The Academy’ Netflix collection to launch in Could

F1 Academy’s Netflix collection F1: The Academy is ready to launch globally on 28 Could 2025, produced by Hey Sunshine, actor Reese Witherspoon’s manufacturing firm.

The docuseries follows F1 Academy’s all-female grid via the 2024 season, permitting viewers to go behind the scenes within the paddock and glimpse the private lives of the gifted feminine driver base.

F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff is an govt producer of the collection for F1 and stated upon the collection’ announcement: “To have the F1 Academy docuseries launch globally with Netflix isn’t just an enormous step ahead in visibility for our mission, but additionally a convincing assertion concerning the momentum and demand for girls’s sport.

“We wish to encourage and empower the subsequent technology of younger girls, and Netflix will open up F1 Academy to a world viewers of present and future followers.”

Followers have already been supplied snippets of what’s to return via the drivers’ social media, corresponding to Bianca Bustamante and Maya Weug who posted concerning the collection to their Instagram pages.

Weug took the movie crew round Ferrari’s Maranello base because the Scuderia’s first-ever feminine driver academy member.

The collection types a part of an enormous advertising and marketing push for F1 Academy, which has helped improve the championship’s visibility since its inception in 2023.

This consists of the backing of the ten F1 groups and quite a few giant manufacturers, corresponding to TAG Heuer and Charlotte Tilbury, from the beginning of 2024, and the elevated variety of vehicles on the grid for 2025 – from 15 to 18.

Crimson Bull Ford-backed F1 Academy driver Chloe Chambers instructed Motorsport.com: “The acquire that you simply get from the entire media and the entire consideration, particularly now this 12 months with the F1 groups coming in and the Netflix documentary, I believe that subsequent 12 months [2025] and the next years shall be even greater than the final. Not only for the drivers, but additionally for the collection.”

And given the half Formulation 1’s Drive to Survive has performed in elevating the recognition of the collection over the previous few years, one can solely assume that F1: The Academy may have an analogous impact.