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
Carl Cox Motor Sports	Yamaha	YZF-R7	21	Avalon Lewis	TBC
DafitMotoracing			19	Adéla Ouředníčková	TBC
Ampito Crescent Yamaha/Monster Energy Crescent Yamaha			15	Chloe Jones [3]	TBC
			36	Beatriz Neila [3]	TBC
FT Racing Academy			4	Emily Bondi  ( fr )	TBC
			37	Line Vieillard	TBC
Full Throttle Racing			8	Tayla Relph [4]	TBC
GMT94-Yamaha			94	Lucie Boudesseul	TBC
Hadden Racing Team			41	Arianna Barale	TBC
			64	Sara Sánchez	TBC
Klint Racing Team			58	Paola Ramos	TBC
			96	Roberta Ponziani  ( it )	TBC
Pata AG Motorsport Italia			88	Denise Dal Zotto [5]	TBC
Pons Italika Racing FIMLA			83	Astrid Madrigal	TBC
			99	Isis Carreno	TBC
PR46+1 Racing Team			46	Pakita Ruiz	TBC
Prata Motor Sport			22	Martina Guarino	TBC
Terra & Vita GRT Yamaha WorldWCR Team			6	María Herrera [6]	TBC
			20	Natalia Rivera [7]	TBC
Team Trasimeno			26	Katie Hand	TBC
			44	Patrycja Sowa	TBC
TSL-Racing			16	Lucy Michel	TBC
YVS Sabadell Diva Racing			14	Mallory Dobbs	TBC
Yamaha AD78 FIMLA			66	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  ( fr ) 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]

Race calendar

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

Circuit	Date
Algarve International Circuit	27–29 March
TT Circuit Assen	17–19 April
Balaton Park Circuit	1-3 May
Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli	12–14 June
Donington Park Circuit	10–11 July
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	Portuguese Round	Algarve International Circuit
	R2
2	R1	Dutch Round	TT Circuit Assen
	R2
3	R1	Hungarian Round	Balaton Park Circuit
	R2
4	R1	Italian Round	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli
	R2
5	R1	UK Round	Donington Park Circuit
	R2
6	R1	Spanish Round	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

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. "2026 Provisional Permanent Entry List" (PDF). FIM. 15 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
3. 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. "Denise Dal Zotto occasione Mondiale Femminile! "Chi l'avrebbe detto... Ma devo meritarmelo"". Corsedimoto (in Italian). 2 December 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
6. "2025 WorldWCR Champion Herrera completes move to race with GRT Yamaha in 2026". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
7. 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. "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. 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. "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. "Provisional 2026 WorldWCR calendar unveiled, Portimao and Misano return to the schedule". www.worldsbk.com. 18 September 2025. Retrieved 19 October 2025.

External links

WorldWCR's channel on YouTube