A British teenager is part of an ambitious effort to find Formula One's first female world champion, an aim explored by Sky News in a feature on why girls drop out of sport and who is breaking through to the very top. Fifteen-year-old Skye, from North Wales, is among the young drivers now being prepared for the higher levels of motor racing.
Skye has spent much of her life behind the wheel. She began go-karting properly at the age of seven or eight, and said the moment she realised it was more than a hobby came when she was invited to be a grid kid at Silverstone at the age of eight. Looking around the famous circuit that day, she decided this was something she really wanted to do.
She has since graduated from racing karts to cars, and her talent was quickly spotted. That progress earned her a place on an elite programme called More Than Equal, which has set out to change the face of the sport at its highest level rather than simply add another name to the grid.
The scale of the challenge is stark. According to the feature, it has been 50 years since a woman even competed in Formula One, the highest level of motor racing. More Than Equal has made its goal explicit, saying it wants to find and develop the first female world champion in the sport's history.
Central to the programme's thinking is the belief that the barrier is not a physical one. Using data and analytics, More Than Equal is trying to prove that it is not biology that stops a woman from driving a Formula One car, but rather the funding and opportunities open to female drivers as they come up through the ranks.
For Skye, that means an intensive apprenticeship behind the wheel. She said she is being put into a range of different cars to learn car control and the fundamentals of how to drive at a high level, all in preparation for Formula 4, a key rung on the ladder that leads towards the senior categories.
She has been on the programme for around 18 months, part of a wider picture Sky News set out of young British girls chasing elite sport against long odds. The feature highlighted how many talented youngsters face fierce competition and uncertain futures, even as schemes like More Than Equal try to widen the path to the top for the next generation.