Girls on the grid – who will be driving in F1 Academy 2025?

F1 Academy gives proficient feminine racers with the chance to showcase their abilities on the primary stage of motorsport, and this 12 months, many new drivers will likely be given that chance.

And the addition of a brand new workforce, Hitech, means the grid has elevated from 15 to 18 automobiles, with a kind of automobiles serving as a wildcard entry, permitting a driver to participate in a one-off race weekend at every of the tracks.

Together with the brand new drivers, some acquainted faces stay, little doubt hoping to make use of their second and ultimate season within the collection to clinch the title.

Prema

Nina Gademan (Alpine)

Dutch driver Nina Gademan takes on the Alpine overalls this season, which have been beforehand worn by 2024 world champion Abbi Pulling.

She was the wildcard entry for Prema at Zandvoort final 12 months, ending fourth in each races, though a 10-second penalty demoted her to tenth in race two.

Her performances clearly impressed, with 2024 being her first season in single-seaters.

Doriane Pin (Mercedes)

Following a second-placed championship end in 2024, French racer Doriane Pin will likely be making a bid for the highest spot this season as she enters her ultimate 12 months within the class.

She strains up alongside Gademan and Hausmann to type Prema’s line-up, and continues racing with the Mercedes livery, signing to their junior workforce at first of 2024.

Pin began 2024 extremely strongly, with a win in Jeddah and podiums in Miami. She took two additional wins in Zandvoort and Lusail. Whereas it wasn’t sufficient to catch frontrunner Pulling, Pin nonetheless impressed together with her on-track performances.

Pin has additionally excelled in endurance racing, successful the Ferrari Problem Europe Collection and successful the 24 Hours of Spa with Iron Dames in 2022.

Clearly a talented driver, she is going to little doubt be a favorite for the championship this 12 months.

Tina Hausmann (Aston Martin)

Swiss driver Tina Hausmann continues her partnership with Aston Martin for this season, and completes Prema’s line-up.

After a difficult begin to the season, with two retirements in Miami, Hausmann accrued seven complete factors finishes throughout 2024. However she got here near taking house a trophy in Abu Dhabi, with a season-best end of fourth place in race two.

Chloe Chong, Rodin Motorsport

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Rodin

Emma Felbermayr (Sauber)

Emma Felbermayr takes over the Sauber overalls from Carrie Schreiner as she makes her debut on the F1 Academy grid with the workforce that helped Pulling to championship victory in 2024.

Felbermayr will make her single-seater debut within the F1 Academy season, having beforehand competed within the World and European Karting Championships. She can also be collaborating in Spanish F4 alongside her F1 Academy marketing campaign.

Ella Lloyd (McLaren)

Ella Lloyd will race with the McLaren livery for this season, taking up from GB3-bound Bianca Bustamante.

In 2024 she competed in British F4, taking house three second-placed and one third-placed finishes. She was the wildcard entry for Prema in Singapore, with factors finishes (ninth and seventh) in each races.

Lloyd additionally took half within the all-female Components E take a look at in November 2024, inserting seventh within the time charts.

Talking forward of the 2025 season opener in Shanghai, she mentioned: “My first season in single-seaters final 12 months was fairly good, in British F4. I managed to do a wildcard spherical as effectively in [F1] Academy, which gave me a little bit eye-opener on this 12 months.”

When requested what she was wanting ahead to most, she replied: “In all probability going to new tracks, as a result of I’ve solely been to Singapore and Zandvoort, so I believe it’s going to be an excellent 12 months.”

Chloe Chong (Charlotte Tilbury)

Chloe Chong is making her return to F1 Academy, having beforehand competed within the 2023 season with Prema.

On the time, she was the youngest driver within the collection, solely 15 at first of the season.

She departed the collection in 2024, as an alternative competing in British F4. She returns to F1 Academy this 12 months with Rodin and races with the Charlotte Tilbury livery.

Charlotte Tilbury have been extremely concerned within the racing collection, and this 12 months have created the Charlotte Tilbury Scholarship, supporting one woman’s participation within the 2026 BIKC, together with testing and training by means of Motorsport UK Women Karting Academy.

Talking on her return to the collection, Chong instructed Autosport: “I really feel extremely excited but additionally decided to make my return to F1 Academy.

“Final 12 months we decided to take a 12 months out and do British F4 for the 12 months and to be taught a variety of new abilities with the British climate circumstances and difficult British tracks. I really feel like I nonetheless didn’t fairly get to show what I had within the tank, so that is going to be a large alternative for me to go and present you all what I’ve learnt on this 12 months off, and the way a lot I’ve developed and likewise matured as an individual.

“I’m in fact wanting ahead to hopefully standing on the rostrum, on the winner’s step on the rostrum fairly a couple of occasions this 12 months. The leads to testing have proven that I’m one of many quickest, if not the quickest, at factors. The intention is firmly set on competing for the championship.”

Chloe Chambers, Campos Racing

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Campos

Chloe Chambers (Pink Bull Ford)

After a profitable 2024 with Haas, with a number of podiums and a race win in Barcelona, this season Chloe Chambers dons the Pink Bull Ford overalls in pursuit of the title.

Having beforehand pushed in Components Regional Oceania and the Components Winter collection, Chambers is skilled in single seater-racing, and is keen to seek out the championship victory, telling Autosport: “I believe one in every of my large strengths that I used to be in a position to present final season was my race craft and overtaking. I believe, for this season, it’ll be essential – due to the return of the reverse grid, I’ll have the ability to totally showcase what I can do.

“Going into this season, I’m feeling fairly assured. After all, it’s my second season so I’m a little bit extra aware of the construction of the weekend and the way the collection operates.

“In the end, my intention is to win the championship, however so long as I come out of the 12 months having learnt on the racing aspect in addition to making the most of all of the media alternatives we get, I will likely be blissful.”

Rafaela Ferreira (RB)

Brazilian driver Rafaela Ferreira impressed in 2024, her first 12 months in single-seaters, as a a number of race-winner in Brazilian F4. She is the primary ever feminine driver to take a podium within the collection.

She completed fourth within the standings, earlier than collaborating within the Components Winter collection forward of the beginning of the F1 Academy season.

She takes over from Amna Al Qubaisi as RB’s consultant, and types a part of Campos’ line-up.

Ferreira instructed Autosport: “I’m tremendous excited for the beginning of the season, it is a big alternative to develop and compete at a excessive degree. Being a part of the Pink Bull Academy Programme has already allowed me to be taught a lot, and likewise by being a part of the VCARB household.

“I’ve not raced on any of the tracks earlier than, so it’s going to be totally different, however a terrific problem. We solely have one follow session earlier than qualifying, so adapting shortly is essential. Testing and being on the sim has helped so much over the winter and I really feel prepared for the problem forward.

“Understanding the automotive and studying the variations from monitor to trace will likely be so essential in attaining success this 12 months. I wish to be able to struggle for good outcomes.”

Alisha Palmowski, Campos Racing

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Alisha Palmowski (Pink Bull)

Pink Bull’s driver for 2025 is Alisha Palmowski, who, in her first 12 months racing in single-seaters, completed as vice-champion in GB4.

Palmowski was Prema’s wildcard entry for Qatar, and she or he completed fifth in race one (race two being delayed till the next weekend in Abu Dhabi).

After a formidable debut into F1 Academy, Palmowski has her sights set on the title, telling Autosport: “I really feel probably the most motivated I’ve ever been earlier than a season, I’ve had a terrific low season and winter, with a variety of time spent within the health club to verify I’m as bodily ready as doable.

“F1 Academy is an enormous step up from something I’ve competed in beforehand.

“GB4 is much like the F1 Academy automotive, however GB4 is the sooner era of the automotive so there are minor variations and a little bit of a studying curve to adapt to the brand new automotive.

“I’ve by no means raced overseas a lot earlier than I made my F1 Academy debut because the wildcard in Qatar, the entire expertise will likely be so much totally different this 12 months and an enormous step up on the worldwide stage as a assist collection to Components 1, however I’m tremendous excited to be taught and get underway.

“My intention for the 12 months – as I count on each driver to say – is to be champion. The main focus will likely be on improvement and development and hopefully we see good outcomes from that.”

MP

Alba Larsen (Tommy Hilfiger)

Alba Larsen is that this 12 months’s Tommy Hilfiger driver after the model’s earlier driver Nerea Marti graduated from the collection on the finish of final 12 months.

Larsen, who’s a protege of former Haas F1 driver Kevin Magnussen, was one in every of 4 drivers chosen 2023’s FIA Women on Observe Rising Stars programme, the place she stepped right into a formulation automotive for the primary time.

She featured in two Indian F4 weekends in 2024, with an eighth-placed end in her second race and a rookie podium.

Joanne Ciconte (F1 Academy)

Australian driver Joanne Ciconte is the youngest of this 12 months’s line-up at 16, and she is going to pilot the F1 Academy-liveried automotive.

2024 was her first 12 months in single-seaters, scoring factors on debut in Australian F4. She has since competed within the Central European Zone F4 Championship, Spanish F4, and Components Winter Collection forward of her debut season in F1 Academy.

Maya Weug, Prema Racing

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Maya Weug (Ferrari)

After a formidable 2024 marketing campaign which noticed her end third within the standings, Maya Weug strikes from Prema to MP as she continues her partnership with Ferrari for her ultimate 12 months in F1 Academy.

Final 12 months completed on a excessive for Weug after she took her first F1 Academy victory within the ultimate race of the collection in Abu Dhabi.

Talking about how she felt about her championship possibilities, Weug mentioned: “I believe undoubtedly coming off with a win on the final spherical final 12 months was actually good, offers you good confidence and you may loosen up a bit through the winter.

“It’s a brand new workforce for me, however we labored very effectively collectively in pre-season testing on the simulator and the whole lot, so I’m feeling assured.”

ART

Courtney Crone (Haas)

Courtney Crone takes over from Chloe Chambers as Haas’ consultant within the 2025 F1 Academy season. She companions up with Aurelia Nobels and Lia Block as a part of ART’s line-up.

Alongside her 2024 marketing campaign within the Lamborghini Tremendous Trofeo North America, Crone was the Miami wildcard for Prema, ending 14th and eleventh within the two races that weekend.

Aurelia Nobels (Puma)

In her second 12 months within the collection, Brazilian driver Aurelia Nobels continues her marketing campaign this 12 months with Puma and ART.

She completed twelfth final season with a season-best end of fifth within the Netherlands, and can hope to make her method up the rankings to take advantage of out of her ultimate 12 months in F1 Academy.

She mentioned: “Final 12 months, it was a tricky one with a variety of ups and downs, however I learnt so much through the low season. I did, for positive, a step in driving, as effectively, and we labored arduous with the workforce to seek out the fitting compromises. I really feel very assured.”

Lia Block, ART Grand Prix

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Lia Block (Williams)

With a background in rallying, Block’s first season in single-seaters was spectacular.

She completed eighth within the 2024 F1 Academy season, racing with Williams and ART. 

She continues with each groups for the 2025 season as she little doubt hopes to make a bid for the highest spot.

Hitech

Nicole Havrda (American Categorical)

Canadian racer Nicole Havrda makes her F1 Academy debut as American Categorical’ consultant this season.

She made her single-seater debut in 2022, and in 2023, she claimed three titles within the Components Professional USA Winter Collection, SFR FA2, and Components Professional USA.

She then took half in Components Regional Americas, with a sixth-placed general end and 4 podiums.

Aiva Anagnostiadis (TAG Heuer)

Making her single-seater debut in 2024, Australian driver Aiva Anagnostiadis completed tenth in Indian F4, having beforehand been awarded the Australian Girls Trophy on the 2021 Australian Kart Championship.

She took half within the Components Winter collection through the low season, and types a part of Hitech’s line-up as TAG Heuer’s consultant for 2025.