2023 F1 Academy season
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] Its season commenced on 29 April at Red Bull Ring and concluded on 22 October supporting the United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas.
Marta García won the drivers' championship with two races to spare, as her team Prema Racing won the teams' championship.
Entries
The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2023 championship.[2] As the championship is a spec series, all teams will compete with an identical Tatuus F4-T-421 chassis and tyre compounds developed by Pirelli. Each car is powered by a 165-horsepower turbocharged 4-cylinder engine developed by Autotecnica.[1]
Teams | No. | Driver | Rounds | Ref. |
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Campos Racing Mercantile Campos Racing[N 1] |
1 | Nerea Martí | All | [3] |
2 | Lola Lovinfosse | All | [4] | |
3 | Maite Cáceres | All | [5] | |
MP Motorsport | 4 | Hamda Al Qubaisi | All | [6] |
5 | Emely de Heus | All | [7] | |
6 | Amna Al Qubaisi | All | [6] | |
ART Grand Prix | 7 | Léna Bühler | All | [8] |
8 | Carrie Schreiner | All | [9] | |
9 | Chloe Grant | All | [10] | |
Rodin Carlin | 10 | Abbi Pulling | All | [11] |
11 | Jessica Edgar | All | [12] | |
12 | Megan Gilkes | All | [13] | |
Prema Racing | 14 | Chloe Chong | All | [14] |
15 | Marta García | All | [15] | |
16 | Bianca Bustamante | All | [16] | |
Source:[17] |
Race calendar and results
The calendar for the 2023 season was announced in February 2023:
Championship standings
Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers in the 30 minute-long Races 1 and 3, and to the top eight classified finishers in the reverse-grid 20 minute-long Race 2. The pole-sitter in each Race 1 and 3 also receives two points respectively, and one point is given to the driver who sets the fastest lap of the race provided that the driver finishes inside the top ten. No point is awarded if the fastest lap time is achieved by a driver outside the top ten. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in Race 2. This means there is a possible maximum of 67 points available per race meeting.
Races | Position, points per race | |||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole | FL | |
30-minute races | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
20-minute races | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Drivers' championship
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Bold – Pole |
Teams' championship
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Bold – Pole |
Notes
- Léna Bühler set the fastest lap but did not finish in the top 10, so was ineligible to score the point for fastest lap. Hamda Al Qubaisi set the second fastest lap but also failed to finish in the top 10. Emely de Heus scored the point for setting the fastest lap of those finishing in the top 10.
- Chloe Chong set the fastest lap but did not finish in the top 10, so was ineligible to score the point for fastest lap. Hamda Al Qubaisi scored the point for setting the fastest lap of those finishing in the top 10.
- 75% of the points were awarded in race 1 at Monza as more than 50% but less than 75% of the scheduled distance was completed.
- Campos Racing was re-branded as Mercantile Campos Racing ahead of round 4 for sponsorship reasons.
References
- "F1 Academy: Formula 1 announces F1 Academy, a new all-female driver series for 2023". Formula 1®. 18 November 2022.
- "Formula 1 announces teams for F1 Academy: All-female racing series for younger drivers set for 2023 debut". Sky Sports. 16 December 2022.
- Sanz, Miguel (10 February 2023). "Nerea Martí ficha por Campos Racing para la nueva F1 Academy". Marca (in Spanish).
- "Campos Racing Recruits Lola Lovinfosse for 2023 F1 Academy season". Campos Racing. 27 February 2023.
- "La uruguaya Maite Cáceres se une a la parrilla de la F1 Academy". Infobae (in Spanish). 2 March 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
- Wood, Ida (15 March 2023). "Al Qubaisi sisters team up at MP Motorsport for F1 Academy". Formula Scout. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- Bruin, Lois de (15 March 2023). "Emely de Heus to return to MP Motorsport for inaugural F1 Academy season". MP Motorsport. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- Couttet, Elie-Sara (2 February 2023). "Léna Bühler, première pilote engagée en F1 Academy". AutoHebdo (in French).
- Fritzsche, Mario (13 February 2023). "Carrie Schreiner: Erste deutsche Fahrerin in der F1-Academy". Motorsport-Total.com (in German).
- "Chloe Grant completes our F1 Academy trio". ART Grand Prix. 16 March 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- White, Megan (14 February 2023). "Pulling joins Rodin Carlin for inaugural F1 Academy season". Autosport.
- "Jessica Edgar signs with Rodin Carlin for F1 Academy". Racers - Behind the Helmet. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- "Gilkes completes Rodin Carlin's F1 Academy line-up". Rodin Carlin. 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
- "Chloe Chong to debut with PREMA in inaugural F1 Academy season". Prema Racing. 15 March 2023.
- "Marta García ficha por Prema Racing para la F1 Academy". ABC (in Spanish). 21 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
- "Bianca Bustamante signs full season with F1 Academy". Manila Bulletin. 4 February 2023.
- Prydderch, Hannah (7 April 2023). "2023 F1 Academy grid: Introducing the drivers and teams for the all-female series' inaugural season". Formula 1®. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
- Thukral, Rachit (23 February 2023). "Calendar, format for all-female F1 Academy series revealed". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- Wood, Ida (23 February 2023). "F1 Academy reveals calendar and format of inaugural season". Formula Scout. Retrieved 23 February 2023.