Bianca Bustamante

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Bianca Bustamante
Nationality Philippines Filipina
Born (2005-01-19) 19 January 2005 (age 19)
Manila, Philippines
F1 Academy career
Debut season 2023
Current team ART Grand Prix
Car no. 16
Former teams Prema Racing
Starts 23 (23 entries)
Wins 2
Poles 1
Fastest laps 0
Best finish 7th in 2023
Previous series
2022 W Series

Bianca Bustamante (born 19 January 2005) is a Filipina racing driver who currently competes for ART Grand Prix in F1 Academy. She is a part of the McLaren Driver Development Programme.

Career

W Series

File:2022 British Grand Prix (52382657664).jpg
Bustamante in W series at the 2022 British Grand Prix

From 31 January to 4 February 2022, Bustamante competed in a W Series test in Arizona, United States, along with 14 other prospective drivers.[1] She then participated in a second pre-season test in Barcelona on 2–4 March along with 11 other potential drivers and 9 automatic qualifiers from the previous W Series season.[2] On 22 March, Bustamante was confirmed to compete in the 2022 W Series season.[3] She finished the season in 15th place scoring 2 points across 7 races.

Formula 4 UAE Championship

On 9 January 2023, Bustamante was announced to race under Italian team Prema Powerteam for the 2023 Formula 4 UAE Championship.[4] She finished the season in 27th place scoring 3 points across 15 races.

F1 Academy

2023 season

On 3 February 2023, Bustamante was confirmed as the second driver to compete in the newly launched all-female F1 Academy series with Prema Racing.[5]

File:F1 Academy 2023 Spielberg Nr. 16 Bustamante.jpg
Bustamante with Prema during the inaugural season of F1 Academy

After the inaugural race at Red Bull Ring, Bustamante finished P3, however due to a technical infringement discovered during Parc fermé of Nerea Martí's Campos Racing car, Martí was disqualified from the results pushing Bustamante up to P2.[6]

Bustamante's car suffered a technical failure at the start of the formation lap during the third race at Red Bull Ring and could not start.[7]

At Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Bustamante initially qualified P2, however, a track limit infringement saw that position move down to P8.[8] The reverse grid order of race 2 now meant Bustamante had achieved her first ever pole position which she subsequently turned into her first ever race victory the following day.[9] Following the victory, Bustamante was personally congratulated by the president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr.[10][11]

At the first race of the 5th round of the season, Circuit Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Bustamante was not able to finish due to a racing incident that prompted her to retire the car from the race. She grabbed her third podium of the season the following race after qualifying on pole due to a reverse grid classification.[12] On the third race, she clinched her first full points win, her final and second win of the 2023 season.

Bustamante scored a total of 116 points, finishing 7th in the championship standings, just a point behind MP Motorsport's Amna Al Qubaisi.[13]

2024 season

On 18 October 2023, McLaren announced the signing of Bustamante to the McLaren Driver Development Programme and that she will represent McLaren (with additional support from Cisco and Google Chrome) for the 2024 season under ART Grand Prix. Bustamante is the first female driver signed to the McLaren Driver Development Programme and the second female driver signed by McLaren after Emma Gilmour for McLaren XE.[14][15][16]

At the first round at Jeddah in Race 1, Bustamante finished the race in fifth to score her first points of the season.[17] In Race 2, she finished the race in eighth but was promoted to sixth after race winner Doriane Pin and seventh place finisher Hamda Al Qubaisi were given post-race time penalties.[18][19]

Italian F4 Championship

2023 season

On 24 May 2023, it was announced that Bustamante would make her debut in Italian F4 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, driving for Prema Racing in a one-off appearance, replacing Aurelia Nobels.[20]

Personal life

Born in Manila, Bustamante resides between Laguna, Philippines, and San Jose, California. She is the daughter of Raymund and Janice Bustamante.[21]

Bustamante has a combined 2.2 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, making her the third most influential female driver in the world according to vehicle rental company Avis.[22][23] In December 2023, upon joining McLaren, she received backlash on social media after it emerged that she had liked several tweets critical of Formula One driver Lance Stroll, one of which used ableist language.[24]

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2022 USF Juniors IGY6 Motorsports 4 0 0 0 0 32 25th
W Series W Series Academy 7 0 0 0 0 2 15th
Indian Racing League Bangalore Speedsters 5 0 0 0 0 46 17th
2023 Formula 4 UAE Championship Prema Racing 15 0 0 0 0 3 27th
F1 Academy 21 2 1 0 4 116 7th
Italian F4 Championship 3 0 0 0 0 0 44th
USF Juniors Exclusive Autosport 3 0 0 0 0 27 17th
Macau Formula 4 Race BlackArts Racing 2 0 0 0 0 N/A DNF
2024 F1 Academy ART Grand Prix 2 0 0 0 0 18* 4th*
Formula Winter Series GRS Team 8 0 0 0 0 0 40th

* Season still in progress.
† As Bustamante was a guest driver, she was ineligible for points.

Complete W Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 DC Points
2022 W Series Academy MIA1
9		 MIA2
14		 CAT
15		 SIL
17		 LEC
15		 HUN
Ret		 SIN
15		 15th 2

Complete F4 UAE Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Pos Points
2023 Prema Racing DUB1
1
26		 DUB1
2
28		 DUB1
3
Ret		 KMT1
1
20		 KMT1
2
25		 KMT1
3
Ret		 KMT2
1
33		 KMT2
2
10		 KMT2
3
15		 DUB2
1
17		 DUB2
2
9		 DUB2
3
21		 YMC
1
Ret		 YMC
2
30		 YMC
3
Ret		 27th 3

Complete F1 Academy results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 DC Points
2023 Prema Racing RBR
1
2		 RBR
2
9		 RBR
3
NC		 CRT
1
5		 CRT
2
1		 CRT
3
7		 CAT
1
4		 CAT
2
14†		 CAT
3
10		 ZAN
1
10		 ZAN
2
8		 ZAN
3
5		 MON
1
Ret		 MON
2
2		 MON
3
1		 LEC
1
13		 LEC
2
10		 LEC
3
14		 USA
1
4		 USA
2
7		 USA
3
13		 7th 116
2024 ART Grand Prix JED
1
5		 JED
2
6		 MIA
1
 MIA
2
 CAT
1
 CAT
2
 ZAN
1
 ZAN
2
 SIN
1
 SIN
2
 LSL
1
 LSL
2
 ABU
1
 ABU
2
 4th* 18*

Complete Italian F4 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points
2023 Prema Racing IMO
1
 IMO
2
 IMO
3
 IMO
4
 MIS
1
 MIS
2
 MIS
3
 SPA
1
25		 SPA
2
19		 SPA
3
19		 MNZ
1
 MNZ
2
 MNZ
3
 LEC
1
 LEC
2
 LEC
3
 MUG
1
 MUG
2
 MUG
3
 VLL
1
 VLL
2
 VLL
3
 44th 0

Complete Formula 4 South East Asia Championship results

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pos Points
2023 BlackArts Racing ZZIC1
1
 ZZIC1
2
 ZZIC1
3
 MAC
1
9		 MAC
2
Ret		 SEP1
1
 SEP1
2
 SEP1
3
 SEP2
1
 SEP2
2
 SEP2
3
 NC† 0

Complete Formula Winter Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Points
2024 GRS Team JER
1
35		 JER
2
26		 JER
3
30		 CRT
1
33		 CRT
2
Ret		 CRT
3
WD		 ARA
1
35		 ARA
2
29		 ARA
3
17		 CAT
1
 CAT
2
 CAT
3
 40th 0

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