Caitlyn Jenner to run W Series team in 2022

Former Olympic champion Caitlyn Jenner will lead a new team, Jenner Racing, in this season's W Series.

The all-female competition, won last year by Britain's Jamie Chadwick, is set to support eight Formula 1 races in 2022, and former sportscar driver Jenner will run one of the teams.

It is not yet known which two drivers will compete for Jenner's team.

«Motorsports is a place you can have diversity — whether trans or not it doesn't make any difference,» she said.

Jenner — one of the most high-profile trans women in the world — has previously said she was opposed to trans women participating in women's sport.

In an interview with BBC Sport, Jenner added: «We need [a woman in Formula 1], we need diversity. We've had some [in] IndyCars. We had Danica Patrick in Nascar, but we want to move women into Formula 1 and I think [that] can happen.»

Jenner, who won decathlon gold at the 1976 Olympics before transitioning and featured in the reality television show Keeping Up With the Kardashians with former wife Kris, came out as a trans woman in 2015.

«I was waiting for the opportunity to get involved with something in women's sports and keeping equality and diversity in women's sports,» she said.

«I've been watching the W Series and I have been so impressed, so we just signed the deal. Next year on the W Series we'll have a two-car effort for Jenner Racing. I couldn't be more excited. I'm back in racing!»

After retiring from athletics, Jenner had a successful career in the IMSA Sportscar Championship — the North American version of the World Endurance Championship, which includes the Le Mans 24 Hours race.

She competed for Ford, winning the 12 Hours of Sebring 1986 and coming second at the Daytona 24 Hours.

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