McLaren Racing immediately introduced that Ella Lloyd has joined the McLaren Driver Improvement program and can symbolize the staff 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.
At the beginning of this yr, Ella competed within the Formulation Winter Collection, 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.
In step with the F1 Academy laws limiting drivers to a most of two years within the sequence, Ella will step as much as symbolize McLaren within the 2025 F1 Academy season, racing with Rodin Motorsport.
Her involvement within the McLaren Driver Improvement program, led by Stephanie Carlin, will see her compete in Formulation E’s first-ever Ladies’s Take a look at for the NEOM McLaren Formulation E Workforce on Nov. 7, 2024, in Valencia, Spain.
Carlin, director of F1 enterprise operations at McLaren Racing, mentioned: “Ella has nice expertise and potential and has already cemented herself within the sequence, performing brilliantly because the Wild Card entry in Singapore, so we’re excited to see what she will do with us. We look ahead to supporting her improvement.”
Lloyd herself mentioned: “It’s an honor to drive for a staff that has such a fantastic racing historical past and in addition a protracted monitor document for creating expertise. With McLaren, I now have the whole lot I have to maintain creating and pushing the boundaries as a feminine in motorsport.
“Thanks to Zak Brown [McLaren CEO], Stephanie Carlin and your complete McLaren staff for his or her religion in me. I can’t wait to get racing in papaya.”
