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GasGas RC 450F Laia Sanz Dakar The FIM's 'She Leads Mentorship Programme' aims at connecting experienced leaders with aspiring professionals to help strengthen career pathways across motorcycling. Programs designed to support women in motorsport often walk a fine line. On one hand, visibility and opportunity matter.
On the other hand, racing has always been one of the rare arenas where the stopwatch—and the results sheet—doesn’t care much about who you are. But the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) is stepping into that space with the launch of its FIM She Leads Mentorship Programme , a new global initiative intended to support women pursuing leadership roles within motorcycling, both on and off the track. And rather than focusing solely on riders, the program casts a wider net, as it connects experienced professionals from across the sport (team leaders, officials, industry figures, and members of the broader FIM community) with aspiring women working toward careers in areas like race administration, governance, and the motorcycle industry itself.
The structure is fairly straightforward: a six-month mentorship journey pairing mentors and mentees in one-to-one relationships designed to offer career guidance, leadership development, and professional networking. According to the FIM, the program attracted more than fifty applicants from six continents, with fifteen mentor-mentee pairs ultimately selected for the pilot edition. Those participants will work together through structured sessions and development activities facilitated through the Mentorloop platform.
#SheRides | What Women Racers Can Do for US Racing It’s easy to read something like this as just another cynical institutional initiative, but mentorship has long been one of the quiet forces that shape careers in motorsport. Whether racing, engineering, media, or administration, the industry has always been built on knowledge passed down informally. Someone gives you advice about how the paddock works, how to approach a team, how to navigate the politics of a championship.
Those conversations rarely make headlines, but they often determine whether someone sticks around long enough to build a career. For women entering the space, that kind of guidance can be particularly valuable. Motorcycling has historically been male-dominated, but the landscape has shifted dramatically over the past decade.