Qualifying report
W Series Assen
Assen W Series: Kimilainen tops red-flagged qualifying
Emma Kimilainen claimed her first W Series pole in a disrupted qualifying session for the penultimate round of the season at Assen.
Lucy Morson
Edited: Jul 20, 2019, 8:51 PM
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Kimilainen, who missed the Zolder and Misano rounds due to injury, had been the fastest driver of the day in the first free practice session on Friday and set the early benchmark time of 1m35.562s in the first stages of the 30-minute qualifying.
She was deposed briefly by home favourite and title contender Beitske Visser around the halfway mark, with Alice Powell also occupying the top spot on the timesheets for a spell.
Kimilainen ultimately posted her pole time of 1m34.758s shortly before the session was red-flagged with four minutes to go as a result of a spin for Shea Holbrook.
Qualifying, which was held in dry conditions ahead of a predicted wet race on Saturday afternoon, was restarted as soon as Holbrook’s car was recovered, with all drivers taking to the track to set their fast laps.
But the session was interrupted and not restarted when Vicky Piria suffered an engine failure, with Kimilainen retaining the fastest time.
Kimilainen will start the race ahead of Powell in second, with championship points leader and Williams Formula 1 development driver Jamie Chadwick in third.
Visser will line up alongside Chadwick on the second row of the grid in fourth place, with the pair separated by just 10 points in the title race.
Sarah Moore, who topped FP2 on Friday, set a laptime good enough for fifth on the grid, but incurred a five-place grid penalty for her Norisring clash with Holbrook and so will drop to the tail end of the top 10.
Caitlin Wood was sixth, ahead of Tasmin Pepper in seventh, the pair making up row three after Moore's penalty.
Fabienne Wohlwend qualified eighth ahead of Norisring winner Marta Garcia, with both drivers also still having an outside chance at taking the first W Series drivers’ crown.
Gosia Rdest completed the top 10, which was ultimately separated by less than six tenths.
Session results:
Cla # Drivers Laps Time Gap 1 7 Emma Kimilainen 12 1'34.758 2 27
Alice Powell 14 1'34.885 0.127 3 55
Jamie Chadwick 12 1'34.931 0.173 4 95
Beitske Visser 13 1'34.939 0.181 5 26
Sarah Moore 13 1'35.100 0.342 6 20
Caitlin Wood 15 1'35.111 0.353 7 31
Tasmin Pepper 13 1'35.255 0.497 8 5
Fabienne Wohlwend 13 1'35.271 0.513 9 19
Marta Garcia 15 1'35.308 0.550 10 3
Gosia Rdest 13 1'35.329 0.571 11 21
Jessica Hawkins 13 1'35.345 0.587 12 11
Vicky Piria 12 1'35.660 0.902 13 85
Miki Koyama 13 1'35.723 0.965 14 37
Sabre Cook 13 1'35.884 1.126 15 2
Esmee Hawkey 14 1'35.893 1.135 16 99
Naomi Schiff 12 1'36.027 1.269 17 49
Megan Gilkes 15 1'36.158 1.400 18 67
Shea Holbrook 11 1'36.355 1.597 View full results
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