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I like whisper productions, but there are better out there. Chadwick in F2? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, she’s a good young talent but has already competed in British GT, British F3 for 4 years with only 3 wins in that time. The worst thing they could do is rush her career right now, give her time to develop and stand a solid chance at good results. The big difficulty with this series is the fact the drivers will have to progress into GP3, F2 and race against men if they want to get to F1...they need to make sure who ever wins the series is ready for that otherwise the initiative will fail |
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I’m not so sure. It might be good to see her in F2. She’s had a decent career so far. But then again being in F2 now might break her too.
Maybe we should give her time, but it’s a shame she’ll have to do GP3, instead of straight to F2. Who knows when the next female will be in F1? Of course I hope her career progresses, because she has the talent |
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It’s a tricky one. Let’s just hope it doesn’t end like Formula Woman....that was dire |
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You’re right there. She’s out of the normal environment here. She would be better combining the two. It’s worth a shot, but yeah, F Woman promised much, but delivered little
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Decent enough racing, not a huge surprise to see Chadwick take a fairly comfortable win. Don't really care what series she chooses to do but obvious that she's a class act. |
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The level is a bit disappointing but that is not the point of the series indeed.
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...only problem is it’s a double edged sword. When she returns into the ‘system’ the spotlight will be on her, if she fails, the whole project backfires and all the great marketing it’s produces falls flat on its face. |
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felt sorry for kimilainen - she too is a class act. i'd like to see 'em run the top 3 in formula renault for the last round this season or something. really put their money where their mouths are. |
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I really like Jamie, think she’s a cracking talent. I’m just saying now the W Series have created a marketing monster, they need to handle it very carefully now the spotlight is on their drivers |
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yeah, agree. i like jamie too, she seems like a proper driver and she has been competitive in anything she's tried which is more than can be said for a lot of the other more hyped racers on the grid.
not sure exactly how far that spotlight falls though, it's a bit hard to know how many outside the motorsport bubble are actually aware of and interested in the series. |
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Saves an enormous amount of money. The whole series has as much track time as 2 or 3 weekends in other series. Likely also means the weekend warriors can prep the cars for the next meeting before loading up which saves major money too.
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I'd been very much reserving judgement on this until I'd at least seen a race. I'm... still not really sure how much good it's going to do. I wholeheartedly support anything which will give women more support into and through the motor racing world, but I don't know how much this will achieve in practice.
As people have said - you've got a few drivers in there that everyone already knows are pretty damn good - Chadwick obviously, and a few others who finished pretty close to the sharp end, as you'd expect. The others didn't get a huge amount of exposure, and it wasn't really possible to judge much from the race. I realised half way through that the most interesting thing to consider for those top drivers was inevitably "wouldn't this be interesting if they were in an open series race with good machinery and full backing?" As it was, did we learn anything? Jamie Chadwick can pedal a car pretty damn quick - yup, already knew that. Unless however this results in her getting a higher level single seater drive with enough genuine funding to be competitive, I'm not sure how much value it's going to bring her (or the other women of course, with more talent than cash). |
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Well it's off to Zolder this weekend. Hopefully we'll get a clearer picture. The racing was good enough at Hockenheim, although the circuit and weather helped a bit. Obviously if someone can consistently challenge Chadwick that would be good. What would not be good for the series is if it was so random, as then it would show there wasn't the talent in the series.
It would be nice for a woman to succeed enough to get a chance at the top level soon enough. Chadwick has got a good chance, but it all depends on how she goes away from this series. This series is a nice idea, but it could all be ruined if the top talent from here fails to make a mark elsewhere |
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Depends what is meant by top level. Chadwick has been signed as an Aston Martin factory driver which would be a dream for many drivers I would think and that was before the W series which, in some ways, could show it wasn't really needed if she dominates it.
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There's a few drivers in the field on the manufacturer pay roll.
W Series is just another opportunity. |
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I see it more as failing if it doesn’t get other drivers into the fore. I’m sure if Jamie wins that W-Series will shout about how it succeeded in getting her a contract, but I think she was already well on the way to stardom.
Doesn’t seem to be much point of the series if it is just making people aware of drivers that they were already aware of. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Stardom? In sportscars? Literally said no one. Ever.
She’s top in W Series for sure but hasn’t done much of anything else to mark herself out. Winning a reverse grid race in a weak BRDC “F3” doesn’t make you F1 material. |
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Just a random thought about what was said earlier in this thread (forgive me, but I haven't see the races myself). From what I understand no one driver has 'her' specific race car, they are simply drawn out of a hat, or otherwise randomly allocated for each race meeting. There were other comments that 'as all of the cars look the same, it's hard to differentiate who is driving which car. Would it not be possible for each driver to have 'her own' front & rear wing colouring? These items could then be swapped from tub to tub and aid driver identification?
(Or am I talking out of the top of my head as usual because I don't really know what's going on?) |
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As all the cars are new, it would be easy for a driver to have their own set of personalised bodywork - rear wing assembly, front nosecone, engine cover and side pods, and could incorporate a personalised livery whilst maintaining a centrally run car.
The lower floor section which may incorporate parts of the sidepods can be swapped over, but not a 30 second job like a sidepod is. |
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Literally said me. in the post you’re referring to. Sure she won’t be on the back pages of newspapers in GTs, but you can’t pretend like a pro factory drive in a top level motorsport is unimpressive. Presumably you only consider F1 to be ‘stardom’ worthy? So being like George Russell is better than being like Nick Tandy? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Chadwick on pole again.
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This is the problem with many "fans" these days. They think F1 is the be all and end all of motorsport.
There are plenty of drivers making far more money from their careers outside of F1 than many do and have done inside F1. |
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