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As the dust settles over Silverstone, W Series are celebrating a milestone audience of 1 million UK viewers over the British GP weekend. After securing a new broadcasting deal for this season, the Silverstone race weekend was broadcast live across Sky Sports and Channel 4 for the first time. An average of more than 710,000…
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Jamie Chadwick, reigning double champion of W Series, has taken pole position for her home race in Silverstone today. She has continued her perfect start to 2022; winning all three races so far this year, and is in prime position to go for her fourth race today with a pole position-winning time of 1:56.758. Two…
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W Series has announced a collaboration with Motorsport UK and Silverstone on Women in Motorsport Day, to recognise and showcase the success of the women in motorsport. The series’ 18 drivers are due to face off in the fourth race of the 2022 season in support of the Formula 1® Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022…
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W Series has announced that its paddock will proudly display the rainbow logo at the fourth race of the 2022 season at Silverstone, UK, on 1-2 July in support of Pride. Over the course of the Formula 1® Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022 weekend, W Series’ drivers will wear gloves, boots, and fireproofs with the rainbow…
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Jamie Chadwick has claimed her first home race win at Silverstone taking her to six consecutive wins; including all four of this season’s races. The British driver has now reached the 100 point mark alongside her 100 per cent race record this season, taking her 47 points clear of Abbi Pulling in the championship. Alongside…
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The CortDAO Racing W Series Team has announced it’s launching it’s first series of NFTs, giving fans a unique opportunity to financially support driver development and the internet-based W Series team. The 10,000 NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are of two bespoke CortDAO Racing designs; 3D virtual depictions of the limited-edition racing helmets of Marta Garcia and…
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W Series returns to Silverstone this weekend for the fourth race of the season, and Jamie Chadwick looks to extend her record-breaking stint of wins on her home soil. With crowds of over 400,000 due to enter Silverstone across the Formula 1® Lenovo British Grand Prix 2022 weekend, there’s every chance that they could see…
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The FIA have today announced that they will be intervening to prevent the issues caused by porpoising. In the FIAs official statement they have promised that they will be increasing the scrutiny of skid blocks and planks on the underneath of the cars to observe the damage being caused by low ride height. The skid…
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They said bad things come in threes. For Leclerc, that has been a string of no finishes or starts at his home race. However is 2022 the year we see that change? The monegasque driver has just taken pole position around the streets of Monte Carlo, and securing another scuderia front row lockout at the…
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The reigning champion of WSeries Jamie Chadwick has taken pole position for the third race of the season, on the day of her 24th birthday. The Jenner Racing driver is still on great form in Barcelona, following her victory in both races at Miami two weeks ago. She goes into tomorrow’s race with a 27-point…
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Charles LeClerc has taken another pole position in 2022 as his hunt for his first F1 world championship continues. He topped all three qualifying sessions to take the first pole position at Miami. The Monegasque was assisted by his Spanish teammate to take the first Ferrari 1-2 in qualifying since 2019. Rounding out the top…
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The wait is finally over for the start of the W Series third season. The international single-seater motor racing championship for women drivers’ 2022 campaign begins this weekend with a double-header in support of Formula 1’s inaugural Miami Grand Prix. The third season starts where the second left off in October last year – in…
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The W Series championship has today announced that Hard Rock International will be the title sponsor of the 2022 season-opening double header in Miami, USA, which is taking place this weekend. W Series Miami presented by Hard Rock features two races in support of the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix.The double-header at the brand-new Miami…
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Today, W Series has announced the broadcast team that will be covering the 2022 season. Earlier this week W Series revealed it had secured a three-year broadcasting deal with Sky Sports. The partnership means that Sky Sports will air live coverage of all qualifying and races up until 2024. Previously W Series had been free-to-air…
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W Series announcse Sky Sports F1 will broadcast live coverage of all qualifying and races in a three-year deal starting in 2022. With coverage across all of Sky’s global platforms – Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland included – the three-year contract represents a landmark partnership and the largest media investment in W Series to date.…
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Today W Series have announced Abbie Eaton will return to the series for a full 2022 season campaign. In her first season with W Series, Abbie Eaton hit the ground running in 2021 with four top-10 results in the first six races of the season. However following a heavy crash during the US Grand Prix…
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W Series has announced that it will kick off its’ 2022 season with a two-race weekend in Miami. The brand-new Miami International Autodrome will see the first two of ten races in the W Series calendar take place, making this season the busiest yet with the most races ever featured within the series. The season…
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W Series have announced a W Series Academy Team for the 2022 season with Bianca Bustamante and Juju Noda as the team’s drivers. Bustamante and Noda are the two youngest drivers on the grid – 17 and 16 respectively – and will join the team as an extension of the W Series Academy Programme. The…
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Last week, Abbi Pulling and Aseel Al-Hamad made history as they became the first women to drive F1 cars in Saudi Arabia. It has been four years since the ban on female drivers was lifted and this demonstration marks a huge shift in female representation in Saudi. In a demonstration championed by Alpine and the…
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With the season now well underway, there were just a couple more things needed within the Williams Racing team and that was confirmation of their Reserve and academy/development drivers. It comes as no shock to see them retain the services of Jack Aitken as reserve driver and Jamie Chadwick as Academy/development driver. Jack was lucky…