ANA CARRASCO BECOMES FIRST WOMAN TO WIN MOTORCYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP RACE

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ANA CARRASCO BECOMES FIRST WOMAN TO WIN SOLO CHAMPIONSHIP MOTORCYCLE RACE

Ana Carrasco became the first woman to win an individual world championship motorcycle race on Sunday in Portugal.

ANA CARRASCO BECOMES FIRST WOMAN TO WIN SOLO CHAMPIONSHIP MOTORCYCLE RACE

The 20-year-old Spaniard, riding a Kawasaki Ninja 300, found a draft on the final stretch to overtake Yamaha riders Alfonoso Coppola (by 0.053sec) and Marc García (0.062) in round 10 of the FIM Supersport 300 World Championship.

The dramatic end to the 11-lap race at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve lifted Carrasco to seventh in the overall standings with two races to go. Coppola moved top of the table with the runner-up finish with García dropping to second.

Carrasco, who started riding motorcycles when she was three, debuted in international competition as a 16-year-old on the Moto3 circuit in 2013, when she became the first woman to score points in a world championship race since Katja Poensgen in 2001.

She joined the European Moto2 series in 2016, before moving to World Supersport 300, a lower-tier series formed this season to provide opportunities for promising riders.

“I am very happy about this result,” Carrasco told World SBK. “I want to share it with all my team. We have worked very hard and we have been making progress in each race.



  

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