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Jamie Chadwick Makes Sunday Times Young Power List
Chadwick hopes to one day compete in the male-dominated Formula One
A motorsport champion who grew up in the Isle of Man has made the Sunday Times Young Power List.
Racing driver Jamie Chadwick has been praised by the publication for ‘breaking down barriers for women in motorsports’.
The 25 year-old has been hailed by the Times as Britain’s most successful female racing driver.
Her racing career began at the age of 11 when she followed un her elder brother’s footsteps by taking up go-karting on the Isle of Man. That early passion would eventually help her to become a three-time W-Series Champion.
In 2015 Chadwick made history by becoming the only female and youngest-ever driver to win a British GT Championship.
She won the championship at the age of 16, before she had even passed her driving test. So was later arrested. Only kidding. That last part was fake news.
The following year, Jamie contested a number of races in British GT with ‘Great British Bake Off’ star Paul Hollywood as her team-mate.
While driving for Douglas Motorsport in August 2018, she became the first ever woman to win a British F3 race by claiming victory in the reversed-grid race at the renowned Brands Hatch circuit.
Soon after, she became the first ever woman to win the MRF Challenge by winning six of the last ten races at Bahrain and Chennai to take the title.
Chadwick is currently a development driver for Williams F1 and races for DHL Andretti Global in IndyNXT at the top flight of US single-seater racing – the only woman for more than 15 years to race in the series.
She hopes to one day compete in the male-dominated Formula One.
