The young German, who escaped death in 2018, is now following in Verstappen’s footsteps

This is the Van Amersfoort team, with which the three-time Dutch Formula 1 champion completed his only season in smaller vehicle classes in 2014. Although his jump from karting straight to Formula 3 was huge, Max was impressive in his one season and was immediately signed by Red Bull to make his debut with Toro Rosso in Formula 1 in 2015, marking an even bigger leap in his career meant.

The young German Sophia Fleurs is a driver at the Alpine Academy and will contest her first full season in FIA Formula 3 in 2024, two levels ahead of Formula 1. Many consider her to be the best prepared driver, the first modern female driver in Formula 1 , some three decades after Giovanna Amati (although the last to start a GP was Lela Lombardi in 1976).

Fleurs has competed in several individual races with Van Amersfoort, including this year’s Macau GP, where he finished 11th, and his continued improvement has convinced Alpine and the Dutch team that he deserves one of the cockpits for the entire 2024 F3 season .

That year he also drove a few F3 races with PHM Racing by Charouz, scoring all six points the team scored that season. She is the only woman confirmed to drive the entire 2024 racing season in F3 and F2. With Van Amersfoort she gets a much more competitive background to further develop her skills.

Sofia Fleurs competed with VAR when she had her horrific accident in Macau in 2018, from which she was miraculously saved. And now he will complete the entire season with Fritz van Amersfoort’s team, with whom Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen have also competed in the past.