Spain’s Nerea Marti took her maiden pole position for the 2022 W Series season-opening race in Miami on Saturday for the Quantfury Racing W Series Team with a time of 01:56.915s and speaking following the action she said:
“I’m super happy as this is my first pole position in W Series and it’s my goal to win. It’s a fast track and it’s difficult so I was nervous. At the beginning of qualifying, it was a bit difficult as I didn’t find the right feeling and the track was very different to how it was in the practice session yesterday. After my first run I finally focused again and did an out lap. I was very calm, to be honest, thinking about the race and where I could improve.”
Jenner Racing’s Jamie Chadwick starts the race from second place and speaking following the action she said:
“I got there eventually. The second set of tyres felt a lot better, but on the first set I struggled a little bit. However, it’s a good start to the weekend and the season. The track is technical and lures you into making a mistake very easily. You almost have to bring it back rather than ask too much of it as it’ll punish you in that sense with the long straights. I just had to be a bit patient, wait until the end and it came to us. The race will be hard, especially on the long straights, but I think we’re in a good place.”
Jamie Chadwick will start Sunday’s race from pole position ahead of Nerea Marti and Emma Kimilainen.
1. Jamie Chadwick (Jenner Racing, 23, UK): 1.57.080
2. Nerea Martí (Quantfury Racing W Series Team, 20, ESP): 1.57.579
3. Emma Kimiläinen (Puma W Series Team, 32, FIN): 1.57.768
4. Alice Powell (Click2Drive Bristol Street Motors Racing W Series Team, 29, UK): 1.57.824
5. Fabienne Wohlwend (CortDAO Racing W Series Team, 24, LIE): 1.57.939
6. Belen Garcia (Quantfury Racing W Series Team, 22, ESP): 1.58.186
7. Jessica Hawkins (Click2Drive Bristol Street Motors Racing W Series Team, 27, UK): 1.58.466
8. Beitske Visser (Sirin Racing W Series Team, 27, NED): 1.58.473
9. Abbi Pulling (Racing X, 19, UK): 1.58.477
10. Sarah Moore (Scuderia W, 28, UK): 1.58.480
11. Marta Garcia (CortDAO Racing W Series Team, 21, ESP): 1.58.504
12. Abbie Eaton (Scuderia W, 30, UK): 1.58.642
13. Bruna Tomaselli (Racing X, 24, BRA): 1.58.918
14. Chloe Chambers (Jenner Racing, 17, USA): 1.59.045
15. Emely De Heus (Sirin Racing W Series Team, 27, NED): 1.59.424
16. Tereza Babickova (Puma W Series Team, 19, CZE): 2.00.566
17. Bianca Bustamante (W Series Academy, 17, PHI): 2.01.110
18. Juju Noda (W Series Academy, 16, JPN): 2.05.957