The 2023 F1 Academy was a motor racing championship that was the inaugural season of the F1 Academy, an all-female Formula 4-level racing series founded and organized under the management of Formula Motorsport Limited. [1] Its season commenced on 29 April at Red Bull Ring and concluded on 22 October supporting the United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas.
Marta García won the drivers' championship with two races to spare, as her team Prema Racing won the teams' championship.
The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2023 championship. [2] As the championship is a spec series, all teams will compete with an identical Tatuus F4-T-421 chassis and tyre compounds developed by Pirelli. Each car is powered by a 165-horsepower turbocharged 4-cylinder engine developed by Autotecnica. [1]
Teams | No. | Driver | Rounds | Ref. |
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Campos Racing Mercantile Campos Racing [N 1] | 1 | Nerea Martí | All | [3] |
2 | Lola Lovinfosse | All | [4] | |
3 | Maite Cáceres | All | [5] | |
MP Motorsport | 4 | Hamda Al Qubaisi | All | [6] |
5 | Emely de Heus | All | [7] | |
6 | Amna Al Qubaisi | All | [6] | |
ART Grand Prix | 7 | Léna Bühler | All | [8] |
8 | Carrie Schreiner | All | [9] | |
9 | Chloe Grant | All | [10] | |
Rodin Carlin | 10 | Abbi Pulling | All | [11] |
11 | Jessica Edgar | All | [12] | |
12 | Megan Gilkes | All | [13] | |
Prema Racing | 14 | Chloe Chong | All | [14] |
15 | Marta García | All | [15] | |
16 | Bianca Bustamante | All | [16] | |
Source: [17] |
The calendar for the 2023 season was announced in February 2023.
Round | Circuit | Race 1 & 2 | Race 3 |
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1 | Red Bull Ring, Spielberg | 29 April | |
2 | Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Cheste | 6 May | 7 May |
3 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona | 20 May | 21 May |
4 | Zandvoort Circuit, Zandvoort | 24 June [lower-alpha 1] | 25 June |
5 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza | 8 July | 9 July |
6 | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | 30 July | |
7 | Circuit of the Americas, Austin | 21 October | 22 October |
Source: [18] | |||
Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers in the 30 minute-long Races 1 and 3, and to the top eight classified finishers in the reverse-grid 20 minute-long Race 2. The pole-sitter in each Race 1 and 3 also receives two points respectively, and one point is given to the driver who sets the fastest lap of the race provided that the driver finishes inside the top ten. No point is awarded if the fastest lap time is achieved by a driver outside the top ten. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in Race 2. This means there is a possible maximum of 67 points available per race meeting.
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30-minute races | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20-minute races | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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