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French team ART Grand Prix has announced it will enter the upcoming Euro 4 and Italian Formula 4 finales with two cars.
Best known for its exploits further up the single-seater ladder, ART GP expanded into the entry-level F4 category last year in the all-female F1 Academy championship.
It runs three cars there, and Bianca Bustamante and Aurelia Nobels will migrate across from ART GP’s F1 Academy line-up to drive at Monza twice later this month. The Euro 4 season concludes there on October 4-6, then the Italian F4 finale is on October 25-27.
Both Bustamante and Nobels are Formula 1 juniors, with the former backed by McLaren while the latter joined Ferrari’s ranks at the end of 2022 after winning the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission’s Ferrari Driver Academy-affiliated Girls on Track Rising Stars programme.
They are currently seventh and 11th in the F1 Academy standings respectively, with Bustamante taking a podium and a fastest lap in Miami.
Bustamante also came 40th in Formula Winter Series and made a points-scoring British F4 cameo this year, and in 2023 she was seventh in F1 Academy with two wins and 27th in F4 United Arab Emirates.
Nobels dabbled in several F4 series as a single-seater rookie in 2022, competing in Brazil, Denmark and Belgium, and last year joined Prema for a double programme. She came 22nd in Euro 4 and 26th in Italian F4, where she missed races.
This year has been far busier, starting off with two F4 UAE rounds, then a Saudi Arabian F4 round where she got a podium before she joined the F1 Academy grid. Like Bustamante, Nobels has also made a British F4 cameo in 2024.