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The 2022 W Series is the third season of the W Series motor racing championship. The championship is exclusively open to female racing drivers as a Formula 3-level racing series in support of the 2022 Formula One World Championship.

Jamie Chadwick is the reigning champion, having won her second title in 2021.

Entries

The following drivers and teams are competing in the 2022 W Series season. All teams use Hankook tyres, and run two mechanically-identical Tatuus–Alfa Romeo F3 T-318 cars with two drivers. The rounds at Barcelona and Suzuka will use Tatuus–Toyota FT-60 cars loaned by Toyota Racing Series organiser Toyota Gazoo Racing New Zealand.

All cars are operated by Fine Moments, and 'teams' are purely for sponsorship and identification purposes.

Team No. Drivers Rounds Sirin Racing 4 Emely de Heus 1 95 Beitske Visser 1 CortDAO W Series Team 5 Fabienne Wohlwend 1 19 Marta García 1 Puma W Series Team 7 Emma Kimiläinen 1 63 Tereza Bábíčková 1 Jenner Racing 8 Chloe Chambers 1 55 Jamie Chadwick 1 W Series Academy 9 Bianca Bustamante 1 10 Juju Noda 1 Click2Drive Bristol Street Motors Racing 21 Jessica Hawkins 1 27 Alice Powell 1 Quantfury W Series Team 22 Belén García 1 32 Nerea Martí 1 Scuderia W 26 Sarah Moore 1 44 Abbie Eaton 1 Racing X 49 Abbi Pulling 1 97 Bruna Tomaselli 1 Reserve drivers No. Drivers 17 Ayla Ågren

Driver selection

The top eight finishers from the 2021 championship, as well as the two W Series Academy drivers Nerea Martí and Irina Sidorkova, were guaranteed a place in the 2022 season. Sidorkova was later confirmed to not be competing as a result of the restrictions on the participation of Russian drivers following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

From 31 January to 4 February, a five-day test with a Crawford F4-16 car for 15 prospective drivers was conducted at Inde Motorsports Ranch in Arizona, United States. The following drivers took part:

• Madison Aust
• Júlia Ayoub
• Tereza Bábíčková
• Lindsay Brewer
• Léna Bühler
• Bianca Bustamante
• Maite Cáceres
• Chloe Chambers
• Emely de Heus
• Jorden Dolischka
• Hannah Greenemeier
• Nicole Havrda
• Jem Hepworth
• Corinna Kamper
• Lola Lovinfosse

A second pre-season test took place at Barcelona on 2–4 March, with the nine automatic qualifiers from 2021 joined by 12 potential drivers — of which five had previous W Series experience and six were present at the Arizona test; Juju Noda the only driver to receive a free pass:

• Tereza Bábíčková
• Léna Bühler
• Bianca Bustamante
• Chloe Chambers
• Emely de Heus
• Belén García
• Marta García
• Megan Gilkes
• Jessica Hawkins
• Jem Hepworth
• Juju Noda
• Bruna Tomaselli

The full driver line-up was revealed on 22 March 2022. On 22 April 2022, Abbie Eaton was confirmed as the final driver, with Ayla Ågren announced as reserve driver.

Championship changes

Though there were initial plans to introduce FIA-registered standings for formal teams for the season, the championship remained fully centrally-run for a third consecutive year, with 'teams' continuing to be purely for sponsorship and identification purposes. The first of these teams to be announced was Jenner Racing, owned by media personality, Olympic champion and former racing driver Caitlyn Jenner. Three further entries joined the championship: Click2Drive Bristol Street Motors Racing and the cryptocurrency-backed Quantfury and CortDAO teams.

Calendar and results

The provisional calendar was announced on 27 January 2022. W Series continues its partnership with Formula One, so all ten events will be part of Grand Prix weekends. An updated calendar was announced on 30 March 2022, with the first and last rounds at Miami and Mexico City confirmed to be double-headers.

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Race Winner	Winning Team	Report
1	Miami International Autodrome	7 May	Nerea Martí				Report
2		8 May	Jamie Chadwick
3	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	21 May					Report
4	Silverstone Circuit	3 July					Report
5	Circuit Paul Ricard	24 July					Report
6	Hungaroring	31 July					Report
7	Suzuka International Racing Course	9 October					Report
8	Circuit of the Americas	23 October					Report
9	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	29 October					Report
10		30 October
Source:

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers as follows:

Drivers' Championship

Pos. Driver MIA1 MIA2 CAT SIL LEC HUN SUZ COA MXC1 MXC2 Points Emely de Heus Beitske Visser Fabienne Wohlwend Marta García Emma Kimiläinen Tereza Bábíčková Chloe Chambers Jamie Chadwick P Juju Noda Bianca Bustamante Jessica Hawkins Alice Powell Belén García Nerea Martí P Sarah Moore Abbie Eaton Abbi Pulling Bruna Tomaselli Pos. Driver MIA1 MIA2 CAT SIL LEC HUN SUZ COA MXC1 MXC2 Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — Did not finish, but classified

Notes

1. Wohlwend is a Liechtenstein driver racing under a Swiss licence.
2. Noda is a Japanese driver racing under a Danish licence.

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