Overview
- Jamie Chadwick completed a private test in Williams’ 2025 FW47, running 32 laps at Portimão on Monday, September 21, 2026, in a session the team confirmed publicly on September 24.
- Williams praised Chadwick’s pace and technical feedback and said the team collected useful data to help prepare the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve for its planned return to the F1 calendar in 2027.
- The run took place under Formula 1’s Testing of Previous Cars (TPC) rules, which allow teams limited days with pre-2026 machinery and create authorised opportunities for non-race drivers to sample modern F1 cars.
- Chadwick framed the test as a major personal milestone and a chance to mentor others, and she has since used the publicity to help seek sponsors for peers such as Abbi Pulling.
- The outing places Chadwick beside a small group of women who have driven contemporary F1 cars in recent years and makes her only the second woman to test for Williams since Susie Wolff in 2015.