Abbi Pulling is taking part in her first full-time campaign in the W Series this year. She currently sits fourth in the standings and has taken two podiums so far.
FIA Formula 3 champion Victor Martins, crowned the previous weekend at Monza, served as reference driver and coach, while Magny-Cours Racing School’s instructor Julien Gilbert was also on hand to help. Though former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard recently said the lack of power steering in F1's feeder series makes those cars harder to drive than an F1 car, and puts a “physical preference towards certain size and physically developed men,” there is a range of adjustments which can be made to the cars.
“I'm 5’7”, so I could reach the pedals fine and the hand grip was fine for me," she explained."I can reach everything that I need to so I'd like to think that I fit in it quite nicely. It was different to drive, but not a bad different. it was just interesting, you know, to see the differences between this and what I'm used to.
Powell believes tests like this help young female drivers “have a feel of what preparation they might need to take physically, mentally, to step up to the next level”, adding: “Abbi’s done okay in the car, she's not struggled physically today. F2 and F3 CEO Bruno Michel has said it is “very important to us to ensure that more and more female drivers join our championship,” and said in August that he was working with W Series CEO Catherine Bond-Muir to see how the series could collaborate to achieve that goal.
whatmegandid Chadwick has been W Series champion twice, earning her 800k pounds to fund her racing while she races for free in the W Series. FIA F3 team bosses have indicated that they are willing to field a female driver... 1/3
whatmegandid **So it's not the ability of women to drive the F3 car which is preventing them from moving into the series. It's the lack of opportunity to do so** Yes, and that is because a quintessential ability of motorsport is courage hence the reason why women aren't deployed to frontlines
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