{"id":288179,"date":"2026-07-06T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288179\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:15:14","slug":"the-f1-academy-speed-queens-take-silverstone-by-storm-in-their-maiden-race-at-the-british-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288179\/","title":{"rendered":"The F1 Academy speed queens take Silverstone by storm in their maiden race at the British Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Susie Wolff, Managing Director of F1 Academy talks on track guests on the grid during F1 Academy’s debut at Silverstone<\/p>\n

Anni Graf – Formula 1\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

One Brit, Ayisha Palmowski, triumphed for Red Bull, extending her leadership at the top of the F1 Academy standings. \u2018It means the absolute world, to be honest,\u2019 she told Tatler following her victory, presented by the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, Malala Yousafzai. \u2018I think if there’s any race this season that I wanted to win, it really was here today,\u2019 she said. Her mum, who hadn\u2019t been able to attend any races this season, was there to support. \u2018It was super special to be on the historic Silverstone podium as well, I\u2019ve watched this podium for many, many years.\u2019 Alisha\u2019s first visit to Silverstone was at the age of eight. As for racing, which she took up shortly after that first trip: \u2018I got instantly hooked. The adrenaline, the sense of freedom, the sounds, the smells, everything. I just loved it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Audi Revolut’s Felbermayr, who heralds from a motorsport dynasty<\/a>, (her family own the Felbermayr construction and transport company) has been racing since she was seven. She claimed third, which moves her up to a spectacular second in the championship. \u2018My mum was here, my dad is racing himself with my brother this weekend,\u2019 she smiled. \u2018It\u2019s in my blood.\u2019 Emma\u2019s boyfriend is even the 2018 European Karting Champion Hannes Janker. Allan McNish, Audi\u2019s Scottish racing director, a three-time winner of Le Mans, was cheering Emma all the way around the track from Audi\u2019s motorhome. Later she watched fellow Audi Revolut drivers Gabriel Bortoleto (who finished 8th) and Nico Hulkenberg in their Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susie Wolff, Managing Director of F1 Academy talks on track guests on the grid during F1 Academy’s debut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,78965,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-288179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-paywall-sample-for-0-days","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}