Alice Powell | |
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Nationality | British |
Full name | Alice Elizabeth Fraser Powell |
Born | Oxford, England | 26 January 1993
W Series career | |
Debut season | 2019 |
Current team | Click2Drive |
Racing licence | FIA Silver |
Car number | 27 |
Former teams | Racing X |
Starts | 20 |
Wins | 5 |
Podiums | 11 |
Poles | 2 |
Fastest laps | 4 |
Best finish | 2nd in 2021 |
Previous series | |
2018–20 2015–16 2014 2013 2012 2009, 2011 2010 2010 2009 2008 | Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy MRF Challenge Asian Formula Renault Series F3 Cup GP3 Series Formula Renault UK Ginetta G50 Cup Formula Renault BARC Formula Palmer Audi Ginetta Junior Championship |
Championship titles | |
2010 2014 | Formula Renault BARC Asian Formula Renault Series |
Awards | |
2010 2011 | BWRDC GoldStars Award BWRDC GoldStars Elite |
Alice Elizabeth Fraser Powell [1] [2] (born 26 January 1993) is a British racing driver. In 2010, she became the first woman to win a Formula Renault championship and in 2012 became the first woman to score points in the GP3 Series. In 2014, she returned to racing in Formula Renault and added to her championship victories by taking first place in the International Class of the 2014 Asian Formula Renault Series. In 2019, Powell was one of the 18 women selected to compete in the inaugural W Series championship. During the course of the season's six races, Powell took four podium finishes, including a win at the series finale race at Brands Hatch, and finished third in the championship standings. Following an enforced hiatus caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Powell returned to the W Series for the 2021 championship and won the opening race of the year, at the Red Bull Ring.
Powell was born in Oxford, England. She learned to drive at the age of six, and started her career in karting two years later. [3] In 2009, at 16, she drove in the Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship, becoming the youngest female driver in a Formula Renault race. [4] Powell finished the year as runner up for the Young Star Award at the Women of the Future Awards. [5] She was also awarded the British Women Racing Drivers Club GoldStars 'Elite' category Award. [6] Powell set a record in the fourth round of the 2010 Formula Renault BARC Championship by becoming the first woman to win a Formula Renault race in the UK, [5] and later in the year became the first woman to win a Formula Renault championship. [7] During the 2010 season Powell's race engineer was Sarah Shaw. Powell and Manor returned to the Formula Renault UK championship in 2011, but failed to win a race and finished the season in 9th place in the championship.
Powell returned to Formula Renault three years later, driving for FRD Motorsport in the International Class of the 2014 Asian Formula Renault Series. During the 11 race season Powell took five class victories, four of which were also outright race wins, and won the class.
On 15 June 2012, after only two test days in the GP3 car, it was announced that Powell would drive for the Status Grand Prix team in the 2012 GP3 Series. [8] On 9 September that year she finished 8th in the 2012 Monza GP3 round sprint race, and in doing so became the first female points scorer since the inception of the GP3 Series in 2010. [9]
Powell joined F3 Cup for 2013 having been unable to continue in the GP3 Series. [10] She took part in the opening round of the 2013 British Formula 3 season at Silverstone, driving the Mark Bailey Racing run Dallara F306, which she also raced in the MotorSport Vision Formula Three Cup. [11]
In the 2013 MotorSport Vision Formula Three Cup, Powell finished second in the championship behind Alex Craven, having won five times during the season including three of the first four races.
On 12 November 2014 Powell was reported as trying to raise funds to drive a Caterham Formula One car, in a free practice session at the end of season Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. [12] The Caterham team had gone into administration in October 2014 and had not attended the previous two Grands Prix. [13] It was later reported that Powell had abandoned the idea as it was unlikely that the appropriate superlicence could be obtained. [14]
In 2020, it was announced that Powell, now an ambassador for Dare to Be Different, would take part in the Rookie Test after the 2020 Marrakesh ePrix, driving for Envision Virgin Racing, partnering Nick Cassidy. Powell later became the Simulator and Development Driver for the team beginning in the 2021–2022 season.
Powell signed up to compete in the first race of the 2015–16 edition of the MRF Challenge. At the first round in Abu Dhabi, Powell scored four top ten finishes out of four races, with a best finish of eighth in the final race, after being out of single seaters for nearly a year. [15]
Powell participated in the inaugural W Series Championship in 2019. She won the season-ending race at Brands Hatch along with three other podium finishes, finishing 3rd overall in the standings. [16]
Powell returned to W Series in 2021 competing with the newly formed Racing X team. [17] Powell dominated the first race of the season at the Red Bull Ring, taking her first pole position, setting the fastest lap and leading every lap to take the race win. [18] Powell finished the season with 3 wins, 5 podiums & 132 points as she went on to finish runner-up to Jamie Chadwick. Powell won the Silverstone and Zandvoort rounds and finished 27 points behind champion Chadwick.
Powell joined the Sky Sports Formula 2 commentary team when the 2020 season resumed in July 2020, after delays and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Powell attended The Cotswold School. [19] In 2013, she was included in the BBC series 100 Women . [20]
† As Powell was a guest driver, she was ineligible for points.
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | DC | Points |
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2012 | Status Grand Prix | CAT FEA Ret | CAT SPR 11 | MON FEA 11 | MON SPR 22 | VAL FEA 18 | VAL SPR Ret | SIL FEA 17 | SIL SPR Ret | HOC FEA 19 | HOC SPR Ret | HUN FEA 19 | HUN SPR 20 | SPA FEA 18 | SPA SPR 12 | MNZ FEA 12 | MNZ SPR 8 | 19th | 1 |
2013 | Bamboo Engineering | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | VAL FEA | VAL SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | NÜR FEA | NÜR SPR | HUN FEA | HUN SPR | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | YMC FEA 19 | YMC SPR 20 | 31st | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | DC | Points |
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2019 | Hitech GP | HOC 2 | ZOL 3 | MIS Ret | NOR Ret | ASS 2 | BRH 1 | 3rd | 76 | ||
2021 | Racing X | RBR1 1 | RBR2 8 | SIL 1 | HUN 2 | SPA 4 | ZAN 1 | COA1 3 | COA2 6 | 2nd | 132 |
2022 | Bristol Street Motors Racing | MIA1 Ret | MIA2 2 | CAT 3 | SIL 14 | LEC 5 | HUN 1 | SIN 2 | 3rd | 86 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | Class | Make | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Rank | Points |
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2019 | Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 | DAY | SEB | MDO | DET | WGL | MOS | LIM | ELK | VIR 12 | LGA | PET | 59th | 19 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)
Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | D.C. | Points |
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2018–19 | Jaguar VIP Car | Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY | G | ADR 5 | MEX | HKG | SYX | RME | PAR | MCO | BER | NYC | NYC | NC† | 0 |
2019–20 | Jaguar ran racing eTROPHY Team Germany | Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY | P | ADR 33 | ADR 33 | MEX 85 | BER 65 | BER 76 | BER 55 | BER 55 | BER 106 | BER 55 | BER 44 | 4th | 70 |
† As Powell was a guest driver, she was ineligible for points.
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