With no woman having ever competed in a full season of MotoGP or Moto2 – Gina Bovaird remains the only woman to have ever started a premier class race, albeit in the largely boycotted 1982 500cc French Grand Prix - and with just a handful having ridden in Moto3, top tier motorcycle racing can be a difficult environment for women to break into. There are also few women working as mechanics or engineers in the paddock – a common problem across motorsport as a whole.
But Aurora Angelucci, founder of Angeluss Sports Management and team manager of Moto3 outfit MTA Racing, is hoping to change that. Having founded Angeluss aged just 20, she took over at MTA at the start of this season, and is one of just two female team bosses in the paddock alongside Gresini Racing owner and team principal Nadia Padovani.
