 Credit: Malcolm Griffiths Following a brilliant pole position lap on Friday, Chloe Chambers converted it into race victory for Race 3 in Montreal, on Sunday, at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The Red Bull Ford-backed driver for Campos took victory in an eventful race, which finished behind the Safety Car. The race had three Safety Car periods but Race 3 in Montreal finished behind one, following a race that was full of incidents. Chambers took victory after converting pole position into a race win. Ella Lloyd took second for McLaren and Rodin Motorsport, while the Prema of Mercedes-backed driver Doriane Pin completed the podium in third. Pin is the championship leader following a successful round in Montreal, which is the complete contrast of MP Motorsport and Ferrari-backed driver of Maya Weug. Pin now leads the championship, ahead of Weug in third, who is 37 points off the championship lead. Following a win in Race 3, Chambers had moved up into second in the championship and ahead of Dutch driver Weug. Pin leads Chambers by 20 points following the conclusion of round four of the 2025 F1 Academy Championship. The grid for the Race 3 was determined by the order from Friday's qualifying session, which saw Chambers take a third pole of 2025 with Alisha Palmowski, her Campos teammate, finishing in second place. The Race 3 grid though was determined by the qualifying from Friday and Chambers was on pole position with Campos Racing teammate Alisha Palmowski on the front row. Doriane Pin was to start third for Mercedes and Prema. Once the lights went out, Chambers got a good start and maintained the race lead into the first turn after a tough start for Alisha Palmowski saw her back into the path of McLaren-backed driver Ella Lloyd. Palmowski was squeezed through the first corner sequence by Lloyd and was sent into a spin and dropped down the field all the way to the back of the field. However, Palmowski rejoined to the back of the pack quickly following the deployment of a Safety Car, The Safety Car was brought out following Mathilda Paatz the wildcard driver, and Aiva Anagnostiadis both coming together out of turn seven. Both had caused extensive damage to each other's race and both were out of the running. There were many laps while the Safety Car was out on circuit and the track marshals removed the two Hitech TGR cars as well as the debris which was all over the circuit. Race 3 did get back underway in Montreal on lap eight of the race with Chambers getting a good restart ahead of the chasing pack which was led by Lloyd. Battles were ongoing up and down the field. One battle was between the Prema of Alpine-backed driver Nina Gademan and the Sauber-backed Rodin Motorsport driver Emma Felbermayr. This was one of many incidents that happened throughout a race that was very incident-filled. Gademan picked up a 10-second time penalty for this. Lia Block had not been having that brilliant of a weekend and was trying to look to get by the Racing Bulls-backed Campos of Rafaela Ferreira into turn eight on lap 10. However a misjudgement on the braking from Block and she ploughed into the back of Ferreira with Block coming off worse and damaging her front suspension. The Safety Car was once again required as Block's car needed removing from the circuit. Aurelia Nobels was also forced to retire as he made contact with Ferreira, who spun. Nobels had nowhere to go and ran straight into the Campos sidepod. Nobels was forced to retire from the race too with the damage she had picked up. The race did restart though after the second Safety Car period. Green flag conditions were back on lap 13 of 17. The restart was a good one, once again for Chambers who led ahead of Lloyd and Pin and the top three were able to get away cleanly! On the following lap, once again there was a collision. This time it was Emma Felbermayr, who ran into the back of Haas-backed ART racer Courtney Crone after the American driver appeared to move under braking into turn 8 and was tagged by Felbermayr into the wall. The third and final Safety Car was deployed and with there being little time left of the 30-minute window of which the race is allowed to be completed in, the time had run out and therefore Race 3 did not have any more racing laps in Montreal. Chambers took victory with an important victory to move up into the second in the championship standings and just 20 points behind Championship leader Pin! It was Pin in third at the end of the race and Ella Lloyd who finished second. Tina Hausmann and Chloe Chong rounded off the top five with a clean drive from Maya Weug to move up to sixth. Alisha Palmowski recovered well to finish seventh but it was a weekend of what could have been from the Brit. Alba Larsen, Joanne Ciconte and Emma Felbermayr completed the top 10 and points scoring positions. There is a big break now in the 2025 F1 Academy Championship, with round five taking place in August at the Zandvoort circuit, when F1 Academy supports the 2025 Formula One Dutch Grand Prix. 2025 F1 Academy Championship: Round 4 - Canada Race 3 Provisional Result
 Brandon Whiteside
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 Credit: Malcolm Griffiths Kick Sauber-backed driver Emma Felbermayr took victory for Rodin Motorsport, in the reverse-grid Race 2 in Montreal, to earn her maiden F1 Academy victory. Felbermayr converted a second row starting position into victory with a great drive through, where she impressed and held off her Rodin Motorsport teammate Ella Lloyd, who helped secure a 1-2 for the team. There was slight controversy on the final lap, as Felbermayr appeared to cut the chicane instead of re-entering the circuit the correct way, which was against the Race Director's instructions. However, no further action was taken against the Austrian driver and she kept the victory. Felbermayr took victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve ahead of Lloyd and Nina Gademan, who completed the podium on behalf of Alpine and the Prema Racing team. Championship leader Doriane Pin achieved a fourth place result, following her Race 1 earlier on in the day in Montreal. A few points picked up for the Mercedes-backed Prema driver. The gap is 29 points between Pin and Maya Weug, who is second in the standings. Race 2 was the first of the two races to take place in Montreal, that had the grid determined by the qualifying on the Friday. This was as Race 1 had the grid pre-determined from Miami, as it was a rescheduled race that had been cancelled during round three due to extreme wet weather. However, the Race 2 grid was determined by the top eight from qualifying being reversed. Chloe Chong after qualifying eighth was to start the race from pole position for Rodin Motorsport, with Prema and Alpine Academy driver Gademan starting alongside. Felbermayr started in third place, also alongside a Prema but it was the Aston Martin-backed driver Tina Hausmann alongside the Rodin driver. Once the lights went out, the initial start was okay for Chong and she covered off Gademan into the first turn and led Race 2, however, Gademan was not done there. With a beautiful pass on the opening lap, into turn six, Gademan went through into the race lead. Caught completely unaware by the move, Chong became vulnerable to her Rodin teammate Lloyd and dropped down to third too. It was just a lack of grip for the Charlotte Tilbury-backed driver. Felbermayr lost a bit of ground at the start after not having the best of launches off the line but by the start of the second lap, she was up into second place with a lovely pass on Lloyd as she too had got ahead of Chong who was dropping down the field. On lap five Chloe Chambers, who had not had the greatest of birthdays with a collision with her teammate Alisha Palmowski in Race 1, had another moment taking her weekend from bad to worse. Chambers spun after attempting to pass the Mercedes-liveried Prema of Pin. Chambers claimed that she was squeezed but Race Control did not see it that way as on replays it showed, there was no squeezing at all and Chambers just lost control of the car after getting on the dirty part of the track. Alba Larsen showed great pace in the first half of qualifying on Friday but qualified in 12th and started Race 2 in 11th, following a Rafaela Ferreira grid penalty. She was making progress though and on lap seven took fifth from the Campos of Palmowski. Ferreira from 14th on the grid had an uneventful race and with a mechanical issue in the first half of Race 2, she was forced to retire from the race and become the race's first driver who would not end up making it to the chequered flag. Another driver making a move on lap seven was Pin, who after being passed in an earlier part of the race had moved into third. The French driver and championship leader overtook the McLaren-backed Rodin of Lloyd. However, the move was not legal as she ended up taking the place off the circuit and eventually she let Lloyd back through to take the position and needed to find her way through again. There was plenty of racing action at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, which had signed an F1 Academy race venue contract until at least the end of the 2028 F1 Academy Championship. Another battle ongoing was between the MP Motorsport of Ferrari-backed driver Maya Weug and the ART Grand Prix of Puma-backed driver Aurelia Nobels. Weug appeared to squeeze Nobels who was pushed onto the grass and had to cut the chicane and rejoin via the escape road. After the race, there was no further action taken against either driver and it was deemed a racing incident. Pin continued to pressure for third and was trying to find a way ahead of Lloyd but once again the move made was unable to be completed cleanly so the Mercedes-backed driver had to give the Welsh driver the place back. The race's only Safety Car arrived on lap 14 after Nicole Havrda, on home soil, saw her race come to a screeching halt after she ran into the back of Hitech TGR teammate Aiva Anagnostiadis. The Stewards took a dim view of the incident and handed a three-place grid penalty for Race 3. The Safety Car was withdrawn on the penultimate lap of the race, meaning there was to be a one-lap shootout at the end of Race 2 in Montreal. Green flags flew and it was a narrow lead Gademan had over Felbermayr and Lloyd as she started the final lap. However, in the latter stages of the lap, Felbermayr made a move on Gademan to take the lead of the race cleanly and all she had to do was keep hold of it. Meanwhile, Lloyd was looking to take second. Through the final chicane, Felbermayr cut the chicane without taking to the escape road, which was against the Race Director's instructions, which was in the Race Director's events notes. However, Felbermayr took the victory despite all of that to achieve her first victory in the F1 Academy Championship. She held on to take a momentous moment for her in what she will be hoping ends up being a long and successful career in motorsport. She led home a 1-2 for Rodin Motorsport with Ella Lloyd taking second. Nina Gademan completed the podium in third, despite leading the majority of the race. Doriane Pin and Alba Larsen finished fourth and fifth respectively but both with an extra lap of green flag conditions would have had the chance to finish in the podium places as the battle was frantic on the final lap of Race 2. Alisha Palmowski was sixth ahead of Tina Hausmann, while Williams Academy driver Lia Block finished eighth and completed the points scoring. Race 3 will complete the F1 Academy weekend action in Montreal, where Chloe Chambers and Alisha Palmowski will share the front row of the grid for the second time across the weekend. 2025 F1 Academy Championship: Round 4 - Canada Race 2 Provisional Classification
 Brandon Whiteside
Writer - F1 Journal  Credit: Malcolm Griffiths Mercedes-backed driver Doriane Pin took victory for Prema in a chatoic Montreal Race 1, which saw her take the championship lead in the 2025 F1 Academy Championship. At the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Pin took victory for the third time in 2025 after the race finished behind the Safety Car following a collision between Chloe Chong and Rafaela Ferreira. Ferreira appeared to rejoin in an unsafe manner. Pin capitalised following a collision between, at the time, the leading Campos duo Chloe Chambers and Alisha Palmowski. Both dropped down the order and handed the lead to Pin. The French driver took victory though ahead of Rodin Motorsport driver Ella Lloyd and Emma Felbermayr respectively. Following a DNF for Maya Weug, who was once again plagued with mechanical issues as has been the case throughout the Dutch driver's weekend at Montreal. The Ferrari-backed MP Motorsport now trails Doriane Pin in the championship by 23 points. The Race 1 at Montreal was a rescheduled event from the round in Miami, as this race was cancelled due to the treacherous wet weather conditions that made the Miami International Autodrome too unsafe to go racing. This meant the grid was already pre-determined from the qualifying session in Miami, and the grid saw Campos duo Chambers and Palmowski share the front row. Chambers was to start on pole to start her birthday off. Behind them on the second row was Pin and Williams Academy driver Lia Block - racing for ART Grand Prix. Once the lights went out, it was a good start from Chambers and took the lead from Palmowski and Pin through the first few corners. Meanwhile, into fourth went Aurelia Nobels who made a lunge down the inside. While doing so, she clipped the rear tyre of Pin and caused herself front wing damage. It was just the second lap when the collision between the front row occurred. Palmowski had been following Chambers very closely throughout the final sector of the first lap and onto the second lap she sensed an opportunity. Down the inside Palmowski went but after clipping the curb she over-steered into the side of her American teammate and additionally went into a spin. Dropping down the order, Palmowski continued while Chambers carried on in the lead. However, front wing damage for Chambers caused her speed issues and she was struggling to keep her car under control. Therefore, despite Chambers defending with all her might, this allowed the lead to Doriane Pin. Chambers was subsequently called into the pit lane for repairs, following a black and orange flag being displayed by Race Control. This promoted Ella Lloyd up into second and Emma Felbermayr up to third. Palmowski had been showing pace since her accident and made her way back up into the points-scoring places. The Campos was putting the Rodin of Chloe Chong under pressure and the Red Bull Racing-backed driver looked to take ninth from the Charlotte Tilbury-backed driver ahead. After laps of pressure and battling, Palmowski was continuing the pressure but Chong was holding Palmowski up. This was evident as the Wildcard entry, Mathilda Paatz, had closed the gap and was looking to try and make more progress than she had already done. She was running in 11th after starting 18th and last. End of lap 10 for the drivers and the pressure got too much for Chong and this was evident by her going off at the final chicane, conceding the place to her fellow Brit Palmowski. Paatz was unable to capitalise and while going through the chicane at the same time, she clipped the orange sausage curb. Following the clip, Paatz was unable to do anything to keep her Gatorade-liveried Hitech TGR out of the infamous 'Wall of Champions' and had a heavily damaged car. That was her race done and she was out with heavy damage. To no surprise, the Safety Car was required. The Safety Car was out while the marshals cleared the incident and at the end of lap 14, the Safety Car was withdrawn and it was time to go racing once again in Montreal. When the green flags were flying, it was a good restart from Pin who maintained the lead from Lloyd and Felbermayr who continued to be the top three. On the restart lap, in a battle was the Racing Bulls-backed driver Rafaela Ferreira who after locking up had to cut the chicane at turn 8 via the escape road, in order to rejoin safely. However, Ferreira was carrying too much speed and when rejoining the track she smacked into Chong who was smashed into the wall as a result. This was to be investigated after the race. Also within a couple of corners, there was another collision which was this time between Courtney Crone and Joanne Ciconte. Crone was spun round but both cars were able to continue on. However, the Safety Car was called upon because Chong's car was heavily damaged and was to go no further in Race 1. Neither were green flag racing conditions as it was to finish behind the Safety Car. This allowed Pin to take victory ahead of Lloyd and Felbermayr. Pin with victory took the championship lead following Weug's retirement towards the end of the race. The mechanical issues that had been interrupting Weug's Montreal Friday, and spilled over into Saturday. Pin with victory leads the championship by 23 points to Weug. Lloyd and Felbermayr completed the podium for Rodin Motorsport and secured a double podium for the team, in a great result. Alpine-backed Nina Gademan and Williams Academy driver Block completed the top five for Prema and ART respectively. Alba Larsen finished sixth as the highest-placed MP Motorsport car ahead of the Aston Martin-backed driver Tina Hausmann, who was seventh for Prema. Palmowski and Chambers recovered to eighth and ninth but they too would be investigated after the race for the collision between them. Aiva Anagnostiadis completed the points scoring for Race 1. The Friday qualifying top eight will be reversed to form the grid for Race 2. Chloe Chong is to start from reverse grid pole, while the full grid is unknown with whether grid penalties will be given is yet to be confirmed by the Stewards. Race 2 begins later on through the afternoon, on Saturday. 2025 F1 Academy Championship: Round 4 - Canada Race 1
 Brandon Whiteside
Writer - F1 Journal  Credit: Malcolm Griffiths For the third time in 2025, Chloe Chambers has topped qualifying in F1 Academy, with a stunning lap time on Friday at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. The Red Bull Ford-backed driver racing for Campos Racing shone and put together a stunning lap time to take her third F1 Academy pole position, on the eve of her 21st birthday. A memorable moment for the American driver. A 1:38.125 for Chambers saw her top the Friday qualifying session in Montreal, in a dominant style. Chambers had managed to set the lap, which was just under four tenths of a second clear of second-place and Campos teammate Alisha Palmowski. Second in the championship Doriane Pin completed the top three for Prema Racing and the Mercedes-backed driver will be in a great position to gain a significant amount of points on rival and championship leader Maya Weug - following a difficult qualifying for the Dutch driver. Weug had been having a difficult Friday, and failed to set a time in Free Practice. However, the Ferrari-backed driver's misery was compiled when she was only able to manage to qualify in 15th place. Weug will start there for both Race 2 and Race 3 this weekend. The championship leader qualified in 15th, which was one place behind the wildcard entry for Montreal, Mathilda Pattz, who whilst being backed by the new F1 Academy official partner Gatorade, managed a 14th place finish in qualifying, on debut. When the reverse grid takes place for Race 2 of the weekend, it will be Rodin Motorsport's Chloe Chong who will start from pole position. The Charlotte Tilbury-backed driver will start on pole after qualifying in eighth. Alba Larsen was the driver to beat in the early stages of the session, and the Tommy Hilfiger-backed MP Motorsport driver was setting the pace for the rest of the field to attempt to go faster. Sadly, she was unable to keep this up and might have been disappointed to only qualify 12th. Campos duo Chambers & Palmowski shone in the day's earlier Free Practice session, with the session being a constant of the duo trading times at the top of the timing tower. However, qualifying the duo were to pick up from where they left off. Chambers was showing the strength of pace and took provisional pole away from Larsen, after half of the session had been completed. Chambers' first provisional pole lap was a 1:39.089, which also saw Chambers leap above Palmowski, who had gone top seconds prior. Palmowski and Chambers continued to trade times at the top of the time sheets but as the time began to tick down Chambers' pace was becoming stronger and stronger and a bit more difficult for Palmowski and Doriane Pin to beat. Palmowski and Pin were the duo who looked to stand any chance of beating Chambers' rapid pace. Chambers' pole lap came in the latter stages and with a 1:38.125 the deal was sealed and the lap remained unbeaten throughout the time that was remaining in qualifying, in Montreal. An extraordinary time from Chambers at such an iconic circuit in the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The lap secured a third pole position of the 2025 F1 Academy season for Chambers and this will see her start Race 3 from pole position. This is in addition to Chambers starting Race 1 from pole position, as the race that has been rescheduled from Miami will use the grid order that was to start that race. Race 1 will kick-start Saturday's action and the first of two on what is qualifying day for Formula One in Montreal. 2025 F1 Academy Championship: Round 4 - Canada Qualifying Provisional Result
 Brandon Whiteside
Writer - F1 Journal  Credit: Meg Oliphant Red Bull Racing-backed driver Alisha Palmowski was fastest in the sole Free Practice session in Montreal, for Campos Racing during F1 Academy's first session at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Friday morning in Montreal saw the best possible start to the weekend for Campos Racing, who lead the Teams' Championship coming into round four of the 2025 F1 Academy Championship. It was Palmowski with a lap at the very end of the session that secured top spot by 0.074 of a second. Palmowski's lap was a 1:38.898 as she led home a Campos 1-2, with her teammate and Red Bull-Ford backed driver Chloe Chambers ending the session in second. Tommy Hilfiger-backed Alba Larsen finished third for Dutch outfit MP Motorsport. Rodin Motorsport duo Chloe Chong and Ella Lloyd completed the top five at the end of the Free Practice with less than seven tenths separating the top five drivers. It was a difficult session for the top two in the championship, in F1 Academy's first session in Montreal. Doriane Pin, second in the standings, could only manage eighth, while points leader Maya Weug failed to set a lap time. There was one red flag across Free Practice, which was caused by a cooling fan on track that had fallen off the car of Pin and the Mercedes-backed driver as well as Prema was to therefore be investigated after the session, for the car being released in an unsafe condition. An additional investigation after the session was to be for Emma Felbermayr who was seen to have left the pit lane after the red light, around the time of the red flag. Those infractions tend to be frowned upon. F1 Academy action in Montreal will return for the day's later qualifying session, which will set the grid for Race 2 & Race 3. 2025 F1 Academy Championship: Round 4 - Canada Free Practice result
 Brandon Whiteside
Writer - F1 Journal  Credit: Meg Oliphant The F1 Academy Championship returns for the first time in over a month this weekend as the all-female racing series heads to a brand new venue in the Canadian city of Montreal. For the very first time, F1 Academy will visit Canada and in support of Formula One, will go racing for the first time around the legendary and iconic Gilles Villeneuve circuit that has seen some legendary moments in the Formula One World Championship. F1 Academy will be hoping to create historic moments too this weekend, with a championship battle brewing as the championship crosses into the halfway point of the 2025 season, as this weekend's round will be round four of seven. This weekend will be different to usual compared to other F1 Academy weekends as there will be three races as opposed to the usual two. This is following the cancellation of a race in Miami back in May, and the championship and Montreal event organisers have managed to fit in the cancelled race into the Canadian Grand Prix weekend so the race can still be run. For the first time, F1 Academy is to go racing around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, which is one of the fastest circuits that F1 Academy has ever visited. A short lap, many long straights and many corners that flow in a nice sequence. Expect a lot of good racing this weekend with many overtaking opportunities. 14 corners make up this circuit which has a lap distance of 4.361km. With this being the first ever visit to Montreal for F1 Academy, there is no lap record for the championship. It will be a memorable round for Hitech TGR driver Nicole Havrda who will go racing on home soil and will be hoping to have a better round than what her unfortunate luck this season has given her. She will no doubt be hoping to use the home crowd to her benefit. F1 Academy in the week announced that energy drink company Gatorade until 2030, and this weekend the Wildcard entry will be running a Gatorade livery. The driver who has been chosen as the Wildcard entry is Mathilda Paatz, who is just 16-years-old and has been slected to drive at one of the most iconic venues on the Formula One calendar. Coming into round four of the championship, it is Dutch MP Motorsport driver Maya Weug who finds herself at the top of the championship lead by a single point to French Prema Racing driver Doriane Pin. The Ferrari-backed driver Weug has 64 points, which is one greater than the Mercedes-backed driver Pin who is on 63. It is set to be close with outsiders Chloe Chambers and Alisha Palmowski very much in contention with a massive amount of points up for grabs. Free Practice will get the action rolling on qualifying Friday for F1 Academy, which will set the grid for all three of the races this coming weekend. 2025 F1 Academy Championship: Round 4 - Montreal schedule
 Brandon Whiteside
Writer - F1 Journal  IMAGE: Pauline Ballet Doriane Pin takes the win in Race 1 in Miami after a race full of action.  Katie Shepherd
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