2026 FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship

2026 FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship
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The 2026 FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship is the third 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 was a Superpole qualifying session on Friday, Race 1 on Saturday and Race 2 on Sunday. The defending champion is Maria Herrera.[1]

Entry list

The FIM published the provisional entry list on 15 December 2026.[2]

Provisional 2026 entry list
Team Constructor Motorcycle No. Rider Rounds
United Kingdom Carl Cox Motor Sports Yamaha YZF-R7 21 New Zealand Avalon Lewis TBC
Czech Republic DafitMotoracing 19 Czech Republic Adéla Ouředníčková TBC
United Kingdom Ampito Crescent Yamaha/Monster Energy Crescent Yamaha 15 United Kingdom Chloe Jones[3] TBC
36 Spain Beatriz Neila[3] TBC
France FT Racing Academy 4 France Emily Bondi TBC
37 France Line Vieillard TBC
Australia Full Throttle Racing 8 Australia Tayla Relph[4] TBC
France GMT94-Yamaha 94 France Lucie Boudesseul TBC
Spain Hadden Racing Team 41 Italy Arianna Barale TBC
64 Spain Sara Sánchez TBC
Italy Klint Racing Team 58 Spain Paola Ramos TBC
96 Italy Roberta Ponziani TBC
Italy Pata AG Motorsport Italia 88 Italy Denise Dal Zotto[5] TBC
Mexico Pons Italika Racing FIMLA 83 Mexico Astrid Madrigal TBC
99 Chile Isis Carreno TBC
Spain PR46+1 Racing Team 46 Spain Pakita Ruiz TBC
Italy Prata Motor Sport 22 Italy Martina Guarino TBC
Italy Terra & Vita GRT Yamaha WorldWCR Team 6 Spain María Herrera[6] TBC
20 Spain Natalia Rivera[7] TBC
Italy Team Trasimeno 26 United Kingdom Katie Hand TBC
44 Poland Patrycja Sowa TBC
Germany TSL-Racing 16 Germany Lucy Michel TBC
Spain YVS Sabadell Diva Racing 14 United States Mallory Dobbs TBC
Italy Yamaha AD78 FIMLA 66 Poland Karolina Danak TBC

Team and rider changes

  • Defending champion María Herrera left Forward Racing to join Terra & Vita GRT Yamaha WorldWCR Team.[6]
  • Sara Sanchez left the Terra & Vita GRT Yamaha WorldWCR Team[7] and joined Hadden Racing Team.[8]
  • Chloe Jones, who rode with GR Motosport in 2025,[9] joins Monster Energy Crescent Yamaha.[3]
  • Mallory Dobbs changed from MKD Racing Team[10] to YVS Sabadell Diva Racing.[2]
  • Emily Bondi changed from Zelos Trasimeno[11] to FT Racing Academy[2]
  • Denise Dal Zotto who rode as a wildcard for Affinity Sports Academy Rokit Rookies team at Cremona[12] and Donington[13] in 2025, becomes a full time rider for Pata AG Motorsport Italia.[5]
  • Paola Ramos, who claimed victory at Jerez in 2025 as a wildcard,[14] joined Klint Racing Team as a full time rider,[8]
  • Line Vieillard, who competed for FT Racing Academy as a wildcard at Magny-Cours in 2025,[15] has been entered by the team for a full time ride,[8]
  • Katie Hand, who competed at Magny-Cours in 2026 for Carl Cox Motorsports,[15] joined Team Trasimeno as a full time rider.[8]
  • Martina Guarino (Prata Motor Sport), Arianna Barale (Hadden Racing Team), Patrycja Sowa (Team Trasimeno) and Karolina Danak (Yamaha AD78 FIMLA) joined the grid.[2][8]
  • Billee Fuller, Madalena Simões, Jamie Hanks-Elliott, Ornella Ongaro, Beatrice Barbera, Sonya Lloyd, Jessica Howden and Chun Mei Liu, who all raced in 2025,[11] will not compete as full time riders in 2026.[2]
  • Affinity Sports Academy ROKiT Rookies, FB Racing Team, GR Motosport, Hanks Racing, MKD Racing Team, Ongaro Racing Team, WT Team Taiwan and Zelos Trasimeno teams are not entering full time riders.[2]
  • Hadden Racing Team, Pata AG Motorsport Italia and Prata Motor Sport are entering riders for the first time in 2025.[2] Yamaha AD78 FIMLA who entered a rider in 2024[16] return in 2026.[2]

Wildcards

Race calendar

On 18 September 2025 the provisional 2026 WorldWCR calendar was published. The scheduled rounds were:[17]

Circuit Date
Portugal Algarve International Circuit 27–29 March
Netherlands TT Circuit Assen 17–19 April
Hungary Balaton Park Circuit 1-3 May
Italy Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli 12–14 June
United Kingdom Donington Park Circuit 10–11 July
Spain Circuito de Jerez 16–18 October[a]
  1. ^ Subject to contract

An official test day was scheduled for 23 March 2026 at the Algarve International Circuit.[17]

Results and standings

2026 calendar and results
Round Circuit Pole position[a] Fastest lap Winning rider Winning team
1 R1 Portugal Portuguese Round Portugal Algarve International Circuit
R2
2 R1 Netherlands Dutch Round Netherlands TT Circuit Assen
R2
3 R1 Hungary Hungarian Round Hungary Balaton Park Circuit
R2
4 R1 Italy Italian Round Italy Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli
R2
5 R1 United Kingdom UK Round United Kingdom Donington Park Circuit
R2
6 R1 Spain Spanish Round Spain 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
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

References

  1. ^ "HERRERA TAKES 2025 TITLE: #6 wraps up Championship with P6, wildcard Ramos claims Race 2 victory". www.worldsbk.com. 19 October 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "2026 Provisional Permanent Entry List" (PDF). FIM. 15 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b c Close, Josh. "WorldWCR 2026: Chloe Jones joins Monster Energy Crescent Yamaha". www.motorcyclenews.com. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
  4. ^ "Tayla Relph Confirmed for 2026 WorldWCR Championship". Australian Motorcycle News. 3 December 2025. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Denise Dal Zotto occasione Mondiale Femminile! "Chi l'avrebbe detto... Ma devo meritarmelo"". Corsedimoto (in Italian). 2 December 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  6. ^ a b "2025 WorldWCR Champion Herrera completes move to race with GRT Yamaha in 2026". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
  7. ^ a b Di Moro, Alessandro (3 October 2025). "WorldWCR, fiducia rinnovata: Natalia Rivera e GRT insieme anche nel 2026". www.motosprint.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 November 2025.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Entry List: 24 riders confirmed for 2026 WorldWCR campaign!". www.worldsbk.com. 16 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  9. ^ Whitworth, Alex (18 December 2024). "GR Motorsport makes shock BSB decision as WorldSBK future emerges | British Superbikes | Crash.net". www.crash.net. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  10. ^ "Jamie Hanks-Elliott steps in for recovering Lissy Whitmore". us17.campaign-archive.com. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  11. ^ a b Whitworth, Alex (18 December 2024). "2025 WorldWCR entry list revealed with big name omission". www.crash.net. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  12. ^ "SuperBike Magazine - Neila and Herrera tied at the top as WorldWCR heads to Cremona". www.superbike.co.uk. 25 April 2025. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  13. ^ "WorldWCR: Donington Park shines on Neila, the WorldWCR polesitter for Saturday's Race 1". Motorcycle News. 12 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  14. ^ "HERRERA TAKES 2025 TITLE: #6 wraps up Championship with P6, wildcard Ramos claims Race 2 victory". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
  15. ^ a b "PREVIEW: Herrera, Neila and the rest of the grid get set to lock horns in France in the 2025 WorldWCR season's penultimate round". www.worldsbk.com. 4 September 2025. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
  16. ^ "Inaugural FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship entry list revealed". www.fim-moto.com. 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  17. ^ a b "Provisional 2026 WorldWCR calendar unveiled, Portimao and Misano return to the schedule". www.worldsbk.com. 18 September 2025. Retrieved 19 October 2025.

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