In the July of 2023, Jamie Chadwick joined Channel 4’s Formula 1 presentation team for the British Grand Prix, working alongside the likes of David Coulthard, Mark Webber and Lee McKenzie on a programme that had reached 19.4 million viewers the previous season.
By 2025, she had swapped channels entirely, signing for Sky Sports F1’s rival lineup, and by the following year, she was settled enough there to be described by the network as one of the world’s most decorated female drivers turned pundit. All the while, she kept racing.
Chadwick in the Media
The Channel 4 role for Jamie Chadwick began at the 2023 British Grand Prix and continued into the following season, presenting alongside a roster that also included Steve Jones, Billy Monger, Alice Powell, Ariana Bravo and the broadcaster Lawrence Barretto. The coverage was produced by Whisper and named Best Entertainment Show at the 2022 Sport Broadcast Awards.
It was a genuine presenting job, built around a full weekend of live programming and not a single guest soundbite, which made her one of relatively few active racing drivers anywhere to hold a recurring seat on a national broadcaster’s motorsport coverage.
Sky Sports F1
She moved to Sky Sports F1 ahead of the 2025 season, joining a lineup that already included Nico Rosberg, Jenson Button, Jacques Villeneuve, Naomi Schiff and Bernie Collins. By the summer of 2026, she had become part of that settled core team. Sky’s own discussion of the move looked at her competitive record, introducing her as a three-time W Series champion who had, in 2024, become the only woman to win an Indy NXT race on a road course. It says something about how she has been sold to broadcasters throughout that the pitch was built on results and not on screen presence.
F1 Academy Adviser
The broadcasting work sits alongside a smaller but longer-running set of visibility roles that made her a known quantity to producers before either network came calling. She partnered David Coulthard for Great Britain at the 2022 Race of Champions, shown on Sky in the UK, becoming only the second woman to compete in the event’s main draw after Susie Wolff had done so in 2014, and she became a Williams Racing development driver in 2019. In 2024, she became an F1 Academy adviser to her fellow Williams driver, Lia Block.
Clear Explanations Based on Experience
None of those roles put her in front of a commentary microphone, but they have kept her name and face in front of the same audiences the broadcasters were trying to reach, which likely explains why two rival networks in succession decided she was worth hiring. Her experience behind the wheel, as well as the fact that she has a much more up-to-date take on proceedings when compared to the likes of Coulthard, made her an obvious pick for producers. For the audiences at home, she’s been able to explain complicated information in an understandable manner.
Chadwick the Driver
Jamie Laura Chadwick was born in Bath on the 20th of May, 1998. She began karting at the age of 11, going on to win the British GT championship outright four years later and became the first woman to win a British Formula 3 race in 2018. She then went on to win the inaugural W Series title in 2019, retaining it in 2021 and 2022 before the series folded partway through its final season due to a lack of funding. A switch to Indy NXT with Andretti followed for 2023 and 2024, and in the December of the latter year she signed for IDEC Sport in the European Le Mans Series.
She finished third in the 2025 standings of that competition, winning three of the six rounds. She returned to IDEC for 2026, whilst also joining Genesis Magma Racing’s Hypercar programme as a reserve driver, which is how she came to drive five laps of the Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans on Test Day in the June of that year, becoming the first woman to take a Hypercar around the Sarthe. “It was incredible,” she said afterwards.
I think it’s only a question of time before we see many women on the Hypercar grid at Le Mans. I hope so. It’s a step in the right direction anyway.
It is that combination of having an active racing programme substantial enough to keep generating its own headlines alongside the punditry work that has made Chadwick such a welcome addition to the world of motorsport. It promises opinions from someone who is still very much at the coalface of the sport, put alongside media work that has become finely tuned in the commentary booth. If Jamie Chadwick has something to say, you can bet that it is going to be worth listening to and almost certainly more relevant than some of her media colleagues can manage.