2025 F1 Academy season

Doriane Pin and her team Prema Racing are currently leading the Drivers' and Team's Championship, respectively.

The 2025 F1 Academy season is the third running of F1 Academy, an all-female, Formula 4-level, open-wheel racing championship founded by and organized under the management of Formula Motorsport Limited. The championship is the second season run in support of selected rounds of the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship with 10 of the 18 drivers' cars sporting liveries sponsored by the 10 teams competing in Formula One during 2025.

Prema Racing entered the season as the defending teams' champion after clinching the title at the final race of the 2024 season in Abu Dhabi.

F1 Academy is a spec series; all teams competing with an identical Tatuus F4-T421 chassis and tyre compounds developed by Pirelli. Each car is powered by a 123-kilowatt (165 hp) turbocharged 4-cylinder engine developed by Autotecnica.^[1]

Full season entries
Teams	No.	Driver	Supporting F1 team	Rounds	Ref.
Hitech TGR	2	Nicole Havrda	—	1–4	[2]
	11	Aiva Anagnostiadis	—	1–4	[3]
Prema Racing	3	Nina Gademan	Alpine	1–4	[4]
	28	Doriane Pin	Mercedes	1–4	[5]
	78	Tina Hausmann	Aston Martin	1–4	[6]
Rodin Motorsport	5	Emma Felbermayr	Sauber	1–4	[7]
	20	Ella Lloyd	McLaren	1–4	[8]
	27	Chloe Chong	—	1–4	[9]
ART Grand Prix	7	Courtney Crone	Haas	1–4	[10]
	22	Aurelia Nobels	—[a]	1–4	[11]
	57	Lia Block	Williams	1–4	[12]
MP Motorsport	12	Alba Hurup Larsen	—	1–4	[13]
	25	Joanne Ciconte	—	1–4	[14]
	64	Maya Weug	Ferrari	1–4	[15]
Campos Racing	14	Chloe Chambers	—[b]	1–4	[16]
	18	Rafaela Ferreira	Racing Bulls	1–4	[17]
	21	Alisha Palmowski	Red Bull Racing	1–4	[18]
Wildcard entries
Hitech TGR	4	Farah Al Yousef	—	2	[19]
	8	Mathilda Paatz	—	4	[20]
	24	Shi Wei	—	1	[21]
	86	Esmee Kosterman	—	5	[22]
	90	Ava Dobson	—	3	[23]
Sources:[24][25]

• Hitech TGR joined the championship as the sixth team, with two full-time competitors and the third seat reserved for the wild card drivers, relieving Prema Racing from this duty.^[26]

• Rodin Motorsport saw 2024 series champion Abbi Pulling leave the series as she moves to the GB3 Championship, where she will continue to drive for Rodin.^[27] The team signed Singapore wildcard driver Ella Lloyd, who will be backed by McLaren, which previously backed Bianca Bustamante.^[8] Austrian Emma Felbermayr will make her F1 Academy racing debut with Rodin, and she will drive with the Sauber backing, replacing Carrie Schreiner, who was retained by the team as a Brand Ambassador.^[7][28] Chloe Chong will return to the series as the Charlotte Tilbury Beauty supported driver, having previously raced in the 2023 season, replacing Lola Lovinfosse.^[9]
• Campos Racing saw Nerea Martí and Carrie Schreiner leave the series. Chloe Chambers will be staying with the team and switching to the Red Bull Ford car, which was previously occupied by Emely de Heus.^[16] All Red Bull supported cars switched from MP Motorsport to Campos Racing, with Qatar wildcard Alisha Palmowski replacing Hamda Al Qubaisi in the Red Bull Racing car, and F4 Brazilian driver Rafaela Ferreira replacing Amna Al Qubaisi in the Racing Bulls car.^[18][17]
• ART Grand Prix saw Bianca Bustamante leave the series as she moves to GB3 Championship with Elite Motorsport.^[29] They signed Miami wildcard driver Courtney Crone, who replaced Chloe Chambers as the Haas backed driver.^[10]
• Alba Hurup Larsen replaced Nerea Martí as the Tommy Hilfiger supported driver.^[13] Larsen joins MP Motorsport alongside Joanne Ciconte, who made her formula racing debut in 2024 and was supported by Wella Professionals from Round 4 onwards.^[30] Both drivers will compete in their rookie F1 Academy season.^[31]
• Netherlands wildcard driver Nina Gademan replaced Alpine junior Abbi Pulling in the Alpine supported car. She will be driving for Prema, taking the seat vacated by Maya Weug, as the latter switched to MP.^[4]
• Canadian driver Nicole Havrda joined Hitech, replacing Jessica Edgar as the American Express-supported driver.^[2] Alongside her, Aiva Anagnostiadis will join as the TAG Heuer supported driver.^[3]

• Chinese driver Shi Wei was the wildcard entry for the first round in Shanghai. She previously raced in the F4 Chinese Championship, the Toyota Gazoo Racing GR86 Cup, and the China Endurance Championship.^[21]
• Saudi Arabian driver Farah Al Yousef was the wildcard entry for the second round in Jeddah. She was the 2022 Saudi Women's Karting Champion, and raced in the 2025 F4 Middle East Championship.^[19]
• American GB4 driver Ava Dobson was the wildcard entry for the third round in Miami, supported by series partner Morgan Stanley.^[23]
• German driver Mathilda Paatz was the wildcard entry for the fourth round in Montreal, supported by series partner Gatorade. She has raced in French F4 and F4 CEZ.^[20]
• Dutch driver Esmee Kosterman is the wildcard entry for the fifth round in Zandvoort, supported by series partner TeamViewer. She has raced in Indian F4 and British F4.^[22]

The calendar for the 2025 season was announced on 18 November 2024. All seven rounds will support the 2025 Formula One World Championship.^[32]

Round	Circuit	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3
1	Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai	22 March	23 March	—
2	Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Jeddah	19 April	20 April
3	Miami International Autodrome, Miami Gardens, Florida	3 May	—
4	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal	14 June	15 June
5	Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort	30 August	31 August	—
6	Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore	4 October	5 October
7	Las Vegas Strip Circuit, Paradise, Nevada	21 November	22 November
Source:[32]

The Shanghai International Circuit joined the calendar, replacing the succeeding Jeddah Corniche Circuit as the season-opening venue to avoid a conflict with Ramadan. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and Las Vegas Strip Circuit also joined the calendar, the three respectively replacing the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Lusail International Circuit and the Yas Marina Circuit.^[33][34]

After race 2 for the Miami round was cancelled, a third race for the Montreal round was added.^[35]

Additionally, a first ever rookie test is set to take place in September 2025, hosting up to 18 prospective drivers.^[36]

The season started off at Shanghai International Circuit. After a collision between Rafaela Ferreira and Lia Block in free practice, Block was unable to compete in qualifying and Ferreira was given a 3-place grid penalty for both races. Maya Weug took pole position by nearly half a second from Doriane Pin.^[37]

During the first race, Shi Wei spun out on lap two, while Block and Aurelia Nobels made contact on lap five. Chloe Chong also tagged Nicole Havrda on lap ten, resulting in a 10-second penalty. Nina Gademan started on reverse-pole position and lead the race, overcoming three safety car starts caused by the aforementioned incidents. Due to an issue on the penultimate lap, she retired from the race and allowed Alisha Palmowski to take her maiden win, after starting from third on the reverse-grid. Chloe Chambers finished in second, resulting in a 1-2 finish for Campos Racing as Weug finished in third.^[38]

The second race began with two extra formation laps and a rolling start after an on-track oil spill, caused by the SRO GT Cup prior to the race.^[39] Once the race began, Pin managed to overtake pole-sitter Weug, leading by nearly three tenths before a collision between Gademan and Tina Hausmann on the first lap, resulting in a safety car being brought out and the latter being given a 10-second penalty. Nobels and Havrda also collided, forcing both to retire while Chong clipped Joanne Ciconte in trying to avoid contact. After the safety car restart, Pin led the rest of the race and ultimately won, as Weug stayed in second and Chambers finished in third. The trio left Shanghai as the championship's top three, in the order of their Race 2 finishes.^[40]

At the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Block clipped the inside wall of the final corner and red flagged the qualifying session. Chambers then took her maiden pole position being two tenths and half a second ahead of championship rivals Pin and Weug respectively.^[41]

During the first race, Ella Lloyd seized first place from her teammate Emma Felbermayr before leading the race by nearly 3 seconds ahead of Palmowski, who had overtaken Felbermayr too. Block was then tagged by Courtney Crone, and while Block was able to recover, Chong was caught in the crossfire and forced to retire, bringing out a safety car. During this safety car, Farah Al Yousef was given a 5-second penalty for a false start and Crone was given a 10-second penalty for the incident with Block, retiring afterwards. Lloyd maintained the lead over Palmowski despite the safety car restart, who was then overtaken by Weug for second place, allowing Lloyd to take her madein win as Palmowski finished third.^[42]

Chambers held first place in the second race before coming wheel-to-wheel with Weug, who had overtaken Pin for second place. On lap 2, Ferreira tagged Felbermayr and was given a 10-second penalty and after an incident on lap 4 where she forced Weug off the track, Chambers was given a 5-second penalty. Though being given the penalty, Chambers remained first on track and began to extend her lead from the rest of the pack in an attempt to keep as many positions as possible.^[43] This resulted in a second-place finish, 5.1 seconds ahead of Pin on track, who came third, while Weug inherited first place and her first win of the season.^[44] This left Weug as the championship leader, with Pin falling down to second and Chambers staying in third place.^[45]

The Miami International Autodrome featured another pole for Chambers, who narrowly claimed it from Palmowski, Pin and Lloyd, all separated by a mere 7 hundredths. Championship leader Weug, was left in tenth after being caught in traffic.^[46]

During the first race, reverse-polesitter Felbermayr nailed her start before Lloyd collided into the back of Ferreira, resulting in a safety and early retirement for the latter. In the chaos, Pin able to slip into second place and later claim first after a multi-lap battle with Felbermayr that began at the safety car restart. After being overtaken by Pin, Felbermayr slipped down to sixth place while Palmowski and Nobels fought for second, a fight that was squandered by a safety car, caused by a three-wide battle between Ciconte, Chong and Havrda that ended in the latter two making contact. After the second safety car restart, Pin pulled away from Palmowski, claiming fastest lap and the race win with Chambers was able to overtake Nobels for third.^[47][48]

Inclement weather resulted in several formation laps behind the safety car, but after the rain worsened and multiple cars had slid off the track, the red flag was drawn.^[49] ACCUS local regulations stated the circuit in no condition for racing and Race 2 was postponed to the next round in Montreal. Weug left Miami leading the championship by a single point over Pin as Chambers maintained third.^[50]

The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve hosted the rescheduled Miami Race 2, with starting grid already set from Miami qualifying. As a result, the two originally scheduled races were held afterwards. Montreal's qualifying session determined the grid for Race 2 (reverse-grid) and full points were awarded for Race 3.^[35] Chambers qualified in first once again, her third pole-position of the season and three tenths ahead of Palmowski, in second. Pin qualified third whilst Weug was left in fifteenth, following electrical issues.^[51][52]

After qualifying first in Miami, Race 1 started with Chambers on pole-position, but contact with teammate Palmowski resulted in Pin gaining the lead of the race and Lloyd claiming second. Whilst Felbermayr and Gademan fought for third, Weug's weekend got worse as her electrical issues continued and eventually caused her retirement. Two safety cars followed, with Mathilda Paatz hitting a wall and Ferreira making contact with Chong in an attempt to re-join the track, but nothing could stop Pin from claiming the win.^[53] Lloyd and Felbermayr finished second and third on the road, but after Felbermayr was disqualified from the race due to weight regulations, Gademan was promoted to the podium. Palmowski and Ferreira were also given penalties resulting in a drop from eighth to twelfth, and ninth to fourteenth, respectively.^[54]

Race 2 saw Chong taking reverse-pole-position. Chong didn't hold the lead for long though, as Gademan dove down the inside of her for the lead, with Lloyd and Felbermayr following suit. As Lloyd defended against Pin, Felbermayr overtook the pair and Chambers, in an attempt to make a move on the Mercedes junior, spun-out into fourteenth. Gademan had pulled a 1.4-second gap over Felbermayr, though the latter began to eat away at it. A late safety car was called for contact between Anagnostiadis and Havrda, the latter of whom was penalised for the incident and forced to start from the back of the grid for Race 3.^[55] With the grid bunched together, Felbermayr was able to overtake Gademan with a few turns to spare, claiming redemption for her previous disqualification and the race win, as teammate Lloyd finished in second, Rodin Motorsport's first 1-2 finish of the season.^[56]

The third and final race saw a Campos front row lockout, as Chambers and Palmowski started on pole and second, respectively. Palmowski was later overtaken by Lloyd for second, though contact between the pair sent the former into a spin, with Pin's front wing knocked in the commotion. Paatz then crashed into the path of Anagnostiadis causing the safety car to be brought out. Normal racing conditions started up as Felbermayr flew through the field, though Gademan made contact with her; the latter received a 10-second penalty. Weug attempted to salvage the unlucky weekend before a collision between Block and Ferreira collected Nobels, forcing another safety car to be called. The race restarted again but contact between Crone and Felbermayr saw the final return of the safety car. The 30-minute time-limit approached as the race ended. Chambers took the top step of the podium, with Lloyd and Pin standing beside her in second and third. After two races without any points and one sixth-place finish, Weug left Montreal third in the standings; Pin and Chambers jumped to first and second.^[57]

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Shanghai International Circuit		Chloe Chambers	Alisha Palmowski	Campos Racing
	R2		Maya Weug	Doriane Pin	Doriane Pin	Prema Racing
2	R1	Jeddah Corniche Circuit		Doriane Pin	Ella Lloyd	Rodin Motorsport
	R2		Chloe Chambers	Chloe Chambers	Maya Weug	MP Motorsport
3	R1	Miami International Autodrome		Doriane Pin	Doriane Pin	Prema Racing
	R2		Chloe Chambers	Race cancelled[c]
4	R1	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Chloe Chambers[d]	Chloe Chambers	Doriane Pin	Prema Racing
	R2			Chloe Chambers[e]	Emma Felbermayr	Rodin Motorsport
	R3		Chloe Chambers	Doriane Pin	Chloe Chambers	Campos Racing
5	R1	Circuit Zandvoort
	R2
6	R1	Marina Bay Street Circuit
	R2
7	R1	Las Vegas Strip Circuit
	R2
Source:[58]

The fastest laps from qualifying set the grid for Race 2. The top 8 on the qualifying grid are reversed for Race 1, with the driver that qualified P8 starting from pole position. P9-P18 remains the same for each race.^[1]

Two points will be awarded to the driver who starts Race 2 from pole position. Fastest lap points are also handed out in each race to the driver and team who achieved the fastest valid lap time and classified inside the top 8 for race 1 and top 10 for race 2. No points are given to the driver who clocked in the fastest lap time but finished outside the points.^[59]

Race 1 points

Points will be awarded to the top eight classified finishers, including the fastest lap point.

Race 2 points

Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers. Bonus points were awarded to the pole-sitter and to the driver who set the fastest lap and finished in the top ten.

Pos. Driver SHA JED MIA MTL ZAN SIN LAS Points R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2[c] R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1 Doriane Pin 4 1F 4F 3 1F C 1 4 3F 109 2 Chloe Chambers 2F 3 7 2PF 3 CP 7PF 10 1P 89 3 Maya Weug 3 2P 2 1 4 C Ret 9 6 72 4 Ella Lloyd 6 7 1 8 Ret C 2 2 2 67 5 Alisha Palmowski 1 6 3 4 2 C 12 6 7 53 6 Alba Hurup Larsen 7 4 5 5 11 C 5 5 8 46 7 Tina Hausmann 13 15 6 6 7 C 6 7F 4 36 8 Nina Gademan 15† 10 8 7 5 C 3 3 13 33 9 Emma Felbermayr 11 5 9 15 15 C DSQ 1 10 21 10 Lia Block 9 9 12 14 10 C 4 8 Ret 15 11 Chloe Chong 10 11 Ret 10 Ret C 15† 16 5 11 12 Rafaela Ferreira 5 8 13 13 8 C 13† Ret 12 9 13 Aurelia Nobels Ret Ret 10 11 6 C 9 13 Ret 5 14 Aiva Anagnostiadis 8 13 14 17 14 C 8 14 Ret 5 15 Joanne Ciconte 14 Ret 11 9 Ret C 14† 15 9 4 16 Nicole Havrda Ret Ret 15 16 12 C 10 Ret 11 1 17 Courtney Crone 12 12 Ret 12 9 C 11 12 Ret 0 18 Mathilda Paatz Ret 11 Ret 0 19 Ava Dobson 13 C 0 20 Shi Wei Ret 14 0 21 Farah Al Yousef 16 18 0 - Esmee Kosterman 0 Pos. Driver R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Points SHA JED MIA MTL ZAN SIN LAS

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (empty cell) Annotation Meaning P Pole position F Fastest lap † — Did not finish, but classified

Pos. Team SHA JED MIA MTL ZAN SIN LAS Points R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1 Prema Racing 4 1F 4F 3 1 C 1 3 3F 178 13 10 6 6 5 C 3 4 4 15† 15 8 7 7 C 6 7F 13 2 Campos Racing 1 3 3 2PF 2 CP 7PF 6 1P 151 2F 6 7 4 3 C 12 10 7 5 8 13 13 8 C 13† Ret 12 3 MP Motorsport 3 2P 2 1 4 C 5 5 6 122 7 4 5 5 11 C 14† 9 8 14 Ret 11 9 Ret C Ret 15 9 4 Rodin Motorsport 6 5 1 8 15 C 2 1 2 99 10 7 9 10 Ret C 16† 2 5 11 11 Ret 15 Ret C DSQ 16 10 5 ART Grand Prix 9 9 10 11 6 C 4 8 Ret 20 12 12 12 12 9 C 9 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret 14 10 C 11 13 Ret 6 Hitech TGR 8 13 14 16 12 C 8 11 11 6 Ret 14 15 17 13 C 10 14 Ret Ret Ret 16 18 14 C Ret Ret Ret Pos. Team R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Points SHA JED MIA MTL ZAN SIN LAS

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (empty cell) Annotation Meaning P Pole position F Fastest lap † — Did not finish, but classified

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