Alice Powell secured her first pole position of the 2022 W Series season in a frantic qualifying session for the sixth race of the year at the Hungaroring.
The 2021 W Series runner-up took the third pole of her W Series career – more than a year after her second at Silverstone, UK, last July – when she posted a lap of 1:42.986 with two minutes remaining of a dramatic session, during which the lead changed hands on numerous occasions. Alice is now perfectly placed to win the fifth W Series race of her career and first since she claimed victory at Circuit Zandvoort, Netherlands, in September 2021.
The Briton – who is currently sixth in the championship standings – was two tenths of a second faster than Beitske Visser, who will start on the front row for the second straight race having scored her maiden W Series pole position at Circuit Paul Ricard, France, last weekend.
Nerea Martí has fond memories of the Hungaroring where she stood on a W Series podium for the first time 12 months ago, and the Spaniard will start Saturday’s race where she finished last year’s in third. She will be joined on the second row by compatriot Marta Garcia.
Jamie Chadwick is chasing an eighth straight W Series victory this weekend, but the reigning double champion will have to do it from fifth on the grid – her lowest starting position since the first race of the 2021 season in Austria where she qualified eighth.
Jamie leads Abbi Pulling by 70 points at the top of the championship standings, and that pair will line up alongside each other on the third row after Abbi qualified sixth. Belen García, Emma Kimiläinen, Fabienne Wohlwend, and Jessica Hawkins completed the top 10, who were separated by less than a second.
After a third of the 30-minute qualifying session, Beitske led Emma by four one hundredths of a second. They were followed by Jamie before, just a few seconds later, Alice moved into the top three. That pair improved on their next runs when Alice’s effort was two one hundredths faster than Jamie’s.
Emma briefly leapfrogged Alice and Jamie before her lap time was deleted for exceeding track limits. However, the Finn – who enjoys great support in Hungary – improved again on her next run to lead Alice by six one hundredths at the halfway stage when the entire field pitted for fresh tyres.
With rain forecasted during Saturday’s race in support of the Formula 1 Aramco Magyar Nagydíj 2022, a good qualifying result was even more…
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