Chipping Norton racing driver Alice Powell will be providing some of the coverage of the British Grand Prix this weekend.

She posted on her Facebook page: "Time to celebrate... it is the British Grand Prix race week. So excited to be part of the Channel 4 coverage."

Oxford-born Alice grew up in Sarsden and attended the Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water.

She started racing when she was just eight years old, after being a racing fan from a very young age.

In 2010 at the age of 17, she became the youngest racer and first woman to win a Formula Renault championship and, in 2012, the first female driver to score points in the GP3 Series, an all-female single-seater racing championship.

In 2019, Powell was one of the 18 women selected to compete in the inaugural W Series championship and in 2021 she won the opening race of the year, at the Red Bull Ring.

The same year she won a dramatic third race of the season to regain the championship in front of home fans at Silverstone.

Last year she shared a video of dozens of vehicles parked on Chipping Norton Road and told the county council they are 'putting lives at bloody risk'.

She tweeted: "And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Jeremy Clarkson needs a car park!!"

Alice with Lee Mckenzie, David Coulthard, Mark Webber and Billy Monger presents live coverage from Silverstone from Friday July 7 at 12.25pm on Channel 4.