"Jamie is a very good racing driver and she's shown that across winning various things, but let's remind ourselves if you're going to make it to the next level you have to be a Lewis, a Max, a Charles. If there's anyone who's good enough in W Series to make Formula 1, they have to beat Jamie as she set the benchmark. "The future is in her hands, she's won the championship twice, she's got the funding that came from that - a million bucks in two years.
"The reality is Jamie is still behind the curve of similar drivers in a Formula 3 or Formula 2 environment," David Coulthard, a former F1 driver and now chairman of the W Series advisory board, told ESPN in Miami ahead of the opening race of the season. still going to be a tough ask to try to win the third title, I'm under no illusion of how competitive that will be but I think a little bit more forward-thinking this year and plan ahead more."Ĭhadwick, the two-time W Series defending champion, is believed to be the next hope for a woman driving in F1, with her role as development driver for Williams and her success in other series, but has yet to secure an opportunity in F3. "But also from a wider picture, I want to prepare as best as possible for whatever the future might be. "From a sporting side, I definitely want to win that third title," she told ESPN. Foyt Enterprises, after she could not secure an F2 seat for the following season and struggled to score points, finishing 21st in the championship.Ĭould Chadwick get there? Right now, she's focused on what's in front of her. She has since switched to Ind圜ar, where she is a part-time driver with A.J. More recently, Colombia's Tatiana Calderon made it as far as F2 - the only woman to do so - driving for Arden, and spent the 2019 season as a test driver for Alfa Romeo. Susie Wolff, current CEO of Formula E team Venturi and wife of Mercedes team principal and CEO Toto Wolff, was a test driver for the Williams Formula One team for the 2015 season, and remains the last woman to be close to driving in F1. With only 20 drivers on the grid and 10 teams, a seat in F1 is scarce, and the likelihood of drivers making it through the echelons of feeder series Formula Three and Formula Two is narrow, requiring not just talent but millions of dollars in funding. Yet the 23-year-old British driver has a difficult road to maneuver her way to the pinnacle of her sport, Formula One racing.Ī woman hasn't started a Formula One race in 46 years, since Italy's Lella Lombardi competed in the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix, and there's no sign of that changing soon. Jamie Chadwick has won consecutive open-wheel racing championships.
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