Aurelia Nobels

Aurelia Nobels is a Brazilian-Belgian driver born in the USA, who began racing in Danish Formula 4 in 2022, when she was fifteen. She has competed under both a Belgian and Brazilian license.

Her first race in the Danish championship at Jyllandsringen gave her a seventh place, which she improved to a sixth the next day. In an unusual move, she also entered the Brazilian F4 championship, picking up a twelfth place as her best finish at Mogi Guacu. Back in Europe, she joined the Spanish F4 series for its Spa away round, but was not competitive, only managing one 23rd place.

In July 2022, she was selected as a senior driver for the FIA’s Girls on Track initiative. This led to a run in the Italian F4 championship in 2023, along with its related Euro4 championship, for Prema. In addition to this, she was signed by the Ferrari driver academyShe was unplaced in both series. Her best finishes were two eleventh places, one in each series, at Imola and Catalunya. In Italy, she had to miss some rounds, including two of the Misano races. She had an accident in the first race and had to sit out the rest of the weekend.

In 2024, she joined Sainteloc Racing for the UAE F4 championship, in preparation for a season in F1 Academy. She was linked with a Ferrari-backed seat. Her UAE races didn't go brilliantly, with a 19th at Yas Marina her best result. She then did some Saudi F4 races and earned one third place at Losail. This was enough for eleventh in the championship.

Most of 2024 was taken up by F1 Academy, where she was twelfth for ART Grand Prix, despite several top-ten finishes, including a fifth at Zandvoort. She also found time for guest spots in Eurocup-4 and British F4, at Monza and Zandvoort. Her best finish at Zandvoort was 16th, and Monza, fourteenth.

Like many of her F1 Academy rivals, she did the 2025 winter season in Spain, competing in the Eurocup-4 winter series. ART Grand Prix ran her and two other F1 Academy drivers for a part-season. She was the best of the three, finishing 28th overall, with a best finish of fourteenth. Later in the year, she did the Mugello rounds of the Euro4 championship for AS Racing, finishing 23rd twice and 33rd once.

Her F1 Academy season, supported by Puma, was up and down, beginning badly with two DNFs at Shanghai, but ending with her first podium, a third place at Las Vegas. She was thirteenth overall and this was her last season of F1 Academy.

She left the Ferrari Driver Academy at the end of 2025 and her future plans are unknown.

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Tina Hausmann

 

Tina Hausmann is a Swiss driver racing single-seaters in Europe.

Her first experience of car racing, after some success in karts in Switzerland, was in the 2023 Formula Winter Series, a Formula 4 championship based in Spain. She surprised many with a fourth and third place in her first-ever events at Jerez, but the next round at Ricardo Torme was a disappointment for her, with a pair of DNFs. She only did half of the eight-race championship.

During the 2023 summer season, she contested both Italian F4 and its associated Euro4 championship but did not score any points. Her best finish was 16th at Paul Ricard. A Race 1 accident on the second lap at Misano led to her wthdrawal from the rest of the round, although she did return for the next races at Spa.

For 2024, she signed up for both the UAE F4 series and the all-female F1 Academy. Aston Martin selected her as its supported driver for F1A and she was part of the Prema team. Her team-mates Doriane Pin and Maya Weug had considerably more experience, with Doriane having raced at Le Mans and both having competed in FRECA. She started well with a sixth place at Jeddah, but was unable to match it until the end of the year, when she was fourth at Abu Dhabi. Usually, she was a top-ten finisher, but she has not yet got near the podium. Technical problems have played their part in this.

Her UAE campaign ended up being one round at Yas Marina, driving for Xcel Motorsport. She finished two of her three races, in 27th and 21st place.

Still with Prema, she concentrated exclusively on F1 Academy in 2025. In her second and last season in the series, she improved on her 2024 results, finishing more consistently in the top ten. Her best finish was fourth again, in Canada. She did have some regrettable accidents, including taking out Maya Weug on the formation lap at Las Vegas, but she also set a fastest lap in Canada.

Tina was previously active in karting and esports.

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Victoria Blokhina

 

Victoria Blokhina races junior single-seaters in Europe. She currently competes under an Kyrgyz license although she is Russian.

She made her single-seater debut in 2022 aged 16. She entered the UAE F4 championship with R-ace GP and did 16 of the 20 championship rounds, sitting out the last meeting at Yas Marina in favour of Maksim Arkhangelsky. She usually finished, but struggled for pace and had a best finish of 19th at Yas Marina, early in the season. Her final championship position was 32nd. This was followed by a season in Italian F4 with PHM Motorsport, which yielded a 34th place, driving for PHM Racing. Her best finish by far was a twelfth place at the Red Bull Ring.

She also did three Spanish F4 races at Catalunya, finishing 28th twice. 

The UAE championship runs over the winter season and Victoria returned at the end of 2022, driving for the R2Race Cavicel team this time. A single outing in the non-championship Trophy race gave her a sixth and eleventh spot, her best of the year, driving for the Xcel team. Her season with R2Race was more of a challenge, and two 22nd places in the final meeting at Yas Marina were her high points. She was 44th in the championship.

Although she was eligible, she decided against entering the all-female F1 Academy and signed again for Italian F4. She rejoined the PHM team as part of a four-car squad. The early part of the season was more promising for her and she finished 15th at both Imola and Misano, one of three top-twenty finishes. Her year took an unwelcome turn at Spa, where she had a frightening crash in Race 1 which destroyed her car. Neither she nor Guido Luchetti, who sent her car flipping over into a barrier, were injured. She returned for the Monza round. At the end of the season, she was 35th in the championship and second in the three-driver women’s championship.

She moved up to Eurocup-3 in 2024, competing for the Drivex School team. Despite finishing eleventh in the season-opening, non-championship Aragon round, she struggled somewhat for pace. A twelfth place at Catalunya at the end of the season, from 20 finishers was a highlight.

She has been retained by Drivex for the 2025 Eurocup, and warmed up for the year with the Jerez races of the Winter series. She was 20th, 21st and 21st in her three races, then pulled out. She did not appear for the championship proper. despite being registered.

Prior to her F4 debut, she competed in karting internationally in 2019 and 2020. She was a finalist in the FIA Girls on Track competition in 2021.

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Lena Buhler

 

Lena Buhler is a Swiss driver who races single-seaters, mainly in Europe.

She moved into cars from karting in 2020. Her first experience in senior motorsport was racing in Spanish Formula 4 for the Drivex School team. She was fifteenth in the championship and her best finishes were two fifth places at Aragon and Barcelona. These fifth places were among six top-ten finishes she achieved from 20 starts. She could be quick but was quite inconsistent at times. 

In 2021, she raced in the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine, as part of the R-ace team. It was a tough year for her and she earned her best finish of the year, a 23rd place, in the last round at Monza.

During the off-season, she travelled to Arizona in the USA to take part in the W Series F4 tests and was invited back for its Barcelona F3 tests, but she was not offered a seat.

The R-ace connection continued in 2022, with three more FREC races and one finish, a 26th place in Monte Carlo. This followed a part-season in the FR Asian championship, which gave her a best finish of twelfth at Yas Marina. 

She stepped back down to F4 for 2023, entering the UAE championship. Not long after, she was the first driver announced for the FIA’s F1 Academy, an F4-level women-only series, driving for the ART GP team. Lena was one of the oldest drivers in the series, having only started karting at 17 and competing seriously in 2017. She was second in F1 Academy with two wins at Catalunya and Monza. As she was already 25, this would be her only F1 Academy season.

Her 2024 plans were initially unclear, although she became an affiliated driver with the Sauber F1 team as a result of her F1 Academy performances. Later, it was announced that she would be racing in FRECA alongside F1 Academy champion Marta Garcia, although driving for ART again. It was a challenging year and her best finish was 22nd at Paul Ricard. She pulled out of the championship after that.

There was no more single-seater racing for her in 2025, but she did find a seat in a Ligier prototype for the Le Mans Cup. She drove for the French 23Events team, alongside Matteo Quintarelli. It was a very competitive season, with the six potential wins being shared between four teams. The Buhler/Quintarelli pairing was one of these winners, picking up the victory at Le Mans. This was the first time a female driver had won at the Sarthe circuit.

Their other best results were three fifth places, which was enough for championship seventh.

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Logan Hannah

 

Logan Hannah is a Scottish single-seater driver who won a round of the 2020 Scottish Formula Ford championship outright.

She made her senior motorsport debut in 2017, racing a Formula 4 in the UAE Championship, which runs over the winter season. Logan is a British national but mostly competed in the Middle East to begin with, first as a junior karter.

She was only sixteen when she did her first race at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi. Her results were two sevenths and one eighth place, having finished three of her four races. 

In 2018, she trained for more F4 races with the Arden team, but her actual races were with Graham Brunton’s Formula Ford team. She travelled to the UK for the Walter Hayes Trophy but ran into car trouble with her Ray GR10.

In 2019, she raced in the Scottish Formula Ford championship with Graham Brunton Racing and was fourth overall, with three podium finishes in her 2015-spec Ray. She also raced FF1600 in England, in two Champion of Brands races and the season-ending Walter Hayes Trophy, which has become a regular event for her. Back in the UAE and F4 in December, she took part in the non-championship support race for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and was eighth and ninth. 

She won the David Leslie Trophy at Knockhill in 2020, the first time a Scottish woman had won a national Formula Ford race. Later, she qualified for the Walter Hayes Trophy final, finishing 15th.

Her Formula Ford season in 2021 was restricted to the Formula Ford Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy, but she announced that in 2022 she would be contesting the GB4 (formerly British F4) championship. This was a new series and GBR was one of the first teams to commit to it.

She took advantage of the reverse grid for Race 3 during a GB4 meeting to win a race at Donington, the fourth weekend of her season. This followed a second place in the reverse-grid race at Silverstone. The rest of the season was consistent rather than spectacular, and she was tenth in the championship.

After her traditional appearance in the Walter Hayes Trophy in November, she hinted that this had been her last single-seater race as she was looking to switch to sportscars, possibly Porsches. Mid-season in 2023, she entered a round of the GT Cup at Snetterton, sharing a Lamborghini with Iain Loggie. Loggie crashed the car before she got to drive.

Most of her 2024 racing was in sportscars, in the form of the Ligier European Series. She did four races, sharing the car with Ben Caisley. The pair had a best finish of fourth at Paul Ricard. Later in the year, she was a surprise wildcard entry for the all-female F1 Academy, competing at Yas Marina in Bahrain. Her best finish from her three races was tenth.

She intimated on social media that she was retiring from competition at the beginning of 2025.

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Hamda al-Qubaisi

Hamda al-Qubaisi is Abu Dhabi-born driver who won three rounds of the 2020 UAE F4 championship.

After a short period of international karting in Rotax Max, she began her senior racing career in 2019, in Formula 4. She competed against her older sister Amna al-Qubaisi in the last rounds of the Italian F4 championship at Red Bull Ring and Monza. Her best finish was 21st at Monza. Both sisters were driving for the Abu Dhabi Racing team. 

She did better in the UAE F4 race that supported the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, qualifying third and finishing fifth in her first race, which Amna won. Hamda ran into problems in the second and was eleventh. 

The GP support was a non-championship prelude to the UAE F4 series, which Hamda entered with the Abu Dhabi team. She was on the pace straight away, picking up pole position for the first race at Dubai Autodrome. She could not hold on to the lead on a wet track and finished sixth, although she fought back in Race 2 to second. The terrible weather was partly to blame for her DNF in Race 3 and the fourth race was cancelled due to track flooding.

She earned another two podiums at Yas Marina, both second places, although she was still not quite able to capitalise on her qualifying pace and suffered a couple of offs. She also admitted later that her race starts were not the best. The second Abu Dhabi round began with another pole position, but this weekend she managed to turn it into a win in the third race, after two more seconds She crossed the line for her victory ten seconds ahead of her nearest rival, set a fastest lap and an F4 track record. 

A straight run of podiums at Dubai followed, then a four-race weekend bookended by two wins for the season finale, also at Dubai.

She was fourth in the championship.

Hamda intended to race in Europe for the rest of the 2020 season but the global coronavirus pandemic put a stop to motorsport for the first half of the year. She made it into the Italian F4 championship in August and had a rocky start, recording a DNF in her first race and then an 18th and 14th place at Misano. By the time the series reached the Red Bull Ring her confidence had increased and she picked up her first top ten, a tenth place, Her second top-ten was a ninth place at Monza, which must have been satisfying after a pair of non-finishes. She was 25th in the championship.

In September, she made a guest appearance in the German F4 championship at Hockenheim, earning herself another tenth place.

Making up for a slow 2020, she entered 47 races in 2021. Her schedule took in the complete UAE and Italian championships, plus some appearances in German F4. The UAE series began the year and she was fourth overall, with two wins at Dubai and Yas Marina. Only some inconsistency dropped her out of title contention.

Her season in Italy was also very inconsistent, but she did show flashes of really good speed, finishing third at Misano and then seventh at Vallelunga mid-season. She was 17th overall. Her German season was something of a write-off, with only two finishes from six races.

She decided to move up to F3 in 2022, entering the Formula Regional Asian Series with her sister Amna and their father, Emirati sportscar racer, Khaled al-Qubaisi. It was a tricky championship for her and she was 27th overall. Her best finish was a twelfth place at Yas Marina in the first race of the season.

The main season began in April and Prema ran Hamda in the Formula Regional European Championship, alongside Amna. The jump up in the level of competition showed and she could only muster a 24th place at the Red Bull Ring in the final race of the season. Another go at the UAE F4 championship also did not really go her way; she was 20th overall and only managed a pair of top-ten finishes. These were seventh places in Kuwait and Bahrain.

For 2024, she was announced as one of the first drivers in the all-female F1 Academy series, racing an F4 car for MP Motorsport. Amna was one of her rivals and also her team-mate. She was third overall, winning four times at Valencia, Zandvoort and Circuit of the Americas.

The rules of F1 Academy state that drivers can only stay in the championship for two seasons, so 2024 was the last one for Hamda. She drove for MP Motorsport again, but was not as competitive as in 2023 despite three podiums, including a second place at Yas Marina. She was fifth overall. This followed a winter-season run in the Saudi F4 championship. She began the championship proper well with a win and a third in Kuwait, but she was unable to keep up the momentum. She scored one more podium, a third, at Jeddah in the middle of the season, hanging on to fourth in the championship.

After F1 Academy, she did make one last attempt at single-seaters, signing up for another go at the F4 Middle East series. Unfortunately, she retired from the first round at Yas Marina, due to trouble with her car on the green flag lap, then had to pull out.

She and Amna then teamed up for the rest of the season in the Ligier European Series, driving for the Virage team. Sportscars seemed to suit them and they scored their first podium in their second race in the car, finishing third at Barcelona. This was one of three podiums during the year, including a second place at Silverstone. They were fourth in the championship.

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Amna al-Qubaisi

Amna (right) on the podium in Abu Dhabi

Amna al-Qubaisi is an Emirati single-seater driver who races alongside her younger sister, Hamda.

She made her senior racing debut at the start of the 2018 season after winning the 2017 UAE Senior Rotax karting title. 

For her first season, she raced in Italian Formula 4 with Prema Powerteam, which has links to Ferrari. Her best finish was a twelfth place, fourth in the Rookie class, at Adria. She combined Formula 4 with karting. 

At the end of the year, she was invited to test a Formula E car for DS Virgin Racing, as part of the female driver bonus test organised by the Saudi motorsport authorities. At around the same time, she was named as one of the 55 longlisted drivers for the initial W Series race season. By the time the driver assessment events came around in early 2019, she had withdrawn from the selection process for unstated reasons. It could be argued that a driver with a major sponsor like Kaspersky Data Systems did not need the W Series.

Another season in Italian F4 followed in 2019. She was driving for Abu Dhabi Racing this time and her results were broadly similar to before, with a 13th place at Mugello being her best.

At the end of 2019, she became the first woman from an Arab country to win an international single-seater race. Her victory followed a pole position and came in the non-championship UAE F4 Trophy, which supported the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Her sister Hamda, who started racing in F4 that year, was fifth. This is believed to be the first time that a female driver has won a mixed single-seater race during a GP weekend.

Amna and Hamda had previously done the last round of Italian F4 together earlier in the year. Hamda also races for the Abu Dhabi team.

Amna is the first Emirati woman to race at this level, aside from being the first to win. She is a citizen of Abu Dhabi although she was born in the USA and is currently a student in France. Before taking up karting at fourteen, she competed in gymnastics.

She concentrated on her education in 2020, but returned to the tracks at the start of 2021, racing in the F3 Asian Series. Her best finishes were two 15th places at Yas Marina and she was 19th in the championship.

Her father is Khaled al-Qubaisi, who previously raced sportscars and won the Dubai 24 Hours twice. They competed against one another in the 2022 Formula Regional Asia championship, with Hamda, as part of an Abu Dhabi-Prema team. Amna was the best of the three, earning one tenth place at Yas Marina early in the season.

Amna took over from Hamda in the European Formula Regional championship for the last two meetings of the season. Sadly, she only finished once, in 31st place, at Catalunya.

She tried her hand at sportscar racing just before, at Hockenheim. The WS team invited her to join their Girls Only team for a round of the Spezial Tourenwagen Trophy (STT), driving a Norma LMP3 car. On a very wet track in tricky weather conditions, she was fourth in Race 1. The second race was effectively neutralised, becoming a few laps behind a safety car, due to bad weather.

It was back to F4 for 2023. It began with two disastrous guest appearances in the Spanish-based Formula Winter Series. Her first race at Catalunya ended in a DNF, then she was disqualified from Race 2.

Amna, alongside her sister, signed up for the F1 Academy women's racing series, both driving for MP Motorsport. Amna was not quite as successful as Hamda, but she did manage two wins, at Red Bull Ring and Catalunya, and two more third places. She was sixth in the championship. Later in the season, both sisters raced in the non-championship inaugural Saudi F4 race. Amna was third and seventh. She contested most of the Saudi championship in early 2024, finishing second once at Losail and coming tenth in the championship after an inconsistent season.

Her second and final year in F1 Academy did not go as well. She stayed with MP Motorsport alongside her sister, but was off the pace this time. She was eighth four times, at Jeddah, Miami and Abu Dhabi, but these were her best results. She was 15th in the championship.

Alongside her sister, she made a very productive move into sportscars for 2025. They teamed up for the Ligier European Series, driving for the Virage team. They were fourth in the championship, only waiting until the second race of the season to get onto the podium, in third at Barcelona. Later, they were second at Silverstone and were fourth in the championship.

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