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Gisela Ibáñez

Gisela Ibáñez (born May 22, 2001) is a Mexican racing driver currently competing in Formula One with Maserati Sonus Racing.

Born | Gisela Maria
Ibáñez Aguilera
22 of May, 2001 (age 22)
Campeche, Mexico

Related to | Marcia Ibáñez
Aguilera (mother)

Formula One World Championship Career

Nationality | Mexican
2024 Team | Maserati
Car Number | 99
Entries | 1
Championships | 0
Wins | 0
Podiums | 0
Career Points | 0
Pole Positions | 0
Fastest Laps | 0

First Entry | 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix (upcoming)

Personal Life

Ibáñez was born in Campeche, Mexico, to Marcia Ibáñez Aguilera. Her father is former Formula One driver Gerard Conway, although she does not have contact with him. She has a younger step-brother, Juanjo. She is trilingual, speaking Spanish, English, and Italian. She plays tennis on occasion. She is an avid fan of the MLB and supporter of the Houston Astros.

From 2017 to 2021 she was publicly dating her childhood friend and competitor, Oscar Piastri, though the relationship ended in November of their fourth year together. In June 2023, she launched her relationship with tennis champion Judah Palladino with a congratulatory Instagram story after he won the French Open that shared a video of them together at the afterparty.

Ibáñez has scarring on her nose and the left side of her face from a bad case of chicken pox when she was ten.

Early Career

She began her karting career in 2008, at age six, and in her first year came fourth in the Rotax Max Challenge USA. In order to further her career, she moved to England in 2013 and was personally mentored by retired World Champion Mika Häkkinen for the remainder of her karting career.

In 2016, she debuted in a minor Indy series, but in the same season switched into Italian F4 after being brought into the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy. She finished tenth in the championship despite making a late arrival, with two podiums over six races. In the following year, she proved to be immediately on form, and claimed her first win at only the second race of the season. She took another two wins and eight podiums, ending fourth in the championship with consistent points finishes. In the 2018 season, she lost the championship to Enzo Fittipaldi by only four points, despite her eight wins to his six.

In the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship, she secured a second-place podium in the first race of the season, however her performance plummeted briefly after a death in her immediate family and she ended the season in eleventh. Nevertheless, the following year she bounced back and came third behind championship winner Oscar Piastri and runner-up Théo Pourchaire.

The 2021 Formula 2 Championship proved to be a challenge, and Ibáñez produced worrying results on and off throughout the season. She was the only woman in the championship. After an expensive crash following a double no-points performance in Sochi, Prema Racing preemptively announced that she would not be driving for them in the following year, which additionally caused her to be released from the Ferrari driver academy. With little time remaining to prove her worth, Ibáñez put in the laps of her life to win a pole position and two podium finishes in Jeddah, and then a sprint race victory and her first Formula 2 win in Abu Dhabi, ending the season in ninth overall.

During an interview, she revealed that she had been unknowingly driving with a partially collapsed lung for a majority of that year, most likely caused by the case of Covid-19 that had hospitalized her in January.

After a brief unemployment recess, Ibáñez hastily returned to Formula 2 halfway through the 2022 season after being pulled in to replace an underperforming driver in Virtuosi Racing, and she won two feature races, three sprints, and achieved podium places consistently for all finished races.

In the 2023 Formula 2 Championship, Ibáñez gave her most dominant performance yet and won the championship with a thirty-point lead.

She was the only woman to ever earn points in Formula 2, and continued setting records with podium finishes, race victories, and Championship wins.

Formula One

Ferrari/Haas Test Driver &
Academy (2016 ─ 2021).

Ibáñez joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016. After coming third in F3 in 2020, she took part in her first Formula One test in October, driving the Haas VF-18 at the Monza Circuit. After the 2021 Formula 2 season, she was dropped from the Ferrari Academy.

In 2022, she continued without a driving academy behind her.

Maserati Sonus Racing (2024 ─)

Rumors had been raised as early as September 2023 that Ibáñez could potentially be drafted into the incoming Maserati Sonus team in F1, and the rumors were confirmed in December when she was signed to the team on a 1 + 1 contract. Bram Rynsburger, 2014 World Champion with Red Bull, will be her teammate.

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Maserati F1 Team

Maserati participated in Grand Prix racing during the 1930s and in Formula One motor racing during the 1950s and 1960s. It was welcomed back to Formula One in 2024, rebranded as Maserati Sonus Faber Racing.

Full Name | Maserati Sonus Faber Racing
Base | Modena, Italy
Team Principal | Gabriele Ruggiero

2024 Formula One World Championship

Race Drivers
50. 🇳🇱 Bram Rynsburger
99. 🇲🇽 Gisela Ibáñez

Test Driver
🇪🇪 Paul Aron

Chassis | MSR-24
Engine | Ferrari 066/12
Tyres | Pirelli

First Entry | 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix

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( note )
i added that bit about the chicken pox last minute because i am also a victim of pox facial scarring and she is my self-insert character so i can do whatever i want