W Series Season Two drivers have been announced
The W Series announced eighteen drivers for the second season of the all-female single-seater championship. After a three-day on-track test at Almeria last month, and a rigorous lap-time assessment and data-analysis programme thereafter, W Series has selected six new drivers to race alongside the 12 drivers who automatically qualified for the 2020 W Series championship as a result of having finished inside the top 12 in the 2019 W Series.
Six new drivers are Ayla Agren (Norway, 25), Abbie Eaton (UK, 27), Belen Garcia (20, Spain), Nerea Marti (Spain, 17), Irina Sidorkova (Russia, 16) and Bruna Tomaselli (Brazil, 21). The rest of the line-up consists of Jamie Chadwick, Beitske Visser, Alice Powell, Marta Garcia, Emma Kimilainen, Fabienne Wohlwend, Miki Koyama, Sarah Moore, Vicky Piria, Tasmin Pepper, Jessica Hawkins and Sabre Cook.
W Series will have twenty cars on the grid in 2020
Catherine Bond Muir (Chief Executive Officer, W Series) said: “Almost as soon as the sun had set on Brands Hatch, scene of the 2019 W Series championship finale, we at W Series began preparing for our 2020 season. More than 40 new drivers applied to race with us in 2020 and, after a three-day on-track test at Almeria last month, and a rigorous lap-time and data-analysis programme thereafter, we’re now able to announce the first 18 of the 20 drivers who’ll compete in the 2020 W Series championship.
Our commiserations go to those whom we haven’t selected, but sadly their disappointment is simply an example of the jeopardy inherent in any athlete’s life at the higher levels of competitive sport. The more you can win, the more you can lose.”
Dave Ryan (Racing Director, W Series) said: “I was generally impressed by the 14 drivers whom we tested and appraised at Almeria last month, and making our selection was correspondingly difficult. But we’ve crunched all the data to the best of our ability, and I’m therefore confident that the 18 drivers whom we’ve selected so far represent an excellent line-up. But we’ve left two spaces available, to allow us a little more time to select the final two drivers who, together with the 18 drivers we’ve already selected, will make up the 20 drivers who’ll contest the 2020 W Series championship.”
The new drivers have been chosen after a three-day test at Almeria
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