2021 Zandvoort W Series round

The 2021 W Series Zandvoort round was the sixth and penultimate round of the 2021 W Series, and took place at Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands on 4 September 2021. The event was an undercard to the 2021 Formula One World Championship round at the same circuit.

Report Background Irina Sidorkova's COVID-19 testing result at the previous round turned out to be a false positive, and the Russian was let back into the field in time for Zandvoort. Abbi Pulling replaced Caitlin Wood at the Puma W Series Team.

Jamie Chadwick led the championship on 91 points, 7 points ahead of Alice Powell.

Race There was drama before the start as Bruna Tomaselli spun at Tarzan on the warm-up lap. Because she fell behind Fabienne Wohlwend, who was due to start last following a crash in qualifying, the Brazilian was sent to the back of the grid.

The start of the race was fairly tame, with the only movement towards the front coming from Jessica Hawkins and Abbie Eaton; the pair passing the slow-starting Abbi Pulling through the opening sequence of corners. Pulling also fell victim to Belén García at Tarzan on lap 2, falling from fifth to eighth – however the other García was overambitious heading into the Hugenholzbocht on Vittoria Piria, attempting to cut under the Italian and nearly losing her wing in the process.

Having initially pulled away from Powell and Chadwick on the opening lap, polesitter and Spa winner Emma Kimiläinen was slowly reeled in by the pair of Brits – and Powell made an unconventional yet successful move for the lead at turn 10, with Chadwick following her compatriot through for second half a lap later at Tarzan. Hawkins however had failed to keep in contact with Nerea Martí ahead and began to form a train behind.

The Tatuus–Alfa Romeo F3 T-318 chassis used in the W Series had gained notoriety amongst the other championships it was deployed in for being difficult to race closely, and the nature of the Zandvoort circuit meant that overtaking proved extraordinarily difficult unless drivers made unforced errors. Marta García proved this point by running wide at the Kumhobocht and the Spaniard dropped to the back of the field almost immediately, after which she failed to make up any ground on the field and remained stubbornly stuck behind Tomaselli in 17th.

Alice Powell claimed her third win of the season ahead of Jamie Chadwick in second – the result placing the two drivers level on 109 points at the top of the standings. Kimiläinen was the only other driver still in championship contention with two races left; she had fallen back into the clutches of Martí but the Academy driver did not manage to take third away from the Finn. The only other movement in the field towards the end of the race was a last lap pass from Pulling on Belén García; the Spaniard locking up and running slightly wide of the high line at the Hugenholzbocht which allowed Pulling to pull past on the run up to Scheivlak.

Classification Practice Session Driver Team Time Source 55 Veloce Racing 1:35.004

Qualifying Driver Team Time/ 1 7 Écurie W 1:34.326 2 27 Racing X +0.074 3 55 Veloce Racing +0.257 4 32 W Series Academy +0.732 5 49 +0.852 6 21 Racing X +0.869 7 44 Écurie W +0.996 8 26 Scuderia W +1.212 9 22 Scuderia W +1.225 10 54 Sirin Racing +1.246 11 11 Sirin Racing +1.276 12 95 M. Forbes Motorsport +1.324 13 19 Puma W Series Team +1.461 14 97 Veloce Racing +1.555 15 51 W Series Academy +1.829 16 17 M. Forbes Motorsport +2.316 17 37 Bunker Racing +2.655 18 5 Bunker Racing +3.310 Source:

Race Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid 1 27 Alice Powell Racing X 20 31:53.483 2 25 2 55 Jamie Chadwick Veloce Racing 20 +2.871 3 18 3 7 Emma Kimiläinen Écurie W 20 +9.913 1 15 4 32 Nerea Martí W Series Academy 20 +12.157 4 12 5 21 Jessica Hawkins Racing X 20 +13.944 6 10 6 44 Abbie Eaton Écurie W 20 +14.996 7 8 7 49 Abbi Pulling 20 +15.889 5 6 8 22 Belén García Scuderia W 20 +16.637 9 4 9 26 Sarah Moore Scuderia W 20 +17.357 8 2 10 54 Miki Koyama Sirin Racing 20 +20.943 10 1 11 11 Vittoria Piria Sirin Racing 20 +21.937 11 12 95 Beitske Visser M. Forbes Motorsport 20 +22.126 12 13 51 Irina Sidorkova W Series Academy 20 +22.714 15 14 37 Sabré Cook Bunker Racing 20 +31.479 17 15 17 Ayla Ågren M. Forbes Motorsport 20 +31.664 16 16 5 Fabienne Wohlwend Bunker Racing 20 +41.428 18 17 97 Bruna Tomaselli Veloce Racing 20 +48.240 14 18 19 Marta García Puma W Series Team 20 +49.462 13 Fastest lap set by Alice Powell: 1:34.719 Source:

Championship standings Driver Gap 1 Alice Powell 109 Jamie Chadwick 3 Emma Kimiläinen 75 -34 4 Nerea Martí 53 -56 5 Fabienne Wohlwend 40 -69 Drivers in bold had a mathematical possibility of winning the title.

2021 Zandvoort W Series round

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