A first list of 55 contenders for the W Series

Scheduled for 2019, the W Series, reserved for female drivers, has pre-selected 55 competitors who will claim a place on the starting grid on May 3 at Hockenheim, scene of the opening of the championship, on the sidelines of the DTM. The series announced that it had received more than 100 registration requests.

Among the lucky provisional electors, we find some well-known names like the Dutchwoman Beitske Visser, BMW driver this year in GT, Carmen Jorda, former resident of Renault F1, Vicky Piria, who worked in the GP3 Series or the Pro Mazda Championship, Sarah Bovy engaged for several seasons in GT and notably in the Lamborghini fold, Alice Powell, engaged in the GP3 Series between 2012 and 2013 or even Jamie Chadwick, winner in 2015 in GT4 in British GT.

Only 18 of them will be selected after the selections led in particular by David Coulthard and Alexander Wurz to compete in the season at the wheel of Tatuus T-318 chassis. Only one absence to deplore: that of a French representative in this list.

W Series 2019 provisional list:

Ayla Agren, 25, Norway

Amna Al Qubaisi,18, United Arab Emirates

Chelsea Angelo, 22, Australia

Carmen Boix, 23, Spain

Sarah Bovy, 29, Belgium

Toni Breidinger, 19, United States

Ivana Cetinich, 22, South Africa

Jamie Chadwick, 20, Great Britain

Veronika Cicha, 31, Czech Republic

Saber Cook, 24, United States

Courtney Crone, 17, USA

Natalie Decker, 21, United States

Mira Erda, 18, India

Carlotta Fedeli, 26, Italy

Cassie Gannis, 27, United States

Marta Garcia, 18, Spain

Michelle Gatting, 24, Denmark

Angelique Germann, 27 Germany

Megan Gilkes, 17, Canada

Samin Gomez, 26, Venezuela

Grace Gui, 27, China

Michelle Halder, 19, Germany

Esmee Hawkey, 20, Great Britain

Jessica Hawkins, 23, Great Britain

Shea Holbrook, 28, USA

Carmen Jorda, 30, Spain

Vivien Keszthelyi, 17, Hungary

Emma Kimilainen, 29, Finland

Natalia Kowalska, 28, Poland

Stephane Kox, 24, Netherlands

Miki Koyama, 21, Japan

Fabienne Lanz, 32, South Africa

Milla Mäkelä, 25, Finland

Alexandra Marinescu, 18, Romania

Snowy Mets, 28, Netherlands

Sheena Monk, 29, United States

Sarah Moore, 25, Great Britain

Marylin Niederhauser, 22, Germany

Tasmin Pepper, 28, South Africa

Vicky Piria, 24, Italy

Taegen Poles, 20, Canada

Alice Powell, 25, Great Britain

Charlotte Poynting, 20, Australia

Naomi Schiff, 24, Belgium

Carrie Schriener, 20, Germany

Sharon Scolari, 23, Switzerland

Doreen Seidel, 33, Germany

Siti Shahkirah, 24, Malaysia

Sneha Sharma, 28, India

Bruna Tomasell, 21, Brazil

Shirley Van Der Lof, 31, Netherlands

Beitske Visser, 23, Netherlands

Fabienne Wohlwend, 21, Lichstenstein

Caitlin Wood, 21, Australia

Hanna Zellers, 21, USA