Jamie Chadwick: "Rest in the W Series for the budget" – Formulas

The development pilot Williams Jamie Chadwick, 21, has finally decided on his plans for 2020. Instead of crossing the ford, going towards the FIA ​​F3, the British will run one more season in the all-female championship W Series. With one foot also in the Aston Martin driver program and the promise to race in the future Extreme E championship in 2021, Chadwick has several exit routes in case its problems with budget.

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On the Daily Telegraph Chadwick did not hide his difficulty in finding enough money to be registered (and competitive) in the FIA ​​F3: "As motorsport is today, the step to be taken for me is financially huge. I will remain in the W Series as a two-year program, I hope along with other races. Potentially, at the end of this journey, I will be able to have the necessary budget to go up in category. My ambition is to defend the title, I will try to put pressure on myself to win again". One of the biggest reasons for his stay in the W Series are the points for the Superlicense in F1, which will be awarded during the 2020 season.

The FIA ​​points for those who will reach the top of the second season of the W Series should be from a minimum of 10 (ie as many as are given to a national F3) to a maximum of 18 (taken by a winner of the Formula Renault Eurocup). We need at least 40 to make our Formula 1 debut. Chadwick focuses on this factor to become the first woman of the third millennium to race in Formula 1, or at least the first to participate in a race weekend (free practice) later Susie Wolff.

In the championship W Series 2020 there will be the first 12 classified of the first season (qualified by right) and six new entries have also been announced. The 39-year-old is not currently present Katherine Law, who is a veteran, and this suggests that in the selection of candidates for the available places weight is not given only to speed, but also to availability (with a law that has a tight schedule in the United States). Tatiana Calderon, now in F2, declined the opportunity to race and criticized Chadwick: "If I had won the first season, why should I have come back? Why should I have taken someone else's chance?"

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According to Telegraph, this will be the 2020 line-up: Jamie Chadwick, Beitske Visser, Alice Powell, Marta Garcia, Emma Kimilainen, Fabienne Wohlwend, Miki Koyama, Sarah Moore, Vicky Piria, Tasmin Pepper, Jessica Hawkins, Saber Cook (confirmed), Ayla Agren, Abbie Eaton, Belen Garcia, Nerea Marti, Irina Sidorkova, Bruna Tomaselli (new).