F1 Academy Debuts at Silverstone With Five British Drivers
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- F1 Academy debuts at Silverstone as part of the British Grand Prix Sprint weekend, sharing the support bill with F2 and F3 in the all-female series' fourth season since inception.
- Alisha Palmowski leads the 2026 championship after winning two of three races at the previous round in Canada, with Campos teammate Megan Bruce third in the standings.
- Five British drivers race on home soil — Palmowski, Bruce, Ella Lloyd, Rachel Robertson and Ella Stevens — in front of an expected record 565,000 crowd across the event.
- Palmowski first attended the British Grand Prix in 2015 at age eight — the year Lewis Hamilton won a record ninth British GP — and called racing at Silverstone 'a dream come true.'
- Ella Lloyd, a podium finisher at Silverstone in British F4 in 2024, said 'every time I come here I just enjoy driving,' with qualifying Friday and two races Saturday and Sunday.
Why it matters: An expected record 565,000 fans and a Sprint-weekend broadcast give F1 Academy its largest UK platform yet, with championship leader Palmowski racing at the track where her motorsport passion was 'unlocked' in 2015. A five-strong British driver lineup turns the round into a defining home-market moment for the series' profile heading into the second half of its season.
