Jamie Chadwick set the pace in practice for the seventh race of the 2022 season as W Series made its debut in Asia.
The reigning double champion can win her third straight W Series championship title this weekend, and that bid got off to the perfect start in Singapore on Friday night. Jamie topped the session – which was twice interrupted by red flags – with her final flying lap of 2:13.529. Abbi Pulling was more than half a second behind in second place, and Alice Powell was a further two tenths adrift in third.
They were the only two drivers to get within a second of Jamie’s benchmark. Jamie – who has won five of the six races so far this season – holds a 75-point lead at the top of the championship standings with four races remaining and a maximum 100 points to be won. If Jamie finishes higher than nearest challengers Alice, Beitske Visser – who was fifth quickest in practice at Marina Bay – and Abbi in Sunday’s race, then title number three will be hers.
Belen García was fourth quickest, two tenths faster than Beitske, who was less than one tenth ahead of Nerea Martí. Fabienne Wohlwend, Sarah Moore, Jessica Hawkins, and Marta Garcia completed the top 10.
Friday’s practice session represented W Series’ first-ever session at night, and the cars sparkled under the Marina Bay Street Circuit’s iconic floodlights. The ‘W’ on the nosecones of all 18 turned pink to mark the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this weekend. In addition, those of the six British drivers carried a commemorative message for Lorraine Gathercole, Chair of the British Women Racing Drivers Club (BWRDC) and racing driver, who died this week.
The track surface was dusty, but Alice quickly got to grips with it, going faster than the field by almost a second after the first flying laps. However, while pushing hard to find more time on her second run, the Briton spun at the final corner. That allowed team-mate Jessica to hit the front with 10 of the 30 minutes gone, when the session was red-flagged after Chloe Chambers hit the wall at Turn 8.
During the six-minute delay, Jamie and Fabienne collided in the pit-lane, and that incident was being investigated by the stewards after the session. When proceedings restarted, Alice regained top spot with just under a third of the session remaining when she became the first driver to dip below 2:15.000. But, just moments later, after most of the drivers had completed their sixth lap, the…
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