We want your questions and your takes on all-female WorldWCR series!
Added 2024-07-22 18:44:07 +0000 UTCHave you been following motorcycle racing's new all-female series WorldWCR?
We'll be discussing WCR in a special episode of MotoGP Extra for The Race Members' Club this week - featuring exclusive insight from WCR riders and FIM president Jorge Viegas.
Let us know your thoughts on the racing so far, the field and the concept, or any questions you've got about WorldWCR and the FIM's plans to increase female participation at motorcycle racing's top levels and we'll discuss and answer them on the podcast.
Comments
I watched a couple of the races & they have been alright, the pace difference from front to back is too wide but its the first year so I guess this is something that will get better over time, Also hard to view it as an end goal for them, most people, including me are more impressed by Kayla Yaakov getting a podium in AMA supersport than Carrasco/Herrera winning a WCR race & if there are any other talents like Kayla I think they’d wanna mix it on a male grid than in the WCR?
Harry Hinchcliffe
2024-07-25 06:22:31 +0000 UTCI have not been following the series. I already don't follow World Superbike, British Superbike, MotoAmerica, and any number of other racing series'. What distinguishes this series from any of those besides the fact that all the racers are female? Is there a difference in format? Is the character of the racing different? I don't think I've heard about this from the main broadcasts.
Gordon
2024-07-24 13:09:44 +0000 UTCMy guess is that things will change once the off season comes and Liberty is able to make changes to a lot of things. In the USA at least you have very few free options to watch any motorcycle racing at all. This has got to change and Liberty knows it. Examples of how it must change: 1. They need to add an App for WSBK to SmartTV's, ROKU and Apple TV. They have one for MotoGP so they have the platform, although it isn't the greatest. They have the platform just plug in the WSBK and also WCR. 2. The USA, hell North America period, is basically a completely untapped market. Liberty has figured this out for F1 by adding the Miami and LV race. If they can do this what is to stop there from being a race in Mexico, at least one more race in USA and also Canada. 3. They have to expand the WCR, look at the ratings NASCAR saw when Danica Patrick started racing. People who like racing don't care who is driving. If there was a reason for women to watch they probably would. 4. This one seems absolutely obvious but if they are going to interview people in the pits, add a cameraman so we can see who it is we are talking to. For the longest time I didn't know the difference between Davide Tardozzi, Paola Ciabatti or Gigi Dall'Igna and this is on the strongest team in MotoGP. Not to mention who the younger riders are in other classes unless you see them on the podium.
Doug Reed
2024-07-23 21:11:40 +0000 UTCIs there any chance of making some of this free to air or available as part of the motogp.com package / a bolt on? Is there any chance of collaboration with MotoGP to increase interest?
Eleanor
2024-07-22 19:47:45 +0000 UTC1. What is the long term aim, is it to support the top women riders to get into the other currently male-dominated series such as world sbk? 2. What are the learnings from the first two rounds so far, in terms of what’s gone well or what’s to be improved? 3. Is the plan to always be a spec series? 4. What are the reasons that they don’t go to every world sbk round, like the supersport class? 5. What is the series doing to support more ‘grass roots’ female competitors, earlier in their careers/lives when faced with, again, male dominated classes and the misogyny that follows? 6. Is there a plan to get bigger racing teams involved in the series, or is the preference to create big teams within the world WCR? Hope these help!
Dan Neale
2024-07-22 19:28:20 +0000 UTC
