JAMIE CHADWICK IS celebrating on stage at the Miami Grand Prix, air-strumming a pink electric guitar trophy. It’s May 2022, and she has just won the second of two races to open the third season of the W Series, the all-woman single-seater championship.
Chadwick has been dominant. She led every lap of this race from pole and took the checkered flag almost three seconds ahead of second place. The British driver now has a massive 24-point lead over the field, but she isn’t just competing for her third straight W Series title. Her goal is to race in the most prestigious circuit in open-wheel racing, and her performances in the W Series, as well as her title in the British GT Championship, have led her to be anointed the driver most likely to end the nearly-50-year drought of women racing in Formula One. After all, she’s the only driver not named Max Verstappen to win on a F1 weekend in South Florida.
“It’s amazing to be in the position where my name is associated with something like Formula One,” Chadwick says. “I use it as motivation.”
