Naomi Schiff

**Naomi Schiff** (born 18 May 1994 in Belgium) is a Belgian born, Belgian-Rwandan racing driver, who competed in the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship under a German racing licence. A GT base driver, **Schiff** would have an intermittent career before getting a seat in W Series, although after finishing sixteenth in the 2019 Championship she failed to secure a return in 2020.

## Background

Schiff began her career in karting in South Africa, before securing a part time seat in the Formula Volkswagen South Africa Championship in 2010, claiming seventeenth. Schiff would race in the Bridgestone Special Open Trophy in 2011, before taking a year off of racing in 2012. Schiff returned to compete in a variety of series in 2013, with runouts in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, w:c:motorsport:Renault Clio Cup China, the Ferrari Challenge Asia Pacific and several others.

### Funding Restrictions: 2014 - 2019

Schiff moved into the Renault Clio Cup China full time in 2014, and duly won Class A having won eight races, and would also claim second in Class 2 at the 24 Hours of Zolder. For 2015 Schiff would get a couple of runs in the Blancpain GT Sports Club as well as the Euro Series by Nova Race. 2016 saw Schiff complete a partial campaign in the GT4 European Series, before entering the Northern Cup of European GT4 in 2017.

Another quiet season in 2017 followed, before Schiff could only secure third or fourth driver seats in various VLN Endurance races. However, Schiff would claim a second place at the Nürburgring 24 Hours in the Cup X Class, while also registering herself as a German driver.

## W Series History

Schiff was one of the original 55 applicants for the 2019 Driver Selection Test, and duly survived the sifting and evaluation process to secure a seat for the 2019 W Series Championship. Schiff would subsequently have an anonymous debut race in Hockenheim running outside of the points throughout, although she did run trouble free. Schiff would, however, improve at the Zolder race, securing her first points of the season after a race long fight in a queue behind Esmee Hawkey.

Schiff would impress again at the 2019 Misano Race by battling for points, although having elbowed her way past Hawkey, the German racer would spin to the back of the field. At the 2019 Norisring Race Schiff would, however, score another point, claiming tenth place having again had to fight amidst a queue of cars. However, that would be as good as it got for Schiff, as she failed to threaten the points in either the Assen or Brands Hatch rounds.

Finishing sixteenth in the Championship, Schiff would miss out on an automatic qualifying spot for the 2020 season, before being overlooked after the 2020 Driver Selection Test.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Naomi Schiff'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 Naomi Schiff during their W Series career:

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Naomi Schiff'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 '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)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 'Naomi Schiff', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/naomi-schiff/, (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. ↑ [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