María Herrera

María Herrera
María Herrera
	Herrera At Donington Park, 2024
Nationality	Spanish
Born	26 August 1996; Oropesa, Spain
Current team	OpenBank Aspar Team
Bike number	6
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Moto3 World Championship
Active years	2013–2017, 2022
Manufacturers	KTM, Honda, Husqvarna, Mahindra
Championships	0
2022 championship position	43rd (0 pts)
MotoE World Championship
Active years	2019–
Manufacturers	Energica, Ducati
Championships	0
2024 championship position	16th (43 pts)
Supersport World Championship
Active years	2019–
Manufacturers	Yamaha, Honda
Championships	0
2021 championship position	34th (7 pts)
Women's Circuit Racing World Championship
Active years	2024-
Manufacturers	Yamaha
Championships	1 (2025)
2025 championship position	1st (245 pts)

María Herrera Muñoz (born 26 August 1996)^[1] is a Spanish motorcycle racer. She won 2025 FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship after double winning at the final round in Circuito de Jerez.

Career

Early career

Born in Oropesa, Toledo, Herrera was the first female competitor to win a race in the FIM CEV Repsol series, winning the Moto3 race at Motorland Aragón for the Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 squad in 2013.^[2] She added a second victory later in the season at Circuito de Navarra, and led the championship into the final round at Jerez. Ultimately, Herrera retired from the final race, and finished fourth in the championship, thirteen points behind champion Fabio Quartararo. Herrera was joined by Quartararo at the Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 squad for the 2014 season. Despite recording a victory in the opening round at Jerez, she only finished on the podium twice, and finished eighth in the championship.

Moto3 World Championship

While competing in the Spanish championship, Herrera made four guest appearances in the Moto3 World Championship as a wildcard at the Spanish rounds with the Junior Estrella Galicia 0,0 team. In 2015 she embarked on a full season Grand Prix campaign, riding alongside compatriot Isaac Viñales in the Husqvarna Factory Laglisse team.^[3] Herrera's best result was 11th-place at Phillip Island.

Herrera was included in the provisional entry list for the 2016 Moto3 season, partnering Lorenzo Dalla Porta at Team Laglisse on KTM bikes. However, the team initially withdrew from the championship due to financial issues. However, on 1 March, Herrera announced her intention to compete in 2016, with Herrera riding a sole KTM entry; which includes her taking over operations of Team Laglisse and becoming an owner-rider for 2016.^[4]

Herrera was the only female rider in the MotoGP paddock for 2017 with Team AGR, who was running a single bike in both Moto3 and Moto2 series. She took part in the Moto3 category in 2017. She raced in the same Moto3 class the previous year as Owner-Rider on a KTM with team MH6 and in 2015 with Husqvarna Factory Laglisse.^[5]

Supersport 300 World Championship

In 2018 Maria Herrera was riding for BCD Yamaha MS Racing on a Yamaha YZF-R3 in the FIM Supersport 300 World Championship.^[6] She finished 13th in the 2018 World Supersport 300 standings with 45 points^[7] taking one fastest lap along the way and several top ten finishes to her name.

MotoE

Herrera returned to the Grand Prix paddock in 2019, with the Ángel Nieto Team have announcing her as their second rider for the inaugural FIM Enel 2019 MotoE World Cup. The Spanish rider lined up alongside 2011 125cc World Champion and former World SBK and World SSP rider Nico Terol for the Ángel Nieto Team in the first global racing series MotoE World Cup for electric motorcycles.^[8] Herrera continued with the Ángel Nieto Team in MotoE until 2024 when she switched to the Klint Forward Factory Team.^[9]

WorldWCR

In 2024, Herrera participated in the inaugural FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship (WorldWCR) with the Klint Forward Factory Team,^[10] finishing second overall in the championship.^[11] She remained with the Klint Forward Team in 2025 and won the championship.^[12]

Career statistics

Herrera practicing at the 2014 Spanish Grand Prix

FIM CEV Moto3 Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pos	Pts
2012	Honda	JER 23	NAV WD	ARA Ret	CAT 29	ALB1 19	ALB2 15	VAL 16			30th	1
2013	KTM	CAT1 11	CAT2 13	ARA 1	ALB1 6	ALB2 13	NAV 1	VAL1 5	VAL1 2	JER Ret	4th	102

FIM CEV Moto3 International Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Pts
2014	Honda	JER1 2	JER2 1	LMS Ret	ARA 6	CAT1 Ret	CAT2 8	ALB 9	NAV 7	ALG Ret	VAL1 5	VAL2 Ret	8th	90

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2013	Moto3	KTM	Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0,0	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2014	Moto3	Honda	Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0,0	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2015	Moto3	Husqvarna	Husqvarna Factory Laglisse	18	0	0	0	0	9	29th
2016	Moto3	KTM	MH6 Laglisse MH6 Team	16	0	0	0	0	7	31st
2017	Moto3	KTM	AGR Team	15	0	0	0	0	1	35th
		Mahindra	Aspar Mahindra Moto3
		KTM	MH6 Team
2019	MotoE	Energica	Openbank Ángel Nieto Team	6	0	0	0	0	27	14th
2020	MotoE	Energica	Openbank Aspar Team	7	0	0	0	0	33	17th
2021	MotoE	Energica	OpenBank Aspar Team	7	0	0	0	0	27	15th
2022	MotoE	Energica	OpenBank Aspar Team	12	0	0	0	0	21	17th
2022	Moto3	KTM	Angeluss MTA Team	1	0	0	0	0	0	43rd
2023	MotoE	Ducati V21L	Openbank Aspar Team	16	0	0	0	0	17	18th
2024	MotoE	Ducati V21L	Klint Forward Factory Team	16	0	0	0	0	43	16th
2025	MotoE	Ducati V21L	Klint Forward Factory Team	12	0	0	0	0	38	16th
Total				130	0	0	0	0	223

By class

Class	Seasons	1st GP	Race	Pts
Moto3	2013–2017, 2022	2013 Aragon	54	17
MotoE	2019–present	2019 Germany	76	189
Total	2013–2017, 2019–present		130	223

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Pts
2013	Moto3	KTM	QAT	AME	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	INP	CZE	GBR	RSM	ARA 29	MAL	AUS	JPN	VAL				NC	0
2014	Moto3	Honda	QAT	AME	ARG	SPA 17	FRA	ITA	CAT Ret	NED	GER	INP	CZE	GBR	RSM	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL 27			NC	0
2015	Moto3	Husqvarna	QAT 22	AME 17	ARG Ret	SPA Ret	FRA 19	ITA 21	CAT 15	NED Ret	GER Ret	INP 24	CZE 23	GBR Ret	RSM 24	ARA 13	JPN 26	AUS 11	MAL 18	VAL 21			29th	9
2016	Moto3	KTM	QAT 16	ARG 14	AME 23	SPA 19	FRA 21	ITA 21	CAT Ret	NED 14	GER DNS	AUT 14	CZE 19	GBR 26	RSM Ret	ARA 28	JPN 23	AUS 15	MAL NC	VAL			31st	7
2017	Moto3	KTM	QAT 21	ARG 15	AME 22	SPA 24	FRA 20	ITA 26	CAT 26	NED 20	GER 26	CZE Ret	AUT 22	GBR 26	RSM DNS	ARA DNS	JPN			VAL 26			35th	1
2017	Moto3	Mahindra																AUS 19	MAL 24				35th	1
2019	MotoE	Energica	GER 16	AUT 16	RSM1 6	RSM2 5	VAL1 14	VAL2 12															14th	27
2020	MotoE	Energica	SPA 15	ANC 11	RSM 15	EMI1 11	EMI2 11	FRA1 7	FRA2 9														17th	33
2021	MotoE	Energica	SPA 9	FRA 10	CAT 11	NED 15	AUT 17	RSM1 13	RSM2 11														15th	27
2022	MotoE	Energica	SPA1 15	SPA2 14	FRA1 14	FRA2 15	ITA1 16	ITA2 15	NED1 15	NED2 8^‡	AUT1 11	AUT2 14	RSM1 14	RSM2 Ret									17th	21
2022	Moto3	KTM	QAT	INA	ARG	AME	POR	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	GER	NED	GBR	AUT	RSM	ARA 27	JPN	THA	AUS	MAL	VAL	43rd	0
2023	MotoE	Ducati	FRA1 12	FRA2 15	ITA1 17	ITA2 14	GER1 15	GER2 18	NED1 18	NED2 15	GBR1 15	GBR2 13	AUT1 15	AUT2 18	CAT1 16	CAT2 16	RSM1 13	RSM2 16					18th	17
2024	MotoE	Ducati	POR1 11	POR2 17	FRA1 14	FRA2 14	CAT1 13	CAT2 13	ITA1 15	ITA2 17	NED1 11	NED2 13	GER1 12	GER2 17	AUT1 10	AUT2 12	RSM1 14	RSM2 13					16th	43
2025	MotoE	Ducati	FRA1 8	FRA2 4	NED1 15	NED2 15	AUT1 16	AUT2 14	HUN1 13	HUN2 15	CAT1	CAT2	RSM1 16	RSM2 11	POR1 15	POR2 13							16th	38

^‡ Half points awarded as less than two thirds of the race distance (but at least three full laps) was completed.
* Season still in progress.

Supersport 300 World Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos	Pts	Ref
2018	Yamaha	SPA 17	NED 10	ITA 7	GBR 18	CZE 9	ITA 6	POR Ret	FRA 4	13th	45	^[13]

Supersport World Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Pts
2019	Yamaha	AUS 16	THA 15	SPA 15	NED 19	ITA 15	SPA 14	ITA DSQ	GBR	POR Ret	FRA	ARG	QAT	29th	5

Year	Bike	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		Pos	Pts
Year	Bike	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	Pos	Pts
2020	Honda	AUS		SPA	SPA	POR 19	POR 18																			27th	2
2020	Yamaha							SPA 14	SPA 20	SPA 17	SPA 17	SPA	SPA	FRA	FRA	POR	POR									27th	2
2021	Yamaha	SPA 12	SPA 13	POR 19	POR 20	ITA Ret	ITA Ret	NED Ret	NED 20	CZE	CZE	SPA 19	SPA 22	FRA 21	FRA 19	SPA	SPA	SPA C	SPA 18	POR 18	POR 23	ARG	ARG	INA	INA	34th	7

Women's Motorcycling World Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Pts
2024	Klint Forward Team	Yamaha YZF-R7	MIS1 1	MIS2 1	DON1 4	DON2 1	ARG1 1	ARG2 3	CRE1 1	CRE2 Ret	EST1 2	EST2 3	JER1 1	JER2 Ret	2nd	215
2025	Klint Forward Team	Yamaha YZF-R7	ASS1 1	ASS2 2	CRE1 2	CRE2 1	DON1 1	DON2 3	BAL1 1	BAL2 3	MAG1 1	MAG2 4	JER1 1	JER2 6	1st	245
2026	Terra & Vita GRT Yamaha WorldWCR Team	Yamaha YZF-R7	ALG1 1	ALG2 2	ASS1	ASS2	BAL1	BAL2	MIS1	MIS2	DON1	DON2	JER1	JER2	1st*	45*

References

^ "MARIA HERRERA MUNOZ". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
^ "Historic victory by Maria Herrera in Moto3; Ramos and Raffin dominate in Moto2; Morales wins in Stock Extreme". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
^ "Maria Herrera secures two-year contract with Team Calvo". Vroom Magazine. Vroom Media. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
^ Lewis, Lisa (1 March 2016). "Herrera, Laglisse stage late return". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
^ Raj, Rahul (13 February 2017). "The only female rider in the MotoGP paddock for 2017: Maria Herrera". essentiallysports.com.
^ "Herrera switches to World Supersport 300 for 2018".
^ "ACERBIS French Round, 28 - 30 September 2018 World Supersport 300 - Rider's Performance" (PDF). worldsbk.com. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
^ "Maria Herrera to race in inaugural MotoE™ World Cup". www.worldsbk.com.
^ "Maria Herrera". MotoGP. 4 June 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
^ "Herrera readies for inaugural WorldWCR campaign: "We'll make history together!"". www.worldsbk.com. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
^ "Final Corner Decider: Carrasco crowned Champion as Herrera crashes out at final corner, Sanchez wins". www.worldsbk.com. 20 October 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
^ "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.
^ "ACERBIS French Round, 28 - 30 September 2018, World Supersport 300 – Championship Standings" (PDF). Dorna WSBK. 30 September 2018. p. 9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

External links

María Herrera at MotoGP.com
María Herrera at WorldSBK.com
María Herrera at AS.com (in Spanish)

[1] "MARIA HERRERA MUNOZ". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 9 June 2024.

[2] "Historic victory by Maria Herrera in Moto3; Ramos and Raffin dominate in Moto2; Morales wins in Stock Extreme". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2015.

[3] "Maria Herrera secures two-year contract with Team Calvo". Vroom Magazine. Vroom Media. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2015.

[4] Lewis, Lisa (1 March 2016). "Herrera, Laglisse stage late return". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

[5] Raj, Rahul (13 February 2017). "The only female rider in the MotoGP paddock for 2017: Maria Herrera". essentiallysports.com.

[6] "Herrera switches to World Supersport 300 for 2018".

[7] "ACERBIS French Round, 28 - 30 September 2018 World Supersport 300 - Rider's Performance" (PDF). worldsbk.com. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2024.

[8] "Maria Herrera to race in inaugural MotoE™ World Cup". www.worldsbk.com.

[9] "Maria Herrera". MotoGP. 4 June 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.

[10] "Herrera readies for inaugural WorldWCR campaign: "We'll make history together!"". www.worldsbk.com. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.

[11] "Final Corner Decider: Carrasco crowned Champion as Herrera crashes out at final corner, Sanchez wins". www.worldsbk.com. 20 October 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024.

[12] "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.

[2018results-13] "ACERBIS French Round, 28 - 30 September 2018, World Supersport 300 – Championship Standings" (PDF). Dorna WSBK. 30 September 2018. p. 9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

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