Chloe Chambers Tops Formula E All-Women’s Test in Valencia as Pulling Impresses

Formula E’s final day of pre-season running wasn’t about lap counts or championship prep. It was about time. And who finally gets it. The championship and the FIA closed out testing at Circuit Ricardo Tormo with a full-day Formula E Women’s Test Valencia 2025, featuring 14 drivers from across F1 Academy, W Series, Super Formula, Indy NXT, and GT4. Six hours in GEN3 Evo machinery, two sessions, one clear purpose: access. And when the chequered flag fell, Chloe Chambers had her name at the top.

Key Points

• 14 elite women drivers ran the GEN3 Evo Formula E car in Valencia
• Chloe Chambers (Mahindra Racing) fastest overall with 1:22.767s
• Abbi Pulling (Nissan) second in both sessions, just 0.064s behind
• Lindsay Brewer and Jessica Edgar completed full-day runs for DS PENSKE
• Formula E’s second All-Women’s Test doubled the track time of last year’s edition

Chambers Leads the Charge

American racer Chloe Chambers set the day’s benchmark for Mahindra Racing, recording a 1:22.767s lap in the afternoon session. It was sharp, composed, and fast enough to sit close to the times set earlier in the week by the main test drivers.

The lap topped both sessions and underlined how quickly the field adapted to the Gen3 Evo’s instant torque and regenerative braking balance.

Pulling Keeps Nissan Near the Front

Abbi Pulling continued Nissan’s strong week, finishing second in both sessions with a best of 1:22.831. The F1 Academy champion completed 89 laps across morning and afternoon runs, working on performance laps, race simulations and pit stop drills with the team’s engineers.

Pulling’s third official outing for Nissan marked another step in her development with the e-4ORCE 05. It was a structured, detailed day, the kind that sharpens both driver and team heading into São Paulo.

DS PENSKE’s Franco-American Effort

At DS PENSKE, the focus was on development and representation. Lindsay Brewer and Jessica Edgar took charge of the DS E-TENSE FE25, guided by the same engineers who oversee Maximilian Günther and Taylor Barnard during race weekends.

Both completed the full six-hour programme, alternating between long runs and short push laps to better understand energy deployment and tyre management.

It marked Brewer’s first official outing in Formula E machinery, while Edgar, a former F1 Academy driver, settled quickly into the rhythm of the all-electric platform.

For DS Automobiles, it was another step in a long-term inclusion effort that’s been built into their competition history. Since joining Formula E, DS has contested 137 races, earning 4 championship titles, 18 victories, 55 podiums and 26 poles.

Friday was less about numbers. More about continuity. Learning, sharing, and making space.

Closing the Week

Behind the top three, Bianca Bustamante kept CUPRA KIRO inside the leading group, followed by Alice Powell and Ella Lloyd for Envision. Jamie Chadwick and Juju Noda impressed under Jaguar’s watch, while Tatiana Calderón, Nerea Martí, and Marta García all delivered clean, consistent outings for Citroën, Andretti, and Lola Yamaha ABT.

Porsche’s Gabriela Jílková and Janina Schall rounded out the timing, completing over 150 combined laps between them.

Nine of the fourteen drivers produced sector splits within tenths of the championship field, a reminder that track time, not talent, is often the missing ingredient.

The Bigger Message

Jeff Dodds, Formula E CEO, said the progress seen in Valencia underlined why these test days matter.

Dodds said the day marked a genuine step forward rather than a symbolic one. Fourteen of the world’s best women drivers had six hours in the GEN3 Evo, matching the same conditions, tools and data windows as the main field earlier in the week.

He added that the second edition of the All-Women’s Test was never about comparison, but progress. Lap times fell sharply through the afternoon as confidence grew and teams collected usable engineering data for the season ahead.

Nine drivers recorded sector splits within tenths of the championship grid, proving that the gap is narrowing when experience levels are equal. Dodds also highlighted the importance of integration – each driver joined team briefings, debriefs and simulator follow-ups, building familiarity with the sport’s technical and operational side.

He called the test “an important milestone in Formula E’s long-term goal of providing more opportunities for women drivers” and said it was “only the beginning” of the championship’s next phase of inclusion.

Coffee Corner Take

It didn’t feel like a PR exercise. Not this time.
The garages were busy, engineers buried in data, drivers treated like they belonged. No hype. No headlines for show. Just a full day of running done right.

Formula E didn’t frame this as a showcase. It built it into the real test schedule, gave the same tools, the same tyres, the same data windows. That matters. Because equality in motorsport doesn’t come from PR statements. It comes from track time and telemetry.

Chambers delivered under pressure. The lap wasn’t easy. It came from genuine pace. Pulling turned Nissan’s faith into numbers, consistent across both sessions, clean in execution. DS PENSKE handed Brewer and Edgar their first laps in the DS E-TENSE FE25, giving both full factory support and the same structured programme used by the race team.

That’s what progress actually looks like. It isn’t about headlines or one-off events. It’s about repetition. Getting women in the car often enough that results stop being treated like exceptions, and nobody calls it a milestone anymore.

Formula E’s been building that space quietly, through structure more than slogans. A test like this doesn’t just hand out opportunity, it gathers data, exposes engineering potential, and keeps doors open for the next driver waiting for a shot.

The field was competitive. The margins small. The execution professional. It’s what the sport should look like everywhere.

Pre-season’s over now. Next stop, São Paulo on 6 December. The real stuff begins.