TINA HAUSMANN & JESSICA HAWKINS Represent Aston Martin in F1 Academy Series

October 20, 2025

• While Aston Martin announces their fancy new data infrastructure deal with NetApp, the real story here is buried at the bottom – Swiss driver TINA HAUSMANN is competing in the all-female F1 Academy series under the mentorship of JESSICA HAWKINS, who serves as the team’s F1 Academy Head of Racing and Driver Ambassador. Finally, some actual racing talent getting mentioned alongside all this corporate tech talk.
• The fact that HAWKINS holds both racing and ambassador roles shows Aston Martin is at least putting women in positions of real influence within their F1 Academy program. Her dual role suggests she’s not just window dressing but actually shaping how the next generation of female drivers develop – which is exactly what we need more of in this sport.
• It’s telling that in a lengthy press release about data infrastructure and corporate partnerships, the women’s racing program gets exactly one sentence. But hey, at least HAUSMANN and HAWKINS are there, quietly building the future while the suits talk about petabytes and milliseconds. Sometimes the most important work happens in the margins of these announcements.

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