In BSB this year, Josh Brookes sits fourth in the standings for the team currently after five rounds with two wins. FHO Racing won all of the big bike races at the 2022 Isle of Man TT with Peter Hickman, and won all but one of the big bike contests at the 2023 event – setting a new outright lap record of 136.358mph in the process. While a short tenure as a team owner thus far, it has been hugely successful.
Ho took over the Smiths Racing squad – previously run by Rebecca Smith – in 2021 in British Superbikes and in road racing. The dual British and Macau national is putting both her time and money into helping young girls’ racing careers blossom. Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images Given Ana Carrasco scored a historic world championship in the World Supersport 300 class in 2018, the FIM’s initiative falls laughably short of where motorcycle racing needs to be aiming.Ĭarrasco has already proven women can compete with men head-to-head and win, becoming the first female circuit racing world champion in 2018 when she won the World Supersport 300 title Or perhaps it simply doesn’t want to make the effort. This is being touted by FIM president Jorge Viegas as a “final destination” for female riders, rather than a stepping stone – suggesting the governing body sees no future in which a woman can race at the highest levels of motorcycle racing, such as MotoGP and World Superbikes. More Than Equal's own research found that, of the 13,000 people surveyed, only 22% felt women could compete head-to-head with men in MotoGP, while that number dropped to 19% for World Superbikes compared to Formula E on 38% and F1 on 51%.Įarlier this year, the FIM announced that in 2024 it is aiming to begin the FIM Women’s Motorcycling World Championship. That’s still a paltry response, but in the MotoGP survey that figure was just 13%. Female participation in the former was 18.3% of the total sample.
Over the last two years, the Motorsport Network ran the F1 fan survey and MotoGP fan survey. Motorcycle racing is arguably the industry within motorsport with the most growth to do.
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