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Originally Posted by peebee2
The racing has been reasonably good, although the reason for that is the lack of quality and the inconsistency.
Unfortunately, being in the top team, and being the most experienced driver, finishing ninth (and pretty much last) in the Formula Regional Europe championship in 2020 while her team mates finished 1,2,3 in the championship shows the level Jamie is really at.
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Ah, but...
How many male drivers have chanced their arm in competition of that sort and come up short? A great many, yet almost nobody mentions them.
Somewhere, some time, a female driver will get the chance to race regularly at junior levels for several years against male counterparts and gain the extra racecraft and experience to beat them. Until then, female drivers will always be compared with the best male drivers in any competition they enter, where they should be rated against the worst. In that championship Jamie Chadwick beat two other full season drivers, both of whom have now fallen off the single-seater ladder and taken fairly safe seats in GT and Ligier series instead.
Unfortunately, female drivers seem to do very well in early-series karting (Bambino and the next couple of levels, and into junior tin-top series) but then drop out for a large variety of reasons, a lot of which are down to sponsorship. Also unfortunately, the lack of sponsorship is sometimes said to be because a lot of female drivers drop out - it's a circular problem.