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Born 2004 — racing
Fort Wayne's driver on the Formula ladder: The most successful racing driver Fort Wayne has produced in the modern record was born in Guangdong, China, on June 14, 2004, and raised in Fort Wayne — the Haas Formula 1 team's announcement calls her "from Fort Wayne, Indiana," and the Associated Press calls her a Fort Wayne native. Chloe Chambers began karting at eight and won regional and national karting championships over nine years; at sixteen, in 2020, she set a Guinness World Record for the fastest vehicle slalom, 47.45 seconds in a Porsche 718 Spyder. She moved to single-seaters in the 2021 F4 United States Championship, scoring her first point at Mid-Ohio; raced the W Series in 2022; and in the 2023 Formula Regional Oceania Championship in New Zealand became the first woman to take a pole position and the first to win a race in that series, taking its Most Improved Driver award, while also winning eight of twelve races in the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America as a Porsche junior driver. For 2024 the Haas F1 Team — America's Formula 1 team — named her its driver for the F1 Academy series with Campos Racing, and she won a race and stood on podiums in her first season; that November she drove for Andretti in Formula E's first all-women test at Valencia. She is the only Fort Wayne-raised driver in the city's record to race under a Formula 1 team's banner.
Sources:
- Haas F1 Team, driver biography, "Chloe Chambers" (haasf1team.com) — birthdate June 14, 2004, birthplace Guangdong, China; "from Fort Wayne, Indiana"; karting from the age of eight.
- Associated Press, January 17, 2024 (via Sportsnet and Indiana Public Media) — "The 19-year-old, from Fort Wayne, Indiana"; the Haas F1 Academy signing; the karting, F4, W Series, Oceania, and Porsche records; the 2020 Guinness slalom record.
- MoneyGram Haas F1 Team announcement, January 2024 (via FormulaRapida) — the F1 Academy nomination and career summary.
- Andretti Formula E announcement, October 2024 (via PitDebrief) — the Valencia women's test, the eight-of-twelve Porsche Sprint Challenge wins, and the first-season F1 Academy win and podiums.