Jamie Laura Chadwick (born 20 May 1998) is a British

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who competes for

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in the

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, and previously raced for

Andretti Global Andretti Global is an American motorsports organization with teams competing in the IndyCar Series, Indy NXT, Formula E, and joint entries in IMSA and the Australian Supercars Championship. Starting in 2026, Andretti will also operate the Cad ...

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. She won the inaugural W Series season in 2019, before retaining her title in

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and

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. She has also competed in the

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for

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alongside

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, and raced in

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. She is a

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for the Williams

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team and a test driver for the

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team.

Personal life

Chadwick was born on 20 May 1998 in

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and grew up on the

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. Her father Michael is a property developer, and her mother Jasmine is an Indian-born businesswoman. Chadwick was educated at

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. She currently resides in London and is in a relationship with racing driver Struan Moore.

Career

Early career

Chadwick started her motorsports career in

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at the age of 11, following her brother Oliver into the sport. She started car racing in 2013 when she turned down a trial with the

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under-18 hockey team to compete at the Ginetta Junior scholarship weekend, where she triumphed to win a scholarship for the 2013 Ginetta Junior Championship season. Chadwick raced alongside her brother for the JHR Developments team, finishing tenth in the championship, second-last of all full-time competitors and behind her teammate and brother Oliver. She remained in the series for

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, taking five podium finishes during the year to finish eighth overall in the championship. In March 2015, Chadwick was announced as one of the drivers for

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in the

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, competing in the GT4 class. Chadwick and her co-driver,

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, an

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factory driver, took two wins and five podiums during the season in their Aston Martin V8 Vantage, including a win in the Silverstone 24-Hour race. This made Chadwick the first female and youngest ever champion of the

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. Going into 2016, Chadwick stayed in

, driving in the GT4 pro class with Generation AMR SuperRacing for the first, second and sixth rounds, before returning to

to race in the pro-am class with

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for the final three races of the season. Chadwick ultimately finished fifteenth in the championship. Chadwick also competed in race 9 of the 2016 VLN season, driving the Nexcel AMR Aston Martin GT8 and finishing third in the SP8 class.

Transition to single-seater racing

Chadwick moved into

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racing in 2017, joining

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to compete in the

2017 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship The 2017 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship is a motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across England and Belgium. The season began at Oulton Park on 15 April and ended on 25 September at Donington Park, after eight ...

. She achieved her first and only podium of the season with a third place finish at Rockingham in the fifth round of the championship, ultimately finishing ninth overall for the season. For the 2018 season, Chadwick remained in the

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, moving to Douglas Motorsport. In August, she became the first ever woman to win a

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race by claiming victory in the reversed-grid race at

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, and finished the season in eighth place. Chadwick also entered the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring, driving the

Vantage V8 GT4 in the SP8 class alongside

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and Pete Cate. The team finished fifth in class and sixty-third overall. Chadwick proceeded to sign on for the 2018-19 MRF Challenge season in November 2018, and topped both initial practice sessions. Chadwick had success in the early rounds of the championship, finishing second in three of the five races in the opening weekend in

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. She followed this up with wins in six of the remaining ten races at

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and

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to take the title, becoming the first ever woman to win the

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W Series

In March 2019, Chadwick was announced as one of the entrants for the inaugural season of the W Series. Chadwick was also announced as an official junior driver for

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, extending an existing unofficial relationship that dated back to 2014. At the first W Series race at

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, Chadwick put in a dominant performance, leading both practice sessions and qualifying on pole. Despite briefly giving up the race lead to

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, Chadwick came from behind to take the first win in W Series history. Two weeks later at

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, Chadwick again started on pole, however lost the lead to

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from the start, and had to fight off Powell after locking up and running wide later in the race, ultimately holding onto second place. In the next W Series race at Misano the following month, Chadwick qualified second behind

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, but passed her on the start and held off pressure from Visser to take her second W Series win. Chadwick then finished in third place behind Marta García and Visser at

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, after a long battle with the latter that saw her lose second place on the start and make a late lunge in an attempt to regain the place towards the end of the race. At

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, Chadwick started and finished in third, holding off late pressure from Visser. In the non-championship reverse grid race the following day, Chadwick fought through the field to finish eighth after starting from the back of the grid. Chadwick entered the W Series championship decider at

with a 13 point lead on second placed Visser, and proceeded to start on pole for the third time. Despite defending the lead initially, she lacked race pace and lost positions to Powell, Emma Kimiläinen and finally Visser, however her eventual fourth placed finish was enough to hold off Visser and win the inaugural W Series title. She was then nominated for the 2019 BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award. The 2020 W Series season was cancelled due to the

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. In 2021 Chadwick would retain her W Series title after a close, season-long battle with

—thus adding 15 points to her Super Licence points tally and making her available for future free practice sessions in Formula One. On 22 February 2022, Chadwick was confirmed to stay in W Series for a 3rd season, driving for Jenner Racing. She qualified on

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for the second race of the 2022 season, which was part of the double header at the

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, as the drivers' second best qualifying times set the grid for the second race. She won the first race, overtaking Emma Kimiläinen on the final lap. She won the second race the next day, as well as the one at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, meaning she had won five consecutive W Series races, four of which were in America. Following the early termination of the 2022 W Series championship for financial reasons, Chadwick was declared series champion for the third time, ahead of second-placed

. She was once again a finalist for the BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award.

Other racing series

Chadwick participated in the opening three races of the

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, as preparation for the inaugural season of the W Series. She also entered the

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with Aston Martin, racing alongside

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finishing first in the SP8T class and twenty-seventh overall. In September 2019, Chadwick joined

to test drive their

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car in

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, with a view towards a competitive drive in the series in the future. In 2020, Chadwick was awarded her first 10 of the 40 points (25 points for free practice) needed to qualify for an

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, after finishing fourth overall in the 2019–20 F3 Asian Championship. On 16 June 2020, it was announced that she had joined Italian outfit

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, to be one of the team's four drivers in the 2020 Formula Regional European Championship. Despite being the most experienced driver in the field, she only managed 9th in the standings, 263 points behind her nearest teammate and third-last of all drivers to complete the whole season. Chadwick was one of the first drivers announced to compete in the inaugural season of

in 2021. She ended up running a partial campaign due to clashes with the W Series, taking part in three races with

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. The team had to withdraw from the first race due to damage to the car, but placed 2nd in the second round and 6th in the final round. Chadwick then drove the car in a shootout at the 2022

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, partnering with

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Formula E

During the 2018–2019 Formula E season, Chadwick participated in two test drives with the

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team, in

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and

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. She then took part in the 2020 rookie test with

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. Chadwick tested the Gen3 car at the

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. On October 28,

announced that she would drive with the team for the 2024–25 Formula E season women's test and rookie test. She placed second in the Women's test, behind

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. Chadwick is set to test for Jaguar once again for the rookie free practice coinciding the

2025 Jeddah ePrix The 2025 Jeddah ePrix was a pair of Formula E electric car races at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit in the town of Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia on the 14 and 15 February 2025. It served as the third and fourth round of the 2024–25 Formula E season, ...

Williams F1

On May 20, 2019, Chadwick became the second driver to join the Williams Driver Academy, signing on as a development driver for the team. In March 2021, Williams announced that Chadwick would continue as a development driver for the season. Chadwick remained with the

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for 2023. She drove Keke Rosberg’s FW08C at the 2023

, marking her first time in a Formula 1 car. In 2024, Chadwick's title changed to became a "Williams Racing Driver", as well as becoming the

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Advisor for fellow Williams driver

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. In February 2025, Chadwick was announced to remain with Williams as one of their driver ambassadors.

Indy NXT

In August 2022,

Andretti Autosport Andretti Global is an American motorsports organization with teams competing in the IndyCar Series, Indy NXT, Formula E, and joint entries in IMSA and the Australian Supercars Championship. Starting in 2026, Andretti will also operate the Cad ...

announced that they planned to test Chadwick in one of the team's

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IL-15

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cars at

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in September 2022. The test took place on 21 September and Chadwick covered over 120 laps of the circuit. Subsequently, it was announced on 1 December 2022 that Andretti Autosport had signed Chadwick to drive in the

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season. Inexperience with both the car and the tracks meant Chadwick struggled to get up to speed, but she improved in the second half of the season earning five top-10 finishes over the final 8 races. In October 2023, it was announced that Chadwick would return to Andretti Global (formerly Andretti Autosport) for the

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season. She showed immediate improvement from the previous season, qualifying 10th for the first race and inside the top 6 in the next 4 races. Chadwick fought in the front of the pack for the first races, but contact and mechanical issues meant she didn't achieve results representative of her pace. Chadwick scored her best result to date in race 3 at the

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, finishing on the podium in third place. She became the first woman to finish on the podium in

since

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. In race 6 at

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she took a lights to flag victory, to convert her maiden pole position to a maiden win, becoming the first woman to win in Indy NXT/Indy Lights since

. She also became the first woman in series history to claim a road course pole and road course win. On 31 July 2024, it was announced that Chadwick would be taking part in an official

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test with Andretti Global at Barber Motosports Park on 30 September.

European Le Mans Series

In December 2024, Chadwick signed with

for the

, driving alongside

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and Mathys Jaubert. The team is run in collaboration with

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, as the latter prepares for a

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debut in the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship. Sargeant later withdrew prior to the start of the season, and was replaced by

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Racing record

Career summary

* Season still in progress.

Complete Ginetta Junior Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position in class) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap in class)

Complete British GT Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position in class) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap in class)

Silverstone 24 Hour results

Complete BRDC British Formula 3 Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete F3 Asian Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete W Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula Regional European Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.

Complete Extreme E results

( key)

American open-wheel racing results

Indy NXT

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) (Races with ^L indicate a race lap led) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)

Complete European Le Mans Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^* Season still in progress.

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