Motorsport Fans Co-Design Vicky Piria’s Race Suit
Last week, Vicky Piria and PUMA Motorsport announced a fun contest for racing fans. People were invited to send in designs of the race day suit they thought would fit best to Vicky. After 24 hours of intense deliberation, on Tuesday, Vicky announced the official decision. Of the dozens of beautiful designs painstakingly created by talented fans, three were selected as the “winners”.
1st Place Went to @noemicrania, who designed a white suit with violet and gold accents.
2nd Place Went to @igorlaerte95, with his white suit offset with black and gold trimming.
3rd place Went to @alex.broletto, with his stylish white suit accented with black, pink and gold.
Piria began karting in the race car arena in 2003, working her way up from the junior ranks, through the KF3 category by 2008. In 2009, she graduated to single-seaters (for newbies to the motorsports arena, that’s just a race car with the wheels outside the car’s main body, which usually has a “single seat”). She then competed in the Italian Formula 2000 Light and Formula Renault 2.0 championships for Tomcat Racing, and in the Formula Lista Junior opening round at Dijon. In 2010, Piria switched to the newly launched Formula Abarth series in Italy with Tomcat Racing. She finished in fourteenth place at Magione, bringing her to 34th place in the overall series. Piria remained in Formula Abarth for a second season in 2011 but switched to Prema Powerteam, when the series split in European and Italian series. She had five-pointscoring finishes in Italian and three European Series and finally finished fifteenth and eighteenth respectively.
In 2012, Piria made her debut in the GP3 Series with Trident Racing and in 2013 she raced in the European F3 Open with BVM Racing. She finished tenth (in points). In 2014 she raced for JDC Motorsports in the Pro Mazda Championship, part of the Mazda Road to Indy. Piria was one of only three female drivers who took part in the the 2014 championship.
In 2019, Piria was selected to participate in the newly created W Series. After passing the first phase and final selection, she became one of 18 drivers selected to compete in the 6-race series, as the only Italian.
The winner of the Vicky Piria Instagram competition will receive a PUMA gift box with footwear, apparel and accessories from PUMA Motorsport
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And the Winner Is…
The W Series
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(Source: Wikipedia)
Origins
The W Series was publicly launched on 10 October 2018. It was created in response to the lack of female drivers progressing to the highest levels of motorsport, particularly Formula 1.
The series has the backing of a number of prominent members of the motorsport community, including former F1 driver David Coulthard and engineer Adrian Newey.
For the inaugural season all cars are operated by Hitech GP.
Championship format
The series features eighteen female racers from around the globe, plus two reserve drivers. The drivers were selected through a selection process that began with fifty-four participants
The 2019 championship consists of six races, all in Europe.
The title of 2019 W Series Champion will be awarded to the competitor with the highest number of points from all qualifying rounds run less any penalty points incurred. If two or more drivers finish the season with the same number of points, the higher place in the series shall be awarded to the driver with the most race wins. If the number of races wins is the same, it will then go on the number of second places finishes, then third place finishes and so on.
On 30 January 2020 the series announced the breakdown of FIA superlicence points would be attributed for the top eight finishers in the upcoming season. The series has been allocated a scoring system of 15-12-10-7-5-3-2-1 by the FIA, which puts it on a par with the NASCAR Cup, Indy Lights, Formula Renault Eurocup, Euroformula Open, Super Formula Lights, Australian Supercars and the WTCR.
The 15 points for the champion is fewer than is awarded for winning Formula Regional and Asian F3, two series run in same machinery as W Series.
Race weekend format
Practice and qualifying
Each round includes two free practice sessions of a maximum of forty-five minutes, and a qualifying session of a maximum of thirty minutes.
Race
Each race shall be for a specific number of laps, based on the number of laps that would normally be completed within thirty minutes, plus one lap.
