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Jessica Hawkins wants Formula One to be a sport accessible and welcoming to girls and women everywhere. And she believes a moment similar to when England’s women’s national soccer team won the European Championship in 2022 is on its way.
Alongside her work as a stunt driver (her CV includes the James Bond movie “No Time to Die”), Hawkins, a 29-year-old former W Series racer, is one of the sport’s female pioneers. She is Aston Martin’s F1 driver ambassador and heads up its efforts in the all-female F1 Academy junior series, which focuses on increasing the number of women involved in what remains a male-dominated sport.
And as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, she has been an advocate for increased diversity and inclusion across motorsport.
In September 2023, Hawkins, from Headley in Hampshire, England, became the first woman in nearly five years to test a modern Formula One car when she drove the AMR21 around Hungary’s Hungaroring circuit.
The test drive was a milestone moment but Hawkins, however proud, thinks there are even bigger days to come.
“It got a lot of traction,” she says. “The younger generation would have…
