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IN STATS: The key numbers behind the electrifying 2025 F1 ACADEMY season

4 December 2025

The 2025 F1 ACADEMY season had fans on the edge of their seats from start to finish, as an exhilarating title battle unfolded alongside emotional podiums and spectacular overtakes across the seven rounds.

As the third season draws to a close, we’re taking a lookback at some of the statistics that paint a vivid picture of how the incredibly competitive campaign played out.

8

Eight different drivers have stood on the top step this season. Remarkably, this is double last year’s total and only one less than in 2023, despite having seven fewer races in 2025. Champion Doriane Pin was the most frequent visitor with four wins, while four rookies — Alisha Palmowski, Ella Lloyd, Emma Felbermayr and Nina Gademan — each scored one win apiece.

2

In terms of one lap pace, two drivers have been in a league of their own. Only Chloe Chambers and Maya Weug have achieved a pole position across the seven rounds, with the Red Bull Ford driver prevailing with four poles to the Ferrari junior’s three.

Chambers scored three consecutive pole positions in Jeddah, Miami and Montreal alongside the final pole of 2025 in Las Vegas

3,276

The total number of laps raced across the seven rounds, reaching 16,614km. However, only Pin and Felbermayr completed all 200 possible racing laps.

0.176

Lloyd’s maiden victory in Jeddah Race 1 was a drag race to the line. Sealing the smallest winning margin this year, the McLaren driver crossed the line only 0.176s ahead of a fast-charging Weug.

13

There was no shortage of overtakes in 2025, but Aurelia Nobels was the biggest climber across a single race. Rocketing from P16 to P4 on track in Race 1 in Las Vegas, the PUMA driver was later promoted to her maiden podium after Palmowski was disqualified for a technical infringement.

60

The points difference between Teams’ Champions PREMA Racing and Campos Racing — the largest points advantage across their three Teams’ titles. Although the Italian squad scored no pole positions and four less podiums than in 2024, they did claim an additional win.

0.497

The margins in Qualifying were extremely tight all season long, but Weug’s first pole position in the Shanghai season opener would be the most dominant of the campaign and set the tone for the title fight to follow. The Ferrari driver snatched the top spot early on in and refused to relinquish it, going almost half a second faster than Pin in P2.

6,713 days

Totalling 18 years, four months and 18 days, Felbermayr became the youngest winner of the season and the second-youngest in F1 ACADEMY history in Montreal Race 2. The Kick Sauber driver avenged her disqualification from Race 1 by snatching the lead in a three-car last lap tussle to claim a dramatic maiden victory.

20

Of the 26 drivers to race on an F1 ACADEMY weekend this season, 20 put points on the board. This includes Wild Card drivers, Esmee Kosterman and Payton Westcott, alongside Rachel Robertson, who’s P4 finish was the best result by a driver in a one-round appearance in 2025.

7.333

Weug drove off into the distance on home soil in Zandvoort Race 2. Helped by Lloyd’s five-second penalty for a false start, the Dutch racer finished 7.333s clear of second place Alisha Palmowski, giving her the second-largest winning margin in the series’ history.

4

A quartet of drivers — Pin, Weug, Chambers and Tina Hausmann — each achieved a fastest lap point, Pin though has scored the most with four.

This season saw five of the 10 youngest F1 ACADEMY podiums

2

Only Weug and Chambers completed a Grand Slam — taking pole, victory, fastest lap and led every lap of a race. Interestingly, both happened at the drivers’ home events (Weug in Zandvoort Race 2 and Chambers in Race 2 in Las Vegas).

0.018

One of three pole positions claimed by less than five thousandths of a second, Qualifying in Miami turned into a race against the downpour. As the field flooded out of the pits, Chambers took full advantage of being first in the queue, snatching pole over teammate Palmowski by 0.018s. Alongside delivering the smallest pole margin, it also proved to be the most closely competitive this season, with just 0.284s covering first to fifth.

19 years, 9 months and 3 days

Nine drivers from five different teams secured silverware in 2025, but Jeddah Race 1 is a record-breaking race in more ways than one. It had the youngest average age in the series’ history, with at the time 19-year-old Lloyd and 18-year-old Palmowski reaching the rostrum alongside 20-year-old Weug in second.

3

Three new circuits made their F1 ACADEMY debut (Shanghai, Montreal and Las Vegas), with the American track becoming the 15th different venue the series has raced at. Additionally, Zandvoort is the only circuit to have featured across all three seasons so far.