W Series CEO Catherine Bond-Muir claims she turned down an offer to show the all-female championship’s inaugural se🔯ason on free-to-air television in the UK.

The new W Series﷽ was announced last Octob💛er as a new championship to aid female participation in racing, funding🏅 a🥀n 18-strong grid of Formula 3 cars that would support six DTM rounds in 2019.

The all-female series ha𒉰s support from ex-Formula 1 racer David Coulth🍸ard and Red Bull technical chief Adrian Newey, and is set to debut on May 4 at Hockenheim.

Speaking to wuqian0821.com, Bond Muir explained how she is working to find further partners an♒d sponsors for the series in the coming months ahead of the series’ debut, including broadcast partners, calling interest🐼 in W Series “extraordinary.”

“We’re speak🐲ing to﷽ lots and lots of sponsors,” Bond Muir said.

“I think what we’ve got to do first in order to max🅰imise sponsorship is to get our media deals in place🎀. That’s what I’m working incredibly hard on at the moment.

“I’ve had to turn dꦬown terrestrial television here because we can’t have the right scheduling. So a really, really extraordinary response.”

Bond Muir admitted she was surprised by the respo🔯nse W Series had received since its launch and how far it had reached.

“We reached ꦗ101 million people across the world. In my wildest dreams, I would🤡 never have believed that we’d have got in the majority of global newspapers,” Bond-Muir said.

“So yes, I can’t say I expected it all. I’m amazed at how well it has been received all around the world. We’ve got a lot of interest in the UK, but we’re based in the UK and I would ha🦄ve expected it.

“It’s really theꦺ amount of press we’ve received internationally, it’s quite extraordinary.”

W Series confirmed its 60-driver longlist in 🦩December, ✅and will stage trials to finalise its 18-driver grid and two reserves for the 2019 season la♓ter this month in Austria.