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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 .
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.
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [1] The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. [2] Each year, the F1 World Championship season is held.
As of 2024, nine programme drivers have graduated to Formula One, with four of those debuting directly with the McLaren F1 Team: Lewis Hamilton in 2007, Kevin Magnussen in 2014, Stoffel Vandoorne in 2016, and Lando Norris in 2019. Hamilton and Norris have won a Grand Prix race with the team.
As of the 2024 season, out of the 777 drivers who have started a Formula One Grand Prix, [16] the 75 titles awarded have been won by a total of 34 different drivers. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The first Formula One World Drivers' Champion was Giuseppe Farina in the 1950 championship and the current title holder is Max Verstappen in the 2024 season.
Both championships are formally awarded at the end-of-season FIA Prize Giving Ceremony to the driver and team with the most points. [4] [5] [6] As of the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, 353 drivers have scored Drivers' Championship points, [7] and 70 out of 170 teams have scored Constructors' Championship points, [8] in 1,125 World Championship ...
Another household name in the F1 sport, Australia's Daniel Ricciardo first started competing in the Formula Ford, Formula Three and Formula Renault 3.5 Series, among others, before debuting as a ...
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]