Anneliese Devereux
| Anneliese Devereux | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Nationality |  Lisanderian |
| Born | Anneliese Letícia Devereux Monte February 23, 1997 (age 27) Soria, Lisander |
| World Grand Prix Championship career | |
| Debut season | WGPC 18 |
| Current team | Eminent WGPC Team |
| Car number | 7 |
| Former teams | TAS Alliance Racing |
| Starts | 34 |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Podiums | 3 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | 15th in Season 19 |
| Previous series | |
| Season 4 | WGP2 |
Anneliese Letícia Devereux Monte is a Lisander racing driver who is racing for Eminent in WGPC. Then supported by Harlean Motors, a local sportscars manufacturer, she was the star of TAS Alliance Racing, the lisanderian team that joined WGPC 18. She finished that season in 22nd place. Following, she moved to WGP2, where she started to receive backing from Bitten Heroes Academy while driving for the Hodoran team, PrismRiver Racing. She finished fifteenth in the WGP2 Season 4, returning definitely for WGPC in the following season for Eminent, a team co-owned by Bitten Heroes and Fireline Motorsports. She repeated the fifteenth position. For WGPC20, she returned to the purple team, with the sponsorship of the government-backed Wishes Foundation.
Early Life and education
Anneliese Devereux was born on 23 February 1996 in Soria, Lisander, the only daughter of Lia Devereux, a cook, and Adam Monte, a car mechanic. She was born in the midst of the last great economic crisis that hit Lisander. For some time, she and her family had to live on a welfare payment, and she studied in her neighbourhood's local orphanage. When she was 12, her father started to work in a workshop that prepared racing cars and karts. Adam was already a fan of motorsports and while visiting her father's work, Anneliese got curious about those small vehicles and how they could race. From that age, her father would take her to drive sometimes.
Anneliese was educated at the Girls' School of the Saint Marian Orphanage, in southwestern Soria, as this was the nearest public school to her home because, at the time she was to be enrolled in school, there was no other public school in the area. Her family could not send her to schools in other neighbourhoods because they could not afford the transportation fees. Anneliese was the only student in her class who did not live in the orphanage, so she was popular among the other girls for doing small favours, such as "smuggling" things like magazines, sweets and other small items that interns weren't able to get. At 14, she joined the College's Field Hockey team, which she would remain until she was 17. She was good with the stick, having been a junior metropolitan champion with St. Marian twice in 2012 and 2013. She even was invited to join the prestigious St. Helens Club hockey team. However, the idea of professionalization in Field Hockey was still a risky bet at that time. "She was always that fast. If she had followed with hockey, she could have reached the national team", Justine Mortensen once said. Mortensen was the coach of the St. Helens U-18 team at the time Anneliese was playing.
Later, Anneliese even played Field Hockey for Politechnica Soria, her Alma Mater, as a substitute in some LAN University League matches when a friend of hers got injured. She scored two goals in eight games she played when she was in her second year of college, in 2015.
Karting Career
Although she started later than most of the other children, her good physical fitness coming from school sports and her constant interest in learning, combined with a cautious driving style, gave her a reputation as a reliable driver in karts. Aware that her parents' financial resources were limited, she avoided stronger categories of karting until she was 16 until got a more solid sponsorship, the first after the workshop where her father worked. She herself helped with the maintenance and repairs that had to be done because she didn't like damaging the cars. She knew that if she damaged a chassis, she would be out of racing for two or three months until her father could replace all the parts. Over the next two years, while finishing her education at St. Marian's, she participated in championships in both field hockey and karting. In the 2011 Metropolitan Karting Championship, she placed third behind Kevin Venn and Juliano Lemos (who at the time already had a contract with Maud Racing). The following year, she was champion in the Regional Trophy and in the Junior Trophy of the National Karting Championship, and fourth in the Open category, sharing the track with adults. At 18, torn between hockey and motors, Anneliese decided to pursue a career as a driver while starting a mechanical engineering degree at Politechnica Soria.
Academic Seasons
Without a sponsor to take her straight to F3 Lisander, Anneliese decided to try her hand at a degree in mechanical engineering, and her background in karts caught the eye of the university's racing team. In the first season, between 2013 and 2014, the team of first and second-year students worked with Superkarts. Politechnica took third place in the team trophy In the second season, between 2014 and 2015, the second and third years moved to Formula 1000. For the first three years of college, Anneliese was divided between being an engineer, mechanic and driver in both cars. With Superkarts, it was easier for Anneliese, since he had the experience, and the university team took second place in the Team Trophy. The switch from Superkarts to Formula, however, was not good for the team. The Formula 1000 car was admittedly difficult to handle and Anneliese only took the team to sixth place in 2015. 2016 saw big changes in the F1000. The National Academic League decides to stop financing the category, which becomes open to sponsors, and with their support, it evolves the category into a Formula 4, more similar to the top cars. Politechnica is supported by the Polaris Racing Team. Anneliese, after three years on the course, leaves the team of engineers and mechanics to follow only as a driver, with a pre-contract signed with Polaris, starting to apply when she gets her engineering degree. However, splitting her time between driving and studying, Anneliese ends up not having the best season, finishing only seventh. At the end of the season, she received her degree and starts working with the Polaris team as a reserve driver and volunteer assistant engineer.
F4 and F3, then WGP3
When Anneliese had just finished college, the Lisander Motorsports scene was in high spirits due to Bitten Heroes' entry into the WGPC. However, Team Polaris, Anneliese's team, foresaw a problem. At the time, there was a Team Polaris, from Nekoni, in the WGPC, so in order to avoid legal issues, the team made a heavy investment in changing its visual identity, becoming Team DWG for the following season. Anneliese was promoted to F3-Alpha League for the last two rounds at Grandeville, at the cost of losing the F4. At the end of that season, she was only sixth in F4. In F3, she didn't score any points but was counted as 29th in the overall standings. Back at the time, she used a car with 11 as the number, different from the number she had used before since karts, 7.
In the following year, in order to join the WGPC Experience system, Lisander Autosports Board rebranded Formula 3 Lisander into WGP3 Alpha League and opened signups for other nations in Imperan League. Anneliese kept with Team DWG and finished 16th in that season. In the following year, WGP3 Alpha League had a spec update, and Team DWG welcomed Harlean Motors as its engine provider. Anneliese started the series with very bad results. After three races, she had scored only one point, and was in the 21st position in the table, when the season had to be cancelled due to the expulsion of foreigners from Lisander, amid months of closed parliament in the Principality. Without resources to keep its drivers, Team DWG closed its doors and released Anneliese. She was about to retire from racing, when she was selected by Harlean to a test for TAS-Alliance Racing, a new WGPC team that had leased the entry of Bitten Heroes for WGPC 18.
World Grand Prix Championship
TAS Alliance (Season 18)
Since TAS Alliance was kind of strapped for cash, only one driver could be kept, between her and Athan Lille, the other would need to be a pay driver. In an interview before Costa 24h, an Endurance Race in Lisander, Devereux admitted that she wasn't very confident of getting the job, and that she would even accept a position as a reserve driver. She attended the Preston preseason tryout, finishing with the 4th best time. She was chosen to be the first driver of the team since she was on contract by Harlean, the engine manufacturer. Her confidence was boosted and she was the best in the second official pre-season test, in Xanneria. The team continued its preseason and kept a low-key performance, with her pushing the limit at practices and qualifiers, to test the evolution of the car, which was in fact a refurbished version of the previous year Camden N01. She finished with first place in some Friday practices at the end of the season. By that time, to attract the attention of social media, TAS-Alliance started a blog for her on its site, where she wrote to her fans and represented the persona of a stingy, materialistic driver. Later, she admitted that was kind of frustrating, even a little humiliating, considering her family and career until the moment.
Despite the results being far from good, her appearance was noted and she was elected as the prettiest female driver in the grid by Togonistani site Behind the Curtains. [1] By the end of the season, her careful driving earned her a clean sheet, finishing the season with no DNFs. She scored 8 points, with two seventh places in Turori and Hapilopper. She also made an eighth place in Twicetagria, but this was a non-championship race, and a fastest lap in the other non-championship race of the season, in Île Saint-Joseph. During the season, Devereux and her engineer, Anne Siebler, become somewhat closer, and a TV camera captured Siebler kissing her in the paddock, after a moment of anger by Anneliese due to the qualifier in Mattijana. Later, both denied being in a relationship and commented the episode was just a way to make Anneliese calm down after losing control due to the bad result on the track.
PrismRiver (WGP2 Season 4)
After a season, TAS-Alliance disbanded, and Anneliese left Harlean to became a Motorsport Lisander-Bitten Heroes contracted driver. As soon as her participation in WGP2 was confirmed, Anneliese sent her request to get her "beloved" number 7 back. She had used it since karting and only used 12 the season before because she was entered at the last minute. However, an employee of the Lisander Autosports Board, responsible for organising and sending out the entries, left it until the last minute and number 7 had once again been selected, this time by Batu Tüvshinbayar. She only found out about the problem when she was preparing for the Chanceux team test, and was so frustrated that she gave up. For the Viska test, in Auruna, the imbroglio of the number continued. She posted on social media the photo of the car reserved to her test. It originally had the number 12, but she spraypainted the entire vehicle with flow vis, covering the number in all the places. It gave her luck, since she finished the practice in first place again. Soon as he was made aware of the details, Tüvshinbayar agreed to desist from the number. The preseason followed with reasonable success in tests, and she ended up accepting the second seat at PrismRiver, along Charseyne Valkyria.
In Hodori, she made a solid season. Still far from the top, but the results were way better. In the first races, she was at the center of the action. the weekend at Baker Park was maybe the best of her career. She had two podiums, one of them being a win. Later, however, her performance went down, and she only managed to get two more 5th places, in Hapilopper and Nimbus.
In an interview for Lourdina Westgrens Whotube Channel, Anneliese attributed much of her personal growth to the time she lived alone in Hodori. "When I joined TAS-Alliance for the first time, I was always being pushed. Today, even if I'm grateful for the opportunity, and I'm aware that I wouldn't be here. But when I left home for the first time, when I joined PrismRiver and had to find my way through life, without people pushing me... That was powerful for me. A great experience."
Eminent WGPC Team (Season 19-present)
As already advanced since WGPC 18, Anneliese would be kept as the second driver for Bitten Heroes return to WGPC, in Season 19, with Darius Castellammare as the first. However, with the team being uncertain about race, she applied to tryouts. She was at Pryfors-Bilar Viska and Badai Angin. She also received an invitation from the WGPC Motorworks team. The lack of space in the grid made Bitten Heroes merge its WGPC Operations with Fireline Motorsports from Ethane. From the merger of the two outfits, Eminent WGPC Team was formed. Castellammare used this occasion to retire from WGPC, and Anneliese became the second driver from the team since Athan Lille moved to Astyrian Formula 1. Adriana Ela Kowalski Lillian, from Valentine Z, under a Fireline contract, was the first driver.
In the first race of the season, in Liventia, she finished 7th starting from ninth position. In the third, Nimbus, she finished sixth. things were going smoothly, but since Eminent were much in a makeshift state, and parts were quite unreliable, no one could say with confidence if problems wouldn't arise, as it was in Hodori, the second race, where she finished at P18. By the time, in an interview before Nimban Grand Prix, she admitted she was a little bothered by reporters and trying to focus more on the driver than on the public personality. In Eelandi Grand Prix, she finished just below the points zone, and Tenth in the Abovian Grand Prix Sprint Race, which gave her the Pole Position for the Feature Race, where she managed to take all that the car had, and finished second behind Rudy Edwards in a Preston, by a massive 15 seconds. Her team partner, Kowalski, finished third.
For the second half, the team was optimistic, and Anneliese managed another reasonable result, a seventh place in Nekoni. The glory, however, was all for Adriana, that won that race. She seemed to be unsatisfied with her results, and that combined with bad updates from the car made her position in the table start to drop. she stagnated at 38 points from then on, until the end of the season, finishing most races in the lower tens. The best result of Eminent after that was in 7th place by Adriana. By then, she had made amends with the media and started to be a frequent participant in DRIVE, a famous Sunday TV show about cars in RTL, the biggest TV channel in Lisander. She was already considering parting ways with Bitten Heroes, which happened effectively at the end of the season. For the following season, Eminent didn't appear in the first list of entrants, turning her effectively a Free Agent. Eminent would later be confirmed as the 14th team.[2]
Anneliese's third season, World Grand Prix Championship 20, started with her knocking on any possible doors, searching for any opportunity. With Bitten Heroes out of the car construction, she started the preseason without big expectations, nor a guaranteed seat. She tested at Scuderia Orange Cow but was refused. Ultimately, she managed to renew her contract with Eminent, and that ended up being a good choice. At the first race, the Grand Prix of Liventia, she managed to get her first win in WGPC. In the following week, a failed tyre strategy by Eminent cost her the race in Togonistan, with her ending the race in her worst-ever result, 27th place. For the fifth week, before the Cocoabo Preservation Grand Prix, she had a lot of commitments to attend. In the end, her performance wasn't the best, yet she managed to climb the ranks from 21st to finish the race in 13th position. The Ramngardian Grand Prix, in Diarcesia, saw her return to good form after a calm, uneventful week. She scored the fourth-best time in Free Practice and then finished the Qualifiers in 15th place. Again, she managed to make good overtakes and reached her second podium of the season, with a third-place finish. She kept on the points for the Nimban Grand Prix, finishing 8th and ending the first half of the season only 2 points behind Cocoabo #23.
Unfortunately, both she and Eminent couldn't repeat the good results in the race of Auruna, finishing in 18th place only. For Hapilopper Grand Prix, she complained a lot about a lack of power on the engines after finishing the qualifier in the last position. Considering Anneliese had no positions to lose, the team took the opportunity to check the whole car, which made the driver start from the pits. In the end, Anneliese still managed to finish the race without crashing and in 17th place, a timid improvement but an improvement nonetheless.For the last rounds of the season, nor Anneliese neither the E20 show much improvement, and even if she kept in contention for the title, on the points table, in the end she finished the championship only a the 10th place.
Personal Life
Anneliese Devereux is a woman in her late-twenties, with brown hair and eyes. For season 19 of WGPC, she had her hair dyed to make it a little redder, but for the following season, she returned to her natural hair colour. She was elected as the prettiest female driver in the grid by Togonistani site Behind the Curtains back in WGPC 18, which initially seemed funny to her. Over time, however, she began to reject this "distinction", preferring to have people talk about her talent on the track, rather than her physical prowess. When she was interviewed by AIR, one of the most widely circulated magazines in the country, she refused the photo shoot, which usually places the interviewees inside expensive clothes by famous designers such as Marina Navarro, Catalina Casamaior and Victor Mariz. Instead, she was photographed wearing a polo shirt from Team Eminent.
She is regarded as someone quite emotional at times. When she was chosen for the TAS Alliance, some sports columnists criticised her choice by Harlean, "who could have called someone more experienced", and the whole incident became known as "the romance of the new sponsored Cinderella", and that defined her relationship with the media as "not very friendly". She's also quite fond of her favourite race car number, 7, being very insistent in its maintenance, to the point of openly criticize WGPO for modifying numbers after the WGPC21 test season had already started. Anneliese also spraypainted a test car because they didn't painted the right number on it. Her personality was described as "quite whimsy" on some occasions . Other of her amusing stunts have been answering an entire interview as if she were a cockney flower girl from a certain musical, and setting up a fake interview to sell t-shirts while in Hodori. For some time in her career, she was known by the nickname "Sissie", but parted ways with this nickname.
Despite her humble origins, the combination of good looks and good results, as well as the fact of being the sole Lisanderian in the WGPC grid, guaranteed her some favourable sponsorship contracts. She is the Ambassador for "Wishes Foundation", a royal charity that supports orphanages in the Principality. She was chosen as one of the charity ambassadors because of her connection to the orphaned children cause. She was the first athlete in the principality to launch a Fan Token, called FT_DEV.
All of her financial and legal endeavours, as well as her personal racing operations, are handled by a company named 7DEV.[a]
Racing Record
| Age | Category | Results | Other info |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Karts (OKJ) | 9th in Soria Mini Karts Championship | First year competing in Karting. Reserve in St. Marian U15 Hockey team, did not play. |
| 15 | Karts (OKJ) | 2nd in Soria Mini Karts Championship 5th in Regional Mini Karts Championship |
3rd in U15 Field Hockey Open Cup (with St. Marian College) |
| 16 | Karts (OK) | 3th in Regional Open Karts Championship (2st in Junior Trophy) | U17 Field Hockey Metropolitan Champion (with St. Marian College) |
| 17 | Karts (OK) | 1st in Regional Open Karts Championship 4th in National Open Karts Championship (1st in Junior Trophy) |
U17 Field Hockey Metropolitan Champion (with St. Marian College) |
| 18-19 | Superkarts | 3rd in Lisander Academic Superkarts (Team Trophy) | Academic Season. She was both driver and assistant engineer. |
| 19-20 | Lisander Academic Formula 1000 | 6th in Lisander Academic Formula 1000 (Team Trophy) | Academic Season. She was both driver and assistant engineer. |
| 21 | Formula 4 Lisander | 4th in Lisander Formula 4, driving for Politechnica + Team Polaris Racing. | Formula 1000 rebrands as Formula 4. Anneliese leaves the engineering team to focus on her degree and was kept only as a driver. Contracted by Team Polaris Racing. |
| 22 | Formula 4 Lisander | 6th in Lisander Formula 4 with Team Polaris. 26th in Lisander Formula 3 (Alpha League) as part of Team Polaris (later DWG). | Bitten Heroes joins WGPC 15. Team Polaris renames to Team DWG (Danès-Woking Group), to avoid confusion with Nekoni-based Team Polaris. |
| 23 | Formula 3 Lisander | 16th, driving for Team DWG. | |
| 24 | WGP3 Alpha League | Was 21st in WGP3, driving for Team DWG-Harlean, when the season was interrupted. | Released by Danès-Woking in September. |
| 25 | WGPC 18/WGP2 4 | 22nd in WGPC, driving for TAS Alliance, then 15th in WGP2, driving for PrismRiver. | Contracted by Harlean Motors in early January, released in August. Contracted by Bitten Heroes immediately after release. |
| 26 | WGPC 19 | 15th, driving for Eminent WGPC Team. | Released by Bitten Heroes and Eminent at the end of the season |
| 27 | WGPC 20 | 10th, driving for Eminent WGPC Team. | Returned to Eminent, as a pay driver |
Complete WGPC Results
(Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Season | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | TAS Alliance Racing | TAS N01 | Harlean W1B-V6 | TUR 7 |
HDR 17 |
NIM 21 |
AUR 21 |
ABL FEA 15 |
ABL SPR 20 |
NEK 11 |
FID 16 |
HAP 7 |
LEN 20 |
MTJ 16 |
22nd | 8 | ||
| 19 | Eminent WGPC Team | E19 | Eminent | LEN 7 |
HDR 18 |
NIM 6 |
TUR 11 |
ABL SPR 10 |
ABL FEA[b] 2 |
NEK 7 |
FID 19 |
AUR 14 |
STL SPR 17 |
STL FEA 21 |
HAP 19 |
VIL 17 |
15th | 38 |
| 20 | Eminent WGPC Team | E20 | Sidus | LEN 1 |
TGN 27 |
TRP 13 |
DCS 3 |
NIM 8 |
AUR 18 |
HAP 17 |
TMB 22 |
ABL 8 |
ESM 22 |
10th | 45 |
* - Season in Progress.
WGPC Non-Championship results
| Season | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | TAS Alliance Racing | TAS N01 | Harlean W1B-V6 | TWI 8 |
ISJ 13 |
Complete WGP2 Results
| Season | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | PrismRiver Racing | PrismRiver | Preston | V&T FEA 6 |
V&T SPR 21 |
CBP FEA 3 |
CBP SPR 1 |
ABL FEA DNF |
ABL SPR 17 |
STL FEA 13 |
STL SPR 22 |
HAP FEA 13 |
HAP SPR 4 |
DCS FEA 25 |
DCS SPR 16 |
NIM FEA 5 |
NIM SPR 15 |
HDR FEA 9 |
HDR SPR 18 |
NEK FEA 24 |
NEK SPR 22 |
LEN FEA 10 |
LEN SPR 20 |
15th | 51 |
WGP2 Non-Championship results
| Season | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | PrismRiver Racing | PrismRiver | Preston | NYK 14 |
XAN 18 |
TLI 24 |