查德威克成11年来首位驾驶威廉姆斯F1赛车的女性
杰米·查德威克在波尔蒂芒完成威廉姆斯2025款F1赛车测试，成为十多年来首位驾驶当代威廉姆斯F1赛车的女性，共完成32圈。
杰米·查德威克成为十多年来首位驾驶当代威廉姆斯F1赛车的女性，她最近在波尔蒂芒完成了一次测试。
查德威克于9月21日星期一驾驶威廉姆斯2025款赛车完成了32圈，这是她首次体验现代F1赛车。
The 比赛在测试后采访了查德威克，了解测试进行得如何。
此次F1测试是威廉姆斯旧车测试（TPC）项目的一部分，该项目目前允许车队全年使用2026年前的赛车进行最多20个测试日，正式车手总里程限制为1000公里。
并非每支车队都有TPC项目，但威廉姆斯去年得以启动自己的项目，这对查德威克的机会至关重要。
查德威克此前曾在古德伍德展示过威廉姆斯的历史赛车，例如奈杰尔·曼塞尔夺冠的FW14B赛车（1992年）和科科·罗斯伯格夺冠的FW08（1982年）。
但这标志着查德威克首次真正意义上的F1测试，她于2019年加入威廉姆斯，先是作为青年车手，后来转变为车手大使。
“显然我已经在车队待了很长时间，但威廉姆斯直到去年才有项目，所以从来没有什么明显的测试机会，”查德威克在测试后对包括The 比赛在内的媒体表示。
“说实话，现在体验过之后，我觉得本来也没有什么明显的机会。我认为我当时做所有事情所处的水平，并不一定与之契合。”
苏西·沃尔夫——曾在2014和2015年代表威廉姆斯参加多次练习赛——是查德威克之前最后一位驾驶威廉姆斯赛车的女性。
“我记得年轻时看着苏西·沃尔夫坐进威廉姆斯F1赛车，那对我的旅程激励有多大，”查德威克说。
“我很想能为下一代做同样的事，我获得的经验将对我自己的比赛以及我能传递给后来车手的东西产生真正的改变。
“我非常感激，对那天的进展感到无比高兴。”
查德威克说，在她F1测试首秀前一周，她和沃尔夫一起喝了咖啡。
“我一直在说，我清楚地记得她做测试的那一天，以及那对我旅程的影响，11年后，坐下来和她谈论我做测试，感觉很不真实，”查德威克说。
“每个人都说了同样的话，但‘就出去享受吧。让脖子休息。甚至不要试图一直撑着它。别撞车。就玩得开心。’所以，是的，显然我采纳了所有这些建议，它们肯定帮了大忙。”
威廉姆斯车队领队詹姆斯·沃尔斯称查德威克是“数百万女性和女孩的榜样，她在每个级别都打破了纪录”，并表示她“完全赢得了这次F1测试机会”。
这次F1测试为查德威克的履历再添一笔，她的履历包括三个W系列赛冠军，以及在印地赛车支持系列赛Indy NXT和欧洲勒芒系列赛LMP2组别的比赛胜利。
除了担任威廉姆斯车队大使外，查德威克还为威廉姆斯支持的年轻车手Jade Jacquet在F1学院和法国F4中提供建议，Jacquet最近在那里成为了一名比赛冠军。
查德威克是2020年代仅有的三位驾驶过F1赛车的女性之一，另外两位是F1学院冠军梅赛德斯，2026和阿斯顿。
查德威克在测试前从威廉姆斯正式车手亚历克斯·阿尔本和卡洛斯·塞恩斯那里获得了建议。
“我很幸运能和两人都聊了聊。卡洛斯是我前一天碰巧遇到的，”查德威克说。
“实际上他给的最好的建议，也是我采纳最多的，就是‘找到一个你享受、舒适、开心的圈速或节奏，然后就坚持那个’。
“我就是这么做的。我没有过度用力；我没有试图把自己置于脖子会留在波尔蒂芒某处的境地。
“因此，我认为我真的从中获得了最大收获并享受了它。所以确实是好建议。”
这次测试将作为天空体育F1阿塞拜疆大奖赛报道的专题内容，但——作为一个完整的为期两天的测试，预备车手卢克·布朗宁在第一天驾驶——它也将为威廉姆斯在F1明年重返波尔蒂芒葡萄牙大奖赛之前提供重要的学习经验。
“杰米为车队收集了重要数据，因为F1准备明年重返波尔蒂芒，她的反馈和表现令人印象深刻，正如我们所预料的那样，”沃尔斯说。
自从F1上次在那里比赛以来，赛道已经发生了变化，而查德威克曾在那里参加欧洲勒芒系列赛LMP2赛车的比赛，对赛道有经验。
查德威克驾驶的里程不到比赛距离的一半，头条圈速并非TPC测试的目标。
但沃尔斯暗示了查德威克相对于布朗宁的位置，他告诉天空体育F1，查德威克在布朗宁基准圈速的两秒之内。
沃尔斯说：“在首次出场时，这是一个非常好的位置。”
查德威克说：“我推得足够享受它。我没有发疯。我的意思是，比如1号弯这样的弯角，速度超高，你总会有一些余量……[你不想]把车撞进围栏。
“所以我推得足够获得良好的感觉并享受它，但显然保留了足够的余量。我做了30圈左右，所以并不算多，甚至远未接近极限。
“即使找到极限也让我更加欣赏……我认为在那样一辆车里做到一秒或半秒之内是一回事，但最后那一点——当速度那么高，极限那么黑白分明时——非常令人印象深刻。”
英文原文
Jamie Chadwick has become the first woman in more than a decade to drive a contemporary Williams Formula 1 car, having recently completed a test at Portimao.
Chadwick drove 32 laps behind the wheel of Williams's 2025 car on Monday September 21, her first taste of modern F1 machinery.
The Race heard from Chadwick after the test to find out how it went.
The F1 test took place as part of Williams's Testing of Previous Cars (TPC) programme that currently allows teams to use pre-2026 machinery in up to 20 test days across the year, with race drivers limited to 1000km total mileage.
Not every team has a TPC programme, but Williams was able to start its own last year, and that was crucial to Chadwick's opportunity.
Chadwick had previously demonstrated historic Williams cars at Goodwood, such as Nigel Mansell's championship-winning FW14B car (1992) and Keke Rosberg's title-winning FW08 (1982).
But this marked Chadwick's first proper F1 test, her having joined Williams in 2019, first as a junior driver, then later transitioning into being a driver ambassador.
"Obviously I've been with the team for a long time now, but only since last year Williams had a TPC [programme] so there's never really been an obvious opportunity to do anything," Chadwick told media including The Race after the test.
"To be honest, I think having now experienced it, I don't think there was an obvious opportunity anyway. I think the level I was at doing everything that I was doing, it didn't necessarily align."
Susie Wolff - who participated in several practice sessions for Williams in 2014 and 2015 - was the last woman to drive a Williams before Chadwick.
"I remember being young and watching Susie Wolff step into a Williams F1 car and how much that inspired my own journey," Chadwick said.
"I'd love to be able to do the same for the next generation, and the experience I gained will make a real difference both to my own racing and to what I can pass on to the drivers coming through.
"I'm so grateful and incredibly happy with how the day went."
Chadwick said she had coffee with Wolff the week before her F1 test bow.
"I keep saying I remember clearly the day she did her test and the impact that had on my journey, 11 years later, being sat speaking with her about me doing a test felt quite surreal," Chadwick said.
"Everyone said the same thing, but 'just go out and enjoy it. Rest your neck. Don't even try and hold it up. Don't crash. Just have fun.' So, yes, obviously took all of those bits of advice, and definitely [they] helped a lot."
Williams team principal James Vowles called Chadwick "an inspiration for millions of women and girls, who has broken records at every level" and said she had "thoroughly earned this F1 test opportunity".
The F1 test adds to Chadwick's CV, which includes three W Series titles and race wins in IndyCar's support series Indy NXT and the LMP2 class in the European Le Mans Series.
Alongside being a team ambassador for Williams, Chadwick also advises Williams-backed young driver Jade Jacquet in F1 Academy and French Formula 4, where Jacquet recently became a race winner.
Chadwick is one of only three women to drive an F1 car in the 2020s, after F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin (Mercedes, 2026) and Jessica Hawkins (Aston Martin, 2023).
Chadwick got advice ahead of the test from Williams's race drivers Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz.
"I was lucky enough to speak to both of them. Carlos I happened to bump into the day before," Chadwick said.
"Actually the best advice he gave, which is the bit I took the most, was 'find a laptime or find a pace where you're enjoying it and you're comfortable and you're having fun and then just stick to that'.
"That's exactly what I did. I didn't overdo it; I didn't try and put myself in a position where my neck was going to be left somewhere in Portimao.
"For that reason, I think I really did get the most out of it and enjoy it. So some good advice for sure."
The test will be used as a feature for Sky Sports F1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix coverage, but - as a whole two-day test, with reserve driver Luke Browning at the wheel on the first day - it will also provide important learnings for Williams ahead of F1 returning to the Portuguese Grand Prix at Portimao next year.
"Jamie gathered important data for the team as F1 prepares to return to Portimao next year, and her feedback and performance were impressive as we knew they would be," Vowles said.
The track has changed since the last time F1 raced there, and Chadwick has experience of it from racing in an LMP2 car in the European Le Mans Series there.
Chadwick had less than half of a race distance behind the wheel and headline laptimes were not the target of the TPC test.
But Vowles hinted at where Chadwick ended up relative to Browning, telling Sky Sports F1 that Chadwick was within a couple of seconds of Browning's benchmark.
Vowles said: "That is a very good place to be on the first outing."
Chadwick said: "I pushed enough to enjoy it. I didn't go crazy. I mean, corners like Turn 1, for example, super high speed and you're always going to have a bit of margin there...[you don't] want to put the thing in the fence.
"So I was pushing enough to get a good feel for it and enjoy it, but obviously kept enough margin. I did 30 or so laps, so not loads and loads to even find myself anywhere near the limit.
"Even finding the limit is giving me more appreciation...I think to get within a second or half a second in a car like that is one thing, but that final bit - when the speeds are that high and the limit is that black and white - is super impressive."
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