Formula Woman Newsletter - 5th August

THE FIRST FORMULA WOMAN RACE

21 Formula Women attended Daytona Karting at Milton Keynes yesterday and took part in a D-Max kart race with qualifying followed by a race. This event was another pre-assessment opportunity and the field was a mix of ladies with varying levels of ability.

All who attended expressed their interest in doing more of this type of event, so we may be putting more Daytona events on for October.

The next karting event is on the 25th August at Sandown, Esher, Surrey on Wednesday 25th August, where there is literally just one place still available.

To grab this place you need to email Edward@f1.co.uk first come first served!

Results from Daytona Raceway Milton Keynes 4th August;
1st Place; Molly Winfield
2nd Place; Emma Price
3rd Place; Kichelle Malone

TRACK DAY UPDATE

Many of you have been trying to register for the Jaguar Project 8 Tack track days we are organising. There has been a glitch with the email on this one, so enquiries for these days should go to Sam@f1.co.uk

Our resident TV presenter Nikki Dean, along with TV Presenter Grace Webb, came to Cadwell Park last week to try out one of our Jaguar Project 8 race cars. It is a narrow circuit and the track was wet which resulted in a few hairy moments, but both ladies experienced the thrills of both the Project 8 and Cadwell Park.

The format of the track days will be available in the next newsletter along with more exciting news about two additions to our fleet!

IZONE SIMULATOR DAYS

There are just a couple of places to fill at iZone (Silverstone) on Friday 20thAugust so if you would like to reserve a place contact Edward@f1.co.uk

The simulator days allow you to experience a variety of tracks, a GT4 McLaren and should be treated as educational and one step further from the online tutorial, which we note some of you have not completed yet.

You must complete the tutorial in order to progress to your assessment day. It is worth watching it more than once in order for you to be well prepared.

HEALTH, MIND AND FITNESS

This is a crucial area that is so important once you become a racing driver and very soon Sabine, Claire and Evy will be advising all Formula Womancompetitors what you need to be doing if you are to become a race driver.

This vital area of motorsport will include fitness, mind coaching and nutrition. The way this is going to be communicated is via the Formula Woman portal and follow on from the online tutorial you have completed already. This will be more of an information tutorial and will prepare you for your forthcoming assessment.

It should be online by the end of August, if not before, and accessed with your login details. We will keep you updated.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITORS

The Formula Woman competition has been entered by women from all corners of the globe. Some of the women are determined to come to the UK and complete an assessment day and others will be completing their assessment day at their local kart track within their own country.

If you are an overseas competitor, we will be contacting you individually to make arrangements for you.

Those who are travelling to the Bedford assessment in November, please check Covid travel restrictions. Hopefully we will be getting to some kind of normality by then.

WELCOME PACKS

There has been a delay with the welcome packs which went to India, but this has now been resolved. However, there is still a hold up with some of the overseas applicants which is mainly down to new customs restrictions.

If you are still awaiting your welcome pack, please be patient we are working hard to resolve the issues.

COMMERCIAL PARTNERS AND YOUR OWN PERSONAL SPONSORS

Over the next few weeks, we will be introducing you to some of our commercial partners to let you know about their products and services.

Motorsport doesn’t work without sponsors, so this is a very important part of your learning curve.

It’s hard to find a sponsor, it’s even harder to retain and look after a sponsor. If you treat them well they will stay with you throughout your racing career.

For those of you who have secured a personal sponsor, if you haven’t already, you need to submit your prime sponsors logo to Edward@f1.co.uk