Lloyd joins McLaren Driver Development program

McLaren Racing introduced Tuesday that Ella Lloyd has joined the McLaren Driver Improvement program and can signify 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 12 months, she competed within the Ginetta GT Championship, and completed the 12 months as runner-up.

At the beginning of this 12 months, Lloyd competed within the Formulation Winter Sequence, 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.

According to the F1 Academy rules limiting drivers to a most of two years within the sequence, Lloyd will step as much as signify 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 Check 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 stay up for supporting her growth.”

Lloyd herself mentioned: “It’s an honor to drive for a staff that has such an awesome racing historical past and likewise a protracted observe file for creating expertise. With McLaren, I now have all the pieces I must maintain creating and pushing the boundaries as a feminine in motorsport.

“Thanks to Zak Brown [McLaren CEO], Stephanie Carlin and the whole McLaren staff for his or her religion in me. I can’t wait to get racing in papaya.”