Alice Powell got off to a perfect start to the 2021 W-Series season by taking the first pole position of her W-Series career at the start in Austria. The 28-year-old picked up where she left off 685 days ago – when she won the last race of the W Series inaugural season at Brands Hatch in August 2019 and secured third place in the championship – with a flawless performance on Friday the Red Bull Ring, where she led both practice and qualifying for her Racing X team.
“It was a crazy and very long preparation for this first race after I won the last race in 2019 at Brands Hatch Powell admitted. « I’ve worked so hard to make sure I’m ready on both the fitness and the mental side, and I hope I can make it through tomorrow and finish first again.
» Me knew it might rain during qualifying so the plan was to run 10 minutes on the old tires before we get new tires, but we cut that down by five minutes as I knew it would take longer to to come the tires worked and I didn’t want to rush this process. In the end we did it and I was really consistent. Now I have to make sure that I do it again tomorrow. ”
In the race on Saturday, which supports the Styrian Grand Prix in Formula 1, Powell is supported in the front row by the British Sarah Moore, who is less when she was two tenths of a second behind her compatriot. Belen Garcia has made an impressive start to her W Series career by finishing third, and the Spanish rookie will start second row alongside 2019 runner-up, Beitske Visser.
W-Series defending champion Jamie Chadwick, was eighth fastest, although Series Director Dave Ryan said the British driver encountered « a small problem with her Tatuus F3 Spec car that we’ll be looking at tonight ». Fabienne Wohlwend and rookie Ayla Agren completed the top 10, with less than half a second separating them at the end of a highly competitive qualifying in which five different drivers led the timers during hectic 30-minute action.
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