Now in its 10th season and off the back of its inaugural winter series, Spanish F4 gets underway this weekend at MotorLand Aragón. Feeder Series tells you all you need to know about it.

By Seb Tirado

The Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship earlier this year showed that the well-established dominance of Campos Racing and MP Motorsport – and their accompanying rivalry – is still alive and well. Thomas Strauven of satellite Campos team Griffin Core goes into the main Spanish F4 season as the winter series champion, with teammate Jan Przyrowski the runner-up. The highest-placed MP Motorsport driver was René Lammers, while Nathan Tye of Rodin Motorsport was the highest-placed driver from all the other teams.

Most of the Eurocup-4 teams will continue to compete in the main season, as they all previously competed in Spanish F4. As expected, ART Grand Prix will not compete in Spanish F4, limiting their participation to Eurocup-4 with their F1 Academy drivers.

The calendar 

The championship will share the majority of its rounds with Eurocup-3, starting at MotorLand Aragón this weekend with the FR-spec winter series. Navarra returns to Spanish F4 after it was originally scheduled to open the 2024 season last May. However, an incomplete support series line-up meant that Jarama was drafted in to replace Navarra as the season-opener. The championship will not return to Jarama this season.

• Round 1: MotorLand Aragón (28–30 March)
• Round 2: Circuito de Navarra (2–4 May)
• Round 3: Autódromo Internacional do Algarve (6–8 June)
• Round 4: Circuit Paul Ricard (20–22 June)
• Round 5: Circuito de Jerez (19–21 September)
• Round 6: Circuit Ricardo Tormo (17–19 October)
• Round 7: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (14–16 November)

The format

Two 40-minute practice sessions open the weekend on Friday before the first 20-minute qualifying session on Saturday. That session sets the grid for race one later that day, which will last 30 minutes plus one lap. If qualifying cannot go ahead, race one’s grid will be set using the classification from free practice and race two’s grid will be set using the fastest laps from race one.

On Saturday, the second-fastest laps from the first qualifying session will set the grid for the second race of the weekend, which will last 25 minutes plus one lap. The second 20-minute qualifying session sets the grid for race three, which will last 30 minutes plus one lap. If the second qualifying session cannot go ahead, the fastest laps from race two will be used to set the grid.

Races one and three will be awarded with the standard FIA points format, with 25 points to the winner down to one point to the 10th-place finisher. Race two will use the same format but with 18 for first and one for the ninth-place finisher. One point will be awarded to the driver with the fastest lap and two points to the polesitters in the qualifying sessions.

Where to watch

Every race will be streamed on the Spanish F4 YouTube channel. Live timing for all sessions will be available on RaceResults and Al Kamel Systems.

Teams and drivers 

Almost every team from last year will return to the championship in 2025. However, Feeder Series understands that Cram Motorsport will not compete in this year’s Spanish F4 season. The Italian team withdrew from the final round of Eurocup-4 at Navarra, with their only driver Aleksandar Bogunovič moving to GRS Team for that weekend.

Aiva Anagnostiadis – who was absent from Navarra because of F1 Academy’s clashing Shanghai test – was originally announced to be competing with the team alongside her F1 Academy campaign. It is currently unknown whether the Australian driver will continue with a dual campaign elsewhere. 

Plamen Balchev was also announced to be competing in selected rounds of Spanish F4 with Cram, but with the team not expected to compete in the championship this year, his 2025 plans are currently unknown.

MP Motorsport 

MP Motorsport finished second in the teams’ standings of both Spanish F4 last year and Eurocup-4 this year. In 2025, the Dutch outfit will field Ean Eyckmans (#4), Eurocup-4 championship contender René Lammers (#9) and FIA Motorsport Games gold medallist Juan Cota (#22).

Eyckmans won the 2024 edition of the Richard Mille Young Talent Academy, the prize for which was a fully paid-for Spanish F4 season. In Eurocup-4, the 17-year-old Belgian driver took two podiums en route to sixth in the standings, making him the second-highest-placed rookie. Last year in karting, he won the WSK Super Master Series over the winter and finished 23rd in the FIA Karting European Championship. 

Lammers, the son of former F1 driver Jan Lammers, was an early championship contender in the winter series after taking a win and a podium in the opening round at Jerez. Despite a difficult weekend at Portimão that dropped him to fourth, the 16-year-old finished third place in the final race at Navarra to secure third in the championship, two points ahead of Nathan Tye. In Spanish F4 with MP last year, the Dutchman finished 13th in the standings with one podium at Aragón.

Yani Stevenheydens, last year’s French F4 runner-up, was originally set to continue with the team into the main Spanish F4 season after competing with them in Eurocup-4. Earlier this week, however, the Belgian driver was announced to be moving up to Eurocup-3 with GRS Team for the final round of its winter series.

In a surprising return to Spanish F4 in Stevenheydens’ place, Cota joins MP from Drivex’s Eurocup-3 squad, with whom he competed in the first two rounds of the winter series. The 17-year-old is currently classified eighth in the Eurocup-3 standings with a podium at Jerez. Racing with Drivex last year, the Spanish driver finished fourth in Spanish F4 with four wins and four further podiums. He also took gold in the Motorsport Games’ F4 Cup after winning both the qualifying race and the main race in MP-operated machinery.

KCL by MP Motorsport 

In 2024, MP Motorsport’s satellite team took both the Spanish F4 teams’ title and the drivers’ title with Mattia Colnaghi. In the winter series, KCL finished fourth in the standings. KCL will field Spanish F4 debutant Hudson Schwartz (#1), Niklas Schaufler (#10) and Reno Francot (#11).

Schwartz finished 15th in Eurocup-4 with two best finishes of eighth at Navarra. The 15-year-old moved to Europe for his first full season of F4 after competing in USF2000 last year with Pabst Racing, in which he finished eighth with a podium at Portland. The American driver also competed in Spanish F4’s Barcelona round as a guest driver with Monlau Motorsport and took his best finish of 10th in race two.

Red Bull junior Schaufler finished behind his teammate in the Eurocup-4 standings, with three best results of fourth. In the OK-J class in 2024, the 15-year-old Austrian driver won the WSK Champions Cup and WSK Super Master Series, finished sixth in the FIA Karting European Championship and finished runner-up in the Champions of the Future Euro Series. He also finished fourth in the FIA Karting World Championship in OK-J but was disqualified for having more than one mechanic on the grid. He ended the year by finishing second in the WSK Final Cup. 

Francot joined the grid from Portimão onwards in between his F4 Middle East commitments with Akcel GP. In Eurocup-4, the 17-year-old finished 12th in the standings with a best result of fourth in the second race at Portimão. In F4 Middle East, he finished fifth in standings with a win in the final Yas Marina round and three further podiums. He previously raced at the F4 level in 2023 and 2024, notably finishing as runner-up in F4 CEZ in 2023 with three wins and 11 further podiums. 

Campos Racing 

The main Campos outfit finished fourth in Spanish F4 last year and third in its winter series this year. Their all-rookie line-up of Vivek Kanthan (#2), Miguel Costa (#5) and Noah Monteiro (#81) return for the main season.

Inaugural Eurocup-4 rookie champion Kanthan took four podiums on his way to fifth in the overall standings, one point behind Tye. Last year, the 15-year-old American competed in the OK category of the WSK Champions Cup, WSK Euro Series, FIA Karting European Championship and Champions of the Future Euro Series. 

Costa finished eighth in the winter series standings with a podium in the chaotic Navarra sprint race, for which he started from reverse-grid pole. Last year in karting, the 16-year-old Brazilian driver achieved best results of 16th in the FIA Karting World Cup’s KZ2 category and 11th in the FIA Karting World Championship’s OK category. 

Monteiro, the son of former F1 driver Tiago Monteiro, finished ninth in Eurocup-4, one point behind teammate Costa, with a podium in the Portimão sprint race. Last year in karting, the 15-year-old Portuguese driver finished eighth and 18th in the OK category of the FIA Karting European Championship and World Championship respectively. 

Griffin Core by Campos 

Campos Racing’s satellite team finished third in Spanish F4 last year and took the Eurocup-4 teams’ and drivers’ titles, both times ahead of the main Campos squad. All three of their winter series drivers – Matúš Ryba (#19), championship runner-up Jan Przyrowski (#23) and reigning champion Thomas Strauven (#99) – return for the main season.

Strauven scored two wins and four further podiums to take the Eurocup-4 title. Last year in Spanish F4, he finished seventh in the standings with Rodin Motorsport, taking a win at Jarama and four further podiums. The 16-year-old was, before Cota’s return, the highest-placed driver from last year’s championship set to return to Spanish F4 and will be one to watch for the title given his Eurocup-4 form.

Ryba finished 17th in the winter series with two best finishes of sixth at Jerez and Navarra. The 15-year-old competed with Drivex in Spanish F4 last year, finishing 28th in the standings with a best result of 13th at Jerez. He also represented his native Slovakia in the Motorsport Games’ F4 Cup, finishing fifth on the road in the main race but subsequently being dropped to ninth with a track-limits penalty. 

Finishing runner-up to his teammate in the winter series, Przyrowski took four victories but otherwise only scored a highest finish of fifth at Jerez. The 16-year-old competed with the team in Spanish F4 last year, finishing 10th in the standings with podiums at Jarama and Catalunya.

Drivex 

Drivex finished fifth in Spanish F4 last year and one place lower in the winter series. They also fielded the highest non-MP driver in the standings last year in Juan Cota, who finished fourth in the standings. In Spanish F4 this year, Drivex will continue with their Eurocup-4 line-up of Christopher Feghali (#33), Filippo Fiorentino (#37) and Gino Trappa (#48), all making their full-season debuts. 

Feghali finished 10th in the Eurocup-4 standings with two podiums but only one other points finish. Ahead of his single-seater debut in the final two Spanish F4 rounds last year, the 15-year-old Lebanese driver was signed to the Red Bull Junior Team. In his guest driver appearances last year with Drivex, the Lebanese driver finished a best of 12th in the first race at Barcelona. 

Fiorentino finished 14th in the winter series standings with two best results of seventh. Last year, the 16-year-old Brazilian driver competed in all but the final round of Spanish F4 with Cram Motorsport, finishing 34th in the standings with a best finish of 15th at Valencia. 

Trappa, 16, took one points finish of eighth at Portimão to finish 18th in Eurocup-4. In 2024, he finished fifth in Brazilian F4 with Bassani Racing, taking a win in the first Interlagos round and five further podiums. He also represented his native Argentina in the Motorsport Games at Valencia after making an appearance at the circuit a month before with Drivex in Spanish F4. 

DX Racing Team 

Drivex’s renamed satellite team finished 12th in Eurocup-4, fielding a single car in Stepan Suslov (#41). The team finished 10th in Spanish F4 last year as DXR, with Francisco Macedo scoring all of the team’s points. Suslov will continue in Spanish F4 with the team alongside Edu Robinson (#15) and Artem Severiukhin (#57). 

Suslov finished 26th in Eurocup-4 with a best result of 13th at Navarra. Last year, the 16-year-old competed in Iberian Supercars’ GT4 Bronze category. He finished fourth in the Bronze standings and 22nd in the overall standings with one class win and one further class podium. 

Robinson, 16, competed in the first two rounds of this year’s Formula Winter Series with US Racing. He finished 12th in the standings with two podiums at Portimão. Last year, the British-Spanish driver competed in Italian F4 and Euro 4 and finished 19th and 16th in the standings respectively, with his best result in any contest being fifth in race two at Monza.

Severiukhin made his single-seater debut earlier this year in the Formula Winter Series. The 18-year-old Russian driver competed with Jenzer Motorsport under a British licence and finished 10th in the standings with two best finishes of fourth at Catalunya. He will compete under a Kyrgyz licence in Spanish F4. Last year, he competed in the KZ2 category of shifter karting, finishing a best of fourth in the FIA Karting World Cup and winning all but the final in the Champions of the Future shifters cup in Portimão.

Kaiden Higgins was testing with the team this week at Aragón but will not be competing this weekend. The 16-year-old Australian driver was previously entered into Eurocup-4 but did not compete. 

Rodin Motorsport 

Rodin Motorsport finished behind Drivex in Spanish F4 last year and ahead of them in the winter series. This year, the team will field Kyuho Lee (#24), Nathan Tye (#46) and Emma Felbermayr (#55).

Joining Eurocup-4 after a partial F4 Middle East campaign with Pinnacle Motorsport, Lee finished 31st in the standings with a best result of 15th. The 16-year-old South Korean driver previously competed in various karting championships in Europe at the X30 Senior level and won last year’s FIA Karting World Cup’s OK-N category. 

Tye, 16, effectively swapped teams with Strauven ahead of the winter series, in which he finished fourth overall with two podiums. In Spanish F4 with Campos last year, the British driver finished 11th in the standings, also scoring two podiums.

Felbermayr will compete in a dual campaign in Spanish F4 alongside her Sauber-backed F1 Academy campaign with the team. She currently stands sixth in the all-female F4 series after last weekend’s season opener. In Eurocup-4, the 18-year-old finished 27th in the standings with a best result of 13th, missing the final round at Navarra because of the clashing F1 Academy test at Shanghai. Last year, the Austrian driver competed in the KZ2 category of the FIA Karting World Cup and European Championship, finishing 36th in the latter. 

Saintéloc Racing 

After finishing seventh in Spanish F4 last year and taking the 2023 drivers’ title with Théophile Naël, Saintéloc scored no points in the winter series. In 2025, the French outfit will run French-Greek twins Philippe-Armand Karras (#8) and Jean-Paul Karras (#14) as well as F4 Middle East runner-up Alex Powell (#80).

Jean-Paul Karras, 16, finished 32nd in the Eurocup-4 standings with a best result of 16th at Navarra. Last year, he and his twin brother made their single-seater debuts in F4 CEZ’s Most round last year with Gender Racing Team, finishing a best of sixth in race one. 

Philippe-Armand Karras was the highest-placed Saintéloc driver in Eurocup-4, finishing 24th in the standings with a best result of 12th at Navarra. In F4 CEZ, his best results at Most were two fourth-placed finishes in races two and three. Karras also represented Greece at the Motorsport Games, in which he started seventh for the qualifying race and finished 10th after he stalled at the start and fell to the back of the field. He retired from the main race after a collision with Czechia’s Max Karhan.

Mercedes junior Powell took five wins and four further podiums on his way to finishing runner-up in F4 Middle East with R-ace GP earlier this year. In 2024, the 17-year-old American-Jamaican driver finished sixth in F4 UAE with Mumbai Falcons before competing in Italian F4 and Euro 4 with Prema Racing. He finished fifth in the former with six podiums – including a clean sweep of second places in the opening round at Misano – and ninth in the latter with a win at Monza.

TC Racing 

Belgian football goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois’ namesake team finished ninth in their debut Spanish F4 season last year and eighth in the winter series standings. For the main season, TC with continue with their winter series line-up of Santino Panetta (#39), Alfio Spina (#78) and Santiago Baztarrica (#88).

After having tested with the team over the winter ahead of his single-seater debut, Panetta finished 21st in the Eurocup-4 standings with a best result of 11th at Portimão. Last year, the 15-year-old Argentinian driver finished 38th in the OK category of the FIA Karting European Championship. 

Spina returned to single-seaters after competing in the Spa and Barcelona rounds of the GT2 European Series last year, having last competed in single-seaters in the 2023 Euro 4 Championship. The 18-year-old Italian driver finished 16th in the Eurocup-4 standings with a best result of fifth at Portimão. 

Baztarrica made his F4 debut in the winter series after competing last year in Fórmula 2 Argentina, which uses former Formula Renault 2.0 machinery. He finished third in the standings with four wins and seven further podiums. In Eurocup-4 this winter, the 17-year-old finished 19th with two best results of 10th.

Monlau Motorsport 

Monlau scored eight points in Spanish F4 last year but none in Eurocup-4. In this year’s main season, the team will continue with their winter series trio of Francisco Monarca (#25), Alexander Jacoby (#27) and Lorenzo Campos (#91).

Making his single-seater debut with the team in the winter series, Monarca finished 30th in the standings with a best finish of 15th at Portimão. Over the winter, the 16-year-old Argentine driver tested with both Monlau and TC Racing.

Jacoby finished 23rd in Eurocup-4 with a best finish of 12th at Jerez. The American driver of Brazilian heritage made his F4 debut last year shortly after turning 15, competing with GRS Team from Spanish F4’s Portimão round onwards. He went on to finish 40th in the standings with a best result of 19th in his second race. 

Campos finished 29th in Eurocup-4 with a best finish of 14th at Navarra. The Angolan driver similarly made his F4 debut with GRS Team shortly after turning 15, competing as a guest driver in Spanish F4’s Jerez round. He then went on to represent his nation at the Motorsport Games.

Tecnicar by Amtog 

Tecnicar were the last of the points-scoring teams in Eurocup-4 in ninth, improving substantially on their 2024 finishing position of 12th. For Spanish F4, the team will continue with Nacho Tuñón (#17) and Wiktor Dobrzański (#32).

Tuñón made his single-seater debut with the team from Portimão onwards and finished 22nd in the standings with a best finish of 11th in his first race. Last year, the 17-year-old Spanish driver competed in the KZ2 category of the WSK Champions Cup and the FIA Karting World Cup and European Championship. He also raced in the KZ category of the Spanish Karting Championship.

Dobrzański finished 25th in the standings with a best finish of 13th in the first race at Portimão, which was his second race of the season after he had to miss the first two races at Jerez with food poisoning. Last year, the 18-year-old Polish driver finished 38th in the Spanish F4 standings with a best result of 18th at Le Castellet. 

T-Code

Tecnicar’s new satellite team finished ahead of the main outfit on account of a historic victory for Andrej Petrović (#77) in the final race of the Eurocup-4 season. Sacha van ’t Pad Bosch (#6) also moves from the main Tecnicar team to join the Serbian driver.

Apart from his victory, Petrović, 18, scored a best finish of ninth at Portimão and finished 11th in the standings. Last year, Petrović notably finished runner-up in Saudi Arabian F4, achieving three wins and eight further podiums in championship events. The Serbian driver then went on to compete in the first four rounds of Italian F4 with PHM Racing, finishing with a best result of 10th at Misano. He also won the first race of F4 CEZ’s Spielberg round in his sole appearance in the series.

Van ’t Pad Bosch moves over from Tecnicar to the satellite team for Spanish F4. The 15-year-old finished 20th in the standings with a best finish of 10th in the final race of the season. Last year, the Dutch driver competed in the final round of the Ligier JS F4 Series at the Circuit of the Americas with Scuderia Buell. He finished fourth in race one and took victory in race three of the weekend.

GRS Team

Last year, GRS Team finished last in the standings with a single point scored by Douwe Dedecker at Portimão. The Valencian team entered only the final round of Eurocup-4 with Aleksandar Bogunovič (#70), who moved over from Cram Motorsport and will remain with the team for the main Spanish F4 season. Joining the Slovenian driver will be Daniel Dallakyan (#71) from Armenia.

Bogunovič made his single-seater debut in Eurocup-4 and was classified 34th in the standings with a best result of 20th at Navarra. Last year, the 16-year-old Slovenian driver competed in the WSK Super Master Series and the WSK Final Cup.

Dallakyan steps up from senior karting and makes his single-seater debut with the team. Last year, the 16-year-old notably represented his nation at the FIA Motorsport Games in the Karting Sprint Senior category. He finished 11th on track but was dropped to 15th with a five-second penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

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