Chadwick takes W Series lead with Austrian clean sweep

Defending W Series champion Jamie Chadwick took over the lead in the championship standings on Saturday thanks to a dominant win at the Red Bull Ring.

The 23-year-old Williams development driver completed a clean sweep in Austria, topping every session, leading every lap and setting the fastest lap of the race to snatch her third career win in the all-female series more than two years after her last victory at Misano in June 2019.

"I’m really happy," said the young Briton. "I knew I’d be pushed hard by Beitske [Visser] after the great battles we had together in 2019.

"I don’t know what happened to her at the start but that obviously helped me and allowed me to build a gap, maintain it and just control the race.

"I’m so happy to get my first win of the season after last weekend. There was so much to work on after last week, but I took the positives and went into this week with more fire in my belly to turn it around and I did just that."