Léna Bühler: From karting to Formula 4
STARTS IN SPAIN Switzerland has another female car racer. Léna Bühler from Vaud is competing in the Spanish Formula 4 championship. And she is doing everything she can to succeed, just like in karting. Last year, Léna Bühler got off to a brilliant start to the season in the autobau Swiss Kart Championship with three consecutive final victories in the X30 Challenge Switzerland. In the second [...]
Last year, Léna Bühler made a brilliant start to the season in the autobau Swiss Kart Championship with three consecutive final victories in the X30 Challenge Switzerland. Things didn't go so well in the second half of the season, but she still finished the SKM 2019 in third place overall in her category. She also won the cross-class women's classification.
Ambitious fighter
That's history. Her focus is now on motor racing. With last year's champion team Drivex Academy from Spain, the 22-year-old from Valeyres-sous-Montagny in Vaud has signed a two-year contract for Formula 4. Léna will contest the Spanish Formula 4 Championship, which consists of 21 rounds (seven race weekends).
As in karting, she wants to leave as many men as possible - preferably all of them - behind her. The daughter of former touring car driver Philippe Bühler (most recently on an Opel Kadett E1) does not conceal her ambition.
Léna Bühler: "I am a constant fighter. My goals are clear, and I work hard for them and do everything I can to achieve them. When I put on the helmet, I only think about what needs to be done on the race track."
Professional coaching
Her ultimate dream is to become a professional driver and make it to Formula 1. By focusing entirely on racing in 2020, she is taking her first small step in that direction.
In Xavier Feuillée, she has a professional coach and manager behind her. The founder and boss of 3.2.1 Perform, a training center for professional motorsport drivers in the French Pyrenees, works with many successful racing drivers. For example, Sébastien Ogier, Esteban Ocon or Tatiana Calderon.
The Swiss athlete is now being prepared physically, mentally and medically for her new task by various employees of this institute. Lena herself can thus, in addition to the racing, also take care of the search for and care of sponsors, without whom nothing would work.
Good place for Swiss
The season kicks off on the weekend of April 24-26 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet (F). Further circuits on the schedule are Navarra, Jerez de la Frontera, Motorland Aragon, Valencia, Portimão (P) and Barcelona. With the exception of August, a race weekend with three rounds each is held every month from April to November. In between, there are collective test drives.
The Spanish Formula 4 Championship is not an unfamiliar territory for the Swiss. Jenzer Motorsport has already celebrated several successes here at sporadic events. In last year's championship, Swiss expatriate Kilian Meyer, who lives in Barcelona, finished second overall and Axel Gnos, who also lives in Spain, came sixth.
