Hawkins tested the Silverstone team’s two-year-old AMR21 in Hungary a fortnight in the past, turning into the primary girl to drive a close to present automobile since 2018.
Staff principal Mike Krack has praised Hawkins for the job she did on the day, whereas noting that “Jess is 28, so she’s sensible about her profession course.”
Hawkins accepts that the possibilities of going by the F3 and F2 ranks and ultimately incomes a brilliant licence are slim.
Nevertheless she believes that she will be able to proceed to have a job with the workforce in a sim or testing job, whereas additionally switching her focus to sportscar racing.
“I’m properly conscious,” she mentioned when requested by Autosport about Krack’s remark. “And let’s be actual, I am not too {old}. However I’m very conscious that there could be a really lengthy course of for me to undergo to get to F1.
“However that does not rule out different alternatives in F1, that does not utterly rule me out of F1. I can nonetheless do different issues.
“They’ve not simply given me an F1 drive to drive an F1 automobile. There are nonetheless different alternatives driving F1 automobiles that are not essentially racing them.
“I have never written myself off, however equally I do know that there is in all probability extra of an opportunity of a profession down the LMP/GT route, than what there’s in F1. However that does not cease me from having an enormous affect with an F1 workforce.”
Stoffel Vandoorne, Reserve Driver, Aston Martin F1 Staff, Pedro de la Rosa, Staff Ambassador, Aston Martin F1 Staff , Jessica Hawkins, Growth Driver, Aston Martin F1 Staff, arrive on the monitor
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Hawkins pressured that she wouldn’t have been given the Hungaroring check if the workforce didn’t think about her.
“My function began very a lot in a media function,” she mentioned. “And three years later, I’ve pushed the simulator loads, and I’ve now pushed the automobile. So it is rising and rising.
“I hope it continues to develop. I will have a heavy involvement in our F1 Academy workforce, which is a job that I actually wished.
“I used to be pestering them to let me have an involvement! And so they’ve given me a job to have a heavy involvement. In order that’s one thing that I will be working intently with, and really proud to do.”
Requested if Aston’s recently-announced hypercar programme interested her, she mentioned: “After all it does. I do not see why it could not be an possibility shifting ahead.”
She added: “Do not get me unsuitable, I’m racing, I am racing with the College of Wolverhampton within the Praga [in the Britcar Prototype Cup], however I need to be racing GT3, or GTE, or LMP.
“It is nice to assist the scholars the place I can as a result of they’re the following era that we’ll be seeing working in F1 someday, that is very nice to do. Nevertheless it does not cease there. I nonetheless need I nonetheless need to be racing different issues.”