed that her career in the World Championship was not going to go much further, but stepping alongside her with the Superbikes has brought her back.

In five years racing in Supersport 300, the small category of Superbikes, with a Kawasaki (first the Ninja 300 and then the Ninja 400), she has made history. In 2018 she was the first female motorcycling world champion, and to this day she remains the only one. In 2019 she was third overall. In total, she has seven wins. No year has she gone blank.

In addition, Carrasco is going to be the first woman in the three main categories of the World Cup since 2017, when she was left by María Herrera. Of course, the latter has continued to be involved in the MotoGP environment with her participation in the MotoE World Cup, where she has completed all three seasons.