2021 2nd Spielberg W Series round

2021 W Series Spielberg round 2
Event 2 of 7 of the 2021 W Series
Race details
Date	3 July 2021 (2021-07-03)
Official name	2021 W Series Spielberg round 2
Location	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Styria, Austria
Course	Permanent circuit
Course length	4.318 km (2.683 miles)
Distance	21 laps, 90.678 km (57.978 miles)
Pole position
Driver	Jamie Chadwick	Veloce Racing
Time	1:28.473
Fastest lap
Driver	Jamie Chadwick	Veloce Racing
Time	1:29.607
Podium
First	Jamie Chadwick	Veloce Racing
Second	Irina Sidorkova	W Series Academy
Third	Emma Kimiläinen	Écurie W

The 2021 W Series Spielberg round 2 was the second round of seven in the 2021 W Series, and took place at the Red Bull Ring in Austria on 3 July 2021. The event was an undercard to the 2021 Formula One World Championship round at the same circuit.

Report

Background

The event was initially scheduled as the opening round of the season to be held at Circuit Paul Ricard in conjunction with the 2021 French Grand Prix, however amendments made to the 2021 Formula One calendar resulted in the change.

Alice Powell led the championship on 25 points, 7 points ahead of Sarah Moore.

Race

Reigning champion Jamie Chadwick took her first win of the season.

The 2019 championship protagonists shared the front row of the grid but Beitske Visser stalled on the line and gave polesitter Jamie Chadwick a free kick heading into turn 1. Bruna Tomaselli and Irina Sidorkova leapfrogged Emma Kimiläinen at the start to briefly give Veloce Racing a 1–2 before Sidorkova track-extended her way around the outside into 2nd. Visser's team-mate Ayla Ågren and Marta García also stalled on the line. Kimiläinen re-passed Tomaselli on lap 2 and the oldest driver in the field set after the youngest driver in the field.

Bunker Racing team-mates Fabienne Wohlwend and Sabré Cook were the beneficiaries of the three stallers, moving from the back third of the field (Cook not setting a time in qualifying after she spun into a gravel trap) up to a battle for 10th. The American relegated her Liechtensteiner team-mate out of the points, whilst Sarah Moore found herself in a battle with a Spanish rookie for the second consecutive weekend – once again holding off said driver, this time Nerea Martí. Their battle proved fairer than that of Puma team-mates Marta García and Gosia Rdest; the Spaniard recovering from her earlier stall caught her Polish stablemate at the mid-point of the race and spun her out at turn 4.

The podium places were running away from the rest of the field – fourth-placed Tomaselli did not have the pace of the top three and formed a train with Moore next in line, who capitalised on the Brazilian's woes passing her for fourth on the penultimate lap. There was further movement within that pack as Abbie Eaton passed Martí for sixth. Cook meanwhile was struggling with balance issues late in the piece, resulting in both her team-mate and a hard-charging Visser passing her to battle over P10. A tough race for Miki Koyama was effectively ended after a pit-stop for a flat-spotted tyre left her a lap down.

Chadwick cruised to her first victory of the season, with Sidorkova holding out the much faster Kimiläinen for the entire race to finish second in her second W Series race. It was daylight back to the next group of cars; Sarah Moore some sixteen seconds behind the Finn as a result of Tomaselli's issues. The previous weekend's winner Alice Powell had an anonymous race, starting 12th and finishing 8th ahead of Belén García and Wohlwend – the Liechtensteiner beating Visser to the last point by just over two tenths of a second.

Classification

Practice

Session	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Source
Practice 1	55	Jamie Chadwick	Veloce Racing	1:28.728

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time/Gap
1	55	Jamie Chadwick	Veloce Racing	1:28.473
2	95	Beitske Visser	M. Forbes Motorsport	+0.118
3	7	Emma Kimiläinen	Écurie W	+0.349
4	97	Bruna Tomaselli	Veloce Racing	+0.392
5	32	Nerea Martí	W Series Academy	+0.540
6	51	Irina Sidorkova	W Series Academy	+0.579
7	19	Marta García	Puma W Series Team	+0.636
8	26	Sarah Moore	Scuderia W	+0.700
9	17	Ayla Ågren	M. Forbes Motorsport	+0.803
10	22	Belén García	Scuderia W	+0.875
11	44	Abbie Eaton	Écurie W	+1.088
12	11	Vittoria Piria1	Sirin Racing	+1.142
13	27	Alice Powell	Racing X	+1.160
14	5	Fabienne Wohlwend	Bunker Racing	+1.170
15	21	Jessica Hawkins	Racing X	+1.223
16	3	Gosia Rdest	Puma W Series Team	+1.287
17	54	Miki Koyama	Sirin Racing	+1.300
18	37	Sabré Cook	Bunker Racing	No time
Source:

• ^1 – Piria was given a 3-place grid penalty for causing a collision in the previous event.

Race

The podium ceremony.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	55	Jamie Chadwick	Veloce Racing	21	31:33.119	1	25
2	51	Irina Sidorkova	W Series Academy	21	+6.606	5	18
3	7	Emma Kimiläinen	Écurie W	21	+6.929	6	15
4	26	Sarah Moore	Scuderia W	21	+22.939	8	12
5	97	Bruna Tomaselli	Veloce Racing	21	+25.183	3	10
6	44	Abbie Eaton	Écurie W	21	+26.075	11	8
7	32	Nerea Martí	W Series Academy	21	+26.485	4	6
8	27	Alice Powell	Racing X	21	+26.735	12	4
9	22	Belén García	Scuderia W	21	+27.244	10	2
10	5	Fabienne Wohlwend	Bunker Racing	21	+27.535	13	1
11	95	Beitske Visser	M. Forbes Racing	21	+27.764	2
12	19	Marta García	Puma W Series Team	21	+29.526	7
13	37	Sabré Cook	Bunker Racing	21	+30.793	18
14	17	Ayla Ågren	M. Forbes Racing	21	+34.895	9
15	11	Vittoria Piria	Sirin Racing	21	+40.964	15
16	21	Jessica Hawkins	Racing X	21	+42.921	14
17	3	Gosia Rdest	Puma W Series Team	21	+43.716	16
18	54	Miki Koyama	Sirin Racing	20	+1 lap	17
Fastest lap set by Jamie Chadwick: 1:29.607
Source:

Championship standings

Pos.	Driver	Pts	Gap
1	Jamie Chadwick	33
2	Sarah Moore	30	-3
3	Alice Powell	29	-4
4	Irina Sidorkova	22	-11
5	Fabienne Wohlwend	16	-17

See also

• 2021 Austrian Grand Prix

External links

• Official website Archived 14 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine
• Race replay