Daniela Anger

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Daniela Anger
Nationality Flag of Switzerland svg.png Swiss
Born 5th December 1999
Lausanne, Switzerland
Current Team Plus One Racing Engineering
Car Number 5
Former Teams N/A
Races 36
Championships 0
Victories 4
Podiums 5
Points 131
Pole Positions 3
Fastest Laps 3
First Race 2016 F1RDS Spanish Grand Prix
First Victory 2016 F1RDS Japanese Grand Prix
Last Victory 2017 AutoReject 2.0 Czech Republic Feature
Last Race 2017 AutoReject 2.0 Czech Republic Sprint
Best Finish 4th (2017)


Daniela Anger (b. 5th December 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss professional racing driver and the daughter of Dietrich Anger. She made her Reject Motorsport debut for Plus One Racing Engineering in the 2016 F1 Rejects Development Series season.

Early career

After being told as a six-year old that her father used to be a racing driver, Daniela decided to follow in his footsteps. Due to motorsport being banned in her home country, Anger started racing in Germany, eventually finishing 5th in the tough German Junior Kart Championship in her debut year at the age of 13. Next year she improved by finishing 2nd in the overall standings, and continued on to her first single seater series, the French F4 Championship, where she finished 4th.

F1RDS/AutoReject 2.0

Anger in her Plus One overalls

2016

Anger was surprised to be chosen as the driver of Plus One Racing Engineering seat in F1RDS. In fact, Scott Marsden was originally going to drive the car but moved up to IFRC as Brucie Kibbutz made a last-minute switch to F1RWRS. During the first weekend of the season it was evident that it would take a while for her to adapt to the F1RDS car with a 16th place finish in the first start, although her result then improved to 11th and just outside of the points in the second start. She would then score her debut points at the first race of the British round by finishing 7th after qualifying an impressive 3rd. In the second start she finished 12th. At Monza she finished 16th, a result which she repeated at the follow-up round in Austria. She scored more points in Turkey with an 8th in the first race, but retired on the last lap in the second start. The first start in France was his best race so far, as she finished 6th and scored the fastest lap of the race in the process, although she failed to replicate this performance in the second start and only managed 16th. Another points finish followed at Norisring where she finished 7th.

At Zandvoort she was well off the place and finished 24th and last, a result she then replicated in the first start at Oulton Park. She was then able to improve her form for the second start to grab more points with a 9th. Belgium turned out to be her best weekend so far, as she managed to finish on points in both races. Her points streak continued at Brno with another 9th, but in the second start she was the first retirement with a transmission failure. The last weekend of the season in Japan started with a 16th place finish, but in the second start she surprised everyone by scoring a win and fastest lap and incidentally deciding the title in favour of Anu Võsu, as her rival Aimée Gauthier would've needed a win to overcome her in the drivers' standings.

2017

Anger was confirmed for another year at Plus One for the 2017 season, with the series being rebranded as AutoReject 2.0. She started her season well by finishing on points in both starts of the opening weekend in Spain, but an engine failure in the French feature race prevented her from continuing the streak there, finishing a distant 18th in the sprint race. She managed to resume her form in Austria by first finishing 9th in the feature before winning the sprint race by taking the lead in the last corner. A terrible qualifying saw her finish 17th in the Italian feature race, but she recovered to 5th in the sprint. The weekend in Britain would be her worst of the season, with mere 21st and 18th place finishes to her name. In the Netherlands, her weekend was near-perfect as she first won the feature race from pole before blitzing the field in the sprint, taking 3rd with the fastest lap of the race. After a poor weekend in Germany she took another feature win from pole in Czech Republic, but then fell backwards in the sprint to end her season with a 15th place finish.

IFRC

Anger debuted in the 2016 IFRC season when Benoît Voeckler suddenly left Plus One's IFRC team and they had to resort to their F1RDS drivers for the Italian round before a more permanent solution was reached. While she managed a respectable 9th position in her semifinal heat through attrition, her inexperience in the far more powerful formula showed in the feature final where she spent most of the race in the back of the field before crashing into a tyre barrier, losing her front wing and then failing to come into the pits for repairs. She eventually finished in 22nd and last.

Complete Results

F1 Rejects Development Series/AutoReject 2.0

Year Team Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 DC Pts
2016 Plus One Racing Engineering Lancia-Cosworth 2.0L V6 SP1
16
SP2
11
UK1
7
UK2
12
ITA
16
AUT
16
TU1
8
TU2
24†
FR1
6
FR2
16
GER
7
NED
24
EN1
24
EN2
9
BE1
9
BE2
8
CZ1
9
CZ2
Ret
JP1
16
JP2
1
14th 49
2017 Plus One Racing Engineering Cosworth 2.0L V6 ESP
FEA
5
ESP
SPR
4
FRA
FEA
Ret
FRA
SPR
18
AUT
FEA
9
AUT
SPR
1
ITA
FEA
17
ITA
SPR
5
GBR
FEA
21
GBR
SPR
18
NED
FEA
1
NED
SPR
3
GER
FEA
14
GER
SPR
13
CZE
FEA
1
CZE
SPR
15
4th 82

International Formula Reject Challenge

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Pts

2016

Flag of Italy svg.png Acura Racing Team

Lola B06/51-IFRC Acura-Cosworth 3.0 V8 AUS
HEA
AUS
FEA
MEX
HEA
MEX
FEA
FRA
HEA
FRA
FEA
GBR
HEA
GBR
FEA
ITA
HEA
9
ITA
FEA
22
USA
HEA
USA
FEA
GER
HEA
GER
FEA
NED
HEA
NED
FEA
FIN
HEA
FIN
FEA
BEL
HEA
BEL
FEA
RUS
HEA
RUS
FEA
JPN
HEA
JPN
FEA
58th 0

*Season in progress