{"id":2180,"date":"2019-01-23T07:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynstjames.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T18:45:47","slug":"lyn-st-james-travels-to-austria-to-participate-in-w-series-driver-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynstjames.com\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"Lyn St. James Travels to Austria to Participate in W Series Driver Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2181\" src=\"https:\/\/lynstjames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/web-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"21\" \/>Ex-Formula 1 driver Alex Wurz reveals W Series driver selection details in an online Q&amp;A. Please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/wseries.com\/meet-the-melkman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W Series website<\/a> for complete details; or view the excerpt here:<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Describe the W Series driver selection process that will be taking place at the Wachauring, Melk, Austria, in a few days\u2019 time.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cAll the W Series qualifiers \u2013 in other words the 50-60 drivers whose applications were accepted to enter the selection process for the first ever W Series season \u2013 will assemble at the Wachauring, Melk, for three days of intensive appraisal. The programme will be run on behalf of W Series by Test and Training International, the company that my father Franz and I founded and still run, and it\u2019s basically the same programme that we inaugurated for the FIA Institute some years ago, when it was running its Young Driver Excellence Academy [2011-2015]. A lot of top-class drivers went through that programme \u2013 guys like Stoffel Vandoorne and Alexander Rossi for example. My dad used to be a successful rally and rallycross driver, which adds a valuable counterpoint to my own extensive experience in circuit racing, principally in Formula 1 and the World Endurance Championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>But what will the W Series driver selection process actually entail?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a comprehensive programme, and I won\u2019t go into all the details now, but it\u2019s a very tough series of tests involving all aspects of a racing driver\u2019s skill-set \u2013 not only the driving itself but also physical fitness, mental aptitude, psychological and psychometric testing, communications\/media\/PR skills and so on. And it works. I\u2019ll be one of the judges, but so will David Coulthard, who\u2019s one of the Directors of W Series, and also <strong>Lyn St James, who\u2019s a successful retired female racing driver from the States who started seven Indy 500s in the \u201990s<\/strong>. It\u2019ll be a private event \u2013 not open to fans or journalists I\u2019m sorry to say \u2013 because it\u2019ll be a crucial and challenging test for all the W Series qualifiers, whatever they\u2019ve raced in the past, and they must be able to focus on the tasks they\u2019ll be given without distraction of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Why did you decide to get involved with W Series?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s the declared ambition of W Series to help the promotion of women in motorsport, and I totally support that effort. I firmly believe that, given the same opportunities, women can race on an equal basis against men, but sadly women haven\u2019t had those same opportunities so far. W Series is aiming to address that imbalance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIf, as a result of the launch of W Series, more girls and young women are able to go motor racing, then more girls and young women will progress to the higher levels of motor racing. It\u2019s as simple as that. The fact that we\u2019ve never had that many female racing drivers is merely a reflection of the fact that so few parents encourage their daughters to go karting whereas so many of them encourage their sons to do so. And if W Series\u2019 drivers begin to generate a following, particularly among young girls, and those young girls then develop an interest in motor racing, then that current gender imbalance may gradually shift towards greater equality. I\u2019d be very happy if Test and Training International could play its part in helping bring about that important change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cAnd, last but not least, I want to help make sure that the best, most promising and most deserving drivers are chosen to race in W Series this year, so that W Series has the very best chance it can possibly have of developing its winners and champions into successful professional high-level racing drivers who\u2019ll go on to compete and win against male rivals, utilising the lessons they learned while racing for W Series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Formula 1 driver Alex Wurz reveals W Series driver selection details in an online Q&amp;A. 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