Best qualifying of the year for Sonya as she ends maiden WorldWCR campaign in Spain.
Sonya Lloyd’s 2025 FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship concluded this past weekend at the iconic Jerez circuit in southern Spain.
For Lloyd, the event rounded out what has been a positive first full season on the world stage after only riding on tarmac for a couple of years.
Fast from the opening on track session of the weekend on Friday, she claimed seventeenth on the grid in Superpole – her best performance of the season.
With optimism high for Saturday’s opening race, Sonya made a good start but unfortunately got pushed wide at turn two after making places in the second attempt to run the race following a start procedure issue. With top fifteen pace she finished P18. Race two saw her once again finish inside the top twenty. She crossed the line nineteenth after another hard-fought race.
Sonya now returns home to the US where work for her 2026 season is already underway.
Sonya will announce her plans for next year shortly.
Sonya Lloyd: “We took the time in practice since I had raced in Jerez last year as a wildcard to try some different tyre pressures to see what worked best for me which meant in Superpole I could stay out the whole session. Luckily, I found some other riders to chase down and ended up having a pretty good Superpole, qualifying in seventeenth position which was my best so far in the world championship. I did not get a great launch in race one but there was a light malfunction so they red flagged the race. After about seven minutes they sent us back out for the restart. In the second start I got a much better start and gained some places into turn one. Into turn two I got stood up a little and got shuffled back a bit. I spent the first part of the race just trying to pick off those riders again but once I regained the places the next group was out of reach. I kept pushing and my last lap was my fastest again which was awesome and a full second quicker than the riders I was chasing down. I had the pace for fourteenth which is a huge step I was confident for race two. Race two was not how I wanted to end the season. I started sixteenth – my highest grid spot yet – and I was confident. I made a good start and had a strong first couple of corners but at turn five someone got a bit eager and pushed me and a few other riders wide. I had to jump the kerb to get back on track and was almost last. I fought my way back into the top twenty and made some good passes. I would have liked to have fought with the group I was with as world championship points were on the cards, but I learned a lot and can be happy with how I rode. I know what I need to work on in the off-season, and I will be doing a lot of flat track and mini moto riding to fine tune my race craft. I really hope to be back in WorldWCR next year. I want to thank everyone who has supported me this year. It has been a huge effort with a lot of flights, new countries and new cultures and it has been one of the most incredible experiences of my life. The Strack Racing / Attack Performance Superbike team from MotoAmerica were so welcoming this past weekend and I want to give a big thanks to them as well as Garrett Gerloff and Tim Robinson for making the last round such an enjoyable experience.”