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FEATURE I THE 2024 WORLDWCR CHAMPIONSHIP
that be? Well, memory tells us
WorldSSP300 was instantly en-
nobled to a full World Champi-
onship in its first season inside
the greater
WorldSBK paddock,
so the idea of the WorldWCR
series following suit had merit.
What was obvious from the
beginning of the whole World
-
WCR project is that there would
only,
then Triumph-only engines,
and in some years, Moto2 had
almost everyone riding the same
chassis as well. That's a hefty
icebreaker for the idea of a com-
pletely level tech playing field in
a full World
Championship.
What about it being a World
Championship in its very first
year of existence—how could
found difficult to overcome was
the fact that everybody would
be on the same Yamaha YZF-R7
packages, with only some as
-
pects of each rider's bodywork,
leathers, helmets, etc., different
from
the rest.
This was hardly World Cham
-
pionship racing, was it?
Well, in Moto2,
first Honda-
(Right) Carrasco took the crown in the
inaugural WorldWCR—her second FIM World
Championship including the 2018 WorldSSP300
title—in the most dramatic of circumstances.
(Above) Maria Herrera was always at the front
in 2024 but lost out on the title at the last corner
of the last lap of the last race.
