F1 "very disappointed" after W Series season curtailed due to financial issues

W Series has announced the curtailment of the 2022 season following recent financial struggles.

The remaining three races scheduled in the USA and Mexico will not go ahead, meaning the premature end to the season sees leader Jamie Chadwick crowned champion for a record-breaking third time.

CEO Catherine Bond Muir has addressed the unfortunate end to the 2022 campaign and the hopes of the Championship continuing next year.

W Series was expected to receive required funding from a recent contracted investment during September. However, in the lead up to the Singapore Grand Prix, the payment did not reach the business and plunged the remainder of the season into doubt.

Bond Muir admitted that hopes were still alive over at least making it to the Circuit of the Americas, but a decision was made to curtail the season in order to protect the longevity of the series.

“We believed up until this weekend there was a possibility for us to get to Austin, and we’ve just had to call it because there are deadlines on payments,” she explained. “So we could have kept it on for a couple of weeks but we just had to make a pragmatic call.”

During the Singapore Grand Prix, which saw Beitske Visser win her first race since 2019, Bond Muir admitted the weekend felt “extremely mixed” in terms of emotions.

“I hardly slept, but not for the right reasons. I wasn’t stuck in a party, I was working all night, dealing with the UK in the first half of the night, and then I was dealing with the US and speaking to potential investors from there.

“It was really tough on one hand, but on the other, I just couldn’t believe the support we received from people in the F1 paddock. I had people coming up to me, who didn’t know me, expressing support, especially