2025 F1 Academy season

The 2025 F1 Academy is a formula racing championship that is the third season of the F1 Academy, an all-female, Formula 4-level racing series founded and organized under the management of Formula Motorsport Limited.
Prema Racing is the defending teams' champion.
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.
The calendar for the 2025 season was announced on 18 November 2024. All seven rounds will support the 2025 Formula One World Championship.
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.
Additionally, a first ever rookie test is set to take place in September 2025, hosting up to 18 prospective drivers.
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 two, while Block and Aurelia Nobels made contact on lap five. Chloe Chong also tagged Nicole Havrda on lap ten, resulting in a 10-second penalty. Nina Gademan started on reverse-pole position and lead the race after overcoming three safety car starts, caused by the aforementioned incidents, but due to a issue on the penultimate lap, retired from the race. This 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 prior to the race. Once the race began, Pin managed to overtake pole-sitter Weug, leading by nearly three tenths before a lap one collision between Gademan and Tina Hausmann, which resulted in a safety car being brought out and the latter being given a 10-second penalty. Nobels and Havrda were also forced to retire as a result of a separate collision while Joanne Ciconte was clipped by Chong while trying to avoid it. 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. Pin left Shanghai as the championship leader, with Weug and Chambers coming second and third respectively.
The fastest laps from qualifying set the grid for Race 2. The top 8 on the qualifying grid are reversed for Race 1, with the driver that qualified P8 starting from pole position. P9-P18 remains the same for each race.
Two points will be awarded to the driver who starts Race 2 from pole position. Fastest lap points are also handed out in each race to the driver and team who achieved the fastest valid lap time and classified inside the top 8 for race 1 and top 10 for race 2. No points are given to the driver who clocked in the fastest lap time but finished outside the points.
Points will be awarded to the top eight classified finishers, including the fastest lap point.
Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers. Bonus points were awarded to the pole-sitter and to the driver who set the fastest lap and finished in the top ten.