The young Scot takes to the Red Bull Ring on Saturday in a fresh championship that, she tells Giles Richards, could help bring her F1 dream closer
ith irrepressible enthusiasm, Chloe Grant laughs as she apologises for her repeated use of the phrase: “It’s a dream come true” while considering her imminent participation in the F1 Academy. It is a combination of youthful ebullience paired still with a hint of disbelief as the 17-year-old who was inspired by Lewis Hamilton looks to a future in the sport’s new all-female championship that is far from fantasy.
Grant is one of the 15 drivers who will enter qualifying on Friday for the inaugural F1 Academy meeting at the Red Bull Ring, with the races run on Saturday. The series aims to propel a woman into F1, which has not had a female grand prix driver since Lella Lombardi in 1976. Chloe Grant, testing her car at the Red Bull Ring, will be up against drivers who have tasted success in the W Series.“By the time I was 11, I thought: ‘I want to do this as a career,’” she says. “I was still a kid then but last year and this year it has become really, really serious, there is no turning back. This is what I have got to do now, I can’t see any other path for me.”
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