#luna fluxa

[britney-rosberg06]

wait wait wait what do you mean that not only did two Mercedes Junior drivers dominate the FIA Karting championship BUT ALSO have a female driver dominating the COFT Karting championship AND have a driver leading the rookie Italian F4 championship in his first year in cars AND have someone in an intense and dominant F1 Academy title fight AND ALSO have their first ever driver from their academy joining their F1 team like YEAH Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Did that thing

[papaya-queen]

Soo I was looking at the future line up possibility for Prema… I thought I could share my thoughts.

Ollie Bearman – Announced to drive for Haas F1. Pretty predictable after his performance in Jeddah. Baky confirmed that he is ready for F1 and for the car he’s gonna get.

Kimi Antonelli – Announced to drive for Mercedes F1. It was almost certain with Toto pushing him. I’m kinda worried we’ll end up with a Logan type of situation but I’m still confident in his skills.

Arvid Lindblad – Announced to drive for Campos F2. It appears that Redbull Junior team and Campos have some sorts of arrangements so it’s a logical thing.

PREMA 2025 LINE-UP

F2

Gabriele Mini – Remarkable drive this season, I’m still gutted about the championship. Prema will likely keep him.

Dino Beganovic – I know it’s unlikely, the streets are saying that he’s going to less expensive team because of a lack of fund. But Prema might still try to keep him since they don’t have anyone else to sign in F2. (I’m trying to manifest it)

F3

Rafael Camara – He is absolutely crashing the FRECA championship so it’s just a logical step up for him. Plus, the Ferrati Driver Academy seems to be close with Prema.

James Wharton – He is in a really good position in the FRECA championship and has already made his F3 debut.

Alex Powell/Freddie Slater – Okay so this the complicated part. Freddie is MaxVerstappen2023-ing the Italian F4 championship and should go directly to F3. But he doesn’t have an academy backing… I think it’s by choice and good for him but without an academy backing him, trying to skip a level might be hard. So, my second guess is Alex Powell. Mercedes junior since a long time, he made his debut in single seater this year in Italian f4 and has shown really good results. He has multiple podiums in overall championship, several rookie wins, he is now leader of the rookie championship and 5th in overall. For comparison, Arvid Lindblad had 8 rookie wins, 4 pole positions and 6 wins in the whole season. Right now, with still two rounds left, Alex has 8 rookie wins, 5 podiums and 1 pole position. My other argument is that Mercedes might not want two drivers in the same championship which leads me to the next point.

FRECA

Rashid Al Dhaheri/Kean Nakamura Berta – Rashid had a good performance from him in F4. Good contender for a freca seat. Kean also had a really good performance especially for a rookie and with the help of Alpine he might go up.

This is where it gets complicated again.

Doriane Pin and Maya Weug could continue F1A since they are only in their first season. But they both had FRECA experience (Doriane currently, Maya in 2023 plus a round this year), and looking at their results in F1A this year, they could manage a transition towards FRECA. Doriane is likely to do so, continuing with Iron Dames or maybe switching to Prema. Maya could maybe transition with PREMA also.

And this where my point from earlier could take place. If Doriane continues in FRECA, Alex might not be on the FRECA line up especially if she continues with PREMA. Mercedes might not want two drivers in the same championship.

So third seat, either Alex Powell/Freddie Slater– So for the first two it’s the same argument as before. Freddie might not be able to jump directly to F3 and Alex might go here if Freddie get the seat.

F4

Honestly here guys, I have no idea. Tomass is likely to stay maybe with Kean and Dion. Prema might do the same as they did recently with Oleksandr Bondarev and bring Luna Fluxa in after she turn 15.

F1 Academy

Tina Haussman – Likely to stay for a second season. She hasn’t had the best luck in this season so she couldn’t prove her talent.

Nina Gademan – she’s likely to take a seat in F1A after her impressive debut.

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So yeah, that was my little rant about Prema. Feel free to reblog or comment to add your opinion.

[hungriestheidi]

young promising female racing driver who's been quietly but steadily building their experience in lower categories of motorsport while also being part of the mercedes f1 junior programme and being scouted by f1 academy earlier this year. oh she is also blonde and not british!

am i talking about doriane pin or luna fluxa.

[liamlawsonlesbian]

F1A is really fun, and I think can be beneficial to the future of women in racing, especially if it promotes racing as a viable career for women/if women follow in Marta’s footsteps by using it as a stepping stone to higher level competition/if it helps women gain sponsors & access to team infrastructure they would otherwise be denied.

(It also could potentially be a problem if women get shunted to F1A when they could be competing at a higher level, but I don’t want to borrow trouble.)

One thing I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone point out, though, is there are currently two F1 teams that have signed girls in karting to their junior teams: Mercedes (Luna Fluxa) and Williams (Sara Matsui). This seems to signal a real belief in a future where women have more prominence in motorsport generally and F1 in particular.

[formulatrash]

Hi, whats your opinion on Susie Wolffs new position with the F1 Academy? I scrolled too far down the comments on the announcement post and am effing angry now, because i think there could not be a better person for that role, but at he same time i can understand that working on opposite sides in the same organisation as your husband can be perceived wrong. I don't really see the problem though, as a managing director of a different race series she won't have much contact with the official side of f1, won't she?

Sorry if this is unclear, not my first language ✌️

hello - thank you for the question, your english is perfect. (mine probably less so haha)

Susie is 100% the right person to lead F1 Academy; I'm only surprised they managed to convince her to take the role. that says a lot about some credible stuff behind the scenes that I haven't always credited F1 Academy with, so far.

as with Venturi, Susie doesn't do projects if she doesn't think they're right. she doesn't need to, she only puts her name to things where she believes she is the right person to do them and that there is something worth doing.

so to have her coming onboard for F1 Academy is a huge sign for the series. I don't need to tell you Susie is absurdly driven and extremely well connected, she can represent and help the girls - many of whom should be teenagers, it's an F4 series so they only need to be 15 and I don't, unfortunately, need to tell you how much the press will fucking suck about that - navigate a world that's inherently hostile to and doubtful of them.

This is from an interview I did with Susie in 2021, about how to get more women into motorsport (which she did very successfully, with Venturi, by the simple act of hiring them)

"I didn't think at all about the fact that I was a woman doing it until we had our first media call," Wolff said (with a UK newspaper, if you were wondering). "And I remember it so clearly because [when] we had the call, I remember exactly where I sitting. The first question was: 'Did your husband get you the job?' The second question was: 'What qualifies you at all?' And the third question was: 'How do you manage being a mother and a team principal?'" 

She flagged a stark comparison to the interviews done with another former driver who stepped up to a team principal role at the same time as she did. "These are the first questions I get, in my first interview as a team principal. And I know they're not saying this to Allan McNish; he's got two kids, he's an ex-racing driver. What gives you the right to think that my husband got me the job?"

It's hard to put into words how important it's gonna be to have someone who gets that putting herself in the line of fire for up-and-coming young women. their records are going to be scrutinised, their lap times will be exaggeratedly plumbed into - christ, look how shit the Formula E Gen3 is with Hankook tyres. it's literally slower than the Gen2 even though it's 100kg lighter and has 100kW more horsepower and you had the brain geniuses of Twitter explaining that actually, W Series setting different times on Hankooks to Formula Regional on Michelins just meant that girls suck.

for the record, I don't think it matters at all that her husband is the head of a team in a different series. F1 Academy is not feeding directly to F1, it's an F4 series and if, say, Merc junior Luna Fluxa wanted to get in then she'd need to find the backing same as the rest of the field. (she's currently too young)

there's only one race where F1 Academy will be on the same circuit as F1 (COTA) and the majority of the championship will be done by then. so they won't even be in the same geographical place - and if Susie pops into the Merc hospitality to use the coffee machine when they are then I don't think even the amateur cops of F1 twitter can manufacture a scandal.

also I think people need to remember Susie came up karting against Lewis and they are friends. different parts of a diversity discussion but ones that come from literally the same karting tracks.

[f1]

Mercedes announce seven junior drivers for 2023 including one new recruit

Mercedes have revealed their seven-strong driver line-up for their Junior Programme for 2023, with the likes of Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Paul Aron and Frederik Vesti continuing with the team. The Silver Arrows have a range of drivers from karters to FIA Formula 2 racers in their junior roster this year. Highly-rated Italian Antonelli continues with the team as he moves up to Formula Regional European Championship in 2019, while Estonian driver Aron (main image) moves up to FIA Formula 3 this season and Danish driver Vesti remains in F2 but drives for Prema this season. READ MORE: Sauber Academy present ‘very promising’ line-up of drivers for 2023 Furthermore, they retain Jamaican driver Alex Powell plus two female racers in Chinese driver Yuanpu Cui and Spaniard Luna Fluxa. British karter Kenzo Craigie joins the programme for 2023 as this year he steps up to the Junior class, competing in UK and International Rotax, and IAME categories. "We're looking forward to seeing how our junior drivers progress this season," said Toto Wolff, Mercedes Team Principal. "We saw some impressive performances in 2022, and we will continue to support them as they develop. "An encouraging recent example of their progress is Kimi's [Antonelli’s] Formula Regional Middle East title. All our junior drivers are at very different, but very exciting, stages of their young careers and I'm sure it's going to be another positive year for the programme.” Gwen Lagrue, Driver Development Advisor for mercedes, added: "For 2023, our Junior Programme has drivers racing in almost every step of the feeder series ladder. We're optimistic it's going to be another strong season and year of positive progress. "After an initial taste of F1 in Abu Dhabi last year at the rookie test, we expect Frederick Vesti to be fighting for wins and be in contention for the FIA F2 title. Following a successful campaign in the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine (FRECA), Paul Aron moves up to FIA F3 and we believe he's ready to be a front-runner in his first season. READ MORE: Football legend Zinedine Zidane to champion equal opportunities in new Alpine ambassador role "Andrea Kimi Antonelli will graduate to FRECA after an outstanding double title winning F4 campaign and a strong start to 2023, winning the Formula Regional Middle East championship. "Alex Powell is leading our group of drivers on the international karting scene alongside Yuanpu Cui and Luna Fluxa; they all have the experience to deliver strong seasons. We are also pleased to welcome the talented Kenzo Craigie to our programme in 2023, becoming our youngest junior as he tackles the British karting championships." via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

[singaporesainz]

i think this is a little odd but I think some people in driver academies need to accept that they probably won’t make it to f1. like rbr seem happy with daniel, max and liam, ferrari are focusing on ollie bearman and mercedes are focusing on Kimi (and then hopefully Luna Fluxa who is a few years younger and still in karts but already has the backing), mclaren are set til 2025, alpine seem to want experience over promoting their juniors, aston’s doesn’t exist, sauber’s is irrelevant because audi and the only team that is actually focused on all their juniors is williams, but still a lot of them won’t make it to f1.

also f1 academy is great but i think once again people have to remember that the 2023 (and probably 2024) grid won’t actually make it to f1 and it’ll be the girls who are currently in karts who will instead of the current grid. also the fia needs to focus on grassroots level instead of f4, because a lot of girls just aren’t getting into karting. (such as Alpines Rac (HER) program)

i feel like to a certain extent, i think maybe that might already be something in the back of their minds, which is why the jump to different series n stuff. but i mean, anything is possible, right?

[teamroscoes]

@.luna.fluxa Some more really cool 📸 from last week at the W13 launch. Thanks again to @.mercedesamgf1 for the amazing experience !! 🙏🏼🤩

[pennywiththebruisedknees]

A GIRL IN THE JUNIOR TEAM I AM GONNA SOB

[erelavent]

Luna being 11 and having better media training than me lmao. Honestly all the junior drivers should be very proud.

[princewis]

During the w13 launch, Toto spoke about the importance of diversity within motorsport. We got to see and hear from the wonderful Luna Fluxa. In comparison, Horner thinks young girls get into motorsport because of the handsome young drivers. Our team principles aren't the same

[hungriestheidi]

at my office temporal job thinking about things that make me mad about the standards for women in motorsports

[liamlawsonlesbian]

does anyone who follows the driver pipeline more closely know if there's news about luna fluxa moving to single seaters? (tagging goose @hungriestheidi bc I've seen you post about her!)

[wtflife01]

For spanish anon here, did luna fluxa (mercedes's new junior driver and sister of lorenzo fluxa, FREC driver)'s family really considered rich in spain ? I read one person said their family are in the top 10 richest family in spain

The surname didn't tell me anything but I looked it up and they own hotels and restaurants

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[hungriestheidi]

luna fluxa is leading the cotfa karting championship by 151 points. which means she'll get a test in an f1a car sooner than later, which means she'll be in f4 sooner than later and that along with many more girls getting into karting means there will be more, better and faster female drivers coming soon into the bigger stages of motorsport. brings a tear to your eye doesn't it

[wtflife01]

For spanish anon here, did luna fluxa (mercedes's new junior driver and sister of lorenzo fluxa, FREC driver)'s family really considered rich in spain ? I read one person said their family are in the top 10 richest family in spain// Hi, a spanish anon here, I dont really know currently, but two years ago her granfather was the second richest person in Spain (behind Amacio Ortega, Zara's owner)

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