After a few weeks off, the F1 Academy schedule will resume this week with the second racing weekend of the 2025 campaign, while the grid goes to Saudi -Arabia to record the difficult Jeddah Corniche circuit.
Although this is perhaps the second racing weekend of the F1 Academy season, this year it is not the first stop of the Raster in Jeddah. Earlier this month, the F1 Academy grid held testing for three days on the challenging street circuit, giving the teams and drivers an early view of what to expect that the lap times really count this week.
Here are the most important storylines such as the F1 Academy -Raster this week to life in Saudi Arabia Bruls.
Doria Pin was dominant in Jeddah last year, with a catch
Last year the Saudi -Arab Grand Prix organized the first race of the F1 Academy season, a season in which Mercedes driver Doriane Pin entered as one of the favorites to take home the driver’s championship towards the end of the year. Pin held her end of the bargain, won the first race and crossed the line in P1 in the second.
Her dominant weekend, however, took a turn a little later.
Due to micommunications with her team, Pin took the checkered flag and continued to ride, in the conviction that there was another round in the race. She completed two laps at full speed until a red flag was shown, and after an investigation she got a drive-through penalty.
Since that fine could not be served with the race over, it was converted into a 20-secret fine. That fell to the ninth and ABBI promoted, who was winning, to the victory that helped launch the championship season of Pulling.
Pin Estrars this race weekend again as in favorite, and on top of the F1 Academy Divers’ Championship, six points ahead of Maya Weug. You can bet she will love a little redemption in Jeddah this weekend.
Maya Weug goes to Jeddah in a high tone
While Pin entered the 2024 season as one of the favorites for the driver’s championship, she was not alone. Another favorite was Maya Weug, who came in 2024 with its own summary of her own racing, including experience in F4, Italy. But a difficult part at the Spanish Grand Prix – where she finished the points in Bush races – has doomed its title chances. She scored one victory last season, but it came in the last race of the year that Abbi Tulling had already conquered the title.
She started this season when she did her 2024 campaign, with a P3 in the first race of the year and a P2 in the second. But she runs this weekend’s races in Saudi Arabia with many confidential, given how they performed for three days earlier this month on the Jeddah Corniche circuit. She was at the top of the timing magazines on the third and final test day of testing and looked strong in Saudi Arabia for the three days, because she was in second place on the second day.
“It was positive,” Weug said after testing. “We have tried many things, it has been really hot here. It is a very cool number and to get it right is the event impossible, but we will have to get to exist for the qualification next week.”
Were teams playing close to the fishing while testing?
With the schedule that has been testing for three days in Jeddah, the drivers must all be Uble to hit the ground later this week.
That includes all the rookies, as well as 2023 -backer Chloe Chong, who rode for Prema Racing that season when Jeddah was not on the schedule.
But it will be fascinating to see if teams hide their true pace while testing and taking a big step forward Know the Round Times count later this week. At least one driver thinks that is the case.
“We are above that in the fish order,” said Red Bull-supported Alisha Palmowski, who drives for Campos Racing after testing. “To be honest, it’s hard to see the true pace that everyone tests, because I think there have been a few tactics – perhaps slows in sector 3 so that you don’t go quickly at the end of the session.
“Submers may be sandbags, including us. I would like to say top three or top four, we should be that reason. I would like to be on pole, would like to win the races, but clearly that it is still early in the season, so I only have to collect to collect to collect to collect to collect to collect the points to collect the points. “
Alisha Palmowski to Dark Horse in Saudi -Arabia
Speaking of Palmowski, the Rookie is perhaps a dark horse to watch later this week. She was the third fastest on the opening day of testing and moved to the second on day two.
She also comes from a huge start to the season, because she won the first race in the Chinese Grand Prix and took P2 in the second race. With 18 points already in the season, Palmowski Eestrens the Saudi -Aarabic Grand Prix -weekend that is fourth in the rankings, behind Pin, Weug and her Campos Racing teammate Chloe Chambers.
All three divers were on the F1 Academy Grid a season ago.