The season ended at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya after a month break following Brands Hatch – where Abbi was denied a shot of another podium with cruel gearbox failure.
Rodin Cars Ambassador and Rodin Motorsport driver Abbi Pulling was on fine form on Friday in testing – topping Free Practice 2 and 3 and consistently being in the sharp end of all sessions in the build up to Qualifying.
Q1 saw Abbi thwarted by traffic with the capacity grid, denying her a clean lap – albeit she set the 9th fastest time and the quickest of the Rodin trio.
Q2 followed immediately after and Abbi was able to show the pace she had all weekend. She set the 3rd fastest time, just 0.045s from outright Pole Position.
Race 1 saw Abbi make a decent getaway, before a brave move around the outside of Turn 1 and Turn 3 saw her move up to P7, before an early Safety Car was deployed.
She held her position on the restart, challenging the cars ahead whilst battling understeer in the final sector throughout.
As she mounted an attempt for P6, an opportunistic move from the car behind forced her wide – dropping her two places to P9.
Abbi would cross the line in P8, banking the most points for the team in the process.
Race 2 on Saturday morning saw Abbi make a great launch from P3 on the grid. She immediately moved into P2 and challenged for the lead into Turn 1 before holding position.
In the early stages, she maintained her second position before a Safety Car was deployed around half-race distance.
She got a great restart to pull a gap from the cars behind, but didn’t quite have enough to snatch the lead.
Into the closing stages, as tyre management became an increasing priority, nobody could live with the pace of Nikita Bedrin – whilst Abbi put up a strong defence, was unable to keep him behind.
Nevertheless, she finished P3 at the chequered flag to take her fourth podium of the season after another solid drive.
The season finale partially reversed-grid race saw Abbi start from P10 following her 3rd fastest overall time in Qualifying.
She held P10 at the start but lost ground in the early stages against the drivers with fresher tyres, dropping two positions to P12 as we reached half-distance.
A late race Safety Car was deployed with 5 minutes to go, bunching the field back up for a final lap shootout – with Abbi finishing the race in P9 to round out the season.
Abbi Pulling:
"P3 to end my GB3 campaign 🏆 A strong final weekend with great pace in testing, and top three in both qualifying and the race.
It’s definitely an emotional day as this has been the last 2 years of my life with this GB3 team and it’s sad to be leaving, but I am so proud of what we’ve achieved together!
A pole position and race win at Spa, fully on merit obviously takes the cake!
Thank you to everyone who’s kept in my corner and kept supporting me, including all of my wonderful partners and incredible fans!"
This completes Abbi’s 2026 GB3 Championship campaign, and despite her season being littered with bad luck, unreliability and various incidents which cost over 136 points, there were still plenty of highs.
She made a bit more history – becoming the ‘First woman to Win a Race and secure Pole Position in the championship’. Alongside this, she secured four podiums, including her ‘Donington Double’ and was the only race winner for Rodin Motorsport- helping them to secure P2 in the GB3 Team’s Championship.
Attention now turns to the 2027 season, where Abbi’s plans will be released in due course through the winter break.
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Photos by Jakob Ebrey Photography.
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