Fabienne Wohlwend
Fabienne Wohlwend is a racing driver from Liechtenstein. She formerly competed in the W Series.
Biography
Karting
Wohlwend began karting aged seven, mainly participating in Swiss and German championships due to educational requirements, finishing runner-up in the 2012 Schweizer Kart Meisterschaft. Despite usually competing as a private entry with rented equipment and seldom competing internationally, she scored a top-ten in the KF3 class of the 2011 Andrea Margutti Trophy.Formula 4
Wohlwend entered car racing in 2016, debuting in the Italian F4 Championship with Aragón Racing. She failed to qualify for the final at the first round in Misano, after which she switched to DR Formula. After the qualifying race system was abandoned, the Liechtensteiner did not score any points during the course of the season - her best finish being an eleventh place in the final race of the season at Monza. 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 Audi Sport TT Cup. Her best result of eighth came in her first race in the category at the Hockenheimring, and the Liechtensteiner finished the season eleventh in the standings.Ferrari Challenge
Wohlwend twinned her application to the Audi Sport TT Cup with a partial campaign in the Ferrari Challenge European Championship. Contesting six races in the amateur-level Coppa Shell class, she scored two pole positions, four podiums and a race win at Imola – in the process becoming the first woman to win a race outright for the Ferrari marque. Wohlwend also competed in the Ferrari Challenge season-ending Finali Mondiali at Mugello, finishing third in the Coppa Shell class having benefitted from a controversial pass on Manuela Gostner.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 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and both races at the Misano World Circuit – and finished second in the championship to Briton Chris Froggatt. She returned to the Finali Mondiali event for 2018, 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 Valencia, Imola and Mugello events as the others clashed with her W Series campaign; she scored a best result of fourth 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 second 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 Formula Regional championship solely for women. Competing against mostly professional drivers for the first time, she finished sixth and seventh in the opening rounds at Hockenheim and Zolder, 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 Norisring, but ended the Assen race down in fifteenth after breaking her front wing whilst trying to pass Gosia Rdest. The final race at Brands Hatch resulted in a fifth-place finish on the tail of series champion Jamie Chadwick, but second place for Kimiläinen meant Wohlwend dropped to sixth in the standings.She was scheduled to return to the championship in 2020 before it was cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She contested the series’ replacement eSports league, finishing eleventh 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 2021 as a Formula One support series. In the opening race of the season in Austria, she finished on the podium after starting from ninth position. Having struggled to a solitary point in the second event at the Red Bull Ring, she started on the front row in Silverstone round|Silverstone] and led most of the race before being overtaken by Alice Powell in the closing stages. She collided with Ayla Ågren on the opening lap in Budapest, breaking her front wing and becoming the only non-finisher. Wohlwend was involved in the six-car qualifying pile-up at Spa-Francorchamps, but fought back to seventh in the race. She again crashed in qualifying at Zandvoort, but only recovered to sixteenth. The final event of the season in Austin, her first outside of Europe, netted her a ninth and a DNF, leaving her sixth in the standings.
Wohlwend returned to the championship in 2022 with the CortDAO commercial entrant. At the opening round in Miami she qualified fifth for both races despite crashing late in the session – in the first race she crashed into Abbie Eaton and she finished eleventh in the second after a grid penalty for the incident with the Briton. After a ninth-place finish in Barcelona she finished fourth at Silverstone after passing Beitske Visser on the penultimate lap. She finished seventh at Circuit Paul Ricard after a spirited fight with team-mate Marta García and followed it up with sixth at the Hungaroring. The Liechtensteiner finished eighth in her first Asian race at the Marina Bay Street Circuit before the season was cut short due to financial issues; her worst W Series campaign ended with 32 points and tenth 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 2021 in the VT2 category, with her first race cancelled due to snowfall and her second resulting in a fourth 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 Carrie Schreiner, Célia Martin and Laura Kraihammer – a last-minute replacement for Pippa Mann and Christina Nielsen 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 ninth 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 Nürburgring 24 Hours in thirty-fifth overall and second-best BMW outright alongside 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 main event 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 Nürburgring 24 Hours. An oversubscription of drivers to the project in 2025 led to her competing in only two NLS races prior to the 24 Hours, winning one of the Qualirennen in torrential rain, before finishing fourth in the AT3 class of the N24 after co-driver Patricija Stalidzane ran up the back of a GT3 car entering a Code 60 at Metzgesfeld in the night.
Wohlwend and the "Girls Only" project will upgrade to a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car for the 2026 NLS season.
Indian Racing League
Wohlwend was announced as a late replacement for Aurelia Nobels for the Godspeed Kochi franchise in the inaugural Indian Racing League. Following the cancelled season-opener in Hyderabad, Wohlwend scored dual podiums in the first round at Irungattukottai and went on to help the Kochi team secure the teams' championship alongside Ruhaan Alva, Nikhil Bohra and Alister Yoong. The Liechtensteiner returned in 2023 to help defend the championship, but failed to finish any of her three races in a disrupted season due to Cyclone Michaung and ultimately finished ninth through co-driver Alva's results.Wohlwend returned to the series in 2024, after Sourav Ganguly 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 Coimbatore before Alva lost control at the wet start and collided with Akash Gowda; the pair finished the season third.
The Liechtensteiner was picked by the Goa Aces in the 2025 season draft, pairing up with reigning dual champion Raoul Hyman. She finished runner-up in her first race of the season.
GT4
Wohlwend joined her NLS Series co-driver Martin in the ADAC GT4 Germany series for 2023 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 Sachsenring and ended the season thirty-fourth in the standings as their team-mates Hugo Sasse and Mike David Ortmann claimed the title.GT3
Wohlwend made her GT3 début in the 2025 GT Winter Series, 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 six times between 2018 and 2025. Since July 2023, Wohlwend is one of six Liechtenstein athletes to be employed by the Liechtenstein Olympic Committee.Racing record
Career summary
* Season in progress.- ‡ Standings based on entry points, not individual drivers.
Audi Sport TT Cup results
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos. | Pts |
| 2017 | Audi Sport Customer Racing | HOC1 R1 8 | HOC1 R2 12 | NÜR1 R1 A | NÜR1 R2 13 | NRM R1 12 | NRM R2 Ret | ZAN R1 13 | ZAN R2 11 | NÜR2 R1 11 | NÜR2 R2 Ret | SPI R1 9 | SPI R2 11 | HOC2 R1 9 | HOC2 R2 9 | 11th | 97 |
Ferrari Challenge Europe results
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Pos. | Pts. | |
| 2017 | Octane126 | Coppa Shell | VAL R1 | VAL R2 | MNZ R1 5 | MNZ R2 Ret | BUD 1 | BUD R2 | LEC R1 | LEC R2 | SIL R1 | SIL R2 | IMO R1 2 | IMO R2 1 | MUG R1 3 | MUG R2 2 | 8th | 67.5 |
| 2018 | Octane126 | Trofeo Pirelli Am | MUG R1 3 | MUG R2 3 | SIL R1 3 | SIL R2 2 | SPA R1 8 | SPA R2 1 | MIS R1 1 | MIS R2 1 | BRN R1 3 | BRN R2 3 | BCN R1 9 | BCN R2 2 | MNZ R1 5 | MNZ R2 Ret | 2nd | 142 |
| 2019 | Octane126 | Trofeo Pirelli Pro | BHR R1 | BHR R2 | VAL R1 8 | VAL R2 7 | SPI R1 | SPI R2 | LMS | NÜR R1 | NÜR R2 | IMO R1 5 | IMO R2 6 | MUG R1 6 | MUG R2 6 | 7th | 36 | |
| 2020–21 | Octane126 | Trofeo Pirelli Pro | IMO R1 3 | IMO R2 2 | BCN R1 3 | BCN R2 3 | ALG R1 2 | ALG R2 2 | MUG R1 2 | MUG R2 2 | SPA R1 4 | SPA R2 DNS | MIS1 R1 WD | MIS1 R2 WD | MIS2 R1 1 | MIS2 R2 3 | 2nd | 132 |
24 Hours of Nürburgring results
- – More than half of the allotted race time was spent under red flag.
Indian Racing League results
‡ Standings based on entry points, not individual drivers.ADAC GT4 Germany results
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos. | Pts |
| 2023 | PROsport Racing | OSC R1 21 | OSC R2 23 | ZAN R1 18 | ZAN R2 21 | NÜR R1 23 | NÜR R2 Ret | LAU R1 22 | LAU R2 19 | SAC R1 18 | SAC R2 12 | HOC R1 19 | HOC R2 22 | 34th | 4 |