Esmee Hawkey

**Esmee Hawkey** (born 2 March 1998 in Chislehurst, London, UK) is a British racing driver, who competed in the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship using #2 as her race number. The daughter of British GT Championship racer Dean Hawkey, **Hawkey** would have a quiet start to her W Series career, resulting in her failing to qualify for the 2020 Championship.

## Background

Hawkey began karting at the age of ten, competing for six seasons until she secured a part-time seat in the Ginetta Junior Championship for the 2014 season. Her first partial season saw her race in six races, claiming fifteenth in two races, before securing a full-time seat for 2015. Unfortunately Hawkey's first full season of car racing was not a fruitful one, being one of only two full-time drivers not to score at all.

### Porsche Performance:2016 - 2019

2016 saw Hawkey move into the United Kingdom GT Cup – GT4 for Porsches, and duly impressed by claiming second in the Championship in her maiden campaign. She remained in the GT Cup in 2017, without repeating her former success, before moving into the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain in the Pro-Am class for 2018. Fifth in her class saw Hawkey retain her Porsche GB seat for the 2019 season, and duly improved to third in the Championship.

## W Series History

Hawkey was among one of the original 55 drivers to register for the 2019 W Series Championship evaluation process, and duly progressed through to be one of the eighteen permanent drivers for the inaugural season. Hawkey duly picked #2 as her race number ahead of the season opening round in Hockenheim, although she would have a quiet run to twelfth in the opening race. The Zolder Race would be worse for Hawkey, as contact with Gosia Rdest saw her break her suspension and retire on the third lap.

Hawkey received a five place grid penalty for the 2019 Misano Race for knocking Rdest out in Zolder, and duly battled to eleventh after starting in the midfield. The following race in Nuremburg would be better, with Hawkey battling for points throughout en-route to ninth. Another quiet run to eleventh followed in Assen followed, before Hawkey claimed a promising third on the grid for the season finale in Brands Hatch, only to stall at the start and spend the race at the back of the field.

That result left Hawkey on two points for the season in fifteenth, and hence miss-out on an automatic qualifying spot for the 2020 Championship. Hawkey subsequently dropped from the W Series draft for 2020 completely, after six new drivers were picked from the 2020 Driver Selection Test.

## Post W Series Career

For 2020 Hawkey would retain a spot in the Pro-Am class of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, albeit moving to a new team in the form of Team Parker Racing.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Esmee Hawkey's career in the W Series in statistical form.

### W Series Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Esmee Hawkey during their W Series career:

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Esmee Hawkey's full W Series record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 04/04/2020) - Original
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [Archived] 'Brands Hatch, UK', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506194151/https://wseries.com/races/brands-hatch/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 'Esmee Hawkey', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/esmee-hawkey/, (Accessed 04/04/2020)
4. ↑ [Archived] 'The Weekend at Hockenheim', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191013101433/https://wseries.com/races/hockenheim/, (Accessed 01/04/2020) - [ Original]
5. ↑ [Archived] 'Zolder, Belgium', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170558/https://wseries.com/races/zolder/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
6. ↑ [Archived] 'Misano, Italy', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506173425/https://wseries.com/races/misano/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
7. ↑ [Archived] 'Norisring, Germany', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506102913/https://wseries.com/races/norisring/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ 'W Series concludes three days of testing in Almeria', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 18/09/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/on-track-for-2020-w-series-concludes-three-days-of-testing-in-almeria/, (Accessed 04/04/2020)
9. ↑ Vince Pettit, 'ESMEE HAWKEY TARGETING PORSCHE CARRERA CUP GB TITLE WITH TEAM PARKER RACING', *thecheckeredflag.co.uk*, (The Checkered Flag, 22/01/2020), https://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2020/01/esmee-hawkey-targeting-porsche-carrera-cup-gb-title-with-team-parker-racing/, (Accessed 04/04/2020)