8 May 2022
Defending champion Jamie Chadwick completed a perfect weekend at W Series Miami presented by Hard Rock by backing up her win in Saturday’s first race with a dominant lights-to-flag victory in race two of the 2022 season-opening double-header.
The reigning double champion took her fourth straight W Series race win, and eighth overall, courtesy of an expertly controlled drive from pole position. Jamie crossed the finish line three seconds ahead of Nerea Martí who secured her best finish and the second podium of her W Series career. Last season’s runner-up Alice Powell was a further six seconds back in third place to score her 10th W Series podium finish.
Nerea’s team-mate and compatriot Belen Garcia finished fourth to equal her best W Series finish. Emma Kimiläinen started third and retained that position for most of the race, but contact with Alice on the penultimate lap dropped her to fifth.
Some fine overtaking in the closing stages saw Abbi Pulling finish sixth, one place ahead of Beitske Visser. Sarah Moore and Marta Garcia were eighth and ninth. Chloe Chambers completed the top 10 to score her first W Series points and finish as the highest-placed of the five drivers making their W Series debuts this weekend in support of the inaugural Formula 1® Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix.
The drivers’ second-best time during qualifying on Saturday had set the grid for race two, and the front row from race one was reversed as Jamie started from pole position and Nerea from second. Fabienne Wohlwend started 10th after receiving a five-place grid penalty for causing a collision in race one.
The top two retained their starting positions as they exited Turn 1, but Nerea was under pressure from Emma who started third. The Finn went up to second with a move on the inside at the entry to Turn 11, but went deep on the exit allowing Nerea to instantly regain the place. Jamie led by just under a second at the end of lap one, by which time the only changes in…
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