2025: Women racing World Championships – what to watch, when, and why. With the new season’s calendar’s confirmed, excitement and anticipation builds on which which women will achieve pointy end results along with which FIM and FIA World Championships will leverage global following from fans and viewer’s alike.
Film: Women in Motorsport 2025 calendar. Credit: MXLink.
Most certainly, the scale and scope of women racing World Championships varies across disciplines, affecting the amount of exposure women receive along with associated Teams, Brands, and industry sponsors to a global audience. Heading into 2025, such principle of thought will again be tested, as women competing in FIM and FIA racing Series gain traction racing multiple Rounds in Europe, the America’s, and Australasia.
Taking into consideration the resources required and logistical challenges to be met to achieve inclusivity of women within World Championships, the racing schedules of women racing 4 – 7 Rounds from March through to November stretches even the greatest athlete to sustain optimum physical fitness and mental tenacity to race 4 – 7 weekends a year. It is therefore imperative that women maximize exposure through Media coverage – written and visual – to broaden engagement of viewer’s watch-time around the world.
Opening 2025 World Championship season are women competing in the 47th edition of The Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia on January 3 – 17. Classified as Round One of World Rally-Raid Championship, these women will compete in categories from: Bike, Car, Lightweight Prototype/T3, SSV, Truck, and Classic. Renown as the most physically demanding of races, women driver’s, co-driver’s, and sole female rider in Bike category – Sandra Gomez – set high expectations to complete 12 Stages plus Prologue with best possible results.
With all women commanding utmost respect for racing against the world’s best Rally rider’s, driver’s, and Teams – anticipation mounts on the performances of Cristina Gutierrez debut entry with Dacia Sandrider’s, Laia Sanz with Century Racing, and Aliyyah Koloc with Buggyra ZM Racing in Car category. Each of these women have considerable talent behind the wheel, matching their male counterparts in endurance, mental fortitude, and technical ability racing over varied terrain. In T3 and SSV classifications, Saudi’s Dania Akeel will spearhead the charge to stand on the podium on Day 14 along with America’s Sara Price in SSV.
The opening Round of F1 Academy hails from Formula One Grand Prix of China on March 21 – 23. With an increase of driver’s/cars to 18 on the grid, along with a sensational 6 Rounds outside Europe – Round 2: Jeddah, Round 3: Miami, Round 4: Montreal, Round 5: Zandvoort, Round 6: Singapore, and Round 7: Las Vegas – the all female single-seater Series has elevated the profiles of women to unprecedented heights.
Coupled with the requirements that women can race F1 Academy for only 2 seasons, with the winner only one season, opportunities abound for debut entries to test their skills, talents, and developmental processes within selected Formula One Grand Prix’s. Top favourites will be Mercedes supported driver Dorian Pin who clinched P2 overall in 2024, along with returning driver for Williams – Lia Block. New faces under the helmet for Red Bull, Alpine, and Haas as already announced, will mix up the standings for 7 weekends of the year.
The two wheels World Championships opens with Women’s Motocross World Championship at MXGP of Sardegna on April 6 – 7. The highly sought after Title has only been won by 7 women from the founding year of Women’s Motocross World Cup in 2005 to the transition to World Championship status in 2008. Italian rider – Kiara Fontanesi – holds the record of winning six Titles in 2012, ‘013, ‘014, ‘015, ‘017, and 2018 with the current WMX Champion – Lotte van Drunen winning her first Title at just 17 years of age.
With 6 Rounds in 2025, WMX will experience racing the Final Round at Darwin, Australia, continuing the organizer’s pursuance of fulfilling a racing schedule inside and outside Europe. Such a committment was first honoured in 2014 with WMX racing the Opening Rounds in Qatar for three consecutive seasons, followed by opening at MXGP of Indonesia in 2017. 2025 will be the 18th year for Women’s Motocross World Championship with fans and follower’s watching all battles on the track – with one rider crowned the new WMX Champion.
The second season of Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship opens at the Dutch circuit of Assen on April 11 – 13. Following a successful 2024 season, World WCR has fulfilled goals of establishing an all female Series racing within selected WSBK Rounds, with Spanish rider – Ana Carrasco – claiming the Title at Jerez. Top picks for 2025 would be amongst the first five rider’s of each race with Maria Herrera, Sara Sanchez, Beatriz Neila, and Roberta Ponziani setting the benchmark for would-be podium finisher’s.
Women competing in Women’s Enduro World Championship have to be admired for their relentless physical capabilities of racing various special tests over the course of 2 days within 4 Rounds which start in Portugal on April 4 – 6 and finish in Germany on October 17 – 19 in 2025. Spanish rider Mireia Badia produced a disciplined and consistent performance to claim the Title in 2024 with debut entry rider from America – Rachel Gutish – claiming P2 overall. The challenge as ever before, will be for all women to race against the clock – by themselves – which in itself elevates their standing to gain maximum Media coverage world-wide.
Header photo: Image Pirelli Graphics: MXLink.
Words: Sharon Cox.
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