W Series

[peebee2]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

This is pointless.


They should have given the champion a full scholarship in FIA F3.

The prize is enough for F3.

[AnnoyedMoose]

Originally Posted by peebee2

The prize is enough for F3.

Not even close.

[peebee2]

Originally Posted by AnnoyedMoose

Not even close.

It’s more than enough if you know how to negotiate properly.

[AnnoyedMoose]

Originally Posted by peebee2

It’s more than enough if you know how to negotiate properly.

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

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by AnnoyedMoose

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

In fairness they did not say competitive monies would be offered. RTI doesn't offer enough for a full season competitive ride either. The problem is not offering enough for a decent ride makes the winner appear less capable than they might be

[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.

[NaBUru38]

Standings after Barcelona:

* 1. GBR Jamie Chadwick, 75 pts
* 2. GBR Abbi Pulling, 38
* 3. GBR Alice Powell, 33
* 4. NED Beitske Visser, 31
* 5. ESP Nerea Marti, 27
* 6. ESP Belén Garcia, 24
* 7. FIN Emma Kimiläinen, 22
* 8. GBR Jessica Hawkins, 18
* 9. BRA Bruna Tomaselli, 10
* 10. GBR Marta Garcia, 10

[tux]

Originally Posted by peebee2

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

Formula Regional is a foolish series though. It uses that stupid Tatuus chassis that produces 0 overtakes a race. Great grid, awful racing.

[NaBUru38]

Thread bump! Silverstone is this weekend.

[midgetman]

Is it just me, but I does anyone else think that photo shoot in Hello magazine destroyed everything W Series is working for?

Getting young drivers to dress up in glam clothing completely ruins the image of the girls as "serious racers fighting a sexual stereotype" and re-enforces the old buffer view.

Such a shame. I thought the sport was rising above that, especially in F1 with the cancellation of the grid girls.





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[E.B]

Originally Posted by midgetman

Is it just me, but I does anyone else think that photo shoot in Hello magazine destroyed everything W Series is working for?

Getting young drivers to dress up in glam clothing completely ruins the image of the girls as "serious racers fighting a sexual stereotype" and re-enforces the old buffer view.

Such a shame. I thought the sport was rising above that, especially in F1 with the cancellation of the grid girls.

Totally agree Max..... its like a step back in time.

[Alessio]

I get what you mean, but it’s not like Lewis or Alonso etc have never done any “modelling” before.

[midgetman]

Yes and they're derided for it. Equally F1 wasn't set up to change gender stereotypes.

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[Alessio]

I don't know. If you see Lewis Hamilton or Jamie Chadwick as any less of a racing driver because they did a modeling shoot, that says more about the individual than stereotypes. They can do what they want, otherwise, it becomes another situation of men telling women what they can and can't do.