🗣️'This has been going on for close on four years' A team consisting of an equal gender split workforce has unveiled plans to join F1 for the 2026 season, with ex-BAR team boss Craig Pollock at the helm ⬇️
Named Formula Equal, the proposed team is expecting to operate with 50/50 percent split between men and women working at the outfit, and is planning to work out of an unspecified"Gulf area country" - with Saudi Arabia believed to be among the key underwriters of the project., revealed the plans on Tuesday in an interview with CNN, and stated that the team's ambition was primarily to ensure that women had a pathway to reach F1 in a variety of roles.
"This has been going on for close on four years, the building up of a brand new Formula 1 team, but taking into it our ambition to deliver and build opportunities and pathways for women to get to the very top level inside motorsports," Pollock told CNN. He added that the 50/50 ratio would extend to all facets of the team, including the engineering department and at board level.Williams has three-time W Series champion Jamie Chadwick on its books as an academy driver"But the reality is to be able to get into the cockpit of a Formula 1 car, you've got to have a certain number of points on your superlicence.
Pollock declined to answer if Saudi Arabia was involved in the team, but revealed that he was in"intense discussions with a Gulf area country" to base the team in the Middle East - citing the plethora of flight connections that F1 teams already make in the likes of Doha and Abu Dhabi as a benefit.
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