Following the all-female championship’s launch late final 12 months, it has accomplished its maiden season with 21 races throughout seven occasions.
The final of those ran alongside Formulation 1 at america Grand Prix, with Marta Garcia clinching the title as, for the primary time, the races have been broadcast dwell.
The Spaniard will obtain the championship trophy on 3 December, at a ceremony held at Grosvenor Home in London.
“We’re delighted to host our inaugural F1 Academy Prize Giving on the Autosport Awards,” mentioned F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff.
“After an ideal season of racing, we stay up for formally crowning our champions, Marta Garcia and Prema Racing, and honouring our second and third-placed drivers, Lena Buhler and Hamda Al Qubaisi.”
Garcia received seven races throughout the season, together with three of the final 5, to shut out her championship 12 months, successful with a margin of 56 factors.
However with 13 podium appearances to her identify, runner-up Buhler stood on the rostrum greater than every other driver. The Swiss received twice for ART Grand Prix, ending second on seven events and third 4 occasions.
Garcia was the driving force to beat from the phrase go in 2023, successful two of the opening three races on the Pink Bull Ring. Regardless of enduring a six-race interval with no win throughout the Barcelona and Zandvoort weekends, she continued to construct a factors tally, notably leaving Spain having achieved to highest factors tally of any driver with a trio of podium appearances.
Picture by: Prema
Marta Garcia, Léna Bühler, Hamda Al Qubaisi
On account of her success, Garcia has been awarded a fully funded seat in Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine [FRECA] for 2024, the place she is going to proceed to compete with Prema.
Talking after clinching the title, Garcia mentioned: “Once I crossed the end line my eyes have been watering.
“I used to be crying, however it’s due to all the work that we’ve been doing throughout this 12 months, working with the group so laborious, within the simulator, exterior of the observe.
“On observe, there have been loads of robust days. We had loads of months as effectively from Could to July, working rather a lot by way of loads of racing, so it’s nice, it’s like this sense of ‘we did it’ in spite of everything this work.”