Rwandan racing driver Naomi Schiff has been added to the presenting group behind Sky Sports activities System One’s new present ‘Any Pushed Monday’ – a 60-minute programme streamed on Mondays after race weekends on Sky Sports F1’s YouTube channel.
The enormous broadcaster secured Naomi’s providers final week as race analyst.
The new show takes a have a look at the most recent goings on on the earth’s largest racing championship, and visitors will embody F1 stars, influential voices and celeb followers of the game.
“Tremendous excited to announce that I’ll be becoming a member of the Sky Sports activities F1 group on their protection this upcoming season!” Naomi posted on her Instagram page.
“Loopy to suppose in a number of days I’ll be becoming a member of the group I’ve been watching on TV for years,” she added.
Naomi is a Rwandan-Belgian skilled racing and stunt driver. Contemporary from presenting the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Staff automobile launch, she joins the Sky Sports activities F1 group for the 2022 season.
Previous to her new assignments, Sky Sports activities F1 Director Billy McGinty hailed Naomi’s profession as ‘fascinating’ and persuaded her till she agreed to hitch Sky’s System One group.
“I’ve watched Naomi’s profession with curiosity, I am excited she’ll be contributing to our protection and co-hosting our new YouTube present Any Pushed Monday,” he mentioned of Naomi.
🗣️”For me and Max, we see one another within the paddock, issues are regular”
Naomi Schiff sat down with Lewis Hamilton forward of the brand new System One season! Hold your eyes peeled for the FULL interview throughout the first race weekend of the season in Bahrain! 📺 pic.twitter.com/UOmNcqOa1v
— Sky Sports activities F1 (@SkySportsF1) March 11, 2022
Naomi will co-host the present with Matt Baker from Sky Sports activities Studios in London.
She may also be attending races on-site and was noticed in Bahrain inspecting Lewis Hamilton’s W13 within the storage forward of the primary observe session of the brand new season.
WHO IS NAOMI?
Born in 1994 in Belgium to a Rwandan mom and Belgian father, Naomi began racing on the age of 11 with karting in South Africa.
Kart racing or karting is a variant of motorsport highway racing with open-wheel, four-wheeled automobiles referred to as go-karts or shifter karts. They’re normally raced on scaled-down circuits, though some skilled kart races are additionally held on full-size motorsport circuits.
Naomi started racing at a younger age – first in prototype, GT and single seater automobiles – has since seen her star shine as probably the most famend ladies in automobile racing.
On the age of 14, she represented South Africa within the Karting World Championships for 4 consecutive years, 2008 to 2011, thereafter coming into the area of circuit racing which took her around the globe.
Her main successes embody the 2014 Clio Cup Asia championship title with seven wins from 10 begins, 2018 KTM GT4 X-Bow Battle championship title and a second place within the 2018 ADAC Zurich 24 Hours Nürburgring.
Naomi grew to become W Collection’ Variety and Inclusion Ambassador in 2020.
In a previous interview with The New Instances, she defined that her position entailed “not solely to assist unfold the phrase in regards to the distinctive position that W Collection is enjoying for feminine drivers worldwide, but additionally to draw one of the best drivers to the league.”
W Collection is the ladies’s equal of System One, and its inaugural racing season was held 2019.
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