15-year-old Ana Carrasco has signed a deal with the JHK Laglisse team, to participate in the 2013 Moto 3 World Championship. In doing so, the Spanish rider will partner fellow statesman and established Moto 3 frontrunner Maverick Vinales, and perhaps more significantly, become the first female rider to grace the Moto 3 championship.
Carrasco's place at the highest level appears to hinge not just on her gender, which in itself poses as an lucrative selling point to sponsors, but also rightfully down to her talent on a bike, with a 2011 season boasting three points-scoring finishes in the intensely competitive CEV Spanish Championship.
With the addition of Carrasco and Vinales, JHK Laglisse stand as a force to be reckoned with next season, with such a partnership bringing strong sponsorship, high expectation and almost undoubtedly an ever growing fan base beneath it's feet.
Speaking of 'beneath'... Vinales and Carrasco will sit astride 4-Stroke KTM machinery next season, after the Austrian manufacturer successfully carrying Sandro Cortese and the Red Bull AJO Team to title success in 2012.
From a management perspective, Jaime Fernández Avilés looks to be sitting pretty going into the festive season, with two riders guaranteed to bring unprecedented levels of success both on and off the track in 2013, with publicity levels likely to go through the roof for his Laglisse outfit.
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