2021 Budapest W Series round

The 2021 W Series Budapest round was the fourth round of seven in the 2021 W Series, and took place at the Hungaroring in Budapest on 31 July 2021. The event was an undercard to the 2021 Formula One World Championship round at the same circuit.

Report Background Caitlin Wood replaced Abbi Pulling in the Puma W Series Team.

Alice Powell led the championship on 54 points, 6 points ahead of Jamie Chadwick.

Race Chadwick stormed away from pole position to take a commanding lead into the first corner, while Irina Sidorkova hung around the outside of Beitske Visser to take fourth. Further back, Ayla Ågren and Fabienne Wohlwend ran wide – the Norwegian slowed suddenly and caused Wohlwend to hit the back of her car, launch into the air and broke her front wing in the process, requiring a pit-stop.

Chadwick and Powell began to sprint away from Nerea Martí in third by around a second a lap, as Sidorkova and Visser began battling over fourth. Other battles in the field included Marta García and Emma Kimiläinen for sixth, as well as Belén García and a slow-starting Bruna Tomaselli for eighth. Sabré Cook meanwhile had made up five places from the start but began to fall back through the field as Miki Koyama overtook her for 13th, not helped by her side mirrors bending from an impact with a kerb. A bad day was made worse for the Bunker team when Wohlwend, who was suffering from further damage after the first lap incident, went a lap down after her pit-stop and then chose to retire the car after half-distance.

Marta García had begun to pull away from Kimiläinen but a mistake from the Spaniard saw her run wide at turn 11, allowing the Écurie W driver to draw alongside and overtake into turn 13. Another driver making moves was Koyama, who closed on the back of Abbie Eaton quicker than she was expecting – light front to rear contact was made at turn 2, before the Japanese driver also braved it around the outside of turn 3 to pass The Grand Tour test driver for 12th.

Chadwick eased to victory with a ten-second gap to title rival Powell in second. Martí scored her first podium and the second for the Academy team, team-mate Sidorkova holding out Visser and coming in 5 seconds behind Martí. Series returnee Caitlin Wood started and finished 17th after some mechanical issues on the rear end of her car led to misaligned tracking.

Classification Practice Session Driver Team Time Source 55 Veloce Racing 1:43.317

Qualifying Driver Team Time/ 1 55 Veloce Racing 1:42.735 2 27 Racing X +0.269 3 32 W Series Academy +0.307 4 95 M. Forbes Motorsport +0.445 5 51 W Series Academy +0.644 6 97 Veloce Racing +0.875 7 19 +1.055 8 7 Écurie W +1.129 9 22 Scuderia W +1.163 10 21 Racing X +1.173 11 11 Sirin Racing +1.474 12 17 M. Forbes Motorsport +1.573 13 5 Bunker Racing +1.607 14 44 Écurie W +1.846 15 54 Sirin Racing +2.101 16 26 Scuderia W +2.134 17 20 Puma W Series Team +2.336 18 37 Bunker Racing +2.687 Source:

Race Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid 1 55 Jamie Chadwick Veloce Racing 19 32:59.370 1 25 2 27 Alice Powell Racing X 19 +10.237 2 18 3 32 Nerea Martí W Series Academy 19 +15.395 3 15 4 51 Irina Sidorkova W Series Academy 19 +20.931 5 12 5 95 Beitske Visser M. Forbes Motorsport 19 +21.618 4 10 6 7 Emma Kimiläinen Écurie W 19 +26.423 8 8 7 19 Marta García 19 +28.706 7 6 8 22 Belén García Scuderia W 19 +30.790 9 4 9 97 Bruna Tomaselli Veloce Racing 19 +31.172 6 2 10 21 Jessica Hawkins Racing X 19 +37.368 10 1 11 17 Ayla Ågren M. Forbes Motorsport 19 +38.356 12 12 54 Miki Koyama Sirin Racing 19 +42.047 15 13 44 Abbie Eaton Écurie W 19 +47.892 14 14 37 Sabré Cook Bunker Racing 19 +48.615 18 15 26 Sarah Moore Scuderia W 19 +49.265 16 16 11 Vittoria Piria Sirin Racing 19 +50.722 11 17 20 Caitlin Wood Puma W Series Team 19 +51.506 17 DNF 5 Fabienne Wohlwend Bunker Racing 9 Collision damage 13 Fastest lap set by Jamie Chadwick: 1:43.611 Source:

Championship standings Driver Gap 1 Jamie Chadwick 73 2 Alice Powell 72 -1 3 Nerea Martí 37 -36 4 Sarah Moore 36 -37 5 Emma Kimiläinen 35 -38

2021 Budapest W Series round

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