Jamie Chadwick will start the W Series race at Spa-Francorchamps on pole position, after coming out on top in a qualifying session that was halted in the early minutes due to an enormous accident at Eau Rouge.
Sarah Moore spun in changeable conditions before Abbie Eaton, Fabienne Wohlwend, Beitske Visser, Belen Garcia and Ayla Agren concertinaed through Raidillon.
All drivers involved in the incident underwent medical assessment, with Agren and Visser transferred to hospital for further checks.
The session resumed 30 minutes later with track conditions improving. Chadwick topped the timesheet by less than three tenths with 15 minutes left on the clock ahead of Emma Kimilainen and Alice Powell.
Chadwick very much got her tyres into the optimum temperature, as six minutes later, she extended her margin to just under three seconds over the rest of the field.
With five minutes to go, Chadwick’s gap was down to one second over Powell in P2, with Narea Marti and Caitlin Wood putting in strong efforts to get up to third and fourth respectively.
Whilst Powell continued to close down the gap to her championship rival, Chadwick carried on setting better lap times than before to keep hold of her pole position ahead of her compatriot in second.
Marti and Wood will line up on the second row for the race, with Kimilainen and Marta Garcia in fifth and sixth respectively.
Rounding out the top ten was Jessica Hawkins, Vicky Piria, Miki Koyama and Bruna Tomaselli.
The W Series race at Spa begins at on Saturday afternoon at 16:30 local time following Formula 1 qualifying.
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