With it, the verb to accelerate takes on its full meaning. The Picardy Lilou Wadoux wasted no time since he was 14 when he made his debut in motorsport. An activity that replaced the tennis she practiced in competition, before suffering an injury. The shuttlecock has therefore replaced the racket. With success. His good results with increasingly powerful cars enabled him to obtain, last December, an invitation to a trial in Bahrainat the wheel of World Endurance Championship prototypes.
“It was going to allow me to discover the car, what endurance is, without asking me questions to know if there is a future etc. For me there was none, at least not now “, she says. “After Bahrain we were called back, we had to make a choice. I was doing sprints, I had a mechanic, an engineer and again, there now I have fifteen, four engineers, that changes me completely!
She has such potential. If tomorrow a girl has to shine at the highest level in endurance, she has everything to be eligible!
Since then, she has been crisscrossing the championship circuits with a 480 horsepower car that reaches 330 km/h. Its progress is observed by Philippe Sinaulthis boss in the Richard Mille Racing. “We got a very, very quick look at her because her performances were incredible and she has a very particular approach because she never got up one morning and said one day I will be a racing driver. She takes every moment , she saw them. It’s true that the leap is big, perhaps too much given her experience, but we’re betting on Lilou because she has such potential and if tomorrow a girl has to shine at the highest level in endurance, she has everything to be eligible.”
Before arriving at Le Mans, Lilou Wadoux had already competed in two races with his team, which is also that of Sébastien Ogier, the former world rally champion. Together they finished 12th in the United States then 8th in Belgium. So progressing. Or rather accelerating. The qualifier that best suits him.