This week it was revealed that the top prize for the winner of the F1 Academy Women’s Series will be a full season in the British GB3 Series, and it looks like it will go to Abbie Pulling.
Two laps before the end of the F1 Academy season, the 21-year-old British driver confidently leads the standings with a 95-point lead over Dorian Pan. Suffice it to say that of the ten races that have already taken place, Abby has won seven.
Formula E’s pre-season testing took place at Spain’s Circuit de Jarama this week, with a dedicated women-only session being held for the first time. Abby Pulling confirmed her speed by being the fastest and driving the electric car of the Nissan factory team.
After successfully completing the tests, she was asked if she had changed her attitude towards this electric series, if she wanted to try Formula E completely?
“I can’t say my views have changed because even before these tests I started looking closely at Formula E,” Pulling is quoted by The Race. – I started saying some time ago that this series catches my attention. Alice Powell, my manager, works closely with the Envision team, and she taught me a lot and prepared me well for these tests.”
Moreover, Pulling made a good impression on the Nissan engineers because she provided them with quite adequate feedback – but that is also different in the F1 Academy.
“I’m quite vocal about everything anyway, especially with my engineer at the F1 Academy,” Abby continued. – We try to use every opportunity to add at least another 1%, and in each mono series we can achieve a very noticeable advantage as a result.
In Formula E, radio communication with the engineer is more strictly regulated, but everything else regarding the balance of the car, the traffic situation on the track or mistakes made is done in much the same way. But the scale of Formula E is much larger than in the F1 Academy: if there are only 8 people working on three cars of our Rodin Motorsport team, then there are about three times as many specialists working on one Nissan car.
You can ask them any questions, and I learned a lot, and this is a very important task in tests. Nissan engineers did their best to make sure I was as prepared as possible, and it was fun working with them.”
According to The Race, the likelihood that Abby Pulling will drive electric Formula E racing cars more than once is very high.
Source: F1 News
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