Alba Larsen

Alba Hurup Larsen is a Danish single-seater driver currently racing internationally in F4.

She came to prominence when she joined the all-female F1 Academy in 2025, driving for MP Motorsport in a Tommy Hilfiger-sponsored car. She was only 16 years old and this was her first full season in cars. 

Alba's family were friends with Jan Magnussen and his family and she was close to his two younger children growing up. Naturally, this led to an interest in motorsport and to competitive karting from the age of twelve. She travelled around the world to race and won a junior championship in New Zealand in 2023.

She got her big break with the FIA Girls on Track scheme, also in 2023, when she was selected from hundreds of girls who had taken part in Girls on Track events. The assessments included a kart slalom course. The final test for the chosen drivers was timed laps in an F4 car, which was difficult for her as she had never driven anything with a clutch before. She managed another round of testing and assessment despite being unwell.

In 2024, she began her senior career in F4 India, also run by MP, driving for the Speed Demons Delhi team. She did the first two rounds at Madras and Chennai. Chennai was the better circuit for her and she was sixth and eighth. 

During the winter season, she competed in the Formula Winter Series, for the first three rounds. Her best finish was fourteenth at Aragon and she was 32nd overall. 

Her first F1 Academy season began well, qualifying third at Shanghai, but she was not always able to convert pace into results, particularly at Shanghai when she was penalised for colliding with Emma Felbermayr. Her best results were two fourth places in the first and last rounds of the year, at Shanghai and Las Vegas. She was seventh overall. 

Away from F1 Academy, she raced in British F4 for about two-thirds of the season. This proved more challenging, and she could only manage two eleventh places at Silverstone and Thruxton as her best finishes. She was 23rd overall.

For 2026, she was selected as the Ferrari representative driver in F1 Academy, still with the MP squad. She had joined the Ferrari Driver Academy a couple of months earlier. 

Her racing year began with a part-season in the UAE F4 championship, driving for Evans GP. She did the first three rounds, held at Yas Marina and Dubai, with a best finish of tenth, at the Abu Dhabi circuit. Her 22nd position in the championship was the second-best performance in her team.

The 2026 F1 Academy season was disrupted by war in the Middle East, which meant the second round in Saudi was cancelled. Alba qualified second for the first race of the year at Shanghai, but it was a reverse grid and she crashed into Felbermayr again. She did better in the feature race, finishing eighth after a good start.

From a very early stage in her career, Alba has supported other girls wanting a career in motorsport. Her Alba Academy was set up to do this.

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