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    Six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has called for more women in motorsport after the all-female W Series announced that its races will be supporting Formula One at eight grands prix next season

    Six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has called for more women in motorsport after the all-female W Series announced that its races will be supporting Formula One at eight grands prix next season


    There are no female drivers in F1 with Italian Lella Lombardi the last to compete in a race in 1976, and women racers are a rarity in the junior series that feed into the top category.

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