Chadwick was born on 20 May 1998 in Bath and grew up on the Isle of Man.[4] Her father Michael is a property developer, and her mother Jasmine is an Indian-born businesswoman.[5] Chadwick was educated at Cheltenham College,[6]Gloucestershire. She currently resides in London and is in a relationship with racing driver Struan Moore.[7][8]
Career
Early career
Chadwick started her motorsports career in kart racing at the age of 11, following her brother Oliver into the sport. She started car racing in 2013 when she turned down a trial with the England under-18 hockey team to compete at the Ginetta Junior scholarship weekend, where she triumphed to win a scholarship for the 2013 Ginetta Junior Championship season. Chadwick raced alongside her brother for the JHR Developments team, finishing tenth in the championship, second-last of all full-time competitors and behind her teammate and brother Oliver. She remained in the series for 2014, taking five podium finishes during the year to finish eighth overall in the championship.[9]
Going into 2016, Chadwick stayed in British GT Championship, driving in the GT4 pro class with Generation AMR SuperRacing for the first, second and sixth rounds, before returning to Beechdean Motorsport to race in the pro-am class with Paul Hollywood for the final three races of the season.[11] Chadwick ultimately finished fifteenth in the championship.
Chadwick also competed in race 9 of the 2016 VLN season, driving the Nexcel AMR Aston Martin GT8 and finishing third in the SP8 class.[12]
Transition to single-seater racing
Chadwick moved into single-seater racing in 2017, joining Double R Racing to compete in the 2017 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship. She achieved her first and only podium of the season with a third place finish at Rockingham in the fifth round of the championship, ultimately finishing ninth overall for the season.[13] For the 2018 season, Chadwick remained in the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, moving to Douglas Motorsport. In August, she became the first ever woman to win a British F3 race by claiming victory in the reversed-grid race at Brands Hatch, and finished the season in eighth place.[14]
Chadwick proceeded to sign on for the 2018-19 MRF Challenge season in November 2018, and topped both initial practice sessions.[16] Chadwick had success in the early rounds of the championship, finishing second in three of the five races in the opening weekend in Dubai. She followed this up with wins in six of the remaining ten races at Bahrain and Chennai to take the title, becoming the first ever woman to win the MRF Challenge.[17]
In March 2019, Chadwick was announced as one of the entrants for the inaugural season of the W Series.[18][19] Chadwick was also announced as an official junior driver for Aston Martin Racing, extending an existing unofficial relationship that dated back to 2014.[20] At the first W Series race at Hockenheim, Chadwick put in a dominant performance, leading both practice sessions and qualifying on pole. Despite briefly giving up the race lead to Alice Powell, Chadwick came from behind to take the first win in W Series history.[21] Two weeks later at Zolder, Chadwick again started on pole, however lost the lead to Beitske Visser from the start, and had to fight off Powell after locking up and running wide later in the race, ultimately holding onto second place.[22]
In the next W Series race at Misano the following month, Chadwick qualified second behind Fabienne Wohlwend, but passed her on the start and held off pressure from Visser to take her second W Series win.[23] Chadwick then finished in third place behind Marta García and Visser at Norisring, after a long battle with the latter that saw her lose second place on the start and make a late lunge in an attempt to regain the place towards the end of the race.[24]
At Assen, Chadwick started and finished in third, holding off late pressure from Visser.[25] In the non-championship reverse grid race the following day, Chadwick fought through the field to finish eighth after starting from the back of the grid.[26] Chadwick entered the W Series championship decider at Brands Hatch with a 13 point lead on second placed Visser, and proceeded to start on pole for the third time. Despite defending the lead initially, she lacked race pace and lost positions to Powell, Emma Kimiläinen and finally Visser, however her eventual fourth placed finish was enough to hold off Visser and win the inaugural W Series title.[27] She was then nominated for the 2019 BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award.[28]
Chadwick won her fourth race of the season and sixth in a row at the Silverstone round of the 2022 W Series.
The 2020 W Series season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[29] In 2021 Chadwick would retain her W Series title after a close, season-long battle with Alice Powell—thus adding 15 points to her Super Licence points tally and making her available for future free practice sessions in Formula One.[30]
On 22 February 2022, Chadwick was confirmed to stay in W Series for a 3rd season, driving for Jenner Racing.[31] She qualified on pole position for the second race of the 2022 season, which was part of the double header at the Miami International Autodrome, as the drivers' second best qualifying times set the grid for the second race.[32] She won the first race, overtaking Emma Kimiläinen on the final lap.[33] She won the second race the next day, as well as the one at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, meaning she had won five consecutive W Series races, four of which were in America.[34] Following the early termination of the 2022 W Series championship for financial reasons, Chadwick was declared series champion for the third time, ahead of second-placed Beitske Visser.[35] She was once again a finalist for the BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award.[36]
In 2020, Chadwick was awarded her first 10 of the 40 points (25 points for free practice) needed to qualify for an FIA Super Licence, after finishing fourth overall in the 2019–20 F3 Asian Championship.[39]
On 16 June 2020, it was announced that she had joined Italian outfit Prema Powerteam, to be one of the team's four drivers in the 2020 Formula Regional European Championship.[40] Despite being the most experienced driver in the field, she only managed 9th in the standings, 263 points behind her nearest teammate and third-last of all drivers to complete the whole season.[41]
Chadwick was one of the first drivers announced to compete in the inaugural season of Extreme E in 2021.[42] She ended up running a partial campaign due to clashes with the W Series, taking part in three races with Veloce Racing.[43] The team had to withdraw from the first race due to damage to the car, but placed 2nd in the second round and 6th in the final round.[44] Chadwick then drove the car in a shootout at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed, partnering with Max Fewtrell.[45]
Williams F1
On May 20, 2019, Chadwick became the second driver to join the Williams Driver Academy, signing on as a development driver for the team.[46] In March 2021, Williams announced that Chadwick would continue as a development driver for the season.[47]
In August 2022, Andretti Autosport announced that they planned to test Chadwick in one of the team's Dallara IL-15 Indy Lights cars at Sebring International Raceway in September 2022.[51] The test took place on 21 September and Chadwick covered over 120 laps of the circuit.[52] Subsequently, it was announced on 1 December 2022 that Andretti Autosport had signed Chadwick to drive in the 2023 Indy NXT season.[53] Inexperience with both the car and the tracks meant Chadwick struggled to get up to speed, but she improved in the second half of the season, earning five top-10 finishes over the final 8 races.[54]
In October 2023, it was announced that Chadwick would return to Andretti Global (formerly Andretti Autosport) for the 2024 Indy NXT season.[55] She showed immediate improvement from the previous season, qualifying 10th for the first race, and inside the top 6 in the next 4 races.[56] Chadwick fought in the front of the pack for the first races, but contact and mechanical issues meant she didn't have results representative of her pace.[57] Chadwick scored her best result to date in race 3 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, finishing on the podium in third place. She became the first woman to finish on the podium in Indy NXT since Pippa Mann in 2010.[58] In race 6 at Road America she took a lights to flag victory, to convert her maiden pole position to a maiden win, becoming the first women to win in Indy NXT/Indy Lights since Ana Beatriz in 2009. She also became the first woman in series history to claim a road course pole and road course win.[59]
On July 31, 2024, it was announced that Chadwick would be taking part in an official IndyCar test with Andretti Global at Barber Motosports Park on September 30.[60]
Chadwick tested the Gen3 car at the 2024 Portland ePrix.[63] On October 28, Jaguar announced that she would drive with the team for the 2024 women's test and the 2025 rookie test.[64]
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