Sunday, October 20, 2024, 16:44
| Updated 5:16 p.m.
Ana Carrasco goes down in history as the first rider to win the WorldWCR world title, a motorcycling category only made up of women. The Murcian woman is once again number one in the world after the title achieved in 2018 in the Supersport 300 category.
Carrasco arrived at the second race in Jerez with a 13-point lead over her rival, María Herrera from Toledo. In the first race, Herrera crossed the finish line in first position to tighten the World Cup a little more. Ana was second and it was enough for her to be fourth or better in the last test to lift the world champion trophy.
Already at the start you would see an ambitious Herrera who began to lead and Ana following in her wake. The intensity increased lap by lap, with continuous exchanges at the head of the race. In the final stretch of the test, the top group consisted of six drivers. In addition to the two protagonists, the Spanish Sara Sánchez, Beatriz Neila and Pakita Ruiz and the Italian Roberta Ponziani were fighting for the win.
The biggest scare for the Murcian came with three laps to go. Herrera was leading and Carrasco was fifth, at that time the team from Cehegín was losing the world championship by a single point. Nerves played a trick on the Toledo woman and she went wide in a corner, falling to fourth position and having to deal with Ana, who even touched each other. Herrera refused to let that be the end of him.
The Toledo woman gritted her teeth and fought until the last meters to be world champion. She became first on the last lap and faced turn number 13 of the Ángel Nieto de Jerez circuit as second while Ana Carrasco was fifth. In a last attempt to overtake Sara Sánchez, who was leading the race, the title contender fell to the ground and left the championship on a plate to the Murcian, who finally crossed the finish line in third position. In this way, Ana Carrasco is once again world champion as she was in 2018 in the Supersport 300 category.
