B
efore it finally started at the
Misano World Circuit Mar-
co Simoncelli in mid-June,
some people thought the first-
ever FIM World Championship
for women was long overdue.
For others, it was not exactly
where women's motorsport
should be heading when women
had fought hard to be taken
seriously inside FIM Champion
-
ships, which were once not truly
open to them.
So, would it be an endpoint
or a starting point for female
racers?
It seems almost everyone fi
-
nally moved to the position that
it could be both—a destination
championship in its own right
and a World Championship-level
shopwindow for any aspiring
and ambitious female rider.
Another hurdle some people
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FEATURE I THE 2024 WORLDWCR CHAMPIONSHIP
Maria Herrera leads Ana Carrasco, Beatriz
Neila, Sara Sanchez and Roberta Ponziani at
Donington Park. The WorldWCR racing was
reliably as close as this in 2024.
BY GORDON RITCHIE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
