Jessica Hawkins

**Jessica Hawkins** (born 16 February 1995 in Headley, East Hampshire, UK) is a British racing driver, who competes in the 2020 BRSCC W Series Championship using #21 as her race number. An original member of the W Series, **Hawkins** would just manage to secure her seat in the 2020 Championship on the final day of the 2019 season, having moved into eleventh in the Championship.

## Background

Hawkins began her career in karting, before getting to make her race car debut in British Formula Ford at Silverstone at the end of 2014, claiming two top ten finishes. That earned her a spot in MSA Formula for half of the season, finishing 23rd with two eleven placed finishes. At the end of the season she entered a round of the MRF Challenge - Formula 2000, finishing fifteenth in both races.

### Stunts and Single Makes: 2016 - 2018

After her single-seater ambitions faded at the end of 2015 Hawkins moved into the Volkswagen Racing Cup GB, placing 22nd after a full season. A move to the Mini Challenge UK followed in 2017, where she finished second in the Championship in the Pro class, before moving back to Volkswagens in 2018. However, she would only appear in a handful of races in 2018, instead spending most of the year working on *Fast and Furious Live* as a stunt driver.

## W Series History

Hawkins was one of the original 55 applicants for the 2019 Driver Selection Test, and duly moved through the process to claim a full race seat for the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship. She made her debut at the 2019 Hockenheim Race, although it was a quiet afternoon for the Brit as she fought with compatriot Esmee Hawkey outside of the points. The following round at Zolder was an equally quiet race for Hawkins, as she found herself stuck at the back of the field for most of the afternoon.

Another quiet run for Hawkins followed at Misano, before a promising run in the points at the Norisring was ended by a mechanical failure. However, that proved to be the spark to save her season, as Hawkins battled her way to seventh for her first points finish of the season. A similar performance followed at Hawkins' home race in Brands Hatch, as she battled her way through a queue of cars behind Fabienne Wohlwend to claim seventh.

That seventh place moved Hawkins onto twelve points for the season, and hence moved her up into the top twelve of the Championship to claim an automatic qualification spot for 2020.

### A Hawk's Perspective: 2020

Hawkins confirmed that she would take her seat in the 2020 edition of the W Series, again using #21 as her race number.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Jessica Hawkins'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 Jessica Hawkins during their W Series career:

 2020 | 21

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Jessica Hawkins's full W Series record.

 11th

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 'W Series announces 18 drivers for 2020 season', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 21/10/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/w-series-announces-18-drivers-for-2020-season/, (Accessed 01/04/2020)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [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
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 'Jessica Hawkins', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/jessica-hawkins/, (Accessed 06/04/2020)
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] 'Norisring, Germany', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506102913/https://wseries.com/races/norisring/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
7. ↑ [Archived] 'Assen, The Netherlands', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506100417/https://wseries.com/races/assen/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 [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