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

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

Carras🧸co tested her KTM machine with Vinale🔯s at Almeria this week.

She turns 1🍌6 in March, the mandatory age limit for entry into the series, and faces a new challenge after competing in the CEV Spanish 𒈔Championship this year with the Laglisse team, finishing in the points in three races.

Carrasco bettered her pr𓆏evious 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 opporಞtunity Jaime [Fern?ndez Avil?s] andꦆ my sponsors are giving me," she said.

"To debut in the world ch𒀰ampions🅘hip is the dream of every rider.

"I was not expecting it and I am very enthusias🐷tic 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 t✃he standard bike was good and I'm pretty happy.

"The chassis is very different from what I've ℱridden this year and I rode over a ඣsecond faster."

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