[3] Scottish businessman Sean Wadsworth was confirmed as the series main financier, with Catherine Bond Muir – a solicitor who helped facilitate the sale of Chelsea F.C.

[13] Emma Kimiläinen was injured in a clash with Megan Gilkes that required her to sit out the next two rounds, and she was replaced with both reserve drivers – Sarah Bovy and Vivien Keszthelyi.

[17][18] An experimental non-championship was held on the Assen weekend, with inexperienced and under-fire Gilkes – who was benched from the Nuremberg round for a lack of pace – beating Powell by 0.003 seconds in an incident-packed heat.

[21] The initial drivers' list confirmed that the top twelve finishers from the 2019 championship were automatically qualified for the 2020 series, joined by six new recruits from a scaled down evaluation held in September 2019.

[27] Initially planned to be held at eight separate venues, the proposed finale in Mexico was cancelled after Formula One postponed the parent Grand Prix and it was replaced with a second race at an event in Austin.

[28] The series switched their technical support from Hitech to Double R Racing, operating as "Fine Moments", and launched a 'team' system based around commercial entrants for financial and identification purposes.

[32][33] The following round at Spa-Francorchamps was overshadowed by a six-car pile-up in qualifying, resulting in Visser and Ayla Ågren withdrawn from the race – Kimiläinen claimed her first win of the season in torrential rain ahead of Chadwick and Marta García.

[34][35] Powell won her third race of the season in a processional affair at Zandvoort that saw her draw level on points with Chadwick at the top of the table heading into the final round.

[36] Reserve driver Abbi Pulling claimed a shock pole position at the final round in Austin before Chadwick won both races to successfully defend her title.

[37] The season ended in minor controversy after Abbie Eaton fractured her T4 vertebra following a collision with a sausage kerb in the first race of the weekend.

Kimiläinen led most of a race that had been interrupted by a red flag and multiple Safety Cars before a gearbox problem on the final lap handed victory to Chadwick.

[45][46] Chadwick's run then looked threatened by a grid penalty at Circuit Paul Ricard following a qualifying infringement, but she recovered to take the lead in the opening 3 corners and yet another win as Eaton crashed heavily at the start and team-mates Marta García and Wohlwend engaged in a fierce battle for sixth.

[56] Ahead of the first F1 Academy race in late April 2023, the W Series was yet to make an official statement regarding its fate and its return during the year was deemed unlikely.

[59][60] Two months later, administrators Evelyn Partners confirmed that the last series employee had been made redundant and assets including 19 Tatuus–Alfa Romeo F3 T-318s would be sold in late-September 2023.

[61][62] Whilst not on the list of owed creditors, multiple drivers – including Alice Powell, Abbi Pulling and Beitske Visser – also claimed that the series had not paid out prize money for the 2022 season.

[63][64] In late-January 2024, 722 lots of W Series assets – ranging from chassis, gearboxes, unclaimed trophies and race suits to toolboxes, vehicle stands and vacuum cleaners – that had been held at a site in the Dunsfold Park complex went up for auction.

[65] In July 2024, the Formula E championship purchased the series' intellectual property rights for GB£110,000 as part of the debt clearing process.

The exception to this was the Assen round, where a half-hour non-championship exhibition race was held in addition to the existing format on Sunday morning.

[73] Puma were the only brand to continue their support into the 2022 season, and were joined by American media personality Caitlyn Jenner, British car dealer Bristol Street Motors, Bahamian-registered cryptocurrency exchange Quantfury, and Singapore-based oil trader Michael Livingston through an NFT-based initiative named CortDAO.

Claire Cottingham held the position of lead commentator for the first season, with expert analysis from former Formula One drivers David Coulthard and Allan McNish on a rotating basis and both Ted Kravitz and Amy Reynolds acting as pit-lane/paddock reporters.

For 2021, Cottingham and Coulthard/McNish were replaced with Channel 4's Formula One commentator Alex Jacques and double-amputee racer Billy Monger respectively, with 2019 W Series driver Naomi Schiff added to the line-up as a feature presenter.

[106] Modelled on Formula 1: Drive to Survive, media outlets lamented the docuseries as a missed opportunity given extremely limited release and its airing towards the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"[112][113] Former Formula E and ex-Sauber F1 test driver Simona de Silvestro has suggested that the $1.5 million prize fund would be better invested in a scholarship system to support the development of talent across a wider range of motorsport disciplines.

"[118] She renewed her criticism after the series restarted in 2021, stating that 28-year-olds Alice Powell and Sarah Moore as well as 23-year-old Fabienne Wohlwend (podium-placers at the opening round of the season) stood "no chance [of] compete[ing] against men in higher classes" due to their age, and that the drivers were "just too slow.

[121] In 2024, after the championships' collapse, Abbie Eaton claimed that some of Flörsch's arguments were "completely deluded" and that "a lot of the time it's her dad posting on her social media".

[132][133] Alice Powell, who had not raced for five years before applying to W Series, made a cameo in the IMSA SportsCar Championship alongside Katherine Legge before stepping back from driving to become a mentor for the Alpine Academy and work as a television pundit, the latter a path also taken by Naomi Schiff.

[139][140] Bruna Tomaselli and Irina Sidorkova returned to race in their home countries through the Stock Series and the RSKG Endurance Championship respectively.

[143] Esmee Hawkey contested one-and-a-bit seasons of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Lamborghini before quitting motorsport, becoming an influencer and starting a family.