F1 Academy is part of a wider culture shift in auto racing. In 2018, F1 abolished the role of “grid girls” — models paid to ...

Women account for just 4% of drivers in the top professional categories of racing today. Even that represents real progress from just 1.5% a few years ago. Some of women’s success as drivers has ...

“There’s so many issues within the motorsports system that end up meaning that women don’t succeed,” said Naomi Schiff, a former driver who left racing for television. “I think having a ...

Because of her high point total, the British racing driver only ... nearly 50 years since a woman held one of those seats. The last woman on the F1 grid was Italian driver Lella Lombardi, who ...

Andrew Ferraro/LAT Images Chadwick is a mentor for F1 Academy and fellow Williams Racing driver Lia Block. Wolff said: "In my role with F1 Academy, we want to show women the opportunities ...

Her Cup series debut also will mark the first time in 10 years that a woman race car driver and owner have teamed up to compete since Patrick in 2010 with Kelley Earnhardt Miller of Mooresville ...

She will be the only woman racing in her category during this weekend’s Grand Prix, but she is among other female drivers who are making strides in the sport. She shared with patients about her ...

Following on from “Drive To Survive,” which sparked a boom in Formula 1’s audience, “F1: The Academy” brings unprecedented ...