Ana Carrasco scores first victory for a female driver in the World Championship

Born on March 10, 1997 in Murcia, Spain, Ana has just won the seventh round of the Supersport 300 World Championship this Sunday in Portimao in front of 36 boys. It's a great first, at the end of a magnificent race which saw Carrasco win in the sprint with a 0.05 lead at the checkered flag over the Italian Alfonso Coppola and 0.06 over the Spaniard Marc Garcia.

Other girls have already won the World Speed ​​Championship, but until now only as a sidecar passenger. As a pilot in a world speed event open to girls and boys, this is the first time.

Thanks to her victory on Sunday, Ana is now in seventh place in the provisional World Championship rankings. She totals 57 points, compared to 102 for leader Alfonso Coppola. Aged 20, she rides a Kawasaki Ninja 300 from the ETG Racing team. It was his seventh race in the Supersport 300 in Portugal. His victory was a bit of a surprise, because his best result obtained so far in this discipline had been a seventh place at Assen last April.

Ana previously raced in Moto3, 17 GPs in 2013, 14 in 2014, and 15 in 2015. Previously, she won the Extremeña 2009, Murcia 125 and Copa de España 125T championships in 2. In GP, ​​in 2013 she was the teammate of Maverick Viñales at JHK T-Shirt Laglisse, then she was part of the RW Racing GP team in 2014, before in 2015 riding a KTM for the RBA Racing Team with Niklas Ajo and Gabriel Rodrigo.

According to Ana Carrasco, “I am really happy with this result. I want to share it with my entire team. We worked very hard and improved with each race. I am delighted and I would like to thank everyone, as well as my sponsors, without whom nothing would have been possible. »

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