McLaren Racing right this moment introduced that Ella Lloyd has joined the McLaren Driver Growth program and can characterize the workforce within the 2025 F1 Academy season with Rodin Motorsport.
Lloyd, 19, started racing competitively in 2022 within the Ginetta Junior Championship, ending within the factors at 15 of 25 races that season. The next yr, she competed within the Ginetta GT Championship, and completed the yr as runner-up.
Firstly of this yr, Ella competed within the System Winter Sequence, taking the Feminine Driver Trophy a number of instances. She competed in British F4, finishing the 2024 season with three P2 outcomes, one P3 and a number of factors finishes. The Welsh racer additionally took half within the Singapore F1 Academy weekend because the Wild Card driver, ending within the factors in each races.
According to the F1 Academy laws limiting drivers to a most of two years within the collection, Ella will step as much as characterize McLaren within the 2025 F1 Academy season, racing with Rodin Motorsport.
Her involvement within the McLaren Driver Growth program, led by Stephanie Carlin, will see her compete in System E’s first-ever Ladies’s Check for the NEOM McLaren System E Staff on Nov. 7, 2024, in Valencia, Spain.
Carlin, director of F1 enterprise operations at McLaren Racing, stated: “Ella has nice expertise and potential and has already cemented herself within the collection, performing brilliantly because the Wild Card entry in Singapore, so we’re excited to see what she will be able to do with us. We look ahead to supporting her improvement.”
Lloyd herself stated: “It’s an honor to drive for a workforce that has such a fantastic racing historical past and likewise a protracted observe file for creating expertise. With McLaren, I now have every thing I must hold creating and pushing the boundaries as a feminine in motorsport.
“Thanks to Zak Brown [McLaren CEO], Stephanie Carlin and the whole McLaren workforce for his or her religion in me. I can’t wait to get racing in papaya.”
