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The F1 Academy grid will grow to 18 cars for 2025 with the addition of Hitech GP as a sixth team.
Hitech will run two cars for full-time drivers plus a third car for the championship’s wildcard entries. Wildcard drivers have been selected to take part in six rounds of the 2024 season, driving an additional fourth car run by Prema, and the initiative will feature at all rounds next year.
Like existing F1 Academy teams Prema, ART Grand Prix, Rodin Motorsport, MP Motorsport and Campos Racing, Hitech already competes in both the FIA Formula 2 and Formula 3 championships that also support Formula 1. It also competes successfully with Formula 4 machinery in the British championship, with F1 Academy using a modified version of the Tatuus T421 car.
No drivers have yet been named for Hitech’s F1 Academy entry, although one of them is likely to be Nina Gademan, who was announced this week by Alpine as the driver it will support in the series next year and will compete with Hitech in the upcoming Formula Winter Series.
“I’m delighted to confirm Hitech’s participation in F1 Academy from the 2025 season,” said Hitech owner Oliver Oakes, who is also Alpine’s F1 team prinicpal.
“A platform that inspires and supports young girls and women to embark on their motorsport journey is one that we have always fundamentally believed in and the opportunity to translate support into positive action by entering a team in F1 Academy is really important to us. We applaud the commitment and determination of Susie Wolff as the force behind the change that the series is driving.”