W Series 2022

Awe thats a pity. Would have been good to see.

Extreme E has a mandate that each team must consist of a male and female driver pairing. Perhaps one of the lower regional formulas should implement the rule on a trial basis, see how it goes.

Sounds like a great idea. I agree one of them should do it.

Nothing to be done unless these women bring serious hefty sponsorship with them for seats in F3 and up. And I don't mean social enterprises promoting hashtags or beauty products, we're talking 3 or 4 million dollars in personal sponsorship for F3. Banks, telecoms, energy suppliers, that sort of level.

Well that is really stupid. I thought Formula E was bad but this is even worse. They are never going to build up a following doing that.

I hope the Women drivers get something out of this like better pay maybe?

Absolutely crazy to go behind a paywall do.

Would love to see W Series come to Mondello for a round. I would go watch them. What do you think the chances are of it happening?

First race Live on Sky Showcase on Saturday at 7:10pm.

Of course a red flag would ruin the climax at the end of W Series qualy for the races. Hope Fabienne is ok to race after a big head on hit with the wall.

Hopefully this is a better start.

Biggest problem is that there is no path to f3 or gp2 after the series. Branch out the money for a competitive cockpit as prize money would make this series make sense. Now it's a dead end in a good position.

They'll get a drive in a higher tier series if a team or sponsor thinks they're good enough to be worth backing but so far that hasn't been the case, probably because they're looking at their performances holistically and not just in W Series. For example Chadwick has raced a couple of seasons in British formula 3 and was middle of the pack, and normally to move up to higher tier international series you really need to be showing yourself to be at least top 5 material there unless you've got massive personal finances to draw upon.

Plenty of drivers who beat her in mixed gender series have had nowhere else to go in their careers, while she's had the option to join a segregated series and achieve far greater success than they ever will. Having that series then give her an automatic ticket to a higher tier mixed gender series than she'd have reached directly seems counter productive.