Formula E CEO: Woman Will Race ‘Within Two Years’ as CHLOE CHAMBERS Leads Test

December 24, 2025

• Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds is putting his money where his mouth is, predicting we’ll see a woman on the championship grid within two years after CHLOE CHAMBERS dominated the Valencia all-women test. Chambers clocked a 1m22.767s for Mahindra Racing, landing just four-tenths off the slowest male driver from regular pre-season testing – that’s the kind of gap that makes team bosses take notice.
• The championship’s commitment goes beyond talk, doubling track time from last year’s Madrid test to six hours across two Valencia sessions. The results speak for themselves: they’ve halved the timing gap between male championship drivers and female testers in just one year. When fourteen women can produce a field separated by less than a second, that’s not a developmental exercise – that’s legitimate competition depth.
• While SIMONA DE SILVESTRO remains the only woman to score points in Formula E history (Long Beach and Berlin in Season 2), the series is addressing systemic barriers head-on. They’re partnering with Google Cloud to use AI technology for accelerated learning, recognizing that women have had fewer opportunities behind the wheel. The upcoming Gen4 cars will feature power steering for the first time, designed specifically with inclusivity in mind – because equal machinery means equal opportunity.

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