Fuelling Round podcast: Jamie Chadwick on her record-breaking W Collection win and girls in motorsport

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W Collection legend Jamie Chadwick joins hosts Dave Vitty and fellow racing driver Jason Plato on this week’s award-winning podcast Fuelling Round to debate her profession up to now, her dream of creating it to System One, and a telephone name from a member of the Jenner household.

Chadwick, is a three-time W Collection champion and likewise holds the document for essentially the most wins, podiums, pole positions and factors within the competitors’s historical past. She can be a growth driver for System One crew Williams, and competes within the Indy NXT for Andretti Autosport. 

The 24-year-old discusses her love for motorsport, how she began, and the way she needed to compete with males throughout her early profession.   

Jamie Chadwick discusses girls’s entry into motorsport 

Chadwick additionally delves into incomes her place on benefit, however emphasises how necessary it's to present girls an opportunity to compete in motorsport. “I positively suppose there are issues we are able to do throughout the sport, with out it being I suppose reverse discrimination, or regardless of the time period is,” Chadwick says. 

“I strongly imagine the W Collection has been fairly good in bridging that hole, as a result of the best way I take a look at W Collection is, sure we would like extra women beginning at go karting ranges and beginning at grassroots, however W Collection is bridging that have hole with the women which can be at the moment already concerned within the sport.

“The ladies like me that began comparatively late didn’t essentially have the proper trajectory by way of the game of doing the steps I wanted to do perhaps earlier on, however it’s serving to me get that have. 

“It’s funding that and with that it’s giving optimistic position fashions to younger women it. That’s not simply drivers, that’s mechanics too, my mechanic this 12 months, she was my quantity two mechanic, however my primary mechanic taught her lots and let her nearly be my primary, and has now acquired a job at Alpine. 

“So it’s the chance and bridging that have hole goes to assist in the long run and in the end, sure it's only a numbers sport, however the extra women which can be concerned typically within the sport, the extra culturally it'll start to alter and the extra inviting it will likely be for younger women coming by way of.” 

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