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

The 15-year-old wilꦆl compete for Jaime Fern?ndez Avil?s' Madrid-based JHK Laglisse team in the class in 2013 alongside Maverick Vinales.

Carrasco tested her KTM mac🐟hine with Vinales at Almeria this week.

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

Carrasco bettered her previous fastest lap at Almeria by 1.2s d💝uring 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 giving me," she said.

"To debut in the w꧃orld championship is the dream of every rideꦿr.

"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 officialဣ 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 this year and I rode over a second faster."

Taru Rinne of Finland wa✱s 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 th꧒e championship with seventh in the Czech Republic during the 1995 season.