Hello women in motorsport fans!
This weekend sees the kick off and continuation of a lot of great series featuring women in motorsport in almost every category you can think of! Good racing and good track time for women across the board! Heres the highlights of this upcoming weekend of where some up and coming drivers are competing and where prior graduates of F1 Academy are too!
Junior Formula Series
This weekend, Ligier JFC, Spanish F4 and F4 CEZ all kick their season off. Spanish F4 will see the proper full series debuts of Luna Fluxa Cross (COFTA-Senior Champion) and FIAWIM Rising Star Maria Neto after the two girls got their footing in the Spanish Winter Series. They join More Than Equal driver Zoe Florescu in the championship
F4 CEZ features a staggering seven female drivers, three of which currently are competing in F1 Academy - Mathilda Paatz in her 2nd year in the championship, Jade Jacquet, and Ava Dobson. This weekend will also be the highly anticipated debut of McLaren Development Driver Ella Hakkinen a former Discover your Drive competitor and the daughter of 2-time F1 World Champion Mika Hakinnen.
Meanwhile across the pond, Ligier JFC (in collaboration with FRAmericas and USF4) Launches this weekend as the only championship of the trio with female drivers competing. Ava Hanssen in her second year of the championship and Ella White in her debut in LJFC
Stock Racing
ARCA Menards Series West competes at Tuscon Speedway this weekend as their third event of the season. Jade Avedision, Mia Lovell and Hailie Deegan all try their hand at the speedway on different teams as the three female drivers of the series. It will be Lovell's series debut this weekend
Endurance Racing
The easier question to answer would be who ISNT racing in Endurance this weekend? Lets start with Le Mans Cup and European Le Mans Series. F1 Academy 2025 World Champion makes her series debut with Duqueine in LMP2 Pro/AM. She joins the company of former W Series competitor and Williams Academy advisor Jamie Chadwick who will race for IDEC in her 2nd year. Also on the ELMS grid is Lilou Wadoux in LMP3 for AF Corse. Working in tandem with ELMS is the Le Mans Cup's first round where 2023 F1 Academy graduate Lena Buhler is competing for R-Ace GP.
Carrie Schiener competes in the GT World Challenge Cup this weekend in Paul Ricard. Porsche Carrera Cup Asia enters its second round of the season at Zhuhai International Circuit where 2024 F1 Academy graduate Amna Al Qubaisi is competing in her second round of the championship after her successes the first time around in Shanghai and Chloe Chong is finally licensed to compete in the Nurburgring for NLS, with the 3rd weekend of the championship taking place this saturday
This is by no means a comprehensive list, just a brief overview of where to watch out for if youre missing girl's on track. As more and more series gets underway, the best place in my (not so) humble opinion to be is the F1 Academy discord server, where we will be live watching as many of these races as we are able