Beatriz Neila

Beatriz Neila Santos is a Spanish motorcycle racer born on 15 April 2002 in Arganda del Rey, who competes in the FIM Women's Motorcycling World Championship. She began racing in the Madrid area in 2011 in the minimoto class, moved through MiniGP and Copa España Velocidad classes, and won the Catalan and Mediterranean women's championships in 2016. In 2017 she was chosen for the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup but broke her femur, wrist and nose in a pre-season testing crash. She later rode in the Supersport 300 World Championship, and in 2019 she became the first woman to attend the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp. She won the Women's European Cup in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and then the Women's European Championship in 2023, and was announced by the Pata Prometeon Yamaha WorldSBK team for the 2024 women's world championship.