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A farewell home win for Chloe
Chloe Chambers marked her final race in F1 Academy with a superb lights-to-flag victory on home soil.
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Race 1
The Bulls’ final F1 Academy weekend of 2025 got off to a strong start, with Chloe and Alisha delivering a superb 1-2 in qualifying to lock out the front row for the main race.
That meant that for Saturday’s reverse grid race, Alisha lined up in P7 with Chloe directly behind.
With the track still wet from earlier rain, the formation lap got underway behind the Safety Car. However, Sauber-supported Emma Felbermayr failed to get away from the front row, and she was consigned to a pit lane start. Then, as the field went into the final part of the lap, P4 starter and Ferrari-backed Maya Weug slammed into the back of Aston Martin driver Tina Hausmann. As the Safety Car continued to circle, Alisha and Chloe were already up to P4 and P5.
And they rose even further when the race at last got underway. Tommy Hilfiger driver Alba Larsen got past championship leader Doriane Pin and race leader Nina Gademan, while behind them Chloe managed to get past Alisha. Larsen couldn’t hold her lead, however, and at the end of the lap she tapped the wall, and the resulting suspension damage sent her spinning out of the lead at the start of the following lap.
That boosted Chloe to a podium place with Alisha right behind. McLaren’s Ella Lloyd briefly put pressure on Alisha, but when the McLaren-supported driver got it wrong in Turn 5 and hit the barriers, the battle for P3 turned into a straight fight between the Red Bull pair.
However, at the end of lap 8 it all went wrong. Alisha got alongside Chloe in Turn 14, but with no room in the following chicane, there was contact and Chloe was bounced into the barriers.
Alisha carried on and crossed the line in a strong P3, but while she celebrated the podium finish, her hopes of banking six points were dashed after the race when race officials found a technical infringement on her car and she was disqualified from the race.
The Podium of F1 Academy Round 7
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Race 2
The result meant that going into the last race of 2025, Chloe, who had picked up two points for pole, was level on points with Lloyd in the race for P3 in the championship.
And when the lights went out for the start of the race, the US racer quickly staked her claim for that position with a brilliant start from pole that put her in a comfortable lead.
Alisha’s start was less secure, but she was able to resist pressure from Larsen and hung on to second place as they settled into the race. Behind them, championship leader Doriane Pin held fourth ahead of title rival Maya Weug.
By lap 3 Chloe had eked out a lead of almost a second, but at the end of the lap the Safety Car was deployed when backmarkers Joanne Cicconte and wildcard Payton Westcott clashed.
However, despite her initial lead being erased, Chloe managed the restart perfectly, and as both Pin and Weug passed Larsen and began to put pressure on Alisha, the Red Bull Ford driver was once again able to build a slim gap back to her rivals.
Weug eventually dropped Pin to fourth place, but even though the Ferrari driver pushed relentlessly to find a way past, Alisha defended like a lion, and at the end of 13 laps Chloe took the third and final victory of her F1 Academy career – and a bonus point for fastest lap – ahead of Alisha, who took her fifth podium of an impressive 2025 campaign.
Behind them, Weug finished in third place with Larsen fourth, and though she crossed the line in fifth place, Pin had done enough to seal the 2025 title, with a grand total of 172 points, 15 clear of Weug.
Chloe’s win, combined with her points for pole and fastest lap in the final race, means she ends the season in P3 in the championship with 127 points, 18 ahead of Lloyd. Alisha finishes in fifth place overall with 91 points.
Race winner Chloe Chambers celebrates her home win!
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Red Bull F1 Academy Team Photo!
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