Ferrari Driver Academy member Maya Weug secured her first victory of the 2025 F1 Academy season in Race 2 on the Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Saudi Arabia, inheriting the win after Crimson Bull Ford’s Chloe Chambers was penalised post-race. Chambers initially crossed the end line first however was handed a five-second time penalty for forcing Weug off observe throughout a important early-lap battle. The penalty dropped her to second, forward of Mercedes’ Doriane Pin, who accomplished the rostrum.
Chambers had began the race from pole place with Pin alongside her on the entrance row. The Crimson Bull driver had excessive hopes after her sturdy exhibiting in Saturday’s reverse grid Race 1, through which she completed fourth. Lining up simply behind them in third was Maya Weug, who had impressed with a runner-up end within the opening race. Crimson Bull’s Alisha Palmowski, who had clinched third place in Race 1, began beside her on row two. Race 1 winner Ella Lloyd of McLaren started from seventh resulting from her qualifying outcome.
When the lights went out for the 13-lap dash, Chambers held the lead whereas the Ferrari junior made a fast transfer on Pin to assert second place by way of Turns 1 and a couple of. Lloyd had a disastrous getaway, stalling on the grid earlier than recovering on the rear of the sector.
The early laps noticed Chambers and Maya Weug start to tug away from the pack, opening a 1.2-second hole to Pin by the tip of Lap 1. Additional again, Sauber’s Emma Felbermayr spun on Lap 2 throughout a busy midfield battle. In the meantime, Weug started mounting stress on the chief, trying a transfer at Flip 22 however was pressured off and had to make use of the run-off space. She tried once more on the primary straight however couldn’t full the cross.
Nonetheless, her persistence paid off firstly of Lap 3, when she lastly surged forward of Chambers, just for each drivers to run extensive after going wheel-to-wheel, permitting Pin to slide into second and relegating Weug to 3rd. Questions instantly arose over whether or not Chambers had pressured the Ferrari driver off-track.
Unfazed, Weug reclaimed second place from Pin with a daring overtake across the outdoors of Flip 1—her second comparable transfer of the race—and set her sights on Chambers as soon as extra. After 5 laps, Chambers had set the quickest time and constructed a lead of simply over a second, with Maya Weug and Pin trailing intently behind. Palmowski ran inside hanging distance in fourth.
The Ferrari Driver Academy member then responded by trimming the hole to eight-tenths on the subsequent lap. Simply as she was closing in, race management introduced a five-second penalty for Chambers for the sooner incident with Weug, prompting pressing radio calls instructing the Crimson Bull driver to push and prolong her result in offset the time loss.
With 5 laps remaining, Maya Weug maintained her tempo and stayed inside hanging vary. Chambers regarded more and more susceptible not just for the win but in addition for second place, with Pin sitting 2.7 seconds behind. Nonetheless, the struggle for the ultimate podium spot wasn’t over, as Palmowski and Tommy Hilfiger’s Alba Larsen had been each round 4.5 seconds adrift and battling arduous in fourth and fifth. Chambers managed to open the hole to fourth previous the five-second threshold on the penultimate lap, giving her a shot at salvaging a podium.
On the ultimate lap, Chambers elevated her tempo and posted the quickest time of the race, managing to stretch her lead over Pin simply sufficient to cling on to second regardless of the penalty. Nevertheless it was Maya Weug who claimed the highest step of the rostrum, changing into the primary Ferrari driver to win an F1 Academy race in Jeddah and vaulting to the highest of the 2025 standings within the course of.
Pin accomplished the race in third, adopted by sturdy performances from rookies Palmowski and Larsen. Aston Martin’s Tia Hausmann took sixth, forward of Alpine’s Nina Gademan in seventh. Lloyd fought again to complete eighth after her troubled begin, whereas 16-year-old Joanne Ciconte and Chloe Chong rounded out the highest ten.
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