2025 FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship

2025 FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship
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The 2025 FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship is the second season of the FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship (WorldWCR), the premier female only circuit racing series. Riders compete on identical Yamaha YZF-R7 motorcycles. The rounds are run as support races for 6 of the European rounds of the Superbike World Championship. Format of each round is a Superpole qualifying session on Friday, Race 1 on Saturday and Race 2 on Sunday. The 2024 champion, Ana Carrasco, is not defending her crown, instead moving up to the Supersport World Championship.

Entry list

The provisional entry list was released by the FIM on 18 December 2024.[1]

Provisional 2025 entry list[1]
Team Constructor Motorcycle No. Rider Rounds
Affinity Sports Academy ROKiT Rookies Yamaha YZF-R7 88 Denise Dal Zotto 2–3
Ampito Crescent Yamaha 36 Beatriz Neila 1–3
Carl Cox Motor Sports 21 Avalon Lewis 1–3
29 Billee Fuller 1–3
DafitMotoracing 19 Adela Ourednickova 1–3
FB Racing Team 22 Madalena Simões 1–3
GMT94-Yamaha 17 Lucie Boudesseul 1–3
GR Motosport 15 Chloe Jones 1–3
Hanks Racing 76 Jamie Hanks-Elliott 1–3
Italika Racing FIMLA 83 Astrid Madrigal 1–3
99 Isis Carreno 1–2
9 Karol Bezie 3
Klint Forward Racing Team 6 María Herrera 1–3
96 Roberta Ponziani 1–3
MKD Racing Team 14 Mallory Dobbs 1–3
Ongaro Racing Team 28 Ornella Ongaro 1–3
PR46+1 Racing Team 46 Pakita Ruiz 1–3
TAYCO Motorsport 8 Tayla Relph 1–3
Tara Morrison Racing 95 Tara Morrison 3
Team GP3 TM36 94 Beatrice Barbera 1–3
Team Trasimen 32 Sonya Lloyd 1–3
52 Jessica Howden 1–3
Terra & Vita GRT Yamaha WorldWCR Team 20 Natalia Rivera 1–3
64 Sara Sánchez 1–3
TSL-Racing 16 Lucy Michel 1–3
WT Team Taiwan 33 Chun Mei Liu 1–3
Zelos Trasimeno 4 Emily Bondi 1–3





Team and rider changes

  • Reigning champion Ana Carrasco will not defend her crown in 2025, instead she moves to the Supersport World Championship, riding for Honda France[2] in the WorldSSP Challenge.[3] Evan Bros Racing Yamaha Team, who entered Carrasco in 2024, are not competing in 2025.
  • Yamaha Motoxracing WCR Team are not competing in 2025. Riders Roberta Ponziani joined Klint Forward Team, who had increased their entry to two bikes for 2025,[4] and Ornella Ongaro races for Ongaro Racing.
  • Sonya Lloyd, who had participated in the series in 2024 as a wildcard at Jerez, joined Team Trasimeno[5] with factory support from Yamaha USA.[6]
  • Ran Yochay was replaced at Terra&Vita by Natalia Rivera, winner of the 2024 Women's European Championship.[7]
  • Isis Carreno moved from AD78 FIM Latinoamerica by Team GP3 to Italika Racing FIMLA, replacing Sarah Varon.
  • Carl Cox Motor Sports, who had entered Avalon Lewis as a wildcard at Cremona in 2024, are fielding two bikes for the full season with riders Lewis and Billee Fuller, winner of the 2024 WIL Sport Women’s Cup and also the Carl Cox Motorsport Ninja Cup.[8]
  • GR Motorsport, who have participated in BSB for many years,[9] are fielding Chloe Jones for the full season after entering her as a wildcard at Jerez in 2024.[10]
  • Sekhmet Motorcycle Racing Team are not participating in 2025. Mallory Dobbs moved to new entrants MKD Racing Team. Alyssia Whitmore is not competing this year, and Jamie Hanks-Elliott, who replaced an injured Whitmore for 3 rounds in 2024 competes for Hanks Racing in 2025.[11]
  • Team GP3, who had entered Beatrice Barbera as a wildcard at Misano in 2024,[12] are fielding Barbera for the full season in 2025.
  • FB Racing Team have entered the championship with Madalena Simões riding for them.[13]
  • Long-time Endurance and WorldSSP racing team GMT94 have entered the championship with Lucie Boudesseul, who previously competed in the French Superbike Championship, riding for them.[14]
  • Nicole Van Aswegen, Lena Kemmer, Andrea Sibaja, Iryna Nadieieva, Mia Rusthen and Luna Hirano, who all participated in 2024, were not entered this season.
  • Andalaft Racing, Bertl K. Racing, Deza - Box 77 Racing Team, Lloyd Motorsports, MPS.RT, Rusthen Racing and Team Luna are no longer participate in 2025.

Wildcards

  • Italian rider Denise Dal Zotto joined the grid for round 2 at Cremona with the Affinity Sports Academy Rokit Rookies team.[15]

Race Calendar

On 11 October 2024 the provisional 2025 WorldWCR calendar was published.[16] The scheduled rounds are:[17]

Circuit Date
TT Circuit Assen 11–13 April
Cremona Circuit 2–4 May
Donington Park Circuit 11–13 July
Balaton Park Circuit 25–27 July[a]
Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours 5–7 September
Circuito de Jerez 17–19 October[b]
  1. ^ Subject to homologation
  2. ^ Subject to contract

Results and standings

2025 race results
Round Circuit Pole position[a] Fastest lap Winning rider Winning team Source
1 R1 Dutch Round TT Circuit Assen María Herrera Beatriz Neila María Herrera Klint Forward Racing Team [18]
R2 Beatriz Neila Beatriz Neila Ampito Crescent Yamaha [19]
2 R1 Italian Round Cremona Circuit María Herrera Roberta Ponziani Roberta Ponziani Klint Forward Racing Team [20]
R2 Roberta Ponziani María Herrera Klint Forward Racing Team [21]
3 R1 UK Round Donington Park
R2
4 R1 Hungarian Round Balaton Park Circuit
R2
5 R1 French Round Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
R2
6 R1 Spanish Round Circuito de Jerez
R2
  1. ^ Pole for race one set by Superpole, pole for Race 2 set by fastest lap in Race 1

Points

Points system[22]
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Points 25 20 16 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1


Riders' championship

Pos. Rider ASS
CRE
DON
BAL
MAG
JER
Pts.
1 María Herrera 1 2 2 1 1 115
2 Beatriz Neila 2 1 3 3 2 97
3 Roberta Ponziani 5 4 1 2 10 75
4 Sara Sánchez 3 3 5 4 4 69
5 Chloe Jones 6 7 11 8 3 48
6 Astrid Madrigal 8 8 4 6 12 43
7 Avalon Lewis 4 Ret 6 5 9 41
8 Pakita Ruiz 12 5 10 7 6 40
9 Tayla Relph 7 6 7 10 13 37
10 Lucie Boudesseul Ret 9 8 9 5 33
11 Isis Carreno 10 10 9 Ret 19
12 Jessica Howden 11 14 Ret 17 7 16
13 Ornella Ongaro 13 12 18 15 8 16
14 Emily Bondi 9 11 Ret 13 19 15
15 Lucy Michel Ret 17 12 11 14 11
16 Natalia Rivera DSQ 15 14 18 11 8
17 Mallory Dobbs 15 13 Ret 12 25 8
18 Adela Ourednickova 14 16 13 16 15 6
19 Denise Dal Zotto 15 14 21 3
20 Chun Mei Liu 17 19 16 19 16 0
21 Jamie Hanks-Elliott 16 18 17 20 17 0
22 Sonya Lloyd 18 20 19 21 24 0
23 Tara Morrison 18 0
24 Billee Fuller 19 21 20 22 22 0
25 Beatrice Barbera 20 22 21 23 23 0
26 Madalena Simōes 21 23 22 Ret 20 0
Karol Bezie DNQ DNQ
Pos. Rider ASS
CRE
DON
BAL
MAG
JER
Pts.
Source[23]
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points classification
Blue Non-points classification
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole position
Italics – Fastest lap

References

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