The series is designed to 'democratise' the pathway into F1 which can cost families millions of pounds.
Former Ferrari and Williams team member Rob Smedley has launched a karting league designed to make it easier for young drivers to get time behind the wheel.
Smedley, who worked at Ferrari as a race engineer and at Williams as head of car performance, wants to change that. The series will start in early 2024 with the Global Karting League: UK Championship and has a range of events for children from age six to 17. They will all race equal electric karts meaning the only differentiator will be the driver.
This parity and open door also brings into focus another area that F1 itself has been trying to boost lately – women in motorsport. Smedley is one who believes there is no reason a woman cannot become F1 World Champion and hopes the GKL will get more young girls into racing. “But certainly, what we want to do is we want to create an environment, which is, let’s say, slightly less traditional, then we will find a greater participation of females.
Smedley’s other role as CEO of the Smedley Group, who work with Formula 1 and AWS to provide data graphics during a race, mean it is no surprise to hear that data will also play a big part in the competition. “The other output, obviously, is that as long as we’re able to normalise that data across all the various different hubs that we’ve got, imagine it’s 50 hubs or 100 hubs worldwide, as long as we can normalise that data, then we can actually get a ranking so we can run for any indexed performance parameters that you like.
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