W Series CEO Catherine Bond Muir says the championship has taken steps to ensure its new teams do not offer seats to so-called ‘pay drivers’.
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Powell takes lights-to-flag victory in W Series opener
W Series
Posted onAlice Powell won the first W Series race of 2021, leading every lap from pole position at the Red Bull Ring, and surviving a late restart.
W Series begins move to team-based format for new season
W Series
Posted onAll-female junior racing championship W Series will move to an entirely team-based format in 2022, and has sold six entries to owners this year.
2021 Styrian Grand Prix TV Times
2021 Styrian Grand Prix
Posted onIt’s race week! Formula 1 heads to Red Bull Ring this weekend, and W Series returns. Here’s how to watch the Styrian Grand Prix and more.
W Series confirms eight F1 support races for 2021, no Saudi Arabian round
Other motorsport
Posted onW Series has confirmed the eight Formula 1 races it will support in 2021, but the all-women’s championship will not race in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia eager for W Series support event at its 2021 F1 race
2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
Posted onThe Saudi Arabian Grand Prix promoter says it “would love” to include all-women’s championship W Series as a support event at its inaugural Formula 1 race next year.
F1 drivers pleased to share race weekends with “underrated” W Series in 2021
2020 Turkish Grand Prix
Posted onFormula 1 drivers including Lewis Hamilton praised the addition of women’s championship W Series to eight rounds on next year’s calendar.
W Series to support eight F1 races in new partnership for 2021
W Series
Posted onW Series, the junior formula for women racers which held its first and only championship last year, will hold events at more than a third of rounds on the 2021 F1 calendar.
FIA-Ferrari programme “a very good step” towards promoting women in motorsport
W Series
Posted onBeitske Visser, the runner-up in the first ever W Series championship for women racers last year, praised the FIA and Ferrari’s new initiative to promote female competitors.
W Series abandons 2020 season, plans “bigger and better” 2021 schedule
W Series
Posted onW Series’ second season has become the latest victim of the pandemic. The all-female championship has announced it will not hold any races in 2020.
W Series is “closer to getting women into F1”
2020 F1 season
Posted onW Series CEO Catherine Bond Muir says the championship is moving closer to getting women racers into Formula 1 after announcing a deal to run support races at two grands prix this year.
W Series adds new F1 support races in USA and Mexico
2020 F1 season
Posted onAll-female championship W Series has added two rounds supporting the Formula 1 world championship to its 2020 calendar.
W Series champion Chadwick gets expanded Williams role
2020 F1 season
Posted onJamie Chadwick, the inaugural champion of women’s racing championship W Series, will continue in her role as junior driver at Williams during the 2020 F1 season.
W Series should help “integrate” women racing drivers
W Series
Posted onWomen-only championship W Series should help promote female racers into mixed motorsport competitions, according to the head of the FIA’s single-seater commission Stefano Domenicali.
Chadwick clinches first ever W Series championship
W Series
Posted onJamie Chadwick became the first ever winner of the W Series championship in Brands Hatch, despite finishing off the podium for the first time this year.
‘We thought: What the hell was going on in motorsport?’: How W Series came to be
RacingLines
Posted onWill W Series encourage more women to start racing? Dieter Rencken speaks to CEO Catherine Bond Muir, their two race winners and ex-F1 racer Divina Galica.
Williams rethinks “critical” view of W Series
W Series
Posted onWilliams team principal Claire Williams admits she has revised her view of all-women junior single-seater formula W Series having visited the first round of the championship in Hockenheim.
W Series ‘smashed estimates’ with 400,000 UK viewers for championship’s first race
W Series
Posted onW Series attracted a far bigger UK television audience than was expected for its first live race, according to the all-female championship’s CEO.
W Series confirms its 18 drivers for first season of all-women championship
W Series
Posted onW Series, the new single-seater series aimed at promoting female racing talent, has announced the 18 drivers who will compete in its inaugural championship.
W Series gives test chances to 28 drivers from entry of 61
RaceFans Round-up
Posted onIn the RaceFans Round-up: W Series gives test chances to 28 drivers • Hamilton not trying to beat Schumacher – Button • Ocon to assist Mazepin in test programme