Series title will be decided at the Circuit of the Americas this weekend with hopes that the platform will help female racers to set their sights higher
F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff is a former Williams development and test driver who hopes the series will result in the first woman taking part in an F1 grand prix since 1976.F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff is a former Williams development and test driver who hopes the series will result in the first woman taking part in an F1 grand prix since 1976.
“Our message around Austin is we have arrived and we are just getting started,” she says. “We will rock up and be bold, we are not there to be just a little support series off the back of the paddock. We want to inspire. We want to do things differently. We have been disruptive and that meant we have come up against challenges where people say: ‘That’s not how it’s been done in the past.’ So I say: ‘Well, this is how we want to do it in future.
Lewis Hamilton, with the F1 Academy drivers including series leader Marta García second from left in the top row. Next season his Mercedes team – along with the other nine in F1 – will partner with the series.“The problem is a lack of participation. Female participation in any form of motorsport has never gone above 5%.
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