Jane Daniels

UNBEATABLE JANE! 

One of the stand-out stars of female motorcycle racing for the last five seasons, Britain’s Jane Daniels – Fantic this year maintained an amazing win-streak that she began all the way back at the start of May 2022 as she completed her second consecutive unbeaten season to lift the 2023 FIM Women’s Enduro World Championship. 

Following on from her domination of the series last year, the twenty-nine-year-old was the rider everyone wanted to beat in 2023, although the fast female from the north-west of England simply shrugged off the kind of intense pressure that goes hand in hand with the status of being a reigning FIM World Champion and went about the business of doing what she does best – winning Enduro races. 

Daniels’ defence got under way in early spring on the shores of the Mediterranean at the EnduroGP of Italy where she simply picked up where she left off five-and-a-half months earlier with a double win despite strong opposition.  

With her 2022 momentum maintained, Daniels’ next stop was Scandinavia for rounds in Finland and Sweden on consecutive weekends at the end of May and the start of June and she pushed home her advantage with four more day wins to put herself comfortably in pole position for the deciding event, the EnduroGP of Portugal at St Andre/Santiago do Cacem in early October. 

With the dream of back-to-back perfect seasons within her grasp, Daniels could still not afford to relax as her rivals continued to apply the pressure over both days and her winning margin on the second day of racing in Portugal was just five seconds which was the closest she came to tasting defeat all year. 

PALMARES 

FIM Women’s Enduro World Champion: 2022, 2023
FIM Women’s Enduro World Cup Champion: 2019, 2020 

PERFECTION!

A perfect season is something that most riders can only dream of whatever the level of competition – so to remain unbeaten across the course of a full World Championship season is a remarkable achievement.

Well, that is exactly the incredible feat that battling Briton Jane Daniels – Fantic managed this year as she quite simply blew her opposition away in the FIM Women’s Enduro World Championship.

The twenty-eight-year-old came out fighting at the opening round at Lalin in north-west Spain and seized control of the title chase from the get-go.

Entering its second full season, the series was extended for this year, but Daniels obviously felt no need to pace herself over the four rounds and eight points-paying days of competition.

Winning both days in Spain in early May by over a minute, Daniels only had a week to recover before the competition moved to Peso da Regua in Portugal where she streaked to another dazzling double win.

Firmly in control at the halfway stage, Daniels was back in Portugal at the start of July – and back on top of the podium, though it was by no means a walk in the park, and she faced fierce opposition.

Still, she kept her right wrist busy as she collected another maximum haul of points in Coimbra to make sure that she was perfectly poised to sew up the title on the opening day at Zschopau in Germany with a true champion’s performance and her biggest winning margin of the year.

With the title in the bag, Daniels could have cruised on day two, although instead she chose to put the seal on her perfect season!

PALMARES

FIM Women’s Enduro World Cup: 2019, 2020
FIM Women’s Enduro World Champion: 2022