{"id":20908,"date":"2022-03-19T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2022\/03\/19\/formula-one-rwandan-naomi-schiff-lands-deal-as-sky-sports-commentator\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:17:59","slug":"formula-one-rwandan-naomi-schiff-lands-deal-as-sky-sports-commentator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2022\/03\/19\/formula-one-rwandan-naomi-schiff-lands-deal-as-sky-sports-commentator\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula One: Rwandan Naomi Schiff lands deal as Sky Sports commentator"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rwandan racing driver Naomi Schiff has been added to the presenting group behind Sky Sports activities System One\u2019s new present \u2018Any Pushed Monday\u2019 \u2013 a 60-minute programme streamed on Mondays after race weekends on\u00a0Sky Sports F1’s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The enormous broadcaster secured Naomi\u2019s providers final week as race analyst.<\/p>\n

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The new show<\/a> takes a have a look at the most recent goings on on the earth\u2019s largest racing championship, and visitors will embody F1 stars, influential voices and celeb followers of the game.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTremendous excited to announce that I\u2019ll be becoming a member of the\u00a0Sky Sports activities F1\u00a0group on their protection this upcoming season!\u201d Naomi posted on her Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLoopy to suppose in a number of days I\u2019ll be becoming a member of the group I\u2019ve been watching on TV for years,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Previous to her new assignments, Sky Sports activities F1 Director Billy McGinty hailed Naomi\u2019s profession as \u2018fascinating\u2019 and persuaded her till she agreed to hitch Sky\u2019s System One group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’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,\u201d he mentioned of Naomi.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f”For me and Max, we see one another within the paddock, issues are regular”<\/p>\n

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! \ud83d\udcfa pic.twitter.com\/UOmNcqOa1v<\/a><\/p>\n

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Naomi will co-host the present with Matt Baker from Sky Sports activities Studios in London.<\/p>\n

She may also be attending races on-site and was noticed in Bahrain inspecting Lewis Hamilton\u2019s W13 within the storage forward of the primary observe session of the brand new season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

WHO IS NAOMI?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Naomi started racing at a younger age \u2013 first in prototype, GT and single seater automobiles \u2013 has since seen her star shine as probably the most famend ladies in automobile racing.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 N\u00fcrburgring.<\/p>\n

Naomi grew to become W Collection\u2019 Variety and Inclusion Ambassador in 2020.<\/p>\n

In a previous interview with The New Instances, she defined that her position entailed \u201cnot 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

W Collection is the ladies\u2019s equal of System One, and its inaugural racing season was held 2019.<\/p>\n

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