Caitlyn Jenner launches W Series racing team

LONDON — Caitlyn Jenner is off to the races again, launching a team in a single-seater motor racing championship for feminine drivers.

Jenner, 72, the former Olympic champion and fact Television identity who experienced a unsuccessful bid for California governor, begun the Jenner Racing group in the W Series for the 2022 time.

Jenner will oversee the day-to-day running of her group, such as the driver lineup and landing sponsors to contend in the sequence that frequently operates on Formulation One particular race weekends.

The W Collection opens in Could in Miami.

“As a believer in reasonable competition, a lover of motor racing, and a supporter of all women in sport from the grassroots to elite level, W Sequence ticks each box for me and is a fusion of the unique elements of my profession,” she said. “A championship dedicated to inspiring youthful ladies and supplying gals the likelihood to be successful in roles all over what has customarily been a male-dominated marketplace, W Collection is changing the experience of motorsport.”

Jenner, a 1976 decathlon Olympic gold medalist who arrived out as a transgender female in 2015, debuted as a expert racing driver at the 24 Several hours of Daytona race in 1980 as component of Jim Busby’s team. Jenner went on to compete skillfully in the IMSA Camel GT Championship, as a manufacturing unit driver for Ford Motor Corporation and Jack Roush, for the upcoming 6 many years, earning a whole of 57 starts.

“As has usually been the case, I’m in it to earn it,” she claimed.

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