The Australian Grand Prix has renamed Flip Six at its Albert Park Circuit for 2026 in celebration of Worldwide Girls’s Day.
It is because the opening race of the brand new season falls on the identical date because the commemoration on Sunday, 8 March.
The nook on the Melbourne monitor will likely be renamed ‘In Her Nook’ in tribute to Laura Mueller and Hannah Schmitz, who’re two feminine engineers working in Components 1.
Mueller is the race engineer at Haas for driver Esteban Ocon. The German is the primary level of contact between the motive force and the workforce. Mueller turned the primary feminine engineer to tackle the position full time in 2025.
Schmitz is the pinnacle of race technique at Pink Bull and has labored with varied drivers since becoming a member of in 2009. The British engineer was a key determine within the workforce’s success in 2022 and 2023.
She can be certainly one of solely 11 ladies to have stood on the rostrum after a race.
