Jamie Chadwick debuts in her new role as a pundit for Sky Sports at this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The female racer, 26, is the latest addition to the broadcaster’s team of on-screen talent for its coverage of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
Sky announced in March that Chadwick had been added to its pool of pundits for this year’s F1 action. She took the place of Damon Hill who confirmed last November that he would not be working with the broadcaster in 2025.
Chadwick makes her first appearance as a regular pundit for Sky at this weekend’s Jeddah race. She first appeared on screen for live coverage of first practice on Friday, discussing the big topics of the day with presenter Natalie Pinkham and veteran pundit Martin Brundle.
A three-time champion in the now defunct all-female W Series, she is one of the most prominent female racers in motorsport. After dominating that championship, she shifted her focus to the USA by competing in IndyNXT – the feeder series to the competitive IndyCar.
Chadwick secured her first pole position and win in the series at the Road America circuit in Wisconsin last June, becoming the first woman in the series’ history to win on a road course in the process. That performance helped her to land an IndyCar test with Andretti Global in September.
But a full-time IndyCar drive was not to be for 2025. As a result, she has stepped up her punditry commitments including this new Sky Sports role, which she will balance alongside her racing in the European Le Mans Series.
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Driving for French-flagged team IDEC Sport, Chadwick got off to the perfect start with victory in the LMP2 category at the season-opening round held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya earlier this month. She shared the win with team-mate Mathys Jaubert and Daniel Juncadella, the latter replacing former F1 driver Logan Sargeant who withdrew from the seat before the season began.
While Chadwick is a relatively new face to Sky’s coverage, one of the most familiar is among those missing this weekend. Pit lane reporter Ted Kravitz is a veteran of live broadcasts from the F1 paddock but did not make the trip to Jeddah.
He confirmed the news to Sky Sports viewers as he signed off at the end of his Ted’s Notebook programme at the end of coverage of last Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Kravitz said: “It’s the Saudi Grand Prix on the 18th, 19th and 20th of April. I won’t be there – it’s my first of this year’s races where I’m not on site. So the Notebook will return at the Miami Grand Prix at the start of May.”
Alongside Pinkham, Brundle and Chadwick in Jeddah this weekend is Rachel Brookes, who led commentary for first practice on Friday, and pundit Karun Chandhok. Regular commentator David Croft is also on the ground and had a run-in with Max Verstappen in the FIA press conference on Thursday.
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