zzdcar
Home
/
Reviews
/
Beyond Cars
/
Rider Makes Incredible Pass To Become First Woman To Win World Championship Motorcycle Race
Rider Makes Incredible Pass To Become First Woman To Win World Championship Motorcycle Race-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:14:06

After starting third in an FIM Supersport 300 World Championship race Sunday, Kawasaki rider Ana Carrasco made a wild pass for the lead in the last stretch of the race. In doing so, she became the first woman to win a world championship motorcycle race by less than a tenth of a second over second and third place.

Carrasco, a 20-year-old rider from Spain, regularly competes in Supersport 300, a support series for the Superbike World Championship. She’s currently seventh in the championship standings, and was in second when the field rounded onto the final stretch of track at Algarve International Circuit in Portugal.

Carrasco did what we stock-car-loving Americans like to call a “” just seconds before the finish line in the 11-lap race, crossing it .053 seconds of second-place Alfonso Coppola, who sat on pole for the race, and .062 seconds ahead of third-place finisher Marc Garcia.

Here, just watch this final move for yourself:

That, everybody, is how you race like a girl: with (and ahead of) the boys.

Comments
Welcome to zzdcar comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.
Sign up to post
Sort by
Show More Comments
Beyond Cars
Here's What A Hovering F-35B Looks Like To A Helicopter's Heat-Vision
Here's What A Hovering F-35B Looks Like To A Helicopter's Heat-Vision
The “B” variant of Lockheed Martin’s is supposed to be able to take off close to vertically and hover. Getting it to work has been problematic since the jet blast is hot enough to melt the concrete it’d be parked on, but it sure does show up spectacularly to this...
Sep 17, 2026
This 1200cc Street Shark Will Be England's Answer To Ducati's Superbike
This 1200cc Street Shark Will Be England's Answer To Ducati's Superbike
About a year ago, got a cash injection of over $5 million from the British government in an initiative to stimulate the country’s domestic engineering. Now it looks like that, along with the company’s own R&D investment, is going to crank out one hell of a sport bike. The concept...
Sep 17, 2026
Can This Russian Inventor Finally Put Augmented Reality Into Motorcycling?
Can This Russian Inventor Finally Put Augmented Reality Into Motorcycling?
A heads-up display in a motorcycle helmet is a cool concept that has yet to make it to mass-market, mostly because of its tremendous complexity and cost. (One high-profile company’s didn’t help either.) But that hasn’t stopped inventor Andrew Artishchev from dedicating himself to the idea, which he hopes will...
Sep 17, 2026
Motorcycle Crowd-Surf Goes Badly (Updated)
Motorcycle Crowd-Surf Goes Badly (Updated)
“This bike has no front brake,” the announcer exclaims, as champion racer and motorcycle designer Roland Sands rides a brand-new Indian “Hooligan” flat-track bike up on stage for a crowd of fans at Sturgis. Then he goes right off the edge. (: Indian connected with us to clarify two people...
Sep 17, 2026
Help Find This Incredibly Custom Stolen Honda CB125
Help Find This Incredibly Custom Stolen Honda CB125
Our good friend Jeannette Klein, who you will recognize from series and from the , had her custom Honda CB125 stolen. Maybe you can help find it. The motorcycle was stolen on Sunday evening around 6:30 p.m. out of Jeannette’s fiancee’s motorcycle shop at 93 Forrest Street in Brooklyn. The...
Sep 17, 2026
This Is What A Dream Job In The Navy Looks Like
This Is What A Dream Job In The Navy Looks Like
The VAQ-140 “Patriots” squadron has just returned from an eight-month deployment in the Mediterranean and the Arabian Gulf, where they flew some of the Navy’s newest aircraft built for “electronic attack” against ISIS/ISIL in Iraq and Syria. They came back with some breathtaking video footage, too. Now I feel obligated...
Sep 17, 2026
Copyright 2023-2026 - www.zzdcar.com All Rights Reserved