2019 Norisring Race

The **2019 Norisring Race**, otherwise known as the **2019 W Series Nuremburg Race** or the **#WRace4**, was the fourth round of the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship, staged at the Norisring in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, on 6 July 2019. The race would see Marta García secure her first win in the W Series' first street race, as Beitske Visser closed in on Championship leader Jamie Chadwick.

Qualifying would see García ace the shortest lap of the season to claim pole position, beating Chadwick by 0.081s at the head of the field. Fabienne Wohlwend was best of the rest in third, two tenths off, Visser would start from fifth, while the entire field bar Alice Powell was covered by a second.

The start of the race saw García jump into an early lead, while Visser leapt up from fifth to challenge Chadwick for second into the first corner. The Dutchwoman duly scythed inside the Brit to claim the position, as behind Wohlwend was elbowed wide by Gosia Rdest, a move that broke the Polish driver's front wing.

The rest of the opening lap proved fairly clean, with García holding a small lead over Visser, while Chadwick held onto third and stalked the pair. Indeed, the order would settle down very quickly in the early laps, until Sarah Moore spun at Grundig Kehre on lap four and collected Shea Holbrook. Moore was left with suspension damage, Holbrook limped around with a puncture, while Vivien Keszthelyi and Caitlin Wood lost time avoiding the incident.

García reinforced her lead after that, easing away from Visser as the Dutchwoman kept her eye on her mirrors with Chadwick threatening a move. Elsewhere, Esmee Hawkey was doing her best to fend off the attentions of Rdest for fifth, unable to match the pace of Wohlwend in fourth.

Rdest's race was over soon after that, as she received a mechanical flag for running on with her damaged front wing, forcing her to pit for repairs. She and Holbrook would later be slapped with drive-through penalties for speeding in the pitlane, while Hawkins slid wide at the hairpin and surrendered fifth to Emma Kimiläinen.

The closing stages would see Chadwick finally launch an attack on Visser for second, as García had established a fair lead, while Wohlwend suddenly found herself under fire from a charging Kimiläinen. The duel for second was a furious one with Chadwick throwing everything she had at Visser, although the Dutchwoman would hold firm through to the final lap.

With that the race was run, with García running away to secure victory ahead of Visser and Chadwick, the pair finishing effectively nose-to-tail. Wohlwend was next having fended off Kimiläinen to the line, while Miki Koyama, Sabré Cook, Tasmin Pepper, Hawkey and Naomi Schiff completing the scorers.

## Background

Jamie Chadwick had enhanced her lead in the Championship after her second win of the campaign, leaving Misano with a thirteen point lead over Beitske Visser. Marta García was next up but with less than half the points of Chadwick, two ahead of Alice Powell in fourth. Fabienne Wohlwend was next up in fifth, having moved up ahead of Miki Koyama, as Sabré Cook and Keszthelyi added their names to the scorers list.

### Entry List

The full entry list for the 2019 Norisring Race is displayed below:

## Qualifying

### Results

The final qualifying result for the 2019 Norisring Race are outlined below:

## Race

### Results

The final classification of the 2019 Norisring Race is displayed below:

* **Bold** indicates a driver started from pole.
* *Italics* indicate that a driver set fastest lap.

## Milestones

* Marta García secured her maiden pole position.
* Maiden victory for García.
* Emma Kimiläinen and Esmee Hawkey claimed their first points finishes.
* Maiden fastest lap recorded by Kimiläinen.

## Standings

Jamie Chadwick had held onto her Championship lead after her fourth straight podium finish, although her advantage had been cut to ten points with two races to go. Beitske Visser was her closest challenger in second as the main pretender to the duo, while race winner Marta García had secured third, but was still 23 points behind. Completing the top five would be Fabienne Wohlwend and Alice Powell, the latter already out of the fight for the Championship with two rounds to go, with sixteen drivers having scored points.

*Only point scoring drivers are shown.*

## References

1. ↑ 'W Series To Support DTM in 2019', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 12/10/2018), https://wseries.com/w-hub/w-series-to-support-dtm-in-2019/, (Accessed 31/03/2020)
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 [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
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lucy Morson, 'Norisring W Series: Garcia beats Chadwick to pole', *motorsport.com*, (Motorsport Network, 06/07/2019), https://www.motorsport.com/w-series/news/norisring-garcia-pole-chadwick-qualifying/4489426/, (Accessed 03/04/2020)
4. ↑ [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 31/03/2020) - Original
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 '2019 W Series Norisring', *motorsportstats.com*, (Motorsport Network, 2019), https://results.motorsportstats.com/results/2019-norisring-3/classification/c52ccfd3-30e1-4aa7-b786-26bb38714e9b, (Accessed 03/04/2020)