She has since switched to Ind圜ar, where she is a part-time driver with A.J.
More recently, Colombia's Tatiana Calderon made it as far as F2 - the only woman to do so - driving for Arden, and spent the 2019 season as a test driver for Alfa Romeo. Dirt tracks, 'Miami Vice' and South Florida's racing history as a Formula One party rolls in.Susie Wolff, current CEO of Formula E team Venturi and wife of Mercedes team principal and CEO Toto Wolff, was a test driver for the Williams Formula One team for the 2015 season, and remains the last woman to be close to driving in F1. With only 20 drivers on the grid and 10 teams, a seat in F1 is scarce, and the likelihood of drivers making it through the echelons of feeder series Formula Three and Formula Two is narrow, requiring not just talent but millions of dollars in funding. Yet the 23-year-old British driver has a difficult road to maneuver her way to the pinnacle of her sport, Formula One racing.Ī woman hasn't started a Formula One race in 46 years, since Italy's Lella Lombardi competed in the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix, and there's no sign of that changing soon. Jamie Chadwick has won consecutive open-wheel racing championships.
