Podiums and Progress:

What Have Our Junior Drivers Been Up to?

Strong Start in F1 Academy

French racer Doriane Pin has already competed in two F1 ACADEMY rounds on the F1 support bill in China and Saudi Arabia, this season.

Her campaign got off to a strong start with P4 in the reverse-grid first race and a victory in the second. In Saudi Arabia, she added P4 and P3 finishes, emerging from the weekend second in the Championship. Now she’s looking ahead to the next weekend in Miami.

Alongside her F1 ACADEMY challenge, Doriane is also competing in the Formula Regional European Championship (FRECA).

Single-Seater Successes

New recruit Noah Strømsted is racing in F3 with Trident and has also already enjoyed two race weekends. It was a tricky start in Australia with a DNF in the first race but he recovered well to finish P2 in the second race and added points to his tally in Bahrain with P10 and P6. He’s currently fourth in the standing and his next race is on the Emilia Romagna GP support bill.

Yuanpu Cui and newly signed Rashid Al Dhaheri both started their seasons in the Formula Regional Middle East Championship at the start of the year.

Chinese driver Yuanpu now looks ahead to his first GB3 weekend at Silverstone after several winter tests while Rashid’s focus will be on FRECA, which starts on the 3-4th May.

Three of our Juniors are competing in F4 this year. Alex Powell returns for a second full season in the category. He’s already claimed the Vice Champion crown this year in F4 Middle East and now looks ahead to his Italian F4 and Euro 4 campaigns starting soon.

Meanwhile Ethan Jeff-Hall makes his British F4 debut this weekend at Donington Park and Andy Consani has already scored a podium and pole position in his debut French F4 round, as well.

Karting Crew

On the karting front, Luna Fluxa, Kenzo Craigie and James Anagnostiadis have all been racing in the OK category.

James even won the first round of the FIA European Championship in the OK class, while Kenzo was P2 in the opening Champions of the Future round as well.

New karting juniors Julia Montlaur and Many Nuvolini have also been on track in the OK Junior class and have made solid steps forward – including a P3 for Many in the second Champions of the Future Academy final in Portugal. He leads the Championship in the OKJ class after two rounds.