A familiar face is returning to F1 Academy.
Alisha Palmowski made her start in the all-women racing category as a wild card entry during the Qatar Grand Prix weekend, securing a fifth-place finish in Race 1. And now, she’ll wear a familiar navy jumpsuit in 2025, becoming a Red Bull Racing Pepe Jeans Academy driver.
Sitting at home in the United Kingdom after traveling back from Lusail, the reality hadn’t set in that she’d represent one of the biggest Formula One teams on the grid in just a few short months. Plans were already being discussed for her travel to the team factory in Milton Keynes for sim work. She’ll be racing again soon, with the season starting in China in mid-March.
She’s got another shot to continue the family legacy.
“Red Bull are a team I’ve admired and looked up to ever since I can remember, since being a young child watching Formula One on TV,” Palmowski said to The Athletic. “They’re a team that have had a huge amount of success in Formula One. They certainly know what they’re doing.”
Motorsports have always been part of Palmowski’s life, so much so that she can’t remember her earliest memory. “It just seems like ever since I was born, I’ve just loved motorsport.”
Her great-grandfather, Marian Palmowski, was a BriSCA F1 stock…
