Motorsport UK is delighted to confirm the 2025 line-up for the hugely successful Academy, which has nurtured the very best of UK motorsport talent into the senior levels of the sport, including Elfyn Evans, George Russell, Jess Hawkins and Jake Dennis. The Academy has a proven track record of success, with 17 Academy drivers and six graduates winning championships in 2024.

Thirty-five newly selected drivers and co-drivers join thirty-one returning drivers for the Team UK, Futures and Co-Driver programmes.

Team UK is a national squad of elite competitors selected to receive a bespoke one-to-one performance programme as they compete in the sport’s top series. The line-up will include 2024 GB3 Vice-Champion John Bennett, BRC Driver Max Mcrae, Junior Rally Championship pair Ioan Lloyd and co-driver Sion Williams and F1 Academy drivers Ella Lloyd and Alisha Palmowski.

The co-driver group will continue to benefit from support from rally champions, M-Sport, who will provide opportunities to join the team at select WRC rounds to gain insight into how a team operates at the top level. New selections for this cohort are BRC and Welsh Rally Champion Izzie Holman, British Historic Rally Championship co-drivers Josh Carr and Lucie Gutteridge and Gail Whyte, part of the M-Sport WRC Team.

The Futures squad gains 16 new Year 1 recruits including BTRDA Rallycross Champion Ben Bartlett and 2024 Scottish Tarmac Junior Champion, Fletcher Falconer. Year 2 sees Seb Hopkins, 2024 Porsche Sprint Challenge GB Champion, Harry Hickton, 2024 Mini Challenge Trophy Champion and Deagen Fairclough, 2024 British F4 Champion join the cohort.

All new cohorts will be supported across four key development areas; technical/tactical, physical, mental and social/commercial. Each discipline will be led by coaching staff and a network of expert practitioners and motorsport team contacts to provide advice, development and industry insight to young, talented drivers and co-drivers.

Tom Hartley, Head of Competitor Development, comments, “The Motorsport UK Academy is a pathway to support high-potential drivers in the UK, driving forward the next generation of driving talent across every discipline of the sport. I’m thrilled to welcome the latest intake of drivers and co-drivers into this season’s Academy programmes. Congratulations to all our athletes on their selection and we look forward to another year of support, development and success from the best of Britain’s rising stars.”

Team UK

Patrick O’Donovan

Sam Neary

Louis Foster

John Bennett

Abbi Pulling

Jonny Edgar

Taylor Barnard

Callum Voisin

Luke Browning

Ella Lloyd

Alisha Palmowski

Ben Green

Casper Stevenson

Adam Smalley

Max Mcrae

Cameron Fair

Ioan Lloyd

Sion Williams

Co-Drivers

Gail Whyte

Izzie Holman

Josh Carr

Lucie Gutteridge

Marc Morgan

Owen Rowcliffe

Sam Weller

Bonnie Papper

Robbie Sandford

Futures Y1

Alfie Briggs

Alfie Garford

Ben Bartlett

Elliott Fewster

Fletcher Falconer

Gabriel Stilp

Harrison Whitticombe

Harry Bartle

Henry Joslyn

Jenson O’Neill-Going

Megan Bruce

Oliver Waggett

Rachel Robertson

Teddie Macpherson-Marks

William Chadwick

Zac Drummond

Futures Y2

Aditya Kulkarni

Cameron Pratt-Thompson

Chloe Chong

Deagen Fairclough

Ella Stevens

Harry Hickton

Jasmine Shaw

Jess Edgar

Jude Peters

Liam McNeilly

Luke Hilton

Monde Jnr Konini

Robert Proudlock

Rowan Campbell-Pilling

Samuel Harvey

Sean Scanlon

Seb Hopkins

Sid Smith

Thomas Milne

Tyler McAlpin

Tyler Read

Will Ovenden

Yehan Kallychurn