The FIA Girls on Track – Rising Stars program was created as a collaboration between the FIA's Women in Motorsports Commission and the Ferrari Driver Academy, in order to support young female drivers.[1]
The programme was held for four consecutive years from 2020 to 2023,[2] skipped in 2024, and returned in 2025.
Until 2023, each test included a training camp and a shootout. Talent scouts narrowed the drivers down to four finalists, and then one winner.[3]
In 2025, the format was changed to a single training camp and shootout in which one winner was selected from nine participants.
From 2021 the drivers were separated into two categories, Junior (12–14) and Senior (14–16).[4]
Maya Weug won the first edition in 2020, and became the first female driver to join the Ferrari Driver Academy.[5] Weug raced in the Italian F4 Championship with Iron Dames, who partnered with the Rising Stars program in 2021, when Ferrari announced that they would be continuing with the program until 2023.[6]
2020
2021
Senior
Junior
| Driver
|
Notes
|
| Maria Germano Neto
|
Winner
|
| Chiara Bättig
|
Finalist
|
| Ivanna Richards
|
Finalist
|
| Milla Sjöstrand
|
Finalist
|
| Laura Bubenová
|
|
| Alexia Danielsson
|
|
| Wiktoria Kulesza
|
|
| Nea Kytölä
|
|
| Meri Levula
|
|
| Kiana Naudé
|
|
| Skye Parker
|
|
| Alice Stolcermane
|
|
| Taya Van Der Laan
|
|
| Yinthe De Smet
|
|
2022
Senior
Junior
| Driver
|
Notes
|
| Zoe Florescu Potolea
|
Winner
|
| Lisa Billard
|
Finalist
|
| Sara Matsui
|
Finalist
|
| Mathilda Paatz
|
Finalist
|
| Domenika Arellano
|
|
| Shriya Lohia
|
|
| Tyra Sundberg
|
|
| Gabriela Teixeira
|
|
2023
Senior
Junior
| Driver
|
Notes
|
| Vanesa Silkunaite
|
Winner
|
| Eva Dorrestijn
|
Finalist
|
| Annabella Fairclough
|
Finalist
|
| Bianca Nagy
|
Finalist
|
| Klara Kowalczyk
|
|
| Eliska Plna
|
|
| Kanon Takahashi
|
|
| Ella Jönsson
|
|
2025
Junior
| Driver
|
Notes
|
| Alana Gurney
|
Winner
|
| Mahiro Shimazu
|
|
| Marsella Assumpcao
|
|
| Andie Stewart
|
|
| Emma Rose Dowing
|
|
| Julia Montlaur
|
|
| Giada Vanigioli
|
|
| Linda Hanini
|
|
| Agam Shriky
|
|
Notes
- ^ a b Currently a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy
- ^ Joined the Ferrari Driver Academy for the 2022 season only
- ^ Signed to the Ferrari Driver Academy for 2026
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