🇦🇪 Hamda Al Qubaisi

Hamda Al Qubaisi is an entry-level professional driver from the United Arab Emirates, holding an FIA Silver grading for sportscar racing. She raced single-seater cars in European junior formulae between 2019 and 2024, competing most extensively in Italian F4, where she drove for Prema Powerteam, and in F1 Academy across three classes for MP Motorsport.[1]

Across six seasons she accumulated 90 starts, four wins and eleven podiums. Her primary campaign was Italian F4, where she made 39 starts across 2019 to 2021 and scored a podium in 2021 to finish 16th in the championship; she also ran in ADAC Formula 4 and Formula Regional European in 2020 and 2022 respectively, with minimal impact in both. The bulk of her wins and podiums came in F1 Academy, where she took four wins and ten podiums across 33 starts in its multiclass format, racing in three of its classes from 2023 to 2024.[2]

She raced regularly against established professionals and former champions. In Italian F4 she finished behind Leonardo Fornaroli, a driver who would go on to win the 2024 Formula 3 championship and the 2025 Formula 2 title, on most meetings; she also typically finished behind Sebastian Montoya, an established professional graded Silver. She beat Oliver Bearman, a Platinum-graded elite professional and 2021 Italian F4 champion, once across their meetings.