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Nate SaundersF1 Associate Editor
- • Previously worked successful rugby national and British Superbikes
• History postgraduate from Reading University
• Joined ESPNF1 successful February 2014
Formula One is moving to make an all-female feeder series, sources told ESPN.
It is hoped the title volition beryllium up and moving successful clip for the commencement of the 2023 play to supply a clearer way up the existing pyramid of Formula 2 and Formula 3 which pb to F1.
A pistillate has not raced successful Formula One since Lella Lombardi astatine the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix.
The F1 feeder bid aims to person seats for upwards of 15 drivers successful its archetypal season. It would person nary affiliation with W Series, the all-female title acceptable up successful 2018.
Sources said the caller class would beryllium aimed astatine drivers successful their teens and aboriginal 20s, with a feeling existing astatine F1 that galore of the women who participate W Series are already excessively aged to person a realistic accidental of making F1's feeder categories oregon the main title itself.
The feeder bid would enactment astatine promoting drivers into F3 and past F2. Teams progressive successful the bid are apt to beryllium ones already progressive successful those 2 championships.
W Series has hit fiscal difficulties this year and was incapable to decorativeness the existent season. It hopes to resume racing successful 2023 though its presumption remains unclear.
Three-time W Series champion Jamie Chadwick, 24, is investigating with Andretti's IndyLights team.
Despite an encouraging inferior career, Chadwick has ne'er competed successful an F3 oregon F2 race, and it is believed backing inactive continues to beryllium an contented for her hopes of doing truthful successful the adjacent future.
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