2019 Hockenheim W Series round

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2019 Hockenheim W Series Round
Race 1 of 6 of the 2019 W Series
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Race details
Date 4 May 2019 (2019-05-04)
Official name 2019 W Series Hockenheim round
Location Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.574 km (2.842 miles)
Distance 18 laps, 82.332 km (51.156 miles)
Weather Damp
Pole position
Driver
Time 1:58.894
Podium
First
Second
Third

The 2019 W Series Hockenheim round (also commercially referred to as #WRace1) was the first round of the 2019 W Series, and took place at the Hockenheimring in Germany on 4 May 2019. [1] The event was an undercard to the 2019 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters round at the same circuit. [2]

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Background

The event was the inaugural round of the W Series, and the first professionally organised female-only motorsport event since the final round of the Formula Woman championship for Caterhams was held at Brands Hatch in 2006. [3]

61 drivers successfully submitted applications to contest the championship, and were required to attend an evaluation day to become part of the 18-driver grid. [4] [5] This evaluation, held at Austria's Wachauring, cut the number of applicants from 61 to 28, with the remainder going on to test the series-spec TatuusAlfa Romeo F3 T-318 at the Circuito de Almería before series judges selected the 18 regular drivers and 4 reserve drivers. [6]

Only 54 drivers attended the 26–28 January evaluation, which consisted of 10 modules related to teamwork, fitness and media preparation along with various driving-based skill tests. Among those who did not advance to the test day were former GP3 Series drivers Samin Gómez and Carmen Jordá (the latter a series advocate who did not attend), former Australian Formula 3 driver Chelsea Angelo and former U.S.F1600 champion Ayla Ågren. [7] [8] [9] The five-day test with the series cars on 22–27 March further whittled down the list of applicants, with the likes of ARCA Series driver Natalie Decker and former MSV Formula 2 driver Natalia Kowalska also missing the cut. [10]

The only proper testing for the series regular and reserve drivers was held at the Lausitzring a fortnight prior to the Hockenheim event, with Marta García emerging quickest. [11] [12]

Practice

First practice was topped by reigning MRF Challenge champion Jamie Chadwick, who put the #55 half a second ahead of the experienced Finn Emma Kimiläinen and Ferrari sportscar driver Fabienne Wohlwend. Clutch issues sidelined Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain driver Esmee Hawkey whilst American Shea Holbrook brought out the only red flag of the session. [13]

The top three remained the same in the second session, despite the onset of rain. The gaps however increased from 0.5 to 0.9 seconds across the trio of Chadwick, Kimiläinen and Wohlwend. Drivers struggled to adapt to the conditions, with both Tasmin Pepper and Jessica Hawkins spinning into the gravel and bringing out red flags – the latter returning to the garage on the back of a tow-truck. [14]

Series reserve drivers Sarah Bovy and Vivien Keszthelyi joined the regular field of 18 for Friday practice. In Practice 1, Bovy placed 11th and Keszthelyi 17th, however both were at the bottom of the timesheets in the wet second session. [15]

Qualifying

Qualifying was held in wet conditions. Beitske Visser set the early pace, however ended up watching the majority of the session from the sidelines with turbocharger failure, and Chadwick soon surpassed her. By the mid-portion of the session, Chadwick put herself 1.7 seconds ahead of the rest of the pack led by Sarah Moore. Wohlwend was the one to break the 1-second margin held by Chadwick with ten minutes remaining, however the Briton continued to set the pace becoming the first to set a time under the 2-minute mark in the damp session. The red flag came out with 3 and a half minutes remaining following a spin into the gravel at the Sachs Kurve for Alice Powell, and the session would not restart. As a result, Chadwick scored the first pole position in W Series history, with a large gap back to Wohlwend and a similar margin to Moore in 3rd. [16]

Race

The race started at 4:10pm CET on a drying track. Both Chadwick and Wohlwend both had good initial launches however Wohlwend – starting on the wet side of the circuit – encountered wheelspin whilst going up through the gears, dropping her to 5th by turn one. Both Kimiläinen and Sabré Cook stalled off the start, however Kimiläinen would not advance beyond the hairpin as Megan Gilkes suffered brake failure behind her and would smack into the front-right corner of the Finn, eliminating both on the spot and bringing out the Safety Car. Before the Safety Car was deployed however, Chadwick ran wide on a damp part of the track and handed the lead of the race to Alice Powell.

On the restart, Chadwick got back past Powell whilst Marta García moved herself into 3rd place at the expense of Moore, and the top three began to pull away from the rest of the field. The battle for fourth, fifth and sixth between Visser, Moore and Wohlwend also began to pull away from Esmee Hawkey in 7th, who was struggling for pace and came under attack from Vittoria Piria and the hard-charging Miki Koyama. Koyama made an opportunistic move on Piria, with the Italian spinning at the hairpin and collecting a polystyrene advertising board. With two laps to go, Koyama put a forceful move on Hawkey, which sent the Brit down the order and out of the points. Despite the fastest lap for the Japanese driver, she could not close the gap between herself and Wohlwend by the flag.

Chadwick went on to win the first W Series race ahead of Powell and García on the podium, with a gap back to the group of Visser, Moore and Wohlwend with Koyama coming from 17th on the grid to finish 7th, with the points rounded out by Tasmin Pepper (who also made a comeback having started 16th), Gosia Rdest and Caitlin Wood. [17]

Classification

Practice

SessionNo.DriverTimeCondts
Practice 155 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jamie Chadwick 1:38.650Dry
Practice 255 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jamie Chadwick 1:56.007Wet

Qualifying

Pos.No.DriverTimeGap
155 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jamie Chadwick 1:58.894
25 Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Fabienne Wohlwend 2:00.624+1.730
326 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sarah Moore 2:01.538+2.644
47 Flag of Finland.svg Emma Kimiläinen 2:01.673+2.779
519 Flag of Spain.svg Marta García 2:01.992+3.098
627 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alice Powell 2:02.729+3.835
711 Flag of Italy.svg Vittoria Piria 2:03.340+4.446
895 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Beitske Visser 2:03.463+4.569
92 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Esmee Hawkey 2:04.298+5.404
103 Flag of Poland.svg Gosia Rdest 2:04.478+5.584
1121 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jessica Hawkins 2:04.616+5.722
1220 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Caitlin Wood 2:05.529+6.635
1337 Flag of the United States.svg Sabré Cook 2:05.644+6.750
1449 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Megan Gilkes 2:05.676+6.782
1599 Flag of Germany.svg Naomi Schiff 2:05.914+7.020
1631 Flag of South Africa.svg Tasmin Pepper 2:06.069+7.175
1785 Flag of Japan.svg Miki Koyama 2:06.666+7.772
1867 Flag of the United States.svg Shea Holbrook 2:07.112+8.218
Source: [18]

Race

Pos.No.DriverLapsTime/RetiredGridPts
155 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jamie Chadwick 1832:59.079125
227 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alice Powell 18+1.329618
319 Flag of Spain.svg Marta García 18+1.692515
495 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Beitske Visser 18+3.473812
526 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sarah Moore 18+5.771310
65 Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Fabienne Wohlwend 18+7.04928
785 Flag of Japan.svg Miki Koyama 18+8.811176
831 Flag of South Africa.svg Tasmin Pepper 18+17.136164
93 Flag of Poland.svg Gosia Rdest 18+18.889102
1020 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Caitlin Wood 18+20.384121
1121 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jessica Hawkins 18+21.57311
122 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Esmee Hawkey 18+22.9959
1337 Flag of the United States.svg Sabré Cook 18+23.36513
1499 Flag of Germany.svg Naomi Schiff 18+25.33215
1511 Flag of Italy.svg Vittoria Piria 18+31.7577
1667 Flag of the United States.svg Shea Holbrook 18+46.20618
Ret7 Flag of Finland.svg Emma Kimiläinen 0Crash4
Ret49 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Megan Gilkes 0Crash14
Source: [19]

Championship standings

Pos.DriverPtsGap
1 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jamie Chadwick 25
2 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alice Powell 18-7
3 Flag of Spain.svg Marta García 15-10
4 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Beitske Visser 12-13
5 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sarah Moore 10-15
Source: [20]

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