María Herrera leads the first women’s team in the World Cup

For this first step, both Tonucci and Angelucci thought of Herrera and that is why they asked Dorna for an invitation to complete the team in which they play, throughout the entire championship, Stefano Nepa e Iván Ortola. They must be on top. Maria is something else. María broke barriers, in 2013, by becoming the first woman to win the Moto3 Junior World Championship and, nine years later, she won the 24 Hours of endurance in Catalonia.Next to Aurora and Maria is Lidia Cerezuelatechnical and telemetric manager and the mechanics Andriana Gallardo, Nekane Muros y Lara Hortences. “Our participation must be valued as a great achievement in the history of MotoGP”, comments Angelucci. “In fact, we sincerely hope to be a source of inspiration for young women who want to enter this world. We held a preparatory test precisely in MotorLand, the track where María Herrera obtained her first personal victory in the CEV, and home of her ‘wildcard’ in the current Championship”.Angelucci, who does not lose detail and has a thousand eyes in the tent that her team occupies, is convinced that “the team’s progression will be slow because what we want is for it to be safe. Of course we need everyone’s support”, she explains while a couple of KTM engineers swarm her workshop, “but the important thing for us is to feel safe in what we do and loved in this world where, finally, we believe we have opened the path that we deserve. We want to write our own history and we are going to fight for it.”“I know why I am here, of course I know why I am here!” explains María Herrera, 26, whose father, Antonio, has never separated from her in her life and is extremely proud “of continue in the fight, in the fight, because she and motorcycling deserve everything, everything”. “I am here to be the most visible part of this achievement, of this dream and give visibility to a new project that opens doors to new generations. This team has aspirations, has quality and is going to achieve its goals. It’s something very cool that’s worth betting on and that’s why I want to help them give it the visibility it deserves”.