Formula Regional Oceania wrapped up its 2025 season in dramatic fashion with the New Zealand Grand Prix as red flags and startline chaos punctuated the FR and F4 races at Dubai and Jerez. Feeder Series recaps a wild weekend of junior single-seater action.

By Feeder Series

F1’s season opener in Melbourne may be more than a month away, but we’ve already had a car racing grand prix on the books this weekend with the 69th running of the New Zealand Grand Prix, one of two such events that feature junior single-seater cars.

The two biggest trophies handed out in FR Oceania’s season finale went to grand prix winner Will Brown and championship winner Arvid Lindblad, but a number of other drivers starred in other series as well.

Evan Giltaire and Emanuele Olivieri both extended their points leads in FR Middle East and F4 Middle East respectively with clean and consistent weekends at the Dubai Autodrome. Over in Spain, the two Spanish Winter Championship series kicked off at Jerez, and while Eurocup-3’s proceedings went relatively smoothly, Eurocup-4 featured more turbulence, including a race with multiple aborted formation laps. Read on to find out what went down.

1. FRegional Oceania: Brown wins New Zealand Grand Prix as Lindblad wraps up title
2. Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship: Colnaghi and Gładysz face off once again
3. Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship: Przyrowski leads the way with double win
4. FRegional Middle East: Giltaire extends points lead as Ugochukwu, Nakamura take first series wins
5. F4 Middle East: Powell bounces back as Olivieri extends championship lead

FRegional Oceania: Brown wins New Zealand Grand Prix as Lindblad wraps up title

Will Brown took top honours in Formula Regional Oceania’s flagship race, the 69th New Zealand Grand Prix, at Highlands Motorsport Park as Arvid Lindblad secured the championship crown despite his worst weekend of the season.

M2 Competition’s Lindblad entered the round with a 59-point advantage and 90 points still on the table, but he sealed the drivers’ title in race one by finishing ahead of both Nikita Johnson and Zack Scoular, his two chief rivals.

Patrick Heuzenroeder, fourth in the points, won that Saturday afternoon contest from pole position after topping the first segment of the series’ unique knockout qualifying format. The MTEC Motorsport driver took his maiden single-seater victory by 6.328 seconds over Lindblad, who faced intense pressure from Michael Shin.

The podium trio’s fortunes reversed, however, in Sunday morning’s reverse-grid race when an opening-lap accident eliminated all three.

At the bus-stop chicane, Matías Zagazeta tapped Heuzenroeder’s right-rear wheel and broke the Australian’s suspension. As Heuzenroeder’s damaged car ricocheted across the chicane, Zagazeta swerved in avoidance and hit Shin, who was alongside Lindblad.

Zagazeta’s car survived the impacts, but Shin sustained terminal damage and Lindblad ploughed into the barriers. Rather than repair the Briton’s damaged car for race three, M2 opted to send him out in a spare chassis, now bearing the number 1 reserved for the champion.

Johnson held the lead at the safety car restart at the end of lap five and cruised to his first FR victory ahead of Nicholas Monteiro and Shawn Rashid, both of whom took their maiden podiums in the series.

Johnson also eked out a six-point advantage over Scoular, who finished fourth, in the fight for second in the drivers’ standings. The pair were level on points after race one.

With a stunning lap in Q3, Broc Feeney – the runner-up to Brown in the 2024 Supercars standings – secured pole position for the New Zealand Grand Prix in his first single-seater qualifying session. With that, however, also came his first standing start, and the 22-year-old struggled off the line as Brown and Scoular passed him.

Scoular kept Brown honest throughout the 27-lap contest, but the Giles Motorsport driver held him off to take his first single-seater victory since 2016 by 0.963s. The 26-year-old also became the first Australian winner of the grand prix since Warwick Brown (no relation) triumphed 50 years ago.

Starting fourth, Lindblad ultimately secured third – his only non-victory in a feature race this season – via a battling drive. After losing a spot to Rashid off the line, the Red Bull junior gained back one position when an error from Feeney at Turn 9 on lap 15 dropped the Australian to sixth. Lindblad then overtook Rashid at the same spot two laps later.

With Johnson finishing eighth behind Jett Bowling, Scoular overhauled him in the points, ending the season with 314 to Johnson’s 305. Lindblad’s tally totalled 370 as he led M2 to yet another teams’ title over MTEC Motorsport.

Results	P1	P2	P3
Q1	Patrick Heuzenroder, 1:29.320	Arvid Lindblad, +0.098s	Will Brown, +0.101s
Q2	Will Brown, 1:29.452	Patrick Heuzenroeder, +0.043s	Arvid Lindblad, +0.145
Q3	Broc Feeney, 1:29.032	Will Brown, +0.154s	Patrick Heuzenroeder, +0.184s
Race 1 (18 laps)	Patrick Heuzenroeder, 27:20.322	Arvid Lindblad, +6.328s	Michael Shin, +6.679s
Race 2 (18 laps)	Nikita Johnson, 32:39.176	Nicholas Monteiro, +1.119s	Shawn Rashid, +8.508s
Race 3 (27 laps)	Will Brown, 43:55.455	Zack Scoular, +0.963s	Arvid Lindblad, +1.860s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Arvid Lindblad, 370	M2 Competition, 772	Zack Scoular, 314
P2	Zack Scoular, 314	MTEC Motorsport, 653	Enzo Yeh, 149
P3	Nikita Johnson, 305	Giles Motorsport, 371	Nicolas Stati, 105
P4	Patrick Heuzenroeder, 264	Kiwi Motorsport, 218	Barrett Wolfe, 70
P5	Matías Zagazeta, 244
P6	Sebastian Manson, 225
P7	Josh Pierson, 219
P8	Michael Shin, 197
P9	Shawn Rashid, 169
P10	Will Brown, 158

Report by Michael McClure

Read the previous round’s report here.

From the paddock: Lindblad boasts a glittering racing résumé for a 17-year-old, but until this weekend, a junior single-seater title still eluded him. Over the weekend, Feeder Series spoke with Lindblad and his race engineer, Antonio Ortiz, to understand how their partnership helped propel him to his first championship. Read the story here.

Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship: Colnaghi and Gładysz face off once again

MP Motorsport’s Mattia Colnaghi and Maciej Gładysz reprised their Spanish F4 rivalry at Jerez as Eurocup-3’s winter series held its first of three rounds on the Iberian Peninsula.

Colnaghi won race one from pole with Gładysz in third, while the pair mirrored those results in race two. The reigning Spanish F4 champion currently leads Gładysz by four points by virtue of scoring the fastest lap in race one and finishing seventh to the Polish driver’s ninth in the sprint.

Second-placed James Egozi threatened Colnaghi off the line but dropped back after the first corner as Colnaghi sailed away. By lap 11, Gładysz had caught up to the back of Egozi, but the Palou Motorsport driver kept Gładysz behind and finished second, scoring his team’s first podium since the Spa round last April. 

The sprint went to another MP driver in Andrés Cárdenas. The Peruvian driver faced a potential threat from Juan Cota, who swiftly made his way into second past Emerson Fittipaldi Jr through Turn 2. Nevertheless, Cárdenas sustained a roughly one-second gap between him and the Drivex racer to the end, whilst Fittipaldi kept his own solid gap over Egozi to finish third.

Egozi then earned a five-second post-race penalty for a false start, dropping him from fourth to sixth behind Nikola Tsolov and Kacper Sztuka. Their Campos teammate Jules Caranta, conversely, stalled from 10th and fell to 24th before recovering to 10th, a position he secured via a dive on Oscar Wurz into the Turn 6 hairpin on the penultimate lap.

Gładysz won the weekend’s third race – formally labelled race two – by the biggest margin across both Spanish winter championships so far, finishing 4.985s ahead of Caranta. He was helped by an incident between Caranta and Tsolov, which occurred after the sole safety car of the round was deployed for Lenny Ried and Ádám Hideg’s collision on lap six.

On the restart, the Bulgarian driver quickly pounced on race leader Caranta, and the pair were side by side and nose to tail through the first sector. When Tsolov dove down the inside at Turn 6, the pair went wide onto the exit kerb and made contact, giving Gładysz behind them the lead into Turn 7. 

Tsolov retired with front suspension damage whilst Caranta, without major damage, slowly slipped away from Gładysz. As a result of causing the collision, Tsolov received a five-place grid penalty for his next race in the series, which he is not likely to serve as he is currently not set to return to Eurocup-3.

After not setting a valid lap in qualifying Sunday morning, Egozi also had a notable comeback drive, rising from 25th to 16th on the first lap and ultimately finishing ninth. He is fourth in the points entering the second round, tied with sprint race winner Cárdenas.

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Mattia Colnaghi, 1:39.505	James Egozi, +0.199s	Maciej Gładysz, +0.230s
Race 1 (20 laps)	Mattia Colnaghi, 33:02.534	James Egozi, +2.032s	Maciej Gładysz, +2.650s
Sprint race (14 laps)	Andrés Cárdenas, 23:10.306	Juan Cota, +1.267s	Emerson Fittipaldi Jr, +7.703s
Qualifying 2	Maciej Gładysz, 1:36.716	Jules Caranta, +0.159s	Nikola Tsolov, +0.200s
Race 2 (18 laps)	Maciej Gładysz, 32:49.642	Jules Caranta, +4.985s	Mattia Colnaghi, +8.030s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Mattia Colnaghi, 47	MP Motorsport, 87	Mattia Colnaghi, 47
P2	Maciej Gładysz, 43	Campos Racing, 59	Maciej Gładysz, 43
P3	Andrés Cárdenas, 26	KCL by MP Motorsport, 41	Andrés Cárdenas, 26
P4	James Egozi, 26	Drivex, 32	James Egozi, 26
P5	Juan Cota, 25	Palou Motorsport, 26	Juan Cota, 25
P6	Jules Caranta, 25	Griffin Core by Campos, 24	Jules Caranta, 25
P7	Emerson Fittipaldi Jr, 24	Sparco Palou MS, 0	Oscar Wurz, 7
P8	Nikola Tsolov, 22	Saintéloc Racing, 0	Lenny Ried, 0
P9	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak, 12	Allay Racing, 0	Preston Lambert, 0
P10	Jesse Carrasquedo, 12	GRS Team, 0	Francisco Macedo, 0

Report by Seb Tirado

Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship: Przyrowski leads the way with double win

Jan Przyrowski leads the Eurocup-4 winter series standings by a comfortable margin of 23 points over René Lammers after taking two wins and two pole positions in the weekend’s main races. 

Drivers struggled to navigate formation laps around the 4.428-kilometre circuit all weekend. Race one’s first formation lap was abandoned after Monlau Motorsport’s Alexander Jacoby spun and stalled after Turn 12. The race was then suspended, and the start procedure resumed with two laps behind the safety car and 28 minutes remaining.

Griffin Core by Campos teammates Przyrowski and Thomas Strauven both got a good jump out of Turn 12 and pulled away, trading fastest laps for much of the race.

The safety car was called on lap 11 after Jacoby, who was able to start the race, crashed out at Turn 10. The two remaining laps then became three-quarters of one after the race was red flagged. At least one incident between Turns 4 and 5 left the cars of Aurelia Nobels, Kyuho Lee and Sacha van ’t Pad Bosch stranded, with Nobels and Lee both withdrawing from the sprint race that afternoon after sustaining heavy damage.

With the results taken from the penultimate lap, Przyrowski and Strauven made up a Griffin Core by Campos 1-2 with Drivex’s Christopher Feghali in third. Nathan Tye had pushed the Lebanese driver into the gravel at the inside of Turn 3 at the final restart, but the incident proved inconsequential.

Starting second for the sprint, Lammers maintained a comfortable lead to win with the fastest lap ahead of Kanthan, who kept Tye at bay for most of the race. Strauven finished down in 28th and Feghali retired on lap eight after pitting for a new front wing. 

The final race took almost 35 minutes to get underway. The first formation lap was abandoned after Gino Trappa spun and beached himself at Turn 10, the second start was aborted after the lights failed to extinguish, and the third formation lap was abandoned after Aiva Anagnostiadis spun exiting Turn 12.

The race, reduced to 24 minutes plus one lap, finally started at the fourth time of asking, but the safety car returned by the end of the lap. Lorenzo Campos was spun at Turn 1 and hit by Lia Block, who retired on the spot, while Feghali retired at Turn 2 after making contact with Van ’t Pad Bosch.

The race restarted at the end of lap three, but the safety car was deployed again just a few corners later after Hudson Schwartz got loose into Turn 5 and spun Niklas Schaufler into the gravel, with Santino Panetta joining him. 

At the restart, the leading pair of Przyrowski and Kanthan pulled ahead as Petrović defended third from Strauven, who finally got past at Turn 1 on the penultimate lap. Petrović responded with a late dive into Turn 6 but went too deep, forcing Strauven to brake in avoidance. Lammers overtook them both for third, with Tye also passing Petrović for fifth.

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Jan Przyrowski, 1:51.228	Thomas Strauven, +0.394s	Christopher Feghali, +1.060s
Race 1 (12 laps)	Jan Przyrowski, 24:47.742	Thomas Strauven, +0.483s	Christopher Feghali, +1.109s
Sprint race (13 laps)	René Lammers, 22:38.771	Vivek Kanthan, +3.110s	Nathan Tye, +3.634s
Qualifying 2	Jan Przyrowski, 1:43.477	Vivek Kanthan, +0.241s	Andrej Petrović, +0.313s
Race 2 (12 laps)	Jan Przyrowski, 26:23.715	Vivek Kanthan, +1.205s	René Lammers, +5.959s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Jan Przyrowski, 63	Griffin Core by Campos, 90	Vivek Kanthan, 37
P2	René Lammers, 40	MP Motorsport, 51	Christopher Feghali, 15
P3	Vivek Kanthan, 37	Campos Racing, 47	Niklas Schaufler, 10
P4	Nathan Tye, 34	Rodin Motorsport, 34	Miguel Costa, 10
P5	Thomas Strauven, 31	Drivex, 20	Ean Eyckmans, 8
P6	Christopher Feghali, 15	KCL by MP Motorsport, 18	Noah Monteiro, 6
P7	Hudson Schwartz, 11	Tecnicar by Amtog, 1	Sacha van ’t Pad Bosch, 0
P8	Niklas Schaufler, 10	TC Racing, 0	Emma Felbermayr, 0
P9	Miguel Costa, 10	ART Grand Prix, 0	Kyuho Lee, 0
P10	Ean Eyckmans, 8	Saintéloc Racing, 0	Philippe Armand Karras, 0

Report by Seb Tirado

FRegional Middle East: Giltaire extends points lead as Ugochukwu, Nakamura take first series wins

Evan Giltaire extended his lead in the FR Middle East drivers’ championship with three top-four finishes in the third round of the series at the Dubai Autodrome, including a win in race three. The Frenchman now heads to the penultimate round of the series with a healthy 39-point lead over his main rival, Freddie Slater.

After a promising start to his 2025 winter campaign in the two Abu Dhabi rounds, Giltaire started the Dubai round in spectacular fashion by taking both pole positions ahead of the weekend’s three races. At the start of the first, however, Giltaire slipped to third as the lights went out as Ugo Ugochukwu snatched the lead around the outside into Turn 1 and Brando Badoer followed him through to second.

The Italian and the Frenchman then fought over second position, which enabled the Macau Grand Prix winner to gain a healthy lead both then and after the safety car restart at the end of lap nine.

An accident between Ernesto Rivera and debutant Hiyu Yamakoshi, both of Pinnacle, halted proceedings on lap 12. With the race red flagged, Ugochukwu took his maiden win in the series after a brake failure cost him the victory last time out.

Ugochukwu’s R-ace GP teammate Jin Nakamura started from pole in race two with the grid reversal. The Japanese driver had finished all races in the points up until then but had yet to take a top five.

This time, he connected all the dots and secured his first win in the championship, breaking into the top 10 of the drivers’ standings in the process.

Behind him, Slater, recovering from a poor qualifying performance on Saturday, made several overtaking attempts late in the race but ultimately clinched second place. Home hero Rashid Al Dhaheri took third after passing Enzo Deligny, while Giltaire rose from eighth to fourth after Théophile Naël earned a five-second post-race penalty.

Giltaire was back on pole for race three, and despite another troubled start that meant he had to fend off Ugochukwu’s charge into Turn 1, he came through for his third win in the series. Ugochukwu completed his best race weekend of the season with second place, while Saintéloc’s Théophile Naël rounded out the podium as two lengthy safety cars for multi-car accidents stalled race proceedings.

Behind Deligny and Al Dhaheri, Slater and Badoer crossed the line in sixth and seventh respectively, giving Giltaire a crucial points margin.

As the series returns to Abu Dhabi for round four next week, the Frenchman now leads the way with 177 points as Slater sits in second with 138, Badoer third with 126 and Naël fourth with 125.

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Evan Giltaire, 1:54.481	Brando Badoer, +0.090s	Ugo Ugochukwu, +0.136s
Qualifying 2	Evan Giltaire, 1:53.879	Rashid Al Dhaheri, +0.132s	Ugo Ugochukwu, +0.140s
Race 1 (12 laps)	Ugo Ugochukwu, 25:41.352	Brando Badoer, +0.831s	Evan Giltaire, +2.084s
Race 2 (16 laps)	Jin Nakamura, 31:39.127	Freddie Slater, +0.429s	Rashid Al Dhaheri, +1.021s
Race 3 (12 laps)	Evan Giltaire, 30:06.807	Ugo Ugochukwu, +0.749s	Théophile Naël, +1.867s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Evan Giltaire, 177	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited, 240	Freddie Slater, 208
P2	Freddie Slater, 138	ART Grand Prix, 217	Rashid Al Dhaheri, 208
P3	Brando Badoer, 126	R-ace GP, 182	Ernesto Rivera, 124
P4	Théophile Naël, 125	PHM Racing, 126	Taito Kato, 116
P5	Rashid Al Dhaheri, 108	Saintéloc Racing, 125	Jack Beeton, 102
P6	Ugo Ugochukwu, 105	Pinnacle Motorsport, 88	Reza Seewooruthun, 82
P7	Enzo Deligny, 77	Origine Motorsport, 4	Akshay Bohra, 79
P8	Jin Nakamura, 67	Evans GP, 3	Kai Daryanani, 70
P9	Kanato Le, 59	Akcel GP, 2	Aditya Kulkarni, 58
P10	Taito Kato, 44		Everett Stack, 32

Report by Daniele Spadi

Read the previous round’s report here.

F4 Middle East: Powell bounces back as Olivieri extends championship lead

R-ace GP dominated the third F4 Middle East race weekend as Emanuele Olivieri took his fifth victory of the season and Alex Powell took his first two wins.

The Saturday qualifying session ended with an apparent double pole position for Powell before the reinstatement of Olivieri’s fastest lap, which was initially deleted for track limits. 

That gave Olivieri pole for race one, but in very sandy conditions, Tomass Štolcermanis overtook him for the lead off the line. Powell fell from second to ninth during the race after reportedly picking up a slow puncture on the formation lap. 

He was helped by the fact that much of the race ran behind the safety car, which first came out at the end of the second lap for a collision between Sebastian Wheldon and Abdullah Ayman Kamel. Arjun Chheda then spun August Raber at the restart on lap six, earning a 30-second penalty after the race and causing the second safety car deployment. 

The race restarted again on lap 10, and Olivieri quickly passed Štolcermanis for the lead, which he extended to 1.335s. On that lap, Wang Yuzhe’s car hit a kerb on the back straight and flipped over, bringing out the red flag. The car was destroyed, but he was unharmed. 

Fu Yuhao started on pole for the reverse-grid race Sunday morning. Powell was initially passed for second by Oleksandr Bondarev at Turn 1 before passing him back later that lap. Powell then went around the outside of Fu for the lead at Turn 10 of the second lap. 

Bondarev and his Prema teammate Chi Zhenrui then collided on lap five, dropping both of them out of the points, while Štolcermanis, Olivieri and Nakamura-Berta also passed Fu to fight for the podium positions. 

Štolcermanis entered the last lap in second but was passed by Olivieri and then Nakamura-Berta, dropping to fourth, as Powell took victory by 6.797s. Salim Hanna in fifth picked up his second rookie victory of the weekend, while Wheldon drove an excellent comeback race to finish ninth from 26th. 

Powell maintained his lead off the line in the final race while Nakamura-Berta passed Olivieri for second. The Mercedes junior had the best of Nakamura-Berta for the first 10 laps, but on lap 11 Nakamura-Berta lunged on Powell into the first corner.

Having gotten past, he built a gap of more than a second before an alleged engine cut on the back straight during the final lap dropped him into the clutches of Powell.

The pair battled to the line, with Powell taking victory by just 0.057s, the smallest margin of the season. Behind them, Olivieri remained in third for the entire race, while Reno Francot got the better of Štolcermanis after multiple swaps in position for fourth. Hanna had also passed Štolcermanis but was determined to have done so off track and lost the place to a post-race penalty. 

Olivieri leads the championship by 51 points ahead of round four in Abu Dhabi. Nakamura-Berta in second is still chasing his first win this season, while Powell overtook both Štolcermanis and Francot for third in the standings with his pair of victories. 

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Emanuele Olivieri, 2:01.470	Alex Powell, +0.219s	Tomass Štolcermanis, +0.471s
Qualifying 2	Alex Powell, 2:00.701	Emanuele Olivieri, +0.034s	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +0.096s
Race 1 (10 laps)	Emanuele Olivieri, 26:27.721	Tomass Štolcermanis, +1.335s	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +1.779s
Race 2 (14 laps)	Alex Powell, 30:58.404	Emanuele Olivieri, +6.797s	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +8.204s
Race 3 (15 laps)	Alex Powell, 30:52.304	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +0.057s	Emanuele Olivieri, +1.464s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Emanuele Olivieri, 231	R-ace GP, 332	Salim Hanna, 188
P2	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 176	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited, 311	Chi Zhenrui, 179
P3	Alex Powell, 135	Prema Racing, 105	Oleksandr Bondarev, 150
P4	Tomass Štolcermanis, 135	Yas Heat Racing Academy, 103	Cole Hewetson, 111
P5	Reno Francot, 97	Akcel GP by PHM Racing, 98	David Cosma Cristofor, 105
P6	Adam Al Azhari, 67	Evans GP, 32	Yuta Suzuki, 96
P7	Sebastian Wheldon, 63	Xcel Motorsport, 19	Emily Cotty, 72
P8	Salim Hanna, 62	Pinnacle Motorsport, 6	Kyuho Lee, 63
P9	Oleksandr Savinkov, 51	QMMF, 2	Taha Hassiba, 62
P10	Chi Zhenrui, 42		Bader Al Sulaiti, 58

Report by Calla Kra-Caskey

Read the previous round’s report here.

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