Jamie Chadwick celebrates after winning the W Series race in advance of the F1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone in July 2022. (Reuters)
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates– Formula One is launching a brand-new racing collection for female motorists that will certainly start next year.
The series, to be referred to as the F1 Academy, will be funded by F1 and also is most likely to be a support collection for one weekend break of the F1 season.
F1 stated it would certainly add funding of 150,000 euros ($156,000) per auto “and also will certainly need the vehicle drivers to cover the exact same quantity, which represents a portion of the typical costs in a similar collection.”
They will certainly represent teams which are presently associated with Formula Two or Formula Three. Talking at the launch, F1 Academy manager Bruno Michel safeguarded the prices involved in the brand-new series and also stated there could be funding from established F1 teams as well.
“From the initial comments I have from the groups, I do not believe we’re going to have problems to find drivers with this type of rather practical spending plan,” Michel stated. “I am quite sure too that some of the Formula One academies are going to begin to service that and also help financing this sort of cash for the drivers also.”
There will be 15 automobiles on the grid for a 21-race season split across 7 rounds. The collection will certainly aim to recruit “young skill currently in go-karting or other junior categories” in the hope they can later finish to Formula Three as a following action, as well as at some point complete in F1.
The announcement comes less than 2 months after one more all-female occasion, the W Series, reduced its season short because of financial issues.
The W Series has actually been cost-free to go into for vehicle drivers, unlike the F1 Academy as well as most other developmental series which require young vehicle drivers to bring their very own financial backing from family money, financiers or sponsors. It additionally utilizes Formula Three cars and trucks rather than the customized Formula Four-specification cars and trucks planned for the F1 Academy.
W Series CEO Catherine Bond Muir claimed she believed both occasions could exist side-by-side.
“W Series welcomes any type of initiative which shares our ambition to supply even more opportunities for women in motorsport,” Bond Muir said in a statement.
“Our purpose from the start has always been to boost the ability pool of females racing vehicle drivers, as well as the enhancement of the F1 Academy as a feeder to W Series and other series is a further action in inspiring the next generation to advance up the motorsport ladder.”
W Series faced financial difficulty this season and also canceled its last 3 races in Mexico as well as the United States, to concentrate on elevating funds for 2023. It has yet to publish a schedule for following season.
“We are expecting wrapping up W Series’ prepare for 2023 and also past, providing exciting auto racing and entertaining our followers around the world,” Bond Muir claimed.
5 ladies have completed in F1, yet none has done so for 30 years. Giovanna Amati was one of the most recent lady to officially go into an F1 occasion when she participated in receiving three races in 1992. Other women motorists have actually been involved in F1 screening ever since. The last woman to start an F1 race was Lella Lombardi in 1976. Her tale is informed in this F1 video:
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