Esmee Hawkey


Esmee Hawkey is a female racing driver from England. She currently competes in the W Series and in the 2019 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain for GT Marques.

Biography

Inspired by her father, Hawkey began racing karts at the age of ten. She had previously attended ballet and tap dancing classes, but chose to leave both in order to pursue a career in motorsport. Hawkey moved up to the Ginetta Junior Championship in 2014. Her first season would consist of a part-time schedule as a result of external commitments, and would score a best result of two 15th places in the six races she contested. She would stay in the Ginettas for 2015, switching to the JHR Developments team, however would be one of only two regular drivers who would fail to score a top-ten all season.
Hawkey would become a Porsche junior driver in 2016, and would race a Cayman in the GT4 Class of the UK GT Cup for the next two seasons, with a best championship position of 2nd in 2016. Her GT Marques team would promote her to their Porsche Carrera Cup program in 2018, placing her in the Pro-Am class. She would finish the season 5th in class with two podiums, and would be retained for 2019.
She would be announced as one of the 18 permanent drivers for the inaugural season of the W Series. Hawkey would finish 12th in her maiden open-wheel race at Hockenheim having run in the points for a large portion of the race, but caused a collision with Gosia Rdest at Circuit Zolder that would take both drivers out of the race. She would score her first points in a race of attrition at the Norisring.

Career results

Complete W Series results

Year123456DCPoints
2019HOC
12		ZOL
Ret		MIS
11		NRM
9		ASS
11		BRH
16		15th2