Formula 1's all-female series F1 Academy will be holding all seven of its 2024 rounds at F1 races this season, the first of which will take place at this week's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
The fledging championship is taking a proper step into the spotlight, having run just one of the events of its inaugural season on the F1 support bill last year.
All 10 F1 teams are supporting one driver, who will race in that team's livery in the Formula 4-level series. The remaining drivers will be sponsored by a series partner or running in series branding.
There are also F1 superlicence points on offer for the first time, with the 2024 champion set to receive 10 points, a quarter of what's needed to qualify for an F1 superlicence.
Ahead of the season opener, we've picked out nine things to watch this year:
The title favourite
She's yet to even race in F1 Academy but the clear title favourite heading into 2024 is Doriane Pin.
Even before Mercedes signed her to its driver academy earlier this year, Pin had made waves in the sportscar world as one of the brightest young stars in the World Endurance Championship.
She's continuing to impress in WEC but will dovetail that alongside a first proper season in single-seaters.
The 20-year-old already kicked off that programme late last year when she won a race and earned three other podiums in her first two weekends in Formula 4 at Sepang, as part of the South East Asia F4 series.
Pin followed that up by racing alongside other F1 juniors in the new benchmark winter F4 series, F4 UAE, where she was right among the frontrunners and won on her final weekend in the series last month.
Her pace has been ominously quick across pre-season testing and having joined the Prema team that took Marta Garcia to the first-ever F1 Academy title, it's easy to see Pin as the 2024 title favourite.
There's already great anticipation of where her future lies but, for now, it's down to Pin to deliver Mercedes its first F1 Academy crown.
Ferrari's first female F1 junior
Pin's Prema team-mate Maya Weug is slated to be her closest competition in F1 Academy this year.
Weug became the first female member of Ferrari's driver academy at the end of 2021 and already has a proven track record in mixed-gender F4, having scored points nine times during her second year in Italian F4.
She stepped up to the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine [FRECA] - an intermediate step between Formula 3 and Formula 4 - in 2023, and scored points on six occasions to finish 17th with one of the smallest teams on the grid, KIC Motorsport.
To the surprise of some, Ferrari's taken Weug a step back down the ladder to F1 Academy for 2024.
In Jeddah with Maya!
Looking back at the #F1Academy pre-season test