Alice Powell

**Alice Powell** (born 26 January 1993 in Oxford, UK) is a British racing driver, who competes in the 2020 BRSCC W Series Championship using #27 as her race number. A veteran of various Formula Renault Championships, **Powell** would win one race during the 2019 season, finishing third in the Championship to secure an automatic invite for the 2020 season.

## Background

Powell began karting at the age of eight, competing in various series before graduating to car racing in 2008, entering the Ginetta Junior Championship at the age of fifteen. After finishing in ninth, Powell would move into the Formula Renault UK championship, claiming eighteenth in the Championship in her rookie season. In 2010 Powell would move to the Formula Renault BARC, and duly claimed her first championship title, claiming two wins.

### Renault Revolution: 2010 - 2016

After becoming the first woman to win a Formula Renault series in the UK, Powell moved back to the Formula Renault UK championship for 2011, improving to ninth. That performance attracted the eyes of Status Grand Prix in the GP3 Series, where she completed a full campaign in 2012 and became the first woman to score points in GP3. After running out of a budget to compete in GP3, however, Powell would move to the MotorSport Vision Formula Three Cup in 2013, and duly claimed the runner-up spot. She would also claim two wins in British Formula 3 Championship, while also getting to make a one-off appearance in GP3.

In 2014 Powell stepped back to Formula Renault, entering the Asian Formula Renault Series which she would win outright with five race victories. She also made a few run outs in the two major British F3 Championships, before moving to the MRF Challenge Formula 2000 in 2015-16. However, at the end of the season, Powell would drop out of racing, and would only appear in a race car again in 2019.

## W Series History

Powell was one of the original 55 applicants for the 2019 Driver Selection Test, and duly passed the evaluation process to secure a full race seat for the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship. She made a strong start to the season at the 2019 Hockenheim Race, finishing second behind dominant race winner Jamie Chadwick, having briefly led after a strong start. Another strong performance followed in Zolder, as Powell battled with Chadwick for second, before having to settle for third as Beitske Visser escaped ahead.

Yet another second row start for Powell came at Misano, although an ambitious lunge from the Brit to try and claim second from Fabienne Wohlwend at the start saw her crash out of the race. A crash in practice for the 2019 Norisring Race then ruined her fourth race weekend, although she did manage to fight her way to ninth before an engine failure ended her race prematurely. Powell would bounce back at the following round in Assen, however, claiming her first front row start, claiming the lead at the start, before slipping back behind Emma Kimiläinen mid-race.

For the season finale at Brands Hatch, Powell would once again claim a front row spot, before challenging Chadwick for the lead. She duly seized the lead mid-race from the title pretender before easing away to claim her maiden W Series victory, putting her up into third in the Championship on the final day. That position granted Powell an automatic qualifying spot for the following season.

### Powell Performance: 2020

Powell confirmed that she would return to the W Series for the 2020 season.

## Post W Series Career

Powell would take a full time seat in the Pro-Am class of the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy for the 2019-20 season, while also securing a deal to test an FIA Formula E Championship car at the 2020 Rookie Test.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Alice Powell's career in the W Series in statistical form.

### W Series Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Alice Powell during their W Series career:

 2020 | 27

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Alice Powell's full W Series record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 'W Series announces 18 drivers for 2020 season', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 21/10/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/w-series-announces-18-drivers-for-2020-season/, (Accessed 01/04/2020)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 04/04/2020) - Original
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 [Archived] 'Brands Hatch, UK', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506194151/https://wseries.com/races/brands-hatch/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 'Alice Powell', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/alice-powell/, (Accessed 06/04/2020)
5. ↑ [Archived] 'The Weekend at Hockenheim', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191013101433/https://wseries.com/races/hockenheim/, (Accessed 01/04/2020) - Original
6. ↑ [Archived] 'Zolder, Belgium', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170558/https://wseries.com/races/zolder/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
7. ↑ [Archived] 'Misano, Italy', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506173425/https://wseries.com/races/misano/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ [Archived] 'Norisring, Germany', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506102913/https://wseries.com/races/norisring/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
9. ↑ [Archived] 'Assen, The Netherlands', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506100417/https://wseries.com/races/assen/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
10. ↑ 'SÉRGIO JIMENEZ RETURNS TO DEFEND JAGUAR I-PACE ETROPHY TITLE', *jaguarracing.com*, (Jaguar Land Rover, 01/11/2019), http://media.jaguarracing.com/news/2019/11/sergio-jimenez-returns-defend-jaguar-i-pace-etrophy-title, (Accessed 01/11/2019)
11. ↑ Chris Soulsby, 'Powell to test with Envision Virgin in Marrakesh', *motorsportweek.com*, (Motorsport Media Services Ltd, 18/02/2020), https://www.motorsportweek.com/2020/02/18/alice-powell-to-test-with-envision-virgin-in-marrakesh/, (Accessed 20/02/2020)