First woman to win an individual world championship motorcycle race

First woman to win an individual world championship motorcycle race
Who
Ana Carrasco
What
First
Where
Portugal
When
17 September 2017

On 17 September 2017, Ana Carrasco (Spain) won the seventh round of the FIM Supersport 300 World Championship at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portugal. Riding a Kawasaki Ninja 300, 20-year-old Carrasco took the lead in the final straight of the 11-lap race to win by 0.053 seconds. She has been riding motorcycles since the age of three.