W Series

at a Formula One race on the main stage.

We did that last week in Baku with the fantastic three times W Series champion and Sky Sports F1 pundit, Jamie Chadwick.

So this is what happened when we caught up in Baku in front of a passionate audience of Formula One fans.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Seeing a lot of blue caps, which makes sense.

There's a lot of blue caps.

Jamie Chadwick, I was just running through your fantastic credentials on this stage just before you arrived as multiple W Series champion, F1 Academy ambassador, part of the Williams Racing team.

But you have just done something unbelievably cool, which I'd like to start with.

officially so not including anyone who's just been like oh have a go but yeah

it doesn't happen very often and you've got to earn it you know these things these tests they cost a lot of money you don't just get the chance to do one on a whim you know you've got to really really earn the opportunity to do it and she really has she's you know a triple w series champion she went over to the us and drove in indy next the first woman to win a race for i think it was about 14 or 15 years over there

she's an incredible talent she's a very

very good driver so a lot of people will know her better for being she's a regular as part of the punditry rotation on sky sports um but she is first and foremost a racing driver she's a very very good racing driver and she got the chance to live out her childhood dream and she drove a williams formula one car uh in a test at portimao last week and uh yeah the video they showed sort of the the video in several parts on the sky coverage of the the backer race over the weekend and Very emotional, very, you know, it was really, really great to see her get that opportunity.

Obviously we, we know how incredible she is.

Three-time W Series champion, literally consecutive years because they didn't hold it in 2020 'cause of a little thing called COVID-

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... that stopped the world.

Your conscious mind is never going to come to an answer or a conclusion as fast as your subconscious and as fast as you need to.

I got really injured in 2021 during my last year of W Series.

And it was absolutely miserable.

That for me was like a lesson that the universe was kind of like trying to teach me.

I moved and worked in the UK as a vehicle test engineer for Infinity and Nissan.

And then after that, I went to work for Renault F1, which everybody now knows as Alpine F1 in suspension composite design, and did that and worked on the 2020 car.

And then at the same time, I also qualified for W Series, which a lot of people maybe don't know what it is, but it was like the precursor to what F1 Academy is now.

And for those of you that really don't know racing, racing is co-ed.

He beat Max Verstappen, who finished in second, and Lando Norris rounded out the podium.

To discuss it all with me is, uh, former W Series driver, Alice Powell, and F1 journalist, Rebecca Clancy.

Welcome along.

Um, it was a magical day, wasn't it, for, for Kimi Antonelli once again, back-to-back victories.