2021 Silverstone W Series round

The 2021 W Series Silverstone round was the third round of seven in the 2021 W Series, and took place at the Silverstone Circuit in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2021. The event was an undercard to the 2021 Formula One World Championship round at the same circuit.

Report Background Abbi Pulling replaced Gosia Rdest at the Puma W Series Team.

Jamie Chadwick led the championship on 33 points, 3 points ahead of Sarah Moore.

Race Fabienne Wohlwend took the fight to polesitter Alice Powell off the line, the Liechtensteiner prevailing in a side-by-side fight that lasted three corners. Beitske Visser once again struggled to get away from the line and dropped into the midfield, whereas Miki Koyama remained stuck on the grid for a lengthy period with gearbox issues that had been persistent through practice and qualifying.

Koyama lapped some six seconds off the pace with her issues at the back of the field before her gearbox cried enough on lap 8, forcing her to pull off the circuit at Village. This brought out the safety car, which proved Wohlwend's undoing as she had been gapping Powell but destroyed her tyres in the process. On lap 12, Wohlwend ran wide at Vale, allowing Powell to get the undercut at Club and muscle past for the lead.

On the final lap, Jessica Hawkins attempted to pass Belén García for 10th place and the final point at The Loop, but clattered into the side of the Spanish driver and put her out with suspension damage on the spot. Hawkins received a 20 second time penalty for the incident, making her the only British driver not to score points.

Powell won the race from Wohlwend and Jamie Chadwick. Visser recovered to sixth and Abbi Pulling scored points on her début with eighth.

Classification Practice Session Driver Team Time Source 27 Racing X 1:57.098

Qualifying

Driver Team Time/ 1 27 Racing X 1:57.235 2 5 Bunker Racing +0.362 3 55 Veloce Racing +0.525 4 95 M. Forbes Motorsport +0.704 5 7 Écurie W +0.772 6 32 W Series Academy +0.791 7 26 Scuderia W +0.854 8 49 +0.967 9 22 Scuderia W +0.995 10 19 Puma W Series Team +1.035 11 21 Racing X +1.059 12 44 Écurie W +1.225 13 11 Sirin Racing +1.313 14 17 M. Forbes Motorsport +1.391 15 97 Veloce Racing +1.404 16 51 W Series Academy +1.573 17 54 Sirin Racing +1.622 18 37 Bunker Racing +2.185 Source:

Race

Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid 1 27 Alice Powell Racing X 16 32:39.244 1 25 2 5 Bunker Racing 16 +1.919 2 18 3 55 Jamie Chadwick Veloce Racing 16 +4.030 3 15 4 7 Emma Kimiläinen Écurie W 16 +5.784 5 12 5 32 Nerea Martí W Series Academy 16 +8.483 6 10 6 95 Beitske Visser M. Forbes Motorsport 16 +9.090 4 8 7 26 Sarah Moore Scuderia W 16 +10.491 7 6 8 49 Abbi Pulling 16 +11.088 8 4 9 44 Abbie Eaton Écurie W 16 +12.145 11 2 10 11 Vittoria Piria Sirin Racing 16 +14.495 12 1 11 97 Bruna Tomaselli Veloce Racing 16 +15.022 15 12 19 Marta García Puma W Series Team 16 +15.887 13 13 37 Sabré Cook Bunker Racing 16 +16.489 18 14 51 Irina Sidorkova W Series Academy 16 +17.102 16 15 17 Ayla Ågren M. Forbes Motorsport 16 +30.223 14 16 21 Jessica Hawkins Racing X 16 +33.991 10 DNF 22 Belén García Scuderia W 15 Collision 9 DNF 54 Miki Koyama Sirin Racing 8 Mechanical 17 Fastest lap set by Alice Powell: 1:58.094 Source: – Hawkins received a 20 second time penalty for causing a collision.

Championship standings Driver Gap 1 Alice Powell 54 2 Jamie Chadwick 48 -6 3 Sarah Moore 36 -18 4 Fabienne Wohlwend 34 -20 5 Emma Kimiläinen 27 -27

2021 Silverstone W Series round

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