W Series

[peebee2]

Originally Posted by AnnoyedMoose

If you can get a competitive F3 seat for $500k you'll have people beating a path to your door.

Sorry, I thought it was $1m!

I expect they think their champion should be able to find the other half.

Mind you, Jamie has won it twice, although some of the first win might have topped up the Rodin budget for her disastrous Formula Regional Europe campaign.

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by peebee2

Sorry, I thought it was $1m!

I expect they think their champion should be able to find the other half.

Mind you, Jamie has won it twice, although some of the first win might have topped up the Rodin budget for her disastrous Formula Regional Europe campaign.

The total prize fund is $1.5 million.
1st place gets $500,000.

[AnnoyedMoose]

And it's taxable so although Chadwick has won $1m over the last two seasons she won't have $1m for a drive. She's saying that the F3 budget is four times the money she has.

[peebee2]

It’s not taxable as any driver at this level should have things structured correctly. It’s turnover, not profit.

[NaBUru38]

The USF2000 champion gets a US$ 400 k scholarship.


The Indy Pro 2000 champion gets a US$ 720 k scholarship.


The Indy Lights champion gets a US$ 1.3 million scholarship.

[NaBUru38]

Thread bump!


Standings after Miami:


* 1. GBR Jamie Chadwick, 50 pts
* 2. ESP Nerea Mart?*, 23
* 3. NED Beitske Visser, 21
* 4. GBR Abbi Pulling, 20
* 5. GBR Jessica Hawkins, 18
* 6. GBR Alice Powell, 18
* 7. ESP Belén Garc?*a, 18
* 8. FIN Emma Kimiläinen, 10
* 9. BRA Bruna Tomaselli, 10
* 10. GBR Sarah Moore, 8

[tux]

Whos putting up the money for this series?

[NaBUru38]

I think they aren't exactly. public. All we know is that Catherine Bond Muir has some wealthy contacts.

[gomick]

Suprised to see Chadwick in the series again, why know FIA F3 drive for her?

[peebee2]

Originally Posted by gomick

Suprised to see Chadwick in the series again, why know FIA F3 drive for her?

Various, but mainly nowhere near good enough to be attractive to teams on anything other than a premium budget.

[tux]

Originally Posted by gomick

Suprised to see Chadwick in the series again, why know FIA F3 drive for her?

Yeah, upsets & confuses me. Upsets me because shes clearly got talent and deserves a chance to compete at a higher level. Confuses me because i thought the whole point of the series was to find talented drivers who can move on? It clearly doesn't work in that regard. Still, from what ive seen they must be getting good viewing numbers, people must be pumping the money in for some reason because its not cheap to get the coverage they're getting, to ship cars around the world and to put up the prize money.

[peebee2]

Originally Posted by tux

Yeah, upsets & confuses me. Upsets me because shes clearly got talent and deserves a chance to compete at a higher level. Confuses me because i thought the whole point of the series was to find talented drivers who can move on? It clearly doesn't work in that regard. Still, from what ive seen they must be getting good viewing numbers, people must be pumping the money in for some reason because its not cheap to get the coverage they're getting, to ship cars around the world and to put up the prize money.

She did get a chance at a higher level though, in Formula Regional Europe. Results were shockingly bad.