A brand new racing workforce owned by former Olympic gold medal winner and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner will compete within the 2022 W Sequence, the all-female motor racing championship mentioned on Tuesday.

American Jenner, a former skilled racing driver, would be the workforce principal overseeing the day-to-day working of the Jenner Racing workforce.

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The 72-year-old, who as Bruce Jenner gained the decathlon on the 1976 Olympic Video games in Montreal and competed as a racing driver within the Nineteen Eighties, publicly got here out as a transgender girl in 2015.

“As a believer in truthful competitors, a lover of motor racing, and a supporter of all ladies in sport from the grassroots to elite degree, W Sequence ticks each field for me and is a fusion of the totally different features of my profession,” Jenner mentioned in a press release.

“A championship devoted to inspiring younger women and giving ladies the possibility to achieve roles all through what has historically been a male-dominated trade, W Sequence is altering the face of motorsport.”

The workforce mentioned selecting the driving force line-up, automobile livery, and buying sponsors aligned with the “mission of selling ladies in sport” was first on Jenner’s agenda.

“She has carried out on the highest degree in sport, is a confirmed winner and an entire petrol-head, and I do know that her ardour for sport and motorsport will encourage everyone at W Sequence,” W Sequence CEO Catherine Bond Muir mentioned.

The W Sequence visits 5 new circuits in 2022 as a part of an eight-race calendar wherein groups compete on the identical weekends as Formulation One for the second successive 12 months.

The collection begins in Miami from Could 6-8 as a help occasion for the inaugural Formulation One Miami Grand Prix across the Exhausting Rock Stadium.