2025 F1 Academy season


The 2025 F1 Academy season was 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. For the second year running, it supported selected rounds of the FIA Formula One World Championship, with 10 of the 18 cars sporting liveries sponsored by the 10 Formula One teams.
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.
For the first time in F1 Academy, the battle for the drivers' title was decided in the final race. Doriane Pin won the 2025 drivers' championship with Prema Racing, who also won the 2025 teams' championship.

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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 turbocharged 4-cylinder engine developed by Autotecnica.

Team changes

The calendar for the 2025 season was announced on 18 November 2024. All seven rounds supported the 2025 Formula One World Championship.

Calendar changes

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.
After race 2 for the Miami round was cancelled, a third race for the Montreal round was added.
Additionally, a first ever rookie test took place in September 2025, hosting 18 prospective drivers.

Season summary

Round 1: Shanghai

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.
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.
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. 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.

Round 2: Jeddah

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.
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.
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. 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. This left Weug as the championship leader, with Pin falling down to second and Chambers staying in third place.

Round 3: Miami

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.
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.
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. 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.