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F1 Academy is a female-only, Formula 4-level single-seater racing championship founded by the Formula One Group. The championship is a spec series , meaning that all teams compete with an identical Tatuus F4-T421 chassis and tyre compounds developed by Pirelli .
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 series administered by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [1] The "formula" in the name alludes to a series of rules set by the FIA to which all participants and vehicles are required to conform.
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]
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]
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.
Light beam timing system (the two lenses extended to the right of the stand) Fully automatic time (abbreviated FAT ) is a form of race timing in which the clock is automatically activated by the starting device, and the finish time is either automatically recorded, or timed by analysis of a photo finish .