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Winner's bizarre experience as all-female races axed - CtrlF.XYZ

Winner's bizarre experience as all-female races axed

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Jamie Chadwick says she learned she had won this year's W Series rubric portion sitting astatine location aft it was announced the play had travel to an aboriginal conclusion.

In September, reports emerged the all-female racing bid that plays enactment to Formula 1 was successful fiscal trouble.

Category organisers connected Tuesday announced the last 2 rounds successful the United States and Mexico would not spell up arsenic planned.

Organisers said they had not received the required backing to proceed racing successful 2022.

The contention astatine Circuit of the Americas and the double-header astatine Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez person duly been cancelled and the bid volition present absorption connected fundraising for 2023.

"As a start-up successful lone our 3rd play of racing, we are ever moving hard to guarantee regularity of backing arsenic we proceed to turn our business," said W Series CEO Catherine Bond Muir.

"But owed to caller unforeseen circumstances extracurricular of W Series' control, we had not been successful receipt of contracted funds owed to us.

"Therefore, we person been forced to marque the unfortunate determination not to implicit our scheduled calendar this season.

"We person worked hard to rise the required backing to alteration america to decorativeness the season.

"Unfortunately, it was not imaginable to bash this successful the abbreviated clip framework required pursuing the nonaccomplishment of contracted funds to get and the planetary economical downturn.

"However, portion we are each incredibly disappointed that this determination has had to beryllium made successful the abbreviated term, we stay affirmative astir the aboriginal of W Series successful the agelong term.

"It is well-documented that women's sports person acold little backing than its antheral counterparts, and W Series is nary exception.

"We are incredibly thankful for the assistance and enactment we person received successful caller weeks pursuing the quality of the fiscal difficulties we've been facing, which has accelerated our fundraising process and fixed america large optimism arsenic we look to 2023 and beyond."

For Chadwick, it was a bittersweet infinitesimal learning she had won the title.

She drew parallels betwixt her triumph and Max Verstappen's 2nd Formula 1 drivers' championship, which came successful likewise awkward circumstances.

Confusion reigned astatine Suzuka connected Sunday when the Red Bull operator won the Japanese Grand Prix and enactment himself capable points wide of Charles Leclerc to beryllium champion-elect.

However, owed to disorder surrounding the percent of points awarded fixed the contention distance, galore were near scratching their heads.

Verstappen lone recovered retired helium was champion successful the cool-down room.

"I don't truly cognize however to instrumentality that, to beryllium honest," said Chadwick.

"I conjecture portion of maine is evidently blessed that it's benignant of definite, but astatine the aforesaid clip truly bittersweet for W Series and truly bittersweet not to beryllium doing the past fewer races.

"I was watching [Formula 1] thinking, 'oh, that's an anticlimax' and I consciousness similar this is perchance adjacent much so.

"I guess, down the line, I won't adjacent retrieve reasoning astir it similar this, but astatine the aforesaid time, you ever privation to person the champion accidental to triumph it connected track.

"Yeah, it's 1 of those things. It's mixed emotions. I wasn't hoping to beryllium sat astatine location past uncovering retired I'd won a title alternatively than possibly connected track, but it's however it falls this time, I guess."

Chadwick has present won each 3 W Series titles to date.

This year, she claimed 5 wins from 7 races. The 24-year-old won successful Miami, Barcelona, Paul Ricard and Catalunya.

Alice Powell of the UK and Beitske Visser from the Netherlands won successful Budapest and Singapore respectively.

As yet, W Series organisers person not confirmed a calendar for 2023.

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