Ana Carrasco in SSP World Cup 2025: Not the first woman / Supersport World Cup

As a two-time world champion on the circuit, Ana Carrasco is the most successful woman in international motorcycle racing. The Spaniard won the Supersport 300 World Championship in 2018 and this year the first season of the Women’s World Touring Championship – WorldWCR for short.

Carrasco was expected to seek a new challenge for 2025 and found it in the World Supersport Championship with the French CBO Racing Honda team alongside Corentin Peolari. For the 27-year-old, it will be the first season in the intermediate category of the series-based world championship.

Carrasco is only the third woman to sign a season-long contract. The first entrant was Italian Paolo Cazzola in the 2010 World Supersport Championship, but he was dropped by his Kuja Racing team after four meetings. In the same year he competed as a wild card driver at the Misano meet. At Phillip Island he collected two World Championship points in 14th place, and another in 15th place in Assen.

Maria Herrera scored by far the most races and most points in the World Supersport Championship. The WorldWCR runner-up competed in 29 races between 2019 and 2021 and scored a total of 14 points. 2021 was the only full season.

German Katja Poensgen made history by becoming the first woman to race in the World Supersport Championship. In fact, however, it was the Supersport World Series that is considered the forerunner of the world championship that was established in 1999. Poensgen started the Nürburgring as a wild card and drove the Suzuki to a 20th-place finish.