{"id":10448,"date":"2018-10-23T12:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/22978-women-in-motorsport-episode-no-1-creation-of-w-series"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:29:23","slug":"22978-women-in-motorsport-episode-no-1-creation-of-w-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casinoenligne.uk.com\/en\/f1\/news\/22978-women-in-motorsport-episode-no-1-creation-of-w-series","title":{"rendered":"Women in Motorsport – Episode No. 1: The Creation of the W Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The W Series Championship is a motorsport championship dedicated to women. This new competition, which will start in May 2019, will bring together 18 to 20 women selected by a prestigious jury, including former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard and talented engineer Adrian Newey, currently the technical director at Red Bull Racing. Although the jury is presumably entirely male, the president of the championship is a woman, Catherine Bond Muir.<\/p>\n

It is behind the wheel of a Tatuus Formula 3 that the participants will compete on 6 European circuits: Hockenheim (Germany), Zolder (Belgium), Misano (Italy), Norisring (Germany), Assen (Netherlands), Brands Hatch (United Kingdom). The main goal of this competition is to serve as a springboard for these drivers to access other categories and potentially allow a female to secure a position in F1. Let’s recall that currently only two women are driving a single-seater: Tatiana Calderon, 16th in the GP3 Series before the final race in Abu Dhabi, and Sophia Fl\u00f6rsch, ranked 22nd in the European Formula 3 championship.<\/p>\n

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DC and Dutch GT4 racer @beitskevisser<\/a> check out our Tatuus F3 T-318. Hope you both like our race car! \ud83d\udcf8 pic.twitter.com\/QLT3eCOWU7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 W Series (@WSeriesRacing) 13 octobre 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No financial support is needed to access the W Series, the drivers will not pay anything to participate in this championship, the need for funding which may have previously been a barrier for some women entering motorsport will therefore not be a problem for this discipline. Beitske Visser, a driver in the GT4 European Series, has already expressed her interest in the discipline.<\/p>\n

David Coulthard declares about this new category: At W Series, we firmly believe that women and men can race against each other on equal terms if given the same opportunity. Currently, however, women seem to hit a glass ceiling around the GP3\/F3 level in their development, often due to a lack of budget rather than a lack of talent. That’s why a brand new single-seater championship exclusively for women, W Series, is needed to establish a competitive and constructive environment where our drivers can acquire the skills necessary to reach traditional high-level championships and compete against the best men on equal footing.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it should be noted that this discipline does not have unanimous support. Indeed, while Carmen Jorda saw Bernie Ecclestone’s idea in 2015 as a “wonderful” one, other observers and players in the automotive world do not view this innovation positively. For Corentine Quiniou, a rally driver, this championship risks putting in the public’s mind that the Formula 1 World Championship is not open to women.<\/p>\n

The last woman to drive in Formula 1 was Giovanna Amati in 1992, so let’s hope that more than 20 years later we will once again see a woman driving in F1 and who knows, maybe become the first female Formula 1 world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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