F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff has been recognised as a CNBC Changemaker.
named Wolff as a Changemaker on 25 February 2026, itemizing her standout achievement in 2025 as: “Broadened F1’s industrial and broadcast attain, establishing a sustainable enterprise mannequin, whereas inspiring the following technology of girls racing expertise.”
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Wolff has been instrumental in making the F1 Academy successful. After its inaugural season in 2023, which was held in entrance of empty grandstands and with no broadcasting, other than the season finale in Austin, Wolff has constructed the sequence as much as give the younger drivers a platform to spice up their racing careers.
From 2024 onwards, Wolff gained the assist of each Components 1 staff, which now backs no less than one driver within the championship, who races with the staff’s livery. The 43-year-old has additionally introduced in enormous partnerships to F1 Academy, together with with Charlotte Tilbury, American Specific, Gatorade, Tommy Hilfiger, TAG Heuer, Puma, and The LEGO Group.
Along with boosting the viewership with F1 Academy now being a assist race throughout F1 race weekends, the championship additionally launched a Drive to Survive-style docuseries produced by Reese Witherspoon’s manufacturing firm, Hey Sunshine. F1: The Academy was launched on Netflix on 28 Might 2025.
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Susie Wolff, Managing Director, F1 Academy
Susie Wolff, Managing Director, F1 Academy
“I feel the momentum we have had, the assist we have had from inside this paddock, the good racing we see on observe and the flexibility we have needed to actually rework the careers of younger ladies who’re making an attempt to make it in racing has been one thing which has positively given me plenty of delight. However I am not one to take a seat nonetheless,” Wolff defined throughout an interview on the F1 Academy YouTube channel in November 2025.
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F1 Academy has additionally seen some spectacular success tales. 2024 champion is at the moment competing within the GB3 Championship for Rodin Motorsport and serves as a rookie and simulator driver for the Nissan Components E staff, and 2025 champion has change into a Mercedes improvement driver and is ready to compete within the European Le Mans Sequence for Duqueine Group.
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