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In 2024, Red Bull set up the Red Bull Academy Programme to support the team's F1 Academy drivers. [33] [34] F1 Academy was founded by Formula One as a racing series aimed at developing and preparing young female drivers to progress to higher levels of competition. [35]
In 1998, McLaren became the first Formula One team to establish a driver development program, founding the McLaren-Mercedes Young Driver Support Programme; [1] its initial cohort famously included 13-year-old kart racer Lewis Hamilton, [2] who became the first driver development program alumnus in Formula One to win the World Drivers' Championship in 2008. [3]
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown said this was due to the team's "very targeted" approach and already stable Formula One line-up, meaning it would be difficult for any young drivers to find a place in Formula One. [3] [4] In April 2023, the Young Driver Programme was replaced by the Driver Development Programme. [1]
The Mercedes Junior Team is a driver development programme by the Mercedes-AMG F1 Team to help promote drivers from karts through the feeder series ladder to promote them to their Formula One team. All eligible drivers have been promoted to Formula One, with Pascal Wehrlein , Esteban Ocon and George Russell , the latter driving for Mercedes ...
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 165-horsepower turbocharged 4-cylinder engine developed by Autotecnica. [1] For the 2024 season, all 10 Formula One teams support one driver and have their livery on that driver's car.
In 2021, the programme was renamed Alpine Academy after the rebranding of the Renault F1 team into Alpine F1 Team. In March 2022, the Alpine Affiliates programme was launched as a support to drivers starting their motorsport careers, and is intended to be a feeder for the Alpine Academy. [ 3 ]
Driver Academy experience F1 experience with Ferrari F1 experience with other teams Years Former series Jules Bianchi: 2009–2014 Formula 3 Euro Series GP2 Series (2010–2011) Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula One (2013–2014) — Marussia (2013–2014) Sergio Pérez: 2010–2012 GP2 Series Formula One (2011–2012) — Sauber (2011–2012)
This is a List of F1 Academy drivers, a list of drivers who have made at least one race start in the F1 Academy, established in 2023. [ 1 ] This list is accurate up to and including the Qatar round of the 2024 F1 Academy season .