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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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     14 Feb: Liam Lawson has finished 12th fastest on the final day of the first of two tests in Bahrain ahead of the Formula One season
     13 Feb: Liam Lawson is keeping perspective after cutting his Formula One pre-season testing short at Bahrain
     03 Feb: Former Red Bull driver David Coulthard feels opportunity knocks for Liam Lawson during the looming new Formula One season
     01 Feb: Kiwi motor racing driver Mitch Evans has fought through the spray at a wet Miami E-Prix to win a record-breaking 15th time in the Formula E Championship
     31 Jan: American driver Ugo Ugochukwu has closed in on the overall title with victory in the Saturday race in the Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Trophy series at Highlands
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