Thursday 22nd August 2024
Alisha is absolutely delighted and humbled to announce that she had been selected as one of the final 10 for the 2024 Silverstone Autosport BRDC Award.
The following is taken from the Autosport announcement:
"The final 10 candidates for the 2024 Silverstone Autosport BRDC Award, supported by Silverstone Circuits Ltd, have been selected.
The Award, which started in 1989, aims to find and assist the best junior British racing drivers. The prize for this year’s winner includes £200,000 and a Formula 1 test with Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team.
Finalists have to primarily compete in a category below Formula 3 or be an F3 rookie, and be 16 years old by the time of the Award assessments at Silverstone in October. They must be under 24 at the start of the year.
F3 race winners and former finalists Arvid Lindblad and Callum Voisin, GB3 title contenders Louis Sharp, John Bennett and Will Macintyre, Italian F4 dominator Freddie Slater, runaway British F4 points leader Deagen Fairclough, F1 Academy championship favourite Abbi Pulling, GB4 race winner Alisha Palmowski and USF Juniors frontrunner Liam McNeilly are the 10.
BRDC vice-president and F1 driver steward Derek Warwick is the chairman of the judging panel, which includes three-time grand prix victor Johnny Herbert, Award winners Andrew Kirkaldy, Alexander Sims and Darren Turner, triple Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti, successful McLaren designer Mark Williams, top engineer Leena Gade, leading commentator Ian Titchmarsh and Autosport’s Kevin Turner.
The judges, who reserve the right to introduce a wild card for drivers excelling in the closing stages of the season, will select the final four in the coming weeks. After testing on the Silverstone GP track in MotorSport Vision F2, GT3 and LMP3 machinery, the winner will be announced at the Autosport Awards in January."
This is a huge honour for Alisha to have been shortlisted for such a prestigious award at this early stage of her racing career, especially within a group of such talented individuals!
Alisha was privileged to attend Silverstone race circuit on Wednesday 21st August to witness the 2023 AutoSport winner, Jospeh Loake, partake in his Formula 1 test with Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team.
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