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W Series 2022 Season Preview

W Series 2022 Season Preview

2 May 2022

When the lights go out for the first race of the 2022 W Series season, 195 days will have passed since the championship’s second season came to a dramatic conclusion at the Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, USA, where Jamie Chadwick pipped Alice Powell to successfully defend her W Series title.

The 2022 W Series season will support Formula 1 at eight grand prix race weekends, visiting three continents – including one, Asia, for the first time at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka – and five new circuits, with a 10-race campaign from May to October.

W Series begins season three where it left off, in the USA, but this time in the country’s southeasternmost state, Florida, at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix with a double-header at the brand-new Miami International Autodrome from 6-8 May. Two weeks later, W Series returns to the site of its 2022 pre-season test – the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Spain – before heading to the home of British motorsport, Silverstone, for race four at the beginning of July.

Later that month, W Series will visit two more European circuits – Circuit Paul Ricard, France, (22-24 July), and Hungary’s Hungaroring (29-31 July) – before F1’s summer break. After two months off, W Series will make its Asian debut as F1 returns to Japan (7-9 October) for the first time in two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. W Series then heads to the Americas and a return to COTA for the penultimate round of the season (21-23 October), before finishing with a double-header in Mexico City a week later.

The W Series driver and team line-ups for 2022 have been confirmed, as some familiar faces return, and five talented rookies make their debuts.

Getting to know the teams

Former racing driver and Olympic champion Caitlyn Jenner enters W Series as owner of the Jenner Racing Team, for whom two-time defending champion Jamie (UK, 23) will lead the charge. With six race victories and six other podium finishes to her name in a…

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