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 | |||||
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Teams | No. | Driver | Supporting F1 team | Rounds | Ref. |
![]() | 2 | ![]() | — | 1–6 | [2] |
9 | ![]() | — | 6 | [3] | |
11 | ![]() | — | 1–5 | [4] | |
![]() | 3 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [5] |
28 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [6] | |
78 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [7] | |
![]() | 5 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [8] |
20 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [9] | |
27 | ![]() | — | 1–6 | [10] | |
![]() | 7 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [11] |
22 | ![]() | — [a] | 1–6 | [12] | |
57 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [13] | |
![]() | 12 | ![]() | — | 1–6 | [14] |
25 | ![]() | — | 1–6 | [15] | |
64 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [16] | |
![]() | 14 | ![]() | — [b] | 1–6 | [17] |
18 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [18] | |
21 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–6 | [19] | |
Wildcard entries | |||||
![]() | 4 | ![]() | — | 2 | [20] |
8 | ![]() | — | 4 | [21] | |
24 | ![]() | — | 1 | [22] | |
60 | ![]() | — | 6 | [23] | |
86 | ![]() | — | 5 | [24] | |
90 | ![]() | — | 3 | [25] | |
Sources: [26] [27] |
The calendar for the 2025 season was announced on 18 November 2024. All seven rounds will support the 2025 Formula One World Championship. [34]
Round | Circuit | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 |
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1 | ![]() | 22 March | 23 March | — |
2 | ![]() | 19 April | 20 April | |
3 | ![]() | 3 May | — | |
4 | ![]() | 14 June | 15 June | |
5 | ![]() | 30 August | 31 August | — |
6 | ![]() | 4 October | 5 October | |
7 | ![]() | 21 November | 22 November | |
Source: [34] |
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. [35] [36]
After race 2 for the Miami round was cancelled, a third race for the Montreal round was added. [37]
Additionally, a first ever rookie test took place in September 2025, hosting 18 prospective drivers. [38] [39]
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. [40]
During the first race, Shi Wei spun out on lap 2, while Block and Aurelia Nobels made contact on lap 5. Chloe Chong also tagged Nicole Havrda on lap 10, 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. [41]
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. [42] 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. [43]
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. [44]
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 maiden win as Palmowski finished third. [45]
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. [46] 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. [47] This left Weug as the championship leader, with Pin falling down to second and Chambers staying in third place. [48]
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 qualified in tenth after being caught in traffic. [49]
During the first race, reverse-polesitter Felbermayr nailed her start before Lloyd collided into the back of Ferreira, resulting in a safety car and early retirement for the latter. In the chaos, Pin was able to slip into second place and claimed first after a multi-lap battle with Felbermayr, which 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 finishing in third. [50] [51]
Inclement weather resulted in several formation laps behind the safety car in Race 2, but after the rain worsened and multiple cars slid off the track, the red flag was drawn. [52] ACCUS local regulations stated the circuit was 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. [53]
The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve hosted the rescheduled Miami Race 2, with starting grid already set from Miami qualifying. The two originally scheduled races in Canada were held afterwards. Montreal's qualifying session determined the grid for Race 2 (reverse-grid) and full points were awarded for Race 3. [37] 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. [54] [55]
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. [56] Palmowski and Ferreira were given penalties resulting in a drop from eighth to twelfth, and ninth to fourteenth, respectively. Pin claimed her third win of the season. Lloyd and Felbermayr finished second and third after the chequered flag, but Felbermayr was later disqualified from the race after her car failed to meet the weight regulations (minimum 603kg), and Gademan was promoted to the podium. [57]
Race 2 saw Chong take reverse-pole-position. Chong didn't hold the lead for long, 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, and 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 close the gap. 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. [58] 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. Gademan completed the podium in third. [59]
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. [60]
Weug claimed her second pole of the season, outqualifying Palmowski by a mere 0.039s at her home round, held at the Circuit Zandvoort, whilst championship leader Pin was left fifth behind Lloyd and Chambers. [61]
Prema locked out the front row for Race 1, with Gademan on reverse-pole position and Hausmann alongside her. Following the race start, Chambers was pushed off into the grass by championship leader Pin, dropping to eighth place in the opening lap. A few laps after being overtaken by Block for second, Hausmann ran wide and crashed into the barriers, bringing out the safety car. At the restart, Gademan maintained her lead while Pin ran wide, allowing Lloyd to go through. Pin was forced to defend against Weug, with the latter eventually passing, also overtaking Lloyd for a podium finish. Block finished in second to achieve her first podium in the series. Gademan led the race from start to finish for her first win, becoming the seventh unique driver to achieve a race win. [62]
Race 2 saw Chambers stuck on her grid box at the beginning of the formation lap, eventually retiring from the race due to a technical problem. This led Block to pull into Chambers' grid box before reversing back, resulting in a 10-second penalty. Dutch driver Esmee Kosterman finished in seventh and became the first wildcard entry to earn championship points since 2024. Block's penalty dropped her out of the points from eighth to twelfth, promoting Ferreira, Alba Hurup Larsen, and Chong. Weug won the race by 7.3 seconds—the second-largest winning margin in F1 Academy history. Lloyd was later given a 5-second penalty for a false start, demoting her from the podium to fourth place, promoting Palmowski and Pin to second and third, respectively. [63] Pin left the weekend with a 20-point lead over Weug in the championship standings.
Maya Weug qualified in first, 0.042s ahead of Doriane Pin at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. It marked Weug's third pole of the season. [64]
Lia Block secured her maiden F1 Academy victory in Race 1. Block defended her reverse-pole position after two safety car restarts. [65] Nicole Havrda crashed in the opening lap of the race and was later taken to the hospital. Wild Card driver Lisa Billard sustained damage from a collision with Alba Larsen after the safety car restart in lap 3. Alisha Palmowski crashed into the barrier in lap 7, and Palmowski and Billard retired from the race, triggering the second safety car. [66] [67] Larsen received a 10-second time penalty for the collision with Billard. Ella Lloyd received a 5-second penalty for gaining an advantage off track in the opening lap, dropping her from fourth to seventh. Aurelia Nobels finished in fourth place, her highest finishing position of the season. Weug finished in second and Chambers finished in third. [68]
Weug won Race 2 under wet conditions, matching Pin for three wins each in the 2025 championship campaign. In the first lap, Pin took the lead over Weug and led for the majority of the race. A safety car was sent out after Nicole Havrda crashed in lap 11. Many teams opted for a pit stop to manage the changing wet track conditions, but championship leader Pin and her closest rival Weug stayed out. Chloe Chambers boxed under the safety car, losing out on a potential fourth place finish and falling to 11th. Courtney Crone finished in tenth place, earning her first point of the season. Weug overtook Pin in the final lap, securing her third victory. Pin finished in second place, claiming the fastest lap, and Ella Lloyd finished in third. [69] [70] The gap between the two title contenders is 9 points, with Pin maintaining her lead over Weug heading into the final round at Las Vegas. Lloyd is third in the standings, ahead of Chambers. [71] [72]
In February 2025, it was announced that a test would take place for drivers who had "demonstrated promising results" in karting and Formula 4-level series, potentially with a view to selecting drivers for future seasons of F1 Academy. [38] Eighteen drivers eligible for the following season participated in the series' first-ever rookie test at Circuito de Navarra, Spain on September 17–18. [73]
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. [1] [76]
Points will be awarded to the top eight classified finishers, including the fastest lap point. [1]
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | FL |
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Points | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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. [1]
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole | FL |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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† — Did not finish, but classified |
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† — Did not finish, but classified |