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The F1 world has made more progress for women in that past year than it did in the past five decades. From the girls racing during the same weekend as the F1 boys to the iconic Charlotte Tilbury partnership, the Susie Wolff-led mission is on a roll and set to make its own identity outside the shadow of men. The women are here to stay and some even united to say, “You can’t sit with us”. That was just a cultured reference to the cult favorite movie, ‘Mean Girls’. Because that is what F1 Academy shelled out for us.

The Miami GP weekend saw an extravagant F1 Academy indulgence as well. Many WAGs were invited to promote fellow women. From F1 Academy’s sunset pilates session which was attended by KiKa (Pierre Gasly’s GF), Rebecca Donaldson (Carlos Sainz’s GF) and Alexandra Saint Mleux (Charles Leclerc’s GF) coming out in support of F1 Academy at the paddock to Kendal Jenner arriving for Tommy Hilfiger, it was a star-studded weekend for women on and off track. But amid all this, a bunch of them decided to let their hair down to create a fun TikTok!

TikTok star Morgan Riddle, Kika, F1 presenter Lissie Mackintosh, Ex F1 strategist and F1 presenter Ruth Buscombe, F1 Academy director Susie Wolff, Carmen Mundt (George Russel’d GF), and F1 Academy driver Bianca Bustamante were some of the women who partook in the fun video. Quoting iconic dialogues from the cult favorite, the women lip-synced some quotes like, “Fetch”, “You know what everyone says about you? They say you are a homeschooled jungle freak who is a less hot version of me”. And the internet is overjoyed to see this side of the promoters and racers.

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But that is not all for F1 Academy. They are all set to rub shoulders with F1 boy in the OTT world.

F1 Academy and Reese Witherspoon team up to Netflix Docuseries “Hello Sunshine”

‘Drive to Survive’ became the most successful docuseries to bring audiences on board a European niche sport. It is estimated that over 70 million viewers in America began watching F1 owing to the popularity of DTS. And now the aim is to spill that fame to the newly instated F1 Academy. This dedicated docuseries is widely expected to bring in lots of eyeballs to F1 Academy to promote motorsport amongst women and bring in more audience watching them.

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The series is currently under production with actress Reese Witherspoon’s Production House named ‘Hello Sunshine.’ Susie Wolff took to X to announce the same. She wrote, “This. This is huge. They said… try and get some screen time on Drive to Survive. We said… we’ll have our own series.”

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Anmol is an F1 writer at EssentiallySports. With a background in journalism and a passion for motorsports, she brings a unique perspective to her coverage of the world of F1. Anmol's interest in the sport was piqued after watching Lewis Hamilton's interview with David Letterman, and she has been a dedicated follower ever since.
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