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The reverse grid race in Las Vegas was one of the most challenging events of F1

Academy this year.

Ready to start on wet tyres for a rolling start, title contender Maierberg

the back of Tina Hausmann before the race was fully underway.

A huge disappointment.

Nina Gaetman led from pole while the midfield battles were leading to

Alba Larsson made a great move to take the lead, but she then lost it after

clipping a barrier.

Ella Lloyd crashed and Chloe Chambers went out, but title leader Dorianne Pan

took her fourth win of the 2025 season.

Welcome to the final race of F1 Academy this year at the spectacular venue in

Las Vegas.

I'm Ben Edwards, and we're all looking forward to a new champion being crowned

here after 13 laps of the high -speed strip circuit, which is always

unpredictable. Yet the French racer Dorianne Pan has a 20 -point lead.

following her win in race one. And her rival, Maya Berg, can only snatch the

title by winning this race and seeing Dorian drop to seventh or lower to make

happen. The two rivals will be starting fourth and fifth on the grid.

With me is Alice Powell, who's won plenty of races in her own career. And

while we are focused on the championship around this dramatic Las Vegas circuit,

and the sun is just setting now, we will be getting into the dark towards the

end of this race.

There's a lot to look at, but it's not just the championship battle. We've got

an intriguing race from some other top qualifiers on this circuit.

It certainly does. And if anything, just to go by with yesterday's race, that

was quite thrilling, quite... Different conditions, though, for the drivers

today. Chloe Chambers lining up on pole position.

She is our top scorer in terms of being on pole position. Most poles this year,

four. And it's another Campos 1 -2 as well with Alicia Palmofsky lining up

alongside. Last time Campos had a 1 -2 was back in Miami. So it works well for

them. Does America?

on the american circuit but certainly different conditions should be still

though an exciting race

It's going to be fascinating.

Dorianne Pan is starting in fourth. Let's take a look at the entire grid

then. In 18th place is the Canadian Nicole Havrida, while 17th is wildcard

Peyton Westgood, who finished sixth in race one.

Aurelia Nobels and her first top three finish from this P16 in race one

yesterday. Chloe Chong is going into her last ever F1 Academy race.

Courtney Crone finished seventh yesterday from 14th, while 13th place

Robinson on her debut ended up finishing fourth. Great result.

Leah Block starts.

12th, she gained seven places in race one. Joanne Chikonte starts 11th.

Top rookie Ella Lloyd is 10th on the grid, and Rafaela Ferreira from Brazil

lines up in 9th.

Reverse grid pulse at infinite second yesterday. Nina Gaidman starts 8th, with

Emma Fehlmeier in 7th, hoping to avoid technical issues with the car.

Tina Hausman, backed by Afton Martin, starts 6th, and title contender Maya

starts 5th, knowing she has to go for the win to have any chance.

Her rival Dorian Pan starts 4th with a 20 -point advantage, while Alba Larsson,

who led but crashed yesterday, starts 3rd. On the front row are the two

Campos... team drivers Alicia Palmosky looking for her second win of the year

Chloe Chambers seeking her third ever win as she goes into her last ever F1

Academy race you're looking on board right now from Maya Verg so Alice Maya

the one who could possibly still win the title but she has to go for the win and

she has to hope that Dorian Pan has a pretty rubbish race in this one

Well, that is the thing. Dorian has been myth -consistent. She's been

consistently up there, and she did everything she needed to do, and

even more yesterday, getting the win, which was fantastic for her, and 20

is her advantage now.

Maya has to win. She has to get fastest lap, and Dorian finished seventh or

lower. So that is possible.

Maya is one of the biggest movers on the grid throughout this year. She's had...

gained 42 positions in all our races this year and that is a lot more than

anybody else so it's possible it certainly is and when i saw her

the race of course hugely disappointed but she was she said it's still possible

and i'm going to give it my everything well that's great and it's great that

she's got that attitude towards it we're about to see them going away on the

formation lap there's the number 14 chloe changers leading them away she has

a Victory this year, front pole position in Montreal.

Oh, and a problem again for Emma Felbermayer. Now, I don't know quite,

a clutch problem yesterday, didn't they? They did.

And I popped down to see what the issue was. As you just said there, Ben, a

clutch problem.

And they said, yeah, it should hopefully all be resolved today.

But unfortunately for Emma, it doesn't look like that is the case.

No, and that is bitterly disappointing for Emma Felbermayer.

She's had a win in Montreal this year as well, but it's just not working out for

her at all. So that is a great shame. Well, we're getting all set for this

race of the season.

We spoke to the top three on the grid a little while ago. Let's start with Alba

Larsson.

Well, I'm obviously hoping to finish where I'm going to be starting and

hopefully even further ahead. I think that would be such a good way to end the

season.

I think my goal, obviously, is to win. I won the first race of the year, so I'd

love to win the last race of the year.

But equally, I think the main aim is to bring home a 1 -2 for the team. And

they've worked so hard this year, so that would be the perfect way to end out

the season.

How we're going to do that, we've got to discuss, because it's going to be a

challenge, definitely.

We've got some really quick people behind us. So, yeah, but I'm excited for

challenge.

I mean, for me, the number one thing is to win.

You know, I fell out of championship contention a little while back. So from

then on, I was just focusing on trying to get race wins. And, you know,

especially here in Vegas, it's my last race, my last home race as well. So it'd

be really exciting to win here.

It's going to be fascinating.

And Alice, the fact that Chloe Chambers and Alicia Palmowski made contact in

race one, and it's happened before as well, even though they're both Campos

teammates, it hasn't always.

work well between them, even though they're not against each other.

Yes, I wonder if they wish they had that discussion before the race yesterday,

because they were fighting for podium positions,

weren't they?

Alicia did.

get a podium however she was disqualified after the race for a

infringement we actually promoted Aurelia Nobles up to her first podium

great to see but I can imagine Campos would have sat them down and had a stern

word with the pair of them because

We've seen that this Las Vegas strip between turn 12 all the way down to turn

14, 1 .92 kilometers is the length of that straight. And talking to a few of

teams, they reckon that the tow is worth anything between eight tenths to one

second. So, you know, if you're in the lead and the car's right behind you on

the exit of turn 12, they're likely going to get past.

Absolutely. Yeah, no, it's going to be a fascinating race. We just saw Chase

Carey from Liberty keeping an eye on F. One Academy, the final race of this 2025

season. You're riding on board with Maya Verg, who had that nightmare before the

race even started, crashing out in race one and unable to score any points at

all. So the gap has come up again, up to 20 points. Now there's Emma Felbermayer

back in the pit.

They're trying to sort out. It is clearly to do with the clutch again.

got the rear wheels turning.

She may have to make a start from the pit lane, do you think?

I think that's likely going to be the case, and hopefully they'll be able to

drop it down and it won't stall and she'll have use of the clutch.

She'll obviously have to start at the end of pit lane and wait until all the

cars have gone past, but I can just see the final few cars now, Ben, are lining

up towards the back of the grid.

Dorianne Pan looking to try and wrap up the title. She has taken points in 29

races in 2024, 2025. In every race she has done so far, she has scored

something.

All she needs to do again is to wrap up this championship.

Let's get ready for the final race.

F1 Academy is underway, and it's a good start from the pole sitter, Chloe

Chambers. Chloe Chambers heading down into turn one. Alicia Palmowski in

place, but being possibly attacked by Alba Larsson. Alba Larsson, though, runs

touch wide, and that puts her under a bit of pressure from Dorian Pan.

Dorian Pan on the outside in the Mercedes livery, but she's settling back

fourth place. That's still a good place to be, but right behind her, of course,

is her big rival for the title, Maya Berg.

And Dorian Pan now beginning to... attack a bit more.

Yeah, and further back, we've got Tina Houseman under pressure from her

teammates. She's going to brave it down the inside door. In fact, she had a

look. That was covered by Abel Arsene, but lovely move by Nina Gaiman. Does she

avoid the wall on the exit? She does. So she moves one spot further up, but

everyone nice and clean so far.

Yeah, that is good. A good start so far, and particularly for Chloe Chambers

from that pole position. She really got off the line very well, and there was no

attack from Alicia Talmowski into the first corner. There is Maya Berg then.

Ferrari. backed Maia Verg, who now has to go for the win. The only way she can

try and take the title is to get in front, but she's got to do it in a way

works. Now, we're coming down towards a very important left -hander that then

leads on to the long straight. You were talking about, Alice, where you get a

toe. So she's in a good position to get the toe from here.

She is. Nice, clean exit. You can see how quickly the barrier on the exit

up to you. And I'll tell you what, Alba Larson, she was stormingly quick on the

first lap yesterday, racing lap, that is, in wet conditions before clipping

barrier, which sent her then into a spin at the final corner. And she's got a

very good run. So now we're going to get a great example from the helicam of how

good the tow is. And you can see how she's dragging up to the back of Alicia

Palmowski's car. She pulls out fairly early.

Is this going to be an easy move there? down on the brakes.

She's on the outside, and no, it doesn't quite work. Oh, Alicia Palmoski,

though. She went in, but she braked late. You could see that, and ran over

kerb. I think she got away with it.

She did, and this will be great for Chloe Chambers. She'll be looking in her

mirrors and say, you carry on, girls, you carry on. You keep squabbling, you

keep fighting. This is going to be a brave move if Alba goes around the

at the final corner, thinks better of it, but that has allowed Dorian Pan to

storm up to the back of this group.

and Meyerberg as well. Oh, Meyerberg!

Down the inside.

Oh, yeah, she's gone for the inside of Dorian Pan, her big rival, Dorian Pan.

Main thing from her point of view is don't get taken out because if you don't

score any points, then suddenly your chance of winning a championship is

reduced, but they haven't actually made contact.

As I mentioned earlier, one of the best overtakers on the grid, if not the best

overtaker, is now trying to get round the outside of Dorian Pan.

Thinks better of it. Dorian closes that door.

And, of course, it's about getting your exits, getting the car rotating. It's

all calmed down, at least for now, at the front of the field.

Yeah, as you say, Chloe Chambers, the American on home turf here in Las Vegas,

21 -year -old in her last ever F1 Academy race, is definitely controlling

front at the moment.

But we shall see because, as you say, the tow that we get down the straight

makes a big, big difference.

Let's just take a little... look back at what was going on here Alice with Maia

diving down the inside thankfully no contact was made nearly made the move

it didn't quite work I think Maia thought well they seem to have all

fairly early so

I've got nothing to lose, technically. So she's going to send one down the

inside. And that lock -up, when we briefly saw it, I thought, no, don't

contact. But she was able to not make contact. And there you go. Down the Las

Vegas strip, the driver that looks more likely to be under pressure now is Alba

Larson from Dorianne Pan.

Yeah, you're right. It looks like Dorianne Pan with the Mercedes backing

definitely got a good toe to try and get past Alba Larson with the Hilfiger

sponsorship for MP Motorsport.

Up front, Chloe Chambers. is still in charge. Is Dorianne going to go for the

inside line? No, she doesn't. I wondered whether she might dive in, but she is a

wise driver in many ways. She tends not to take huge, big risks, does she?

No, she certainly doesn't, and I have to say it's a lot tamer than the early

laps that we had yesterday. I've seen Leah Block has lost a couple of places.

She's now dropped outside of the top ten, but a nice run there from Dorianne.

Is she going to be able to be braver and more capable on the brakes into turn

one? No.

So she has to sit and wait once again. But this is being nicely controlled up

front by Chloe Chambers.

Seven tenths nearly is the gap. And she gets past the slap as well. And just to

point out, Ben.

This is ideal for Cambos because they are fighting against MP in the team's

championship. Yeah, that's for second place in the team's championship because

Prema wrapped up to the main championship. But yes, it could be a

for second.

Dorian Pan, number 28.

The one who is on target for becoming champion is definitely putting Alba

under more pressure again. Behind her, though, is still Maya Verg, her big

rival. But Verg needs to really take some risks in a way to come through.

Garcia.

You can see through Team Europe because she's the... Oh, we've got two cars who

have clashed.

Unfortunately, that's a great shame. Joanne Chikonte has had a battle there

our rookie entry this weekend, the wildcard entry, Peyton Westcourt. And,

this is called a yellow.

Are they going to be able to get going again?

I would say that's most definitely going to be calling out.

A safety car. I heard one of them trying to pull away, and I assume that was

Duran De Conte in the Weller Professionals car, because the rear

we don't actually see how that was started, do we? But I think the rear of

Peyton Westcott's car was broken because of that impact there.

Chloe Chong and the Charlotte Tilbury are just going to manage to go in

the both of them. Yeah, so a bit unlucky there, but still no safety cars.

being called which i'm fairly surprised about they're coming down the las vegas

strip so yeah there's i see there's a yellow flag that's in sector three so i

assume that safety car that the boards are out so safety car uh has been

deployed right okay well that makes sense as they've got to sort out getting

those cars back into place and this means of course there's no opportunity

overtake right now as we are under the yellow flag and as you say the safety

is now going to be in charge of this race so chloe chambers having started

pole position

has certainly maintained the advantage.

And both drivers are out of the cars completely.

You'd have thought that maybe they would have been able to get... Oh, no, there

is quite a lot of suspension damage. OK, yes. So there wasn't a way they could

continue. And that is... That's a great shame to go out of the final race, of

course, of this year.

Disappointing for Joanne Chiconte, the Australian 16 -year -old.

who has had a best finish of eighth so far this year. And, of course, we've

got Peyton Westcott, as I mentioned, in her first weekend in F1 Academy. She got

a sixth -place finish in race one from the back of the grid. So that was

fantastic. Yeah, she did a great job. She's in the Visit Las Vegas car, the 16

-year -old, our seventh wildcard driver of the season. She's been racing in

Italia in F4 this year. As you can see, the cars are filtering through.

Now, marshals are on track to clear up any debris that might be.

Now, in terms of how is this going to help Maya, because, of course, she's the

one that's going to be chasing Dorianne, she was almost sort of falling back a

little bit. She didn't seem to have the pace. It's, of course, going to bunch

them up.

I hate to say it, but Maia maybe will be wanting, not wanting another safety

car, but usually safety cars breed safety cars, don't they? So it's going

bunch the field up. Someone who will be disappointed, that will be Chloe

Chambers, because she was just eking away out front.

And just looking at the timing screen, it looks like Emma Felbermaier has been

able to...

to go out she last time around was 14 .1 seconds behind but is that her now at

the back of the pack looks like it is yeah well that is one thing she'd be

to catch them having started from the pit lane but whether she's going to be

able to

get many places from there. It's not going to be easy, but let's wait and see

how it all goes.

Ella Lloyd, by the way, she's still down in eighth, and it's nice to get a view

of our other F1 Academy champion, Abby Pulling, watching from the pit lane and

giving us a wave.

Abby, of course, was the champion last year, and Dorianne Pound was second to

Abby last year. It is still looking like Dorianne is going to become the third

champion in the F1 Academy history, the way it's going right now.

Claire Verg needs to get past not just Dorianne Pan. You're riding on board

Dorianne Pan now. But Verg needs to get past all of them, even Chambers up

front, of course. She needs to be winning because she just doesn't have

points unless she wins. And then she needs to see Dorianne Pan drop further

back. Yeah, that's exactly that.

And she'll be hoping. Actually, she was putting up a good fight.

The thing is, it's easy for us to say, well, she just needs to stay out of

trouble.

That's a lot easier said than done.

And I think her approach has been absolutely perfect so far during both

this weekend.

When you overtook Leah, it was out of track limits.

I have no idea what you said, but I think it has no track limits, and no, I

not out of track limits.

Yeah, that's interesting. I had seen that Courtney Crone had got an earlier

block, but they are saying that track limits was a problem. We haven't

seen it yet, have we? No, we haven't.

But back to Dorianne, she's done everything that...

is been needed to offer this weekend and her approach has been great because i

think if you you try and be too conservative you end up going backwards

only option really is to try and go forward and some synchronized spinning

was being taken place we didn't again we didn't see how how that had actually

started i'm guessing from the damage from joanna contes left rear, that that

made contact with the Peyton Westfoot's car. And you can see the frustration

from Giaconte.

It just ran into me. I was passing her around the outside and she lost the car.

Ah, that's interesting. That would have been early into the corner.

I wonder, well, this is a different move. This is the move that we saw that

Courtney Crone, if you look here, the red and white car, Courtney Crone.

Yeah, that was close. So they're all about track limits.

Sorry, I was looking at, yeah.

Track limits at turn 17, which is the flat out in the dry, at least, for these

F1 Academy cars.

Final corner, the left -hander. So it's hard to see whether that was in track

limits or not.

The teams only have access to the angles and the coverage that we do. They don't

get anything extra, as Susie's on the pit wall with Frema, showcasing a very

cool and sparkly Las Vegas Grand Prix jacket.

It is indeed.

Well, it is, of course, the first event that F1 Academy has been at Las Vegas.

They've been at other... US events they were at Miami earlier this year they've

had other events in the past but to be at Las Vegas and for the for the drivers

for the rookie drivers Alice to get used to the layout of this track because

they only had the one practice session and then they were straight into

qualifying we've had different conditions so it's been a real demand

hasn't it to try and work out how you make this track work it has and I think

The main challenge really has been the temperatures. We haven't really seen F1

Academy race in these kind of temperatures since Shanghai. And even

certainly warmer than it was yesterday. It's much warmer today than it was in

the rain. And having a look there, it was a perfect getaway for our pole

Chloe Chambers. And then Alba thought, you know what, I'm going to brave it

around the outside, but just snatched that front inside left, which then

Dorian Pan to sneak.

to the left -hand side of her and brave it round the outside but wasn't able to

do it round turn three absolutely no it was as you said earlier it was actually

a very clean start particularly as yesterday we we lost cars before the

even got started but they were under formation that but it was very wet if

can you can tell her to give it back she's our teammate she passed the off

she needs to give the position back or she'll get a penalty after the race

Yeah, so Leah Block still unhappy about what Courtney Crone did. They are both

with the ART Grand Prix team, and she's obviously not happy that she hasn't

given it back yet. No. Some inter -team battle that will be settled, well, maybe

on track, but maybe off track as well between the ART teammates.

So let's see.

Chloe Chambers has bunched them right up, heading down the strip.

They've still got a way to go.

Yeah, taking it. So she's out the strip, sorry. So no weaving after the bridge,

which all cars are adhering to. And it looks like she's put the throttle down.

Here we go then. We're back to racing once again as Chloe Chambers gets the

restart. But it could be a battle going on.

Palmoski. battling with Alba Larsson. Alba Larsson in third, had a little look

down the inside once again, but couldn't quite make the move.

Maya Verg has not got going particularly well. If anything, she's under a bit of

pressure from Nina Gaidman behind, and she's lost a space or two to Dorian Pan,

her big rival. And meanwhile, Dorian Pan now, in a good toe situation, she might

be able to attack Alba Larsson. Look, she's having a little look down the

inside. Is she actually going to go for it this time?

Dorian... Has gone up into third place, Alice.

She has. And lovely move. She's clearly got more speed than Alba Larsson. Let's

see what Alba does now in terms of Maia Berg. Has she given her enough room on

the inside? Looks like she has.

And this scrapping then has allowed Nina again to catch up to the back of them.

So one title challenger goes through past Alba Larsson and then so goes the

other. Yeah, well, that's really interesting.

Alba Larsson, who is talented, 16 -year -old from Denmark, who's put in some

good performances so far this year.

Best finish fourth place, so she was hoping that she might get a podium here,

but she's lost out there, and it might be difficult to get back past him. She's

going to be coming under a bit of pressure from Nida Gaidman next, number

But right now, Maya Verg in the Ferrari back car is still chasing after her big

rival for the title, Dorianne Pan.

But Pan on target for yet another podium. Up front, it's still Chloe

who is in total control of this race so far, not able to pull away a lot. Ella

Lloyd and Tina Hausman side by side. And Ella possibly getting the position. But

will this be done all the way down as they come into...

The final little section here. Ella Lloyd's done it. She's up into seventh

place. She's able to sneak through. She had the benefit of Nina's toe as well

because she forced Tina to technically defend down the strip. And of course,

Nina had no reason to defend. So it was on the normal racing lie. But a great

restart by Chloe Chambers. That's another fastest lap of the race.

And is stretching her legs out front. Six and a half tenths it's going to be.

And Dora Pan just looks like she's got great pace at the moment. So riding on

board.

brave stuff on the brakes because if you just brake that fraction too late

you'll then into the barrier but she's driving with so much confidence at the

moment and she doesn't have to move forward because she's keeping her title

rival behind her Maya's got it all to do she has to win this race and it's not

going away for her at the moment Do you think Alba Larson almost let Meyer

through? They are teammates at MP. I wonder if it's almost having been passed

Dorian Pan, she felt, well, maybe I shouldn't battle my teammate.

Yeah, I would probably say that that looks like I'm not going to put up much

a defense for you. And there we see that Rachel Robinson has got a time penalty

for causing a collision. Maybe she was involved with the incident between

Westcote and Giaconte.

So that's the only replays that we've been able to see, but a 10 -second

for Robertson.

Well, Chloe Chambers is still holding this race at the moment. And it is still

the Campos team that are running one and two. But Dorianne Pan there in third

place is now in a good position as well to try and pick up the toe. We are just

over halfway through this last race. And Dorianne Pan very much on target.

Started in fourth, now up to third. Can she now get a bit more of a toe in? Try

and challenge for second place. Try and get past Alicia Palmowski.

riding on board with her and you can just see that pickup how when you get

tow from the car ahead you start to close up but not always quite enough to

actually attack into braking into 14 15 16 and then up through

into the final turn 17 to complete another lap. But she's doing a great

isn't she?

She is. And this could even maybe potentially be the fastest lap of the

We'll wait to see as they cross the line. But she's certainly got the pace,

Dorianne. And yet, there we go, fastest lap of the race. So that'll be an extra

point for her as well. Not that she needs it right now.

But Maya just starting to slip away from this group. It's nearly going to be

nine tenths of a second at the interval between her and Dorianne.

She's got some breathing space. Alva Larsson still holding her own up against

Nina Gaben. She's actually pulled away slightly.

And Nina will be soon under pressure from the McLaren of Ella Lloyd.

Yeah, still looks like Ella Lloyd's going to be the top rookie this year in

Academy. And, of course, continuing with McLaren backing going into next year.

But it's still a good battle up front. There's no doubt about it. Chloe

is not opening up the gap hugely.

Let's just have a look at incidents involving Africa at the back.

Was she moving before the lights went out? Yeah.

So usually when we see that pop up on the screen, that's usually a slam dunk.

So Dorian Pan got a couple of those last year, but she's managed to sort that

out this year, being part of the course towards success. She lost a few points

from jump start last year, but they seem to have bunched up a little bit now.

Gap as they go up onto the...

seven tenths between Alicia and Chambers. And actually, Maya maybe has

potentially found a little bit of form. She's closed the gap by a couple of

tenths, Dorian. I agree, yes. And they're on the longest straight now to

anyone can pick up a bit more of a toe and then go for that late, late braking

into the final corner of this section and then leading around to complete

another lap.

But the gaps are staying closed. But Chloe Chambers doing enough up front

Hold the position. You're looking back at Dorian Pan from Alicia Palmowski at

the moment. And that was neat and tidy from both, to be fair.

No mistakes.

So easy to clip the barrier here at Las Vegas. But so far, so good. And we've

had a couple of cars go out in that one mix -up that happened earlier in this

race. But otherwise, everyone is putting it together well so far.

Yeah, certainly does. And we've got a great view. Dorian certainly strong on

brakes down into turn 14.

Interesting. Maya's just taken fastest lap on that one.

So that's the point going the way of her, but she's still got a lot of work

do. Yeah. Lap 19 of 13.

She's got to navigate past three cars.

And as I said, she is the top overtaker of the series. There's a five -second

time penalty for Havrida for that false start, which we certainly expected to

come. But we've got the breakaway. Oh, and out of shape for lock of the rear

tyres for Chloe Chambers.

They'll all, I expect, running the low downforce setting on these cars.

And from working, of course, with Abby last year, I know that her often

complaint was so hard on the brakes, the gates around, and a prime example there

from Chloe Chambers.

Yeah, well, she dealt with it very well. She's obviously quite used to it

because she still made the corner very, very well.

But she's in control, but she's not escaping.

There's absolutely no chance for her to really get away at this stage.

All of these four cars very close to her. Although just there, she has

pulled away a little bit more from Pamofsky. It's funny how in some places

do make a little break. And that's a really important place to make the break

because now they're on to the long straight.

She will not be handing the toe. But look at Maya Verne now.

She is really close to Dorianne Paz. So this could be a chance for her, Alice,

couldn't it? Yep, she's finally been able to find some form past the last

round.

The thing is, Dorian's going to get the benefit of the toe from Alicia.

But she's looking close. Still got half the strip left to go.

Is she going to brave it down the inside for the second time during this race?

She has a little look there, my love, and then decides against it.

They have a good relationship. They're battling for the championship.

But they do get on with each other. And there is respect between them.

And she knows that if she's going to have a go at getting past her, she's in

good position again right now.

Of course, as they come through this flat -out left -hander to complete

lap, she could have a bit of a go going down into turn one. She's going for it

on the outside.

Maya Virg's trying to go past Dorianne Pan.

Around the outside, we've ridden with her, and she's done it. Or has she?

now on the inside.

Yes, she has made the move. Well, she's up into third place ahead of Dorianne

Pan. It's still not enough yet, though. It's not. She's got to navigate two more

cars, but Dorianne, crucially for her, has got... to fall outside of the top

seven. And at the moment, that's not looking like that's going to happen.

got three laps left. So, of course, anything could happen.

But lovely move. Brave stuff from Maya Berg. I almost thought she was going to

give it a go around Alicia Palmofsky as well.

Yeah. Well, maybe that's what's coming up next. But she's really got to go for

it. She's got to take some risks. We are getting through this race. We're on lap

10 out of 13.

Let's have another look at this, Alice. What do you think?

Yeah, so it was just brave on the brakes, on the cleaner side of the

little lock -up from the front left of Dorian Pan, and then the nature of turn

three does make it hard to go around the outside, and Dorian had to settle for

second, but Chloe Chambers has seen this battle kick off behind her. It's

allowed her now to escape down the road, nearly 1 .5 seconds, which...

Oh, Dorian getting almost loose on the exit there. And Alba Larson's been able,

she was nearly two seconds behind this battle.

She's able to close that gap. And Nina Gaben now just doesn't have the pace to

keep up with Larson.

And is nearly two seconds behind.

Maya Virg's got another chance, I think, here of maybe attacking for second

place because she's got the toe from Alisha Palmosky at the crucial long,

straight. So Palmosky is defending to the inside.

Right, Maya Virg says, right, I'm going to try and break around the outside. But

in fact, you can see that little slide.

There wasn't really a chance. And that was fair from Palmosky. She moved early

enough and that was absolutely fair. But remember, it was turn one that Virg

made the move last time. What do you think? Can she do it this time?

Well, Alisha... She's seen it happen all in her mirrors. So I expect that she

knows it's going to come, but you've got to go to the inside. You're going to

really have no choice.

And already she's elected. It's a short run down between the final corner, but

just had enough legs to be able to get it stopped.

Maia Berg getting the cutback. Not quite enough.

Not quite enough. But Pamelski doing a really good job with late braking. I

to say, she's very good with that because, as you said, sometimes it can

demanding in F1 Academy to get that braking right.

And that was impressive.

She is holding on to second place at the moment. But Maia Berg is right on her

tail. Dorianne Pan there as well.

Let's hope they can all make it through without getting any damage behind them.

As you say, Alba Larsson has been getting a little... Closer again in

place. Nina Gaidman currently in sixth.

Back on board with Dorian Pan.

This is still all working for her as we're getting nearer to the end of the

race. And this will mean she will become champion if it stays like this.

But Maya Verg is absolutely determined to try and find a way past Alicia

Palmosky. But we've seen Alicia Palmosky do some great jobs so far this year.

She won the first race in Shanghai at the beginning of the season.

She's the second.

highest rookie in the points as well, although she's not going to be

Ella Lloyd, I don't think, from this one.

She certainly won't be because Chloe Chambers is winning.

this race so far that means she will have no chance at all to to jump up into

fourth place so she's going to be under pressure once again as she's weaves left

to right down the strip desperately trying to break the toe from either

just slightly dropped off the back of this group now and Alva Larsson she

close that gap down to one under a second as here we go who's latest who's

bravest on the brakes Ben down into 14.

Well, Palmoski's still breaking late, but Maia Virg has run the outside, and

they don't quite touch. That was brilliant from both. They were fair, and

Virg has got herself up into second place, but it is a three -second gap to

Chloe Chambers, and I can see that Alicia Palmoski is not giving up. She

have had to give space, but look, she's trying to go around the outside through

the final quarter, turn 17.

They're going to be side by side, and Doria Pan's joining in as well into turn

one. Oh, Maya's break too late. Yeah, she has. And she's lost at one or maybe

two places.

Look at this. Side by side with Dorian Pan.

Oh, she's just held on to third.

Exciting stuff. A nice, clean racing between all of these racers. Alba Larson

now three tenths of a second behind Dorian Pan.

And Maya now, she was one attacking, then defending and defending again from

title rival. Look at that. Alba Larson goes down the inside of Dorian. Wow,

that's amazing. Alba Larson suddenly. back with them again and now as you say

she's gone to fourth place and Dorianne Pan has now dropped down to fifth now

this does not put her in danger of not winning the championship because Maya

Verg is not leading and Pan would have to drop a couple more places by the end

of this race for Verg to win the title Dorianne's doing a very good job she's

got to be sensible in a situation like this but Chloe Chambers

comfortably out in front.

So we will see how this all goes.

Now, if I was Prima, I'd be on the radio to Dorianne saying, right, that's

enough, Dorianne. All you need to do is just sit there now.

And you can see on the team viewer there, we've got Esme Kosterman, who has

confirmed as racing on the grid for Lego next year. It's great to see her here

watching with Jeff Hawkins.

And some great action they've been treated to, as are we.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, we are getting right down towards the end here now and Chloe Chambers is

still very much on target for her second win of this season, her third.

ever win ever in F1 Academy.

But what is going to go on further back is still a little bit unpredictable.

Palmoski second, Verg third.

Larson now in fourth. We've got Ella Lloyd battling away here with Nina

Oh, my goodness. Just about holding on there. And Ella Lloyd's got up into

position now ahead of Nina Gaidman, although she may still have to defend.

Meanwhile, new fastest lap for our race leader, Chloe Chambers.

Yeah, beautiful stuff from Ella Lloyd, though. She's got a gap big enough.

She's going to be forced to defend, but that's going to allow Tina Hausman to go

down the inside. She's going to get it stopped.

These two teammates have made contact with each other before, much earlier on

the year in China, but they're able to keep it nice and clean this time round.

As wherever you look at the moment, apart from Chloe Chambers, there's great

battles. And actually, fair play to Chloe. She's set the fastest lap of the

race, and she's doing that all by herself. No benefit.

of the time.

Absolutely. She's doing a superb job. And here we are on the final lap of this

race. Ella Lloyd still defending her new sixth place.

She's done a great job.

to get ahead of Mina Gaidman, who's under pressure from Tina Hausman, as you

said. Remember the top ten all -score points, and Aurelia Nobel's up into

place, which is good for her as well, because she started down in sixteenth

position, did end up finishing third yesterday, but she didn't actually get

stand on the podium, sadly, because it was another podium finisher who was up

there, but then got a disqualification, sadly.

So we're getting ready. Aja Wilson, who is going to be doing the checkered flag.

And a great star in another form of sport.

But we shall see. She's a basketball player, top basketball player. She'll be

waving the chequered flag.

And it looks like it's going to be going to Chloe Chambers with the battle for

second still on between Palmoski and Meyerberg.

Yeah, I think Meyer's maybe a little bit too far back.

But Chloe Chambers, faultless drive. She has just done an excellent job.

Look at that gap, nearly five seconds as Alicia's still weaving to left to right

in the background. I don't think the only driver that we can see in the

background there is Tina Hausman that's all over the back of her teammate and

looking, by the looks of it, from the back of shot down the inside.

But it's been some great driving, some great racing, and F1 Academy delivers

once again.

Chloe Chambers comes through the final corner at Las Vegas. Chambers wins the

last race of 2025.

Second place goes to Alicia Palmofsky. Third to Maya Verg.

Fourth to Alba Larson. But Dorianne Pan has won the championship.

She finishes in fifth place and she has taken the title.

And that is a brilliant performance by her. She had to fight and make sure that

Maya Verg was not going to go on and win and really challenge her for the

points. But in the end, she has kept control of it all through the year. And

has now managed to score points in all 30 races she has ever done in F1

And she has fully deserved becoming champion here today.

She certainly has. Well done, Dorian Pant.

Started karting at the age of nine, broken barriers all the way through her

career, made the difficult switch from sports cars into single -seaters, and

showcased speed, consistency, and certainly is a worthy champion.

Yeah, absolutely right. And well done to Chloe Chambers.

Also, it was a great job by the Campos team. They got their 1 -2 finish with

Chloe Chambers, followed by Alicia Palmowski.

Let's listen to Dorian Pan.

And that's the second flag, Dorian Pan. Congratulations. You are the 2025

Formula One Academy champion.

Yes!

For being part of this success, thank you so much.

You have been very helpful from the beginning of my career.

I love you guys.

Thank you to each one of you.

Yeah, well, absolutely fully deserved.

The 2025 F1 Academy champion, Dorianne Pan. She's been a champion before,

actually, in the Ferrari Challenge European Series.

She was the pro champion. That was back in 2022.

But then, as you say, she switched from being in different types of cars, sports

cars, and, of course, backed by Mercedes.

Nicely tied a wolf heading down. Come on.

Yes.

Winner, winner. Chicken dinner. I want to hear it. I want to hear it now.

Oh, I knew I was going to have to do it.

Fine. Hold on.

That was good enough. Thank you.

That's the one we do for the team as well.

Well done, Chloe. Well done. So proud of you.

Thank you so much.

Great stuff. I know Chloe won't mind me saying she maybe needs to work on her

singing, but we probably all do. But great job for her. And, you know, she's

some bad luck throughout the year, but she has put on some entertainment, some

strong races, got the most pole positions all year. And it's really

her. on the top step of the podium at this final race, and a home race for her

as well, which I'm sure is going to be super special. Her mum and dad are here

as well, and we can just see in the background, well, what could have been

Meyerberg? The one that gained the most places throughout the year, Ben. Yeah.

So, plenty of great forms of speed at the last.

Four races prior to this weekend, 70 points, which really put her back into

title fight with Dorianne Pound. Of course, she scored no points over the

of the weekend in Canada. What a job we did.

Thank you, Simone. See you in the pit lane for the celebrations.

Yes, sir!

Absolutely, yeah, there'll be lots of celebrations, and well done to her.

Yes, by the way, you were talking about, you know...

Campos racing with Chloe Chambers and Alicia Palmowski. I noticed that they

actually gone into second place, Campos, back into second place in the team's

championship by one point there. So that won two. That was important.

Maybe Maya knew that she had to try and get in front of Alicia because they

would have worked it all out. But well done, Campos and Prema again.

They won the championship yesterday for the third time. The unbeaten team, and

great to see Charles Leclerc down there as well. We saw some shots on social

media of George Russell and Antonelli watching yesterday's race.

And today he said he needs to go for a nap, go for a lie down. It was so

entertaining. So great to see so much support for all these drivers from the

Formula One paddock.

Absolutely right. And F1 Academy has really increased the interest of...

female drivers in motorsport and it's increased the amount of involvement even

in karting in lower levels of racing now f1 academy is is giving so much

encouragement to so many people to to get into racing remember you only get to

do it for two years

You're only allowed to do it for two years and then you have to move on. But

Dorianne Pan has done two superb years.

Second last year and champion in 2025.

The first French champion in F1 Academy.

But she has been absolutely smooth throughout the whole season. Not

making mistakes, not making errors.

Technically too, the car was very good with Prema, the Prema team.

Maya Verg did have technical problems with her car earlier in the year, as you

mentioned, in Canada, that did affect her battle for the championship, but

can happen to anybody.

But the way this team worked together with Dorian Pan has been superb.

That certainly has. It's been fantastic, great to see.

Mercedes, Kramer, all clapping as they should be.

And Antonelli giving Dorian a big hug. And George Russell is down there as

They've got plenty of, is it four hours until their race? So great for them to

come in and check in with the action.

And it'll be some good celebrations, I expect, from Prema and Dorian Pant, and

certainly as well from the two Red Bull drivers here in Kampoff as well.

Oh, absolutely lovely.

But Chloe Chambers, also, of course, the race winner here at the last ever F1

Academy. This is, of course, for Dorianne Pan, the last ever race that

do in F1 Academy.

But having taken points in all of the races that she's done, it's been

remarkable. And to win the championship in the end by a decent margin, she has

won on 172 points versus Mayerberg on 157 points.

Mayer struggled a couple of times this year. It wasn't always her problem,

but... She is definitely a star going into other forms of racing. But being

champion, Alice, Dorianne Pan will get support and will hopefully get a chance

to compete in single -seaters going forward.

Yeah, interesting to see what the next steps for her will be. She's obviously

done a year of the Formula Regional Championship last year. Great to see a

hug from Toto as well. She was in a partial campaign of Formula Region.

regional championship here as well stefano's there congratulating her so

people should be doing that for the rest of the day i would expect is that

everyone will want to give her a big congratulations and she'll get a photo

well so i'm really looking forward to see what her her next step will be marta

garcia obviously did formula regional abby pulling went on to race in the gb3

championship so that fifth place actually ben 100 point scoring season

record in two seasons in the academy series sorry for dorian pan so just

consistency can turn you into a champion and great to see that

chloe chambers has taken out the american flag you can hear the cheer of

crowds and i'm sure she'll take that up onto to the podium and uh will love

being up there in front of a home crowd there's nothing like winning a home

race. So I'm really, really pleased for her.

Yeah, it means a huge amount. There's no doubt about it.

And it is wonderful. And particularly when she and Alicia Talmorski, the two

teammates, had a bit of a coming together in race one here in Las Vegas.

great that they finished first and second.

And as she came across the line, that was a real celebration for the whole

as well.

And for Chloe Chambers in her last ever F1 Academy race to take a really

dominant victory effectively.

because even though they were towing behind her, she never looked under

She had the lead from pole position and she controlled it all the way through.

Backed up with that win in Montreal earlier on. She's had the most bonus

this year. So from pole positions and fastest laps, etc., she has had more

points than anybody else.

She has, yeah.

And looking forward to see what her next step is. Could potentially be, of

course, Alicia Palmosky. She'll be taking part in F1 Academy once again.

She is announced to stay with Red Bull. Alba Larsson, she ties her

career best finish.

She actually got in the opening weekend of the season in Shanghai in fourth.

She's confirmed with Ferrari. Then you've got the likes of Ella Lloyd.

Already, I'm excited for next season, Ben. Yeah, I know. I think next season

going to be fantastic. So many of these talented drivers will continue for a

second year, but it's going to be great.

We will find out. Let's go and hear now from our top three, including with Laura

Winter.

Dorianne Pan, you are the 2025 F1 Academy champion.

Yes! Come on.

You just said to me, I don't know what to say. That's not entirely great for an

interview, but we'll see what comes out. Try and sum up the emotion of that.

That sentence I just said, F1 Academy champion.

It's incredible.

I can't believe it. I worked so hard for this with the team. They have been part

of my success since day one when we joined Mercedes and joined the Secret

Racing in 2024, so last year.

And yeah,

we work only to be champions, so really happy to work with them to achieve

amazing things together.

And I'm not only here today, just only them, but also all the people that

have helped me behind since the beginning of my career. So, say, my

my dad and Aaron Dames, that has been part of this success. And we are here

today because we are strong together.

And we're champions, yeah.

Take us into the cockpit in the final few laps. How stressful was that?

Maja Vogt threw absolutely everything at it. She knew she had to get the win or

nothing. Yeah, to be honest, the race, I was focusing mainly on the

race and then the championship will come naturally.

But yeah, strong first part of the race, definitely. But then...

Then we had to fight against Maya and against Alba, and we have the

championships to win, so no risk taken, obviously, but shame that we don't

celebrate it on the podium, but we're really happy about the outcome.

Your final race in F1 Academy as well, and you've won the championship with it.

It's an incredible thing. How much did you learn from not winning last season

take into this season to get the job done?

Yeah, definitely. The first season was the first season in single -seater, so

had a lot of things to learn.

It was very competitive.

I've learned how to race. I learned how to lose and to never give up and to

learn on myself and learn how to race up to the end.

We are even stronger this year and with the title at the end. So definitely a

progression that was clear and it's definitely

amazing to be champion for the future.

What an incredible battle it's been with Maya Vogt. Dorian Pang, you are F1

Academy champion for 2025.

Congratulations.

Wow.

Dorian Pan, absolutely superb job by her to take the title and to celebrate

all the rest of the weekend in Las Vegas after really controlling so much

throughout the year. Yes, she had a big fight with Maia Verg, but Maia Verg had

a bit of bad luck at times and also that error in race one earlier this weekend,

just running into another car, which wasn't even in the race. It was before

race actually started.

But it has all worked well for Dorian Pan. I noticed that in the past, Alice

a piece where she was saying that the rally driver, Michel Mouton, was

that she used to watch when she was rallying, when she was casting as a

youngster. She met her later and really took on board quite a lot of what Michel

Mouton said about, you know, you've got to go into this with the right attitude.

And she has a great attitude, I think, don't you?

Yeah, she certainly does. And I have to say, it was really nice to see.

Everyone down there is, Toto, Stefano is down there, you know, putting their arm

around Maiva because this is going to really hurt for her. I think she still

hope as we touched on it just before the race.

And as those laps tick on, you know, realisation starts to think in that this

not going to be possible.

So she's being brave, being strong, but she certainly will be hurting inside

right now. But she did all she could during that race.

She does get to stand on the podium, so she will be going away with a trophy.

She will, indeed, yes. And she has fought well. And as you say, I do think

the talent that she has shown throughout this season...

will hopefully give her a chance moving forward into another area of motor

racing into the future. And that's what F1 Academy is about, is giving

youngsters opportunities to show what they can do and then hopefully develop

their racing going forward. So there we have our champion in the middle, along

with Maya Virk, her rival. We've got Chloe Chamber.

Toto and Susie Wolf there as well, Stefano, all part of taking the pictures

here.

Certainly is. And I'm assuming then that they'll be getting the podium

celebration underway as well.

So this is going to be lovely to see the podiums now being

celebrated here.

And we've got, of course, finishing.

In second and third places, we have Alicia Palmosky there in the middle and

Maya Verg and Susie Wolfe, who is managing director, of course, of F1

Chatting to them, talking to them.

Alicia Palmosky will be back next year.

The others wrote to me, of course.

So, here we go. Into the podium celebration.

Third place for Maya Verg.

She fought hard. She battled. She did a brilliant job this year. She won more of

the main races this year.

but it wasn't enough in the end to win the championship.

Alicia Palmowski finishing in second place, and she is going to be a major

contender for the championship next year.

But Chloe Chambers, home event Las Vegas, the American, taking her final

her final race in F1 Academy here at Las Vegas.

So lovely to see the American getting the music out and the trophy being

handed out by Meadow Walker, Paul Walker's daughter. Paul was the Fast and

Furious actor and it's Meadow Walker who hands that one out. And for second and

third is Lea Lewis, the Chinese -American actress, handing out the

Palmosky and Meyerberg.

But obviously not looking so happy now.

She knew it was going to be tough to win the championship here today. She has

done a good job, but ultimately she could not beat Dorianne Pan.

But it is a celebration time for these top three in the final race of the

F1 Academy.

Two of them will not be racing in F1 Academy anymore. One of them will.

And Palmoski will be looking forward to the start.

of the 2026 season and an opportunity to go for the title that for this year has

been taken by dorian pat and as i said already i'm excited for next year and

lego flowers are presented to to

chloe chambers and then leona lewis gives out the rest of the lego flowers

britches Singer, one for Alicia, and one for Mayerberg as well.

Yeah, nicely done. Very different podium celebration parts, but they all can get

together now for the photos to celebrate this final part of the year. On a dry

track this time, very different to the wet track that we had in the first race

here at Las Vegas yesterday, but the second race was demanding.

It was tough, but they all did a good job and it was kept pretty clean.

I don't know what Chloe Chambers did there. She looks a bit worried about

something.

Something happened, but I think all okay.

So let's take a look at the full result then of this final race. The victory

going to Chloe Chambers with Alicia Palmoski finishing in second place and

Berg in third position.

Fourth position for Alba Larsson. Excellent result for her. Dorian Tan,

fifth place. Enough for her to take the title.

Ella Lloyd finished in sixth place ahead of Nina Gaidman. Tina Hausman in eighth

place. Raffaella Ferreira in ninth. And final points. Aurelia Nobles coming from

16th on the grid to finish in tenth position.

Outside the top ten, Leah Blom finished in 11th place.

Emma Felbermayer in 12th, having problems at the start. Courtney Crone in

Rachel Robertson debuted this weekend. She finished 14th in this one. Chloe

Chong was 15th. Nicole Haverford was 16th. Non -finishers Joanne Cicconte and

Tatham Westcott.

Well, that has been it for F1 Academy.

Alice Powell, it's been great to work with you and to be involved in F1

in 2025.

We're looking forward to a new year in 2026.