Spanish teenager Ana Carrasco has been 🐠confirmed as the 🍃first female competitor to enter the Moto3 World Championship.

The 15-year-old will compet🐟e for Jaime Fern?ndez Avil?s' Madrid-😼based JHK Laglisse team in the class in 2013 alongside Maverick Vinales.

Carrasco ♎tested her KTM machine with Vinales at Almeria this week.

She turns 16 in March, the mandatory age limit for entry into the serieꦛs, and faces a new✃ challenge after competing in the CEV Spanish Championship this year with the Laglisse team, finishing in the points in three races.

Car🌃rasco bettered her previous fastest lap at Almeria by 1.2s during the test and is now counting the days until she will ride🌠 her official KTM machine in February.

"I am very happy about this opportunity Jaime [Fern?ndez Avil?s] and my sponsors are givin෴g me," she said.

"To debut in the world championship is the dream 💫of every r💎ider.

"I was not expecting it and I am very enthusiastic about it🌳. I can't🍸 wait to get into pre-season testing and do my first race," added Carrasco.

"In Almeria I didn't ride an official KTM, but♛ the feeling I had with the standard bike was good and I'm pretty happy.

"The chassis is very different from what I've ridden tไhis year and I rode over a second faster."

Taru Rinne of Finland was the first woman to score points in🎀 any GP class during the 1988 125cc season while Japan's Tomoko Igata was the most successful, achieving the highest placing for a female rider in the history of the championship with seventh in the Czech Republic during the 1995 season.