F1 engaged on all-female feeder sequence

Components One is working to create an all-female feeder sequence, sources instructed ESPN.

It’s hoped the championship will likely be up and operating in time for the beginning of the 2023 season to offer a clearer path up the present pyramid of Components 2 and Components 3 which result in F1.

A lady has not raced in Components One since Lella Lombardi on the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix.

The F1 feeder sequence goals to have seats for upwards of 15 drivers in its first season. It might haven’t any affiliation with W Collection, the all-female championship arrange in 2018.

Sources stated the brand new class can be aimed toward drivers of their teenagers, with a sense present at F1 that most of the girls who enter W Collection are already too outdated to have a practical probability of constructing F1’s feeder classes or the principle championship itself.

The feeder sequence would work at selling drivers into F3 after which F2. Groups concerned within the sequence are prone to be ones already concerned in these two championships.

W Collection has hit monetary difficulties this 12 months and was unable to complete the present season. It hopes to renew racing in 2023 though its standing stays unclear.

Three-time W Collection champion Jamie Chadwick, 24, is testing with Andretti’s IndyLights crew.

Regardless of an encouraging junior profession, Chadwick has by no means competed in an F3 or F2 race, and it’s believed funding nonetheless continues to be a problem for her hopes of doing so within the close to future.