F1’s All-Women Series: A Glorified Afterthought

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Formula 1 recently announced their new series F1 Academy: An all-women racing series feeding into Formula 3, and is set to run from 2023 to 2025 at seven venues around the world. Historically, motorsport has been male-dominated, and there has been little representation of women in the sport, from drivers to engineers to journalists. The new feeder series is part of a bigger push for female representation, and getting women of all ages on the track with young driver programs. However, this is not the first instance of an all-women racing series in the sport. In 2018, a free-to-enter category named “W Series” was created, to remove barriers for women to get into motorsport. After the cancellation of the final three races of its latest season due to issues with funding and its undetermined future, many are left to wonder whether W Series did enough to get women into higher categories. The announcement of F1 Academy raises questions regarding its goal of helping women progress up the ladder to Formula One.

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