Through Her
Eyes

Clara Stiebleichinger — F1 Academy Rookie Test, Circuito de Navarra Most drivers arrive here having spent their childhood in karts. Clara Stiebleichinger arrived having spent hers on skis. Until 2024 the Austrian was a professional alpine ski racer. No karting career, no sim rig, no junior formula grounding — just a decision, at nineteen, to try something else entirely. Two years later she is sitting in a Formula 4 car at Navarra for the F1 Academy Rookie Test, running with Rodin Motorsport under the Audi Revolut F1 Academy Programme. The progress has been unusually quick. In 2025 she finished eleventh in Indian F4 and was the highest-placed woman in the championship. This season, in French F4, she qualified as high as fourth and became only the second woman ever to score points in that series. Navarra is not a race weekend. It's three days of track time, physical testing and cognitive work with Loughborough University — the kind of week that tells a young driver, and the people watching her, exactly where she stands. Motorsport gave me the loudest room I’ve ever been in — and I never want to leave. Every week, I try to capture the moments that show who we really are: determined, creative, and part of the heartbeat of racing. Sharing these stories isn’t just my job; it’s the part of motorsport I love the most.