Fabienne Wohlwend (born 7 November 1997) is a

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from

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who competed in the W Series.

Biography

Formula 4

Wohlwend entered car racing in 2016, having been successful in junior karting in Liechtenstein and

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. She debuted in the

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with Aragón Racing, before a mid-season switch to DR Formula. She failed to qualify for the final at the first round in Misano (the series ran a unique format for said round after 41 cars entered a circuit with a capacity of 36) and, after the qualifying race system was abandoned, did not score any points during the course of the season - her best finish being an 11th place in the final race of the season at

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. Being the only woman competing in that championship, she won the Women's Trophy class uncontested.

Audi Sport TT Cup

She moved into touring cars for 2017, successfully applying for the

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. Her best result of 8th came in her first race in the category at the

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, and the Liechtensteiner finished the season 11th in the standings.

Ferrari Challenge

Wohlwend twinned her application to the Audi Sport TT Cup with a partial campaign in the

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European Championship. Contesting six races in the amateur-level Coppa Shell class, she scored two pole positions, four podiums and a race win at

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– in the process becoming the first woman to win a race outright for the

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marque. Wohlwend also competed in the Ferrari Challenge season-ending '' Finali Mondiali'' at

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, finishing 3rd in the Coppa Shell class having benefitted from a controversial pass on

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. With the demise of the Audi TT Cup, Wohlwend remained in the Ferrari Challenge – however made the step up to the Am class of the Trofeo Pirelli division. In a season plagued with inconsistency, she won three of the fourteen races – one at the

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and both races at the

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– and finished second in the championship to Briton Chris Froggatt. She returned to the Finali Mondiali event for

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, winning the Am class of the Trofeo Pirelli race. For 2019, Wohlwend again competed in the Trofeo Pirelli division of Ferrari Challenge, this time as a Pro driver. This campaign consisted of the

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, Imola and Mugello events as the others clashed with her W Series campaign; she scored a best result of 4th in the World Final. She returned in 2020 for a planned full campaign, scoring pole position in the first race at Imola before suffering a fuel pump failure on the final lap. In a reduced field due to the coronavirus, she maintained consistent appearances on the podium but race wins proved elusive – and eventually missed three races in two events due to mechanical problems. She finally scored a win in the penultimate race of the season at Misano before following it up with a 2nd place in the Finali Mondiali – her third Finali podium in four attempts.

W Series

In 2019 she returned to open-wheel racing, having qualified for the W Series – a

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championship solely for women. Competing against mostly professional drivers for the first time, she finished 6th and 7th in the opening rounds at Hockenheim and

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, having qualified on the front row in the former. At the third round at Misano, she claimed the second-ever pole position for a Liechtensteiner in FIA-sanctioned open-wheel racing, a result which she converted into a podium finish. She finished fourth ahead of a hard-charging Emma Kimiläinen at the

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, but ended the

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race down in 15th after breaking her front wing whilst trying to pass

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. The final race at

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resulted in a 5th-place finish on the tail of series champion

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, but second place for Kimiläinen meant Wohlwend dropped to 6th in the standings. She was scheduled to return to the championship in

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before it was cancelled in response to the

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. She contested the series’ replacement

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league, finishing 11th in the standings with two podiums having missed three events due to real-world Ferrari Challenge commitments. She continued to compete in the W Series on its return in

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as a

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support series. In the opening race of the season in

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, she finished third after starting from 9th position. Having struggled to a solitary point in the second event at the Red Bull Ring, she started on the front row in

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and led most of the race before being overtaken by

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in the closing stages. She collided with

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on the opening lap in

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, breaking her front wing and becoming the only non-finisher. Wohlwend was involved in the six-car qualifying pile-up at

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, but fought back to 7th in the race. She again crashed in qualifying at

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, but only recovered to 16th. The final event of the season in

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, her first outside of Europe, netted her a 9th and a DNF, leaving her 6th in the standings. Wohlwend returned to the championship in

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with the CortDAO commercial entrant. At the opening round in Miami she qualified 5th for both races despite crashing late in the session – in the first race she crashed into

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and she finished 11th in the second after a grid penalty for the incident with the Briton. After a ninth-place finish in Barcelona she finished 4th at Silverstone after passing

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on the penultimate lap. She finished seventh at

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after a spirited fight with team-mate Marta García and followed it up with sixth at the

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. The Liechtensteiner finished eighth in her first Asian race at the

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before the season was cut short due to financial issues; her worst W Series campaign ended with 32 points and 10th in the standings.

Nürburgring

Wohlwend made her endurance racing debut in the VLN Series in 2019, contesting VLN5 in the V4 class. She did not finish the race after a major crash at ''Schwedenkreuz''. She returned to the championship in

in the VT2 category, with her first race cancelled due to snowfall and her second resulting in a 4th in class, followed up by a podium in NLS3. She was picked up by WS Racing to contest the 2021 Nürburgring 24 Hours Qualifying Race in their Audi R8 GT4 alongside

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, Célia Martin and Laura Kraihammer – a last-minute replacement for

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and

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who had failed to obtain the correct licences in time. A class win followed, impressing the outfit – and they retained the Liechtensteiner but moved her to their VT2-class BMW 328i for the 24 Hour race after Mann and Nielsen met their licence requirements, where she finished 9th in class after less than half of the race was run under green flags due to torrential rain and fog. Wohlwend returned to the NLS in 2022 with WS Racing's "Girls Only" GT4 squad. After not starting the first race of the season due to a practice crash for co-driver Nielsen, she took part in NLS3 before finishing her first full

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in 35th overall joined by Schreiner, Martin and Mann. She returned to the category in 2023 with the same team in an updated model M4, however her entry was disqualified from the first round after breaching the Nürburgring's noise restrictions. The "Girls Only" crew went on to win both Nürburgring 24 Hour ''Qualirennen'' heats in class that season, but finished behind their team car in the

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having suffered a broken rear axle from a crash in the night. Wohlwend and Martin contested two more NLS races in 2023, retiring from one with the Girls Only squad from a puncture and finishing on the podium in the SP10 class in the finale with a PROsport Racing Aston Martin. Wohlwend returned to the team for 2024, scoring her third class podium in another weather-truncated

Indian Racing League

Wohlwend was announced as a late replacement for

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for the Godspeed Kochi franchise in the inaugural Indian Racing League. Following the cancelled season-opener in

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, Wohlwend scored dual podiums in the first round at

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and went on to help the Kochi team secure the teams' championship alongside Ruhaan Alva, Nikhil Bohra and Alister Yoong. The Liechtensteiner returned in

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to help defend the championship, but failed to finish any of her three races in a disrupted season due to

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and ultimately finished 9th through co-driver Alva's results. Wohlwend returned to the series in

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, after

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and the Shrachi Group bought out the Godspeed Kochi franchise and re-named it "Rarh Bengal Tigers" – retaining the existing four drivers. Through consistent top-five and podium finishes, Wohlwend and Alva were in championship contention entering the final race of the season in

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before Alva lost control at the wet start and collided with Akash Gowda; the pair finished the season 3rd.

GT4

Wohlwend joined her NLS Series co-driver Martin in the

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series for

with Aston Martin team PROsport Racing. Despite Wohlwend running inside the top ten in the first race at the Nürburgring before a puncture and qualifying inside the top fifteen for the second race at the Nürburgring, the pair ultimately scored just one points finish at the

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and ended the season 34th in the standings as their team-mates Hugo Sasse and

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claimed the title.

GT3

Wohlwend mader her GT3 début in the

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, driving an Aston Martin Vantage alongside Adrian Rziczny for PROsport Racing at the final round of the season in Barcelona. Wohlwend crashed on the opening lap of her sprint race in damp conditions, the damage proving too great to repair for the final race of the weekend.

Personal life

Wohlwend has been nominated for Liechtenstein Sportswoman of the Year five times between 2018 and 2023. During her early career, Wohlwend worked for the Vaduz branch of

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in order to fund her racing. Since July 2023, Wohlwend is one of six Liechtenstein athletes to be employed by the

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. In 2025, Wohlwend joined the

Paddock Club as an "Expert Host" for select Grands Prix. Wohlwend owns a Ferrari 488 Pista Piloti through her tenure as a Ferrari Challenge driver.

Racing record