THE RACE SERIES CAR
F1 ACADEMY™ Tatuus T-421
The Tatuus T-421 F4 chassis used by F1 ACADEMY™'s all-female grid.
F1 ACADEMY™ is the all-female single-seater championship Formula 1® launched in March 2023 with Susie Wolff as managing director. The series sits below F3 in the FIA single-seater pyramid and runs the Tatuus T-421 Formula 4 chassis common to most European F4 championships. From 2024, F1 ACADEMY™ races on the support package at F1® Grand Prix weekends, giving the drivers paddock exposure usually reserved for the official F1® feeder series.
The 2024 championship was won by Abbi Pulling, who progressed to the GB3 Championship on a fully-funded seat off the back of the title. The 2025 title went to Doriane Pin — backed by the Mercedes-AMG F1 Junior Programme — who stepped up to a Mercedes Development Driver role for 2026. The 2025 season also expanded the grid to 18 cars (15 full-time entries plus three wildcard seats per round), with Hitech TGR joining as the series' sixth team. Tatiana Calderón, the first woman to test a modern F1® car in over four decades, is an ambassador for Susie Wolff's 'Dare to be Different' initiative connected to the F1 ACADEMY™ programme but is not a current series driver.
LEGO® 77258 is a generic series tribute rather than a specific team's livery — a deliberate choice that lets a builder paint the set's narrative onto whichever F1 ACADEMY™ driver or team they follow. The Tatuus T-421 in real life is a 1.4-litre turbo F4 producing roughly 160 hp; the LEGO® version uses the same 8-stud chassis-cell as the contemporary F1® grid sets, scaled to a 201-piece part count appropriate to its real-car size.
- Real-car chassis
- Tatuus T-421 (FIA Formula 4 specification)
- Engine
- Autotecnica 1.4L turbocharged, ~160 hp
- Tyres
- Pirelli P Zero F4-spec
- Series operator
- Formula 1® (managing director: Susie Wolff, from 2023)
