F1 Academy is in its second year of running after the W-Series went into administration in 2023. After an extremely popular and successful first year of running- with champion Marta Garcia moving to the Formula Regional European Championship- not only has F1 Academy brought in exciting new sponsors, drivers, and support from ALL TEN F1 teams, but their races will be broadcast on F1 TV.
This season there will be 15 women representing 5 teams on the grid and will be driving using modified F4 cars. Many of these women are also part of F1 team driver development programs. There will be 7 rounds of racing, coinciding with F1 weekends around the globe.
F1 Academy race weekends are set up differently than the standard F1 Race (Practice 1/2, Practice 3/Quali, Race). The weekend setup will likely be*:
*Saudi Arabia is the opening race and due to observance of Ramadan, the schedule will be shifted to Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
ART Grand Prix was founded in 1996 under the original name of ASM F3, by Frédéric Vasseur. His aim was to develop an expertise in training young talents so that they would be able to reach the highest level of motorsport. ART runs teams in F2, F3, F4, F1 Academy and many other feeder series, having 'developed talent' from Charles Leclerc to Lewis Hamilton to Sebastian Vettel and Nico Rosberg.
ART Grand Prix has been an F1 Academy team since 2023. They finished 4th overall with 312 points.
Philippines
McLaren Racing
Bianca began her professional racing career in 2022 while competing in W Series. She was confirmed to compete in the series in March, 2022 and finished the season in 15th place, scoring 2 points across the 7 races.
In January 2023, Bustamante began racing for the Prema 'Powerteam' for the 2023 Formula 4 UAE Championship, and finished the season in 27th place with 3 points across 15 races.
Prema Racing simultaneously announced that Bianca would be their second driver in the all new F1 Academy Series. Bustamante began the season strong at Red Bull Ring and Circuit Ricardo Tormo with a P2 and Pole to Win finish, respectively. She also won the third race at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. However, Bustamante faced a number of car related incidents that prompted several early retirements. Bianca finished the season with 116 points, finishing 7th in the championship standings.
In May of 2023, Bustamante was tapped to make her Italian F4 debut, replacing Aurelia Nobelis at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
On October 18th, 2023 Bianca was announced as the newest member of the McLaren Driver Development Programme. She will also be represented by sponsor, Cisco under the ART Grand Prix team this season. She is the first ever female driver to be signed to McLaren's program.
Brazil
Scuderia Ferrari
Nobels had her professional racing debut in 2022 in the F4 Brazillian Championship with TMG Racing. She finished 16th with 7 points. Aurelia also competed for one race in both the F4 Spanish Championship and F4 Danish Championship in 2022. In 2023, she competed in the Italian F4 Championship for Prema Racing - finishing 26th with 0 points.
Most notably, before F1 Academy, Nobels competed in the Senior category of "Girls on Track - Rising Stars". Due to her performance, she was awarded a place in the Ferrari Driver Academy, where she remains while competing in F1 Academy.
Aurelia announced that she would join the F1 Academy grid with ART Grand Prix while remaining as part of the Ferrari Driver Academy and with the sponsorship backing of merchandise and athletic gear brand, Puma.
United States of America
Williams Racing
Lia Block has a very interesting road to joining the Formula Circuit - starting her career in off road racing series. Block began her professional racing career in 2023 at the American Rally Association. She became the youngest champion in the Open 2WD class series history. Next, Lia joined OSME for the Nitrocross Championship, receiving 4th place in the first round, winning the second round, but faced disqualification later in the season. Finally, in July, 2023 Carl Cox Motorsport signed Block to compete in Extreme E to replace Christine GZ.
Lia was announced as an early addition to the ART Grand Prix team in November 2023. Not only will she be supported by Williams Racing, but she has been added to the Williams Driver Development Programme.
After retiring from racing, former F1 Driver Adrian Campos founded his own racing organization in 1997. Campos Racing is based in Valencia, Spain and has had a successful record in Formula 3 and GP2 before joining the F1 Academy grid in 2023. Campos has churned out racing talent in Formula 1 including Fernando Alonso and Lando Norris as well as other racing series with Lucas Di Grassi, Alex Palou, and Alexander Rossi.
Campos Racing has been a part of F1 Academy since 2023 and finished 5th with 252 points.
United States of America
Moneygram Haas F1 Team
Chloe started off her professional driving career with a Guinness World Record (WOW!) for the fastest vehicle slalom in 2020 at the age of 15.
In 2021, Chambers competed in the Formula 4 United States Championship racing for Future Star Racing, finishing in 26th place during her racing debut.
Chloe then joined the 2022 W Series for Jenner Racing with teammate, Jamie Chadwick. With a series of penalties and poor results, she finished 16th overall after only scoring 1 point during the second race of the season.
For the 2023 season, Chambers, representing Giles Motorsport, joined the Formula Regional Oceania Championship and performed well, finishing 9th with 176 points. She became the first woman to ever start on pole and win a race in this series.
Chloe was announced to join the Campos Racing team for the 2024 F1 Academy Season in January 2024. She will be representing the Moneygram Haas F1 Team on the grid.
Germany
Stake F1 Team (Kick Sauber)
Carrie is one of the more experienced drivers on the F1 Academy Grid. She began single-seater racing in 2015, competing for the ADAC Formula 4 Championship as well as the British Formula 4 Championshiop in 2016. She finished 17th overall in the British championship before moving to GT Cars.
From 2017 to 2021, Schreiner competed in various GT series around the world. She finished runner-up in the 2017 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Middle East and won the Pro-Am category in the same series with Konrad Motorsport. She also competed in the European and Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia series, competing with Austria and FFF Racing.
In the DMV GT & Touring Car Cup she drove with Aust Motorsport and Rutronik Racing. In 2018 she won the championship and moved to the GT Masters series, finishing 24th. Simultaneously, in 2018, Schreiner competed in numerous endurance races - winning her category in the 2021 Nurburgring 24. During this time, Carrie notably became one of the founding members of the WS Racing "Girls Only" program - helping more women join competitive motorsport series.
Finally, before joining F1 Academy in 2023, Carrie drove both the BMW M2 Cup and Italian GT Championship, finishing second. During the 2023 F1 Academy Season, Schreiner raced for ART Grand Prix, finishing 11th with 56 points and 1 race win during Race 2 at Zandvoort.
Carrie was announced to move to Campos Racing in 2024 with the backing of the Stake F1 Team. She is also a part of the Sauber Academy development programme. She has also expressed that she will drive in various F4 championships throughout the season.
Spain
None
Narea began her single-seater career in 2019, competing in Spanish Formula 4. She wowed everyone immediately, by scoring a podium in her first ever race. Overall, she finished 16th for the season and 2nd within the female sub-category.
Marti then moved to the W Series in 2020 and competed there for several years until its dissolution. Although the season was cancelled in 2020, she competed in 2021 and 2022 with a series of successful races. She finished 4th in the standings with 61 points (best rookie, scoring points every round) in 2021 and 7th in the standings with 44 points in 2022.
Before joining F1 Academy, Marti also tested Formula 3 cars with Irina Sidorkova, Maya Weug and Doriane Pin from the Iron Dames.
During her first year in F1 Academy, Narea started off with a disqualification in the first round, but consistently drove well the rest of the season. She finished in 4th place with, 181 points, 6 podiums and 1 race win.
Marti was retained by Campos Racing for her second season in F1 Academy, and was announced as the FINAL driver on the grid. She will be competing with backing from Tommy Hilfiger and BMW España.
MP Motorsport is a Dutch team that was founded in 1994 and has raced in nearly all Formula 1 junior categories including F4, Eurocup-3, FRECA, F3, F2, and F1 academy. While they only have one current former driver on the F1 Grid... that driver is Max Verstappen. They have also represented Felipe Drugovich, Pato O'Ward, Christian Lundgaard, and Nicholas Latifi.
MP Motorsport entered F1 Academy in 2023 and finished 2nd place with 411 points.
Netherlands
Red Bull GbmH
Emely De Heus made her professional single seater racing debut in the F4 Spanish Championship, also beginning her career with MP Motorsport. She finished 29th place overall with 0 points, but was awarded the 2021 Female Trophy for her performance.
Emely then moved to the W Series during the 2022 season - the final W Series season - competing for Sirin Racing. Although she performed well at testing in both Arizona and at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, she only scored 1 point through the season and finished 17th.
De Heus had an extremely busy 2023, racing in both F4 UAE Championship and F1 Academy, both for MP Motorsport. Although her Formula 4 performance only awarded her 43rd overall with 0 points, she performed much better in F1 Academy. Last season in F1 Academy, she won her first race of the series at Circuit Barcelona -Catalunya and finished 9th with 87 points.
De Heus was retained by MP Motorsport for the 2024 season, driving alongside the Al Quabaisi sisters. Due to her strong performance last season, she joined the Red Bull Academy Program and will represent Red Bull GmbH.
United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
Red Bull Racing
Hamda is one of the two racing Al Qubaisi sisters. She began her single seater racing career in the middle of the Italian F4 season, alongside her sister Amna, racing for Prema's Abu Dhabi Racing team. She didn't see real F4 success until 2020, however, during the United Arab Emirates' F4 Series. She finished 4th overall with 258 points and 3 race wins. She also returned to the Italian F4 circuit where she claimed 25th overall with 4 points.
In 2021, Hamda made racing history. She scored three more wins, one pole position, and six podiums, scoring 4th place in the UAE F4 Season. However during the Italian F4 Championship, Hamda became the FIRST ever woman to step onto a podium in the championship's history. She came in 3rd place behind Oliver Bearman and Leonardo Fornaroli during the MIsano race. She finished 17th overall with 24 points.
Hamda has also taken part in a few Formula regional competitions - Formula Regional Asian Championship and Formula Regional European Championship in 2022. She did not score any points across either of the categories. However, after these series, Hamda was selected to test a Formula 3 car.
In 2023, Hamda and her sister joined MP Motorsport for the inaugural F1 Academy season and performed very well. She finished 3rd in the championship with 4 race wins 7 podiums and 205 points overall.
Hamda performed VERY well during the 2023 season and was resigned to the MP Motorsport F1 Academy team for 2024. She also joined the Red Bull Academy Program and will represent Red Bull Racing.
United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
RB Formula 1 Team
Amna is the older of the two racing Al Qubaisi sisters. She began her single seater racing career in the 2018 Italian Formula 4 Championship with Prema Powerteam. She was able to finished only 6 of the 7 races in her first year and scored no points in this Formula 4 in both 2018 and 2019 (finishing 34th and 31st respectively).
Amna moved to a different type of professional racing briefly in 2018, where she drove for Envision Virgin Racing (Audi) in Formula E. This was a test in Saudi Arabia, 6 months before driving was legal for women in the country. She completed this test with FIA Women in Motorsport to gain support for women racers across multiple categories.
During the next few years, Amna raced in Formula 3 (Asian Championship) and a handful of Formula Regional European Championship series with Prema Racing. She did not place higher than 24th overall.
Amna was able to find real racing success during the first season of F1 Academy with MP Motorsport. She placed 6th overall and scored 2 race wins, 4 podiums, and 117 points overall.
Amna re-signed with MP Motorsport for the 2024 season alongside her same teammates from the prior season, her sister Hamda and Emely De Heus. She also signed with the Red Bull Academy Program and will be representing the RB Formula One Team.
Prema Racing has been one of the most well known teams among the junior categories of Formula 1. It was founded in Italy in 1983 and has seen decades of success in (primarily) F2 and F3 as well as a number of junior categories including F1 Academy, Formula Regional and Formula 4 championships. Prema is known as a talent pool that is often highly regarded in Formula 1 with teams such as Alpine, Ferrari, Williams, Red Bull, McLaren, and Mercedes representing their talent. The team has raced Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piastri, Nyck de Vries, Oliver Bearman, Mick Schumacher, Jamie Chadwick, Robert Shwartzman, Frederic Vesti, and Kimi Antonelli in recent years just to name a few.
Prema joined the F1 Academy Grid in 2023 and finished in 1st place with 419 points (only 8 more points than MP Motorsport in 2nd). Their driver Marta Garcia won the championship. This year they have an all new lineup for the grid.
Sweden
Aston Martin
Hausmann made her professional racing debut in the Formula Winter Series, driving a Formula 4 car with AKM Motorsport. This term started off very strong with 4th at her first race and 3rd (her first podium!) at the second race. However, after the third round of racing, she didn't finish either race and did not continue in the series. Even with that bad luck she finished 10th overall with 27 points.
She was able to further prove her racing skill in the 2023 Italian F4 and Euro F4 Championships for AKM Motorsport. Although she did not score any points, she finished 20th in the Euro F4 championship becoming the best placed woman overall above Aurelia Nobels.
Hausmann will be joining Prema Racing and representing Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team for the 2024 season. Jessica Hawkins from Aston Martin will also work closely with Hausmann and Prema for the 2024 season.
France
Mercedes AMG F1 (and Iron Dames Racing)
Doriane, although young, has an extremely vibrant racing CV. In 2020, she made her racing debut in the Renault Clio Cup France finishing 2nd in the junior category while racing part time.
She became a full time competitor in 2021 moving into the GT3 class of the Le Mans Cup for Iron Lynx - scoring 5 podiums and 5th in the standings. Continuing with car racing (rather than Formula Series), Pin made her debut in the Ferrari Challenge Europe finishing 9th in 2021 with Iron Lynx. She then went on to win the Ferrari Challenge title in 2022 with 9 wins, 10 poles and 11 fastest laps. Her final GT racing series was the European Le Mans Series in 2022. She replaced Rahel Frey in the Iron Lynx lineup - she performed very well, setting the fastest lap at Spa and leading the team to victory at Algarve International Circuit.
The final non-formula series type that she competed in was the World Endurance Championship in 2023 as a prize for her 2022 season performance. She was joined by Mirko Bortoliotti and Daniil Kvyat with Prema Racing in WEC driving an LMP2 car. At the end of the season, she won the FIA WEC Revelation of the Year Award, becoming the first woman to do so ever. WEC removed the LMP2 category and therefor Prema removed this category as well for 2024.
Doriane has raced in a couple of Formula series including a Formula 3 test in 2021 with Maya Weug, Nerea Marti, and Irina Sidorkova and she made her single seater debut in 2023, competing in 2 rounds of the Formula 4 SEA Championship, finishing 2nd overall. In early 2024, Pin raced for 4 rounds for the F4 UAE Championship with Prema, finishing 10th with a pole and a win.
Doriane Pin was announced as both a Prema Racing and Iron Dames Driver for the 2024 F1 Academy (and WEC) season. She will also be a part of Mercedes-AMG F1 Junior Program. As well as F1 Academy, Doriane will race for Iron Dames in the LMGT3 category of WEC throughout the year.
Netherlands (Dutch)
Scuderia Ferrari
In October 2020 Weug was nominated as one of twenty young woman drivers to compete in the "Girls on Track - Rising Stars" program by the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission. She took home the win in the shootout and was awarded a place in the Ferrari Driver Academy (beating out F1 Academy teammate Doriane Pin).
In 2021 Weug made her debut in Italian F4 for Iron Lynx as part of their Iron Dames program in association with her Ferrari Driver Academy role. She did score 3 podiums in the Rookie Category but did not score any points in the overall competition. She would remain in Iron Dames in 2022 during her second season in Italian F4. Weug performed significantly better this season and ended 14th overall in the championship.
Weug competed in both the Formula Regional European Championship (FRECA) and testing in Formula 3 in 2023. During her FRECA competition, she finished 3rd amongst all rookies and 17th overall with 42 points.
Maya was announced as a part of the Prema Racing team for F1 Academy in 2024. She will maintain her position in the Ferrari Driver Academy and will represent Scuderia Ferrari on track.
Rodin Motorsport (formerly Carlin Motorsport) was founded in 1996 and have competed in not just Formula series but similar sporting championships including IndyCar. They currently compete in Formula 2, Formula 3, GB3, F1 Academy, F4 British Championship, and Spanish F4 Championship. Similar to Prema, Rodin (Carlin) has been a primary pipeline to the success of drivers in Formula 1. Their alumni include Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, George Russel, Daniel Ricciardo, Kevin Magnussen, Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris, Yuki Tsunoda, Logan Sargeant, Robert Kubica, Felipe Nasr, and so many more.
Rodin (Carlin) joined F1 Academy in 2023 and finished 3rd with 320 points.
France
None
Lola began her formula professional racing career in 2021 during the F4 Spanish Championship for Drivex. She finished 23rd place in the rookie standings with only 1 point, but did qualify for the Female Trophy. In that sub-category she won 13 of the 21 races, but lost to another future F1 Academy driver Emely De Heus. Although she tested for a W Series team, Lovinfosse remained in Spanish F4 with Teo Martin Motorsport. She, however, did not perform much better - leaving the competition after only 4 of the 7 race weekends. She did, however, win the Female Trophy this year in that subcategory.
In 2023, Lovinfosse switched to F1 Academy and joined the Campos Racing Team. She finished 10th with 65 points and scored 3 podiums - performing much better than her Formula 4 years.
Early in 2024, Lola was announced as a new driver for the Rodin Motorsport team. While she does not race for a Formula 1 team, she will be racing for new racing sponsor Charlotte Tilbury. This partnership is a first of its kind all woman racing set-up (Charlotte Tilbury founder is a woman).
United Kingdom
Alpine
Pulling made her single seater debut racing with JHR in the 2020 F4 British Championship. She started off strong by finishing 6th overall with 4 podiums. She resigned with the team in 2021, but due to lack of budget she had to pull out of the competition.
Abbi was then announced to join the W Series Formula 3 championship as 1 of 5 reserve drivers for Puma's team. She began driving at the 3rd round at Silverstone, qualified for pole in her first race, and scored 2nd place the following day finishing 7th overall. She was automatically qualified for a full time seat for the 2022 season. During this season Abbi performed well with 2 podiums, 43 points, and finishing 4th overall.
In 2022, Pulling was signed to the Alpine F1 Team Affiliate program and she as well as Aseel Al-Hamad became the first woman to drive a Formula 1 car in Saudi Arabia. In 2023, she became a full member of the Alpine Academy and competed in F1 Academy - finishing 5th with 7 podiums and 177 points.
In 2024 it was announced that Abbi would continue driving with Rodin Motorsport in 2024 with the same backing from Alpine Driver Academy and representing Alpine F1 team during the season.
United Kingdom
None
Edgar is one of the newest racers on the F1 Academy Grid overall in terms of racing experience. She has only competed in one Formula Series prior to F1 Academy. In 2022, Edgar joined Fortec Motorsport in teh GB4 championship, achieving a podium finish and top 10 in most of the races. She finished 7th in the overall standings with 269 points.
She joined F1 Academy with Rodin Carlin (Rodin Motorsport) in 2023 and finished 8th with 114 points, 1 win, 1 pole, and 8 podiums.
Edgar will continue to race for Rodin Motorsport in 2023. While she does not have a large team or corporate sponsor, she will drive with the official F1 Academy livery, helmet, and race suit.
