1. Ana Carrasco Gabarron was born on 10 March 1997 and is a Spanish motorcycle racer, currently competing in the 2025 Supersport World Championship for the Honda Racing World Supersport team.
63 Facts About Ana Carrasco
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Ana Carrasco won world-championship titles in the 2018 Supersport 300 series, becoming the first-ever female world champion solo road racer, with a repeat title in the 2024 Women's Circuit Racing series.
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Ana Carrasco began riding a minibike at the age of three and was successful in the domestic junior motorcycle racing categories with victories in the 125cc Extremeno Speed Championship and the 125cc Murcia-Pre-GP Championship in 2009.
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Ana Carrasco moved to the FIM CEV International Championship in 2011, becoming the first woman to score points in the series, and switched to the CEV Moto3 Championship the following year.
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Ana Carrasco was the first woman to score points in the series by finishing fifteenth at the Malaysian Grand Prix and repeated the feat with an eighth place at the season-closing Valencian Community Grand Prix.
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Ana Carrasco moved to RW Racing in 2014 but her season ended early due to sponsorship problems and had an injury-ridden campaign with RBA Racing Team in 2015.
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Ana Carrasco returned to Moto3 for 2022 and 2023, riding on a KTM for BOE Motorsports.
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Ana Carrasco was born on 10 March 1997 in the Region of Murcia village of Cehegin in Southeastern Spain.
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Ana Carrasco's family has connections to motorcycle racing: her father Alfonso Carrasco acted as a mechanic for multi Spanish National Champion and 250cc World Championship rider Jose David de Gea.
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Ana Carrasco has cited Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner as the two motorcycle riders she idolises.
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Ana Carrasco was educated at Secondary School Ies Vega del Argos and has combined her studies with her racing career and training.
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Ana Carrasco played association football, basketball, swimming and tennis during her education years before she stopped partaking in all four sports aged 12 to focus on motorcycling.
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In September 2015, Ana Carrasco enrolled at the Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia to study a law degree.
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Ana Carrasco began riding a minibike at the age of three after her elder sister was given it but did not use it.
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Ana Carrasco received early career advice from her father and de Gea though racing was initially her hobby.
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Ana Carrasco attained her first junior category success when she was runner-up in the Bancaja Championship in 2005, and placed second in the Madrid and Andalucia 70cc Territorial Championships the year after.
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In 2007, Ana Carrasco was twelfth in the 70cc Junior World Championship.
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Ana Carrasco focused on the Murcia 80cc and 125cc Championships in 2008 and was runner-up and third respectively.
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Ana Carrasco became the first woman to win the five-round 125cc Extremeno Speed Championship in 2009 and followed with the six-event 125cc Murcia-Pre-GP Championship title, the first female to claim the accolade, along with the two-stroke Castrol Cup.
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Ana Carrasco placed ninth in the 125cc PreGP World Championship.
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In 2010, Ana Carrasco was fourth in the 125cc Mediterranean Championship and came fifth in the 125cc Motovast Championship.
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Ana Carrasco began competing in the 125cc category of the FIM CEV International Championship in 2011 after reaching the minimum age in order to become eligible to compete in the series.
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Ana Carrasco became the first woman to score points in the series by placing 16th at the Circuito de Jerez event.
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Ana Carrasco was 13th in the Drivers' Championship at the end of the season.
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Ana Carrasco moved to the CEV Moto3 Championship to ride Team LaGlisse's Honda NSF250R for 2012 as preparation for a Moto3 campaign the year after.
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In November 2012, it was announced Ana Carrasco would join JHK Laglisse on one of their KTM bikes for the 2013 Moto3 World Championship and was the first woman to take part in the category.
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Ana Carrasco set herself the objective of scoring points in the season.
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Ana Carrasco repeated the feat at the season-closing Valencian Community Grand Prix with a category-best placing of eighth.
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Ana Carrasco finished her debut season with nine points and ranked 21st in the final Riders' Championship standings.
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RW Racing announced in December 2013 that Ana Carrasco had signed to ride their Kalex KTM bike for the 2014 Moto3 season.
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Ana Carrasco stated to the press that she aimed to continue scoring points after having a year acquainting herself with new circuits but knew that it would be more difficult in 2014.
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Ana Carrasco raced in fourteen of the eighteen rounds held over the course of the season but was unable to take part in the final four races of the year due to a lack of funding from sponsors.
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Ana Carrasco rode a year-old KTM bike due to regulation change problems.
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Ana Carrasco was required to withdraw from the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix because doctors ruled she was not medically fit to compete after fracturing her right collarbone in a pre-season test session accident at the Circuto de Jerez the week before the race.
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Ana Carrasco underwent surgery at Barcelona's Hospital Universitari Dexeus where she had a titanium plate inserted to repair the fracture.
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Ana Carrasco was replaced by Isaac Vinales during her recuperation period.
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Ana Carrasco returned at Silverstone but scored no points in the season's remaining seven races and was unranked in the Riders' Championship.
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Ana Carrasco decided not to return to Grand Prix motorcycle racing in 2016 because she did not receive any offers with a competitive team.
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Ana Carrasco switched to the FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship in 2016 and rode the Griful MVR-M2 after more than a month of negotiations with the team.
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Ana Carrasco said that her objective was to win races in the category and enter Moto2 in 2017.
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Ana Carrasco started from the pit lane at the season-opening race at Circuit Ricardo Tormo and was later disqualified for ignoring instructions from the race director to serve a ride-through penalty.
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At the season's conclusion, Ana Carrasco did not score any points and was not classified in the final standings because her best finish in all races she entered was eighteenth at the first Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya race.
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Ana Carrasco moved to the newly formed Supersport 300 World Championship for its inaugural season in 2017.
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Ana Carrasco rode a Kawasaki Ninja 300 entered by ETG Racing on a one-year contract with the option for an extension into 2018.
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Ana Carrasco's objective was to do the best of her ability and try to battle for the championship.
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Ana Carrasco began with a tenth-place finish at the Ciudad del Motor de Aragon race.
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Ana Carrasco continued to ride well thereafter, scoring points in the next five rounds with 26 accrued.
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Ana Carrasco claimed one further points finish at the season-ending round at Circuto de Jerez and tied Dorren Loureiro on points with 59 but placed eighth in the championship standings due to her sole victory.
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In January 2018, Ana Carrasco was issued a Golden Penguin Award for her 2017 campaign.
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Ana Carrasco changed teams to ride the DS Junior-entered Kawasaki Ninja 400 in 2018.
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Ana Carrasco obtained the ride through crowdfunding after sudden budget problems.
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Ana Carrasco repeated both feats at the next round of the season at Donington Park two weeks later to extend her championship lead.
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Deroue retired due to mechanical problems and Ana Carrasco finished 13th, as another championship rival Mika Perez led the field before Daniel Valle overtook Perez on the final lap.
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Ana Carrasco began to be advised and mentored by superbike rider Jonathan Rea.
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Ana Carrasco clinched two victories in 2019: the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli and the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours races.
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Ana Carrasco took a further three podium finishes during the season and finished third in the rider's standings with 117 points.
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Ana Carrasco set the fastest lap in the season opener at Aragon, finishing 11th, and then finished 5th in the second race.
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Ana Carrasco set the fastest lap again at Misano's first race, before winning the second race.
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Ana Carrasco finished in the points eight times during the season, set two fastest laps, and had one race win in Misano, finishing 16th in the final standings, with 52 points.
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On 2 February 2022, it was confirmed that Ana Carrasco would make her return to Moto3, signing with the Boe Motorsports team for 2022.
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Ana Carrasco failed to score any points during the 2022 season.
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Ana Carrasco was announced as participating in the newly-formed FIM Women's Motorcycling World Championship in February 2024 and she established herself as a title contender, topping the two-day test, held at the Cremona racing circuit, Lombardy, Italy.
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Ana Carrasco decided not to defend her WorldWCR crown in 2025, instead moving to the Supersport World Championship, riding for Honda France in the WorldSSP Challenge.