Sources told ESPN that Formula One is working to create a range of athletes for women.
It is hoped the championship will be held in time at the start of the 2023 season to provide a clearer path to the existing pyramid of Formula 2 and Formula 3, leading to F1.
A woman who hasn’t raced in Formula One since Lella Lombardi at the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix.
The F1 feeder series aims to seat up to 15 drivers in the first season. It will not be related to the W Series, the all-female championship set in 2018.
Sources say the new category will target teenage drivers, with a feeling that exists in F1 that many women entering the W Series are too old to have a realistic chance of making it into the categories. feeder of F1 or the main championship.
The loader series will work in promoting the drivers to F3 and then F2. The teams participating in the series can be the ones that have participated in those two championships.
W series has financial difficulties this year and could not finish the current season. It hopes to resume racing in 2023, though its status remains unclear.
Three-time W Series champion Jamie Chadwick, 24, is experimenting with Andretti’s IndyLights team.
Despite an encouraging career, Chadwick has never competed in an F3 or F2 race, and it is believed funding continues to be an issue for her hopes for the foreseeable future.
