GB3, GB4, British F4 and Euroformula Open raced this weekend in the United Kingdom and Portugal. Find out what happened in each with our weekend review.

By Feeder Series

New cars for Euroformula Open and GB3 appeared for the first time in race trim this weekend. That Yevan David leads the former and Freddie Slater the latter is not surprising, but few expected Slater, running only a partial season, to be a second per lap faster than his competition at times.

Support series GB4 is as close as ever, with two points separating first and the three drivers tied for second. The same gap splits first and second in British F4 after a string of penalties led to changes in the points as late as Sunday night.

Elsewhere in Europe, Nordic 4 began its 2025 season at Padborg Park with 15 entries. Marius Kristiansen leads with 61 points ahead of polesitter and Formula Winter Series graduate Sebastian Bach and Magnus Pedersen, both on 55. The trio took a win apiece and occupied eight of nine podium spots, with Casper Nissen grabbing third in race two.

And following the FR-spec Hoosier Formula Cup’s second round in Mugello, former F3 driver Hugh Barter remains first, though two wins by karting graduate Nazareno López Cesaratto have cut his advantage down to 12 points.

1. GB3: Slater shows his class with dominant weekend as new car debuts
2. GB4: Two points separate top four as Guinchard holds off Elite trio
3. Euroformula Open: David takes early points lead as Nielsen Racing win on debut
4. British F4: Harfield takes points lead as penalties shake up the order 

GB3: Slater shows his class with dominant weekend as new car debuts

Hillspeed’s Freddie Slater dominated the first two races at Silverstone from pole as the new GB3 car made its bow, leaving with a 15-point advantage in the drivers’ standings as Hillspeed emerged 28 points clear in the teams’ standings.

“There’s not really much more I can ask for in terms of a weekend,” Slater told Feeder Series. Hillspeed team principal Richard Ollerenshaw said Slater’s performances ‘cemented his reputation as the best upcoming driver in the UK at the moment’.

Having topped the two qualifying sessions by 0.556s and 0.427s respectively, Slater established a 1.8-second lead by the end of the first lap in race one and never looked back en route to victory by 6.982s. Lisle, starting third, jumped Rodin Motorsport’s Gianmarco Pradel off the line and finished there, 0.582s ahead of his fellow Australian.

Meanwhile, Elite Motorsport’s Bianca Bustamante failed to start race one because of damage to her car sustained in a heavy crash at Copse in the second qualifying session.

In race two, Slater pulled away after an early safety car caused by stalls for Will Macintyre and Jack Sherwood. The Briton once again led from lights to flag, extending his lead to eight seconds before a safety car on lap 11 after Dion Gowda mounted Keanu Al Azhari’s car at Village while they battled for 10th.

“There [were] things I could have done better to avoid the contact,” Gowda admitted.

Three separate incidents disrupted the opening lap of the final race. Reza Seewooruthun and Hugo Schwarze sandwiched Sherwood before they even reached the first corner, and the resulting contact briefly pitched Schwarze into the air.

All of them continued, but Lisle retired at the first corner after being spun into the gravel while on the outside of a four-wide battle. Then on the Hamilton Straight, Gowda hit Rodin’s Abbi Pulling, sending both cars veering into the inside wall. Slater slammed on the brakes to avoid the incident and lost several places, while Hitech’s Nikita Johnson had an even bigger scare, barely missing the spinning cars while swerving towards the inside wall.

Out front, Macintyre took the lead at the start from Al Azhari, who initially dropped to fourth but fought back to second before the safety car deployment. The Briton remained in first from there and won by 3.057 seconds over Al Azhari, who fended off Heuzenroeder for third despite running with a damaged rear wing from his collision with Gowda in race two. 

“I was wondering why I was sort of struggling on pace and then when I stepped out of the car I realised my rear wing was loose,” Al Azhari explained. “There [are] two mounts and one of them was off, so considering that, P2 was incredible.”

But Al Azhari later received a five-second post-race time penalty for passing Heuzenroeder off track at Stowe on the opening lap, dropping him to sixth. That promoted Heuzenroeder to second and Kai Daryanani to third on his debut GB3 weekend.

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Freddie Slater, 1:52.194	Gianmarco Pradel, +0.556s	Noah Lisle, +0.588s
Qualifying 2	Freddie Slater, 1:51.647	Alex Ninovic, +0.427s	Noah Lisle, +0.833s
Race 1 (12 laps)	Freddie Slater, 22:47.916	Noah Lisle, +6.982s	Gianmarco Pradel, +7.564s
Race 2 (12 laps)	Freddie Slater, 24:59.984	Noah Lisle, +0.747s	Nikita Johnson, +2.370s
Race 3 (11 laps)	Will Macintyre, 25:22.299	Patrick Heuzenroeder, +3.943s	Kai Daryanani, +5.974s

Standings	Drivers	Teams
P1	Freddie Slater, 73	Hillspeed, 125
P2	Noah Lisle, 58	JHR Developments, 91
P3	Nikita Johnson, 46	Hitech, 87
P4	Gianmarco Pradel, 45	Rodin Motorsport, 85
P5	Patrick Heuzenroeder, 44	Xcel Motorsport, 71
P6	Hiyu Yamakoshi, 41	Argenti with Prema, 67
P7	Alex Ninovic, 40	Elite Motorsport, 43
P8	Lucas Fluxá, 40	VRD Racing, 36
P9	Abbi Pulling, 36	Fortec Motorsport, 12
P10	Will Macintyre, 34	Chris Dittmann Racing, 10

Report by George Sanderson

GB4: Two points separate top four as Guinchard holds off Elite trio

Daniel Guinchard retained the GB4 championship lead after taking his first victory of 2025 in race three at Silverstone. The Hillspeed driver now has 124 points, with the Elite Motorsport trio of Isaac Phelps, Alexandros Kattoulas and Ary Bansal all tied on 122 points.

“It just shows how important it is to be consistent [and] not be involved in any incidents,” Guinchard told Feeder Series after the final race. He also maintained his perfect record of top-six finishes, having gained three places in races one and two to take sixth and fifth respectively.

Kattoulas secured a double pole in qualifying and took a dominant victory in race one, fending off an early attack from Luke Hilton and defeating Bansal by 6.582 seconds. Fortec Motorsport’s Jack Taylor claimed the final spot on the podium after a gruelling battle with Phelps, who took to the gravel at Woodcote whilst attempting an overtake on the penultimate lap and lost a position to Arden Motorsport’s Leon Wilson.

Elite recorded a second podium lockout of the season in race two, Phelps overtook Kattoulas on lap one and took victory by just 0.129s after two safety car periods. Bansal in third completed the podium, 1.095s behind Kattoulas.

The first safety car was called on lap one to recover the stricken Fortec of Luca Magnussen, who went off at Abbey after making contact with Alex Berg. The collision damaged the Dane’s floor and caused his car to be stuck in first gear. The second safety car came out on lap five after Jason Pribyl collided with Alex O’Grady while attempting a move at Vale and stopped on track.

In race three, polesitter Callum Baxter dropped to fourth on lap one as Pribyl seized the lead. The ADM driver, however, relinquished it to third-place starter Guinchard on lap four after running wide at Vale and Club.

“Vale seemed to be a corner that I felt I needed to push that extra bit … so I was trying to push a little bit too hard through there,” Pribyl told Feeder Series. “That kerb on the outside [at Club] is really rough, so when I saw I was going to hit it, I didn’t back off and that was another issue.”

Pribyl nonetheless Pribyl held on to second, with Leandro Juncos in the second Hillspeed completing the podium. They survived a mid-race safety car, deployed on lap six after Phelps spun Taylor exiting the Loop and Berg spun at Luffield with a left-rear puncture induced by separate contact with Hilton.

For causing their respective incidents, Phelps and Hilton each received three-place grid penalties for their next races. So too did Dayton Coulthard, who spun Kattoulas out of sixth at Luffield on the final lap and dropped him to 22nd.

Hilton was already disqualified from race two for ‘driving in a manner not compatible with general safety’. Onboard camera footage showed he was ‘driving with no hands on the steering wheel and, on occasion, gesturing to another competitor’.

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Alex Kattoulas, 2:00.337	Isaac Phelps, +0.159s	Luke Hilton, +0.199s
Race 1 (9 laps)	Alex Kattoulas, 18:16.309	Ary Bansal, +6.582s	Jack Taylor, +12.750s
Race 2 (8 laps)	Isaac Phelps, 18:55.456	Alex Kattoulas, +0.129s	Ary Bansal, +1.224s
Race 3 (9 laps)	Daniel Guinchard, 19:58.191	Jason Pribyl, +1.132s	Leandro Juncos, +1.776s

Standings	Drivers	Teams
P1	Daniel Guinchard, 124	Elite Motorsport, 299
P2	Isaac Phelps, 122	Hillspeed, 213
P3	Alex Kattoulas, 122	Douglas Motorsport, 156
P4	Ary Bansal, 122	Graham Brunton Racing, 143
P5	Leandro Juncos, 89	Fortec Motorsport, 120
P6	Jack Taylor, 69	Arden Motorsport, 96
P7	Enzo Hallman, 68	KMR Sport, 82
P8	Alex Berg, 64	Pace Performance, 61
P9	Mayer Deonarine, 63	ADM, 41
P10	Leon Wilson, 62	Fox Motorsport, 26

Report by George Sanderson

Read the previous round’s report here.

Euroformula Open: David takes early points lead as Nielsen Racing win on debut

Team Motopark’s Yevan David won twice in the opening round of the Euroformula Open season at Algarve to take the lead not only in the overall standings but also in the rookie standings as the series’ Dallara 324 chassis made its competitive debut.

David lined up on the front row for race one, though he wasn’t on pole. That honour instead went to BVM Racing’s Tymek Kucharczyk, who led the way in three of four testing and practice sessions until then. Despite the pace he had shown at the start of the weekend, the Pole stalled on the grid in race one along with two of his rivals and could only salvage an eighth-place finish.

With Kucharczyk’s stall, Michael Shin rocketed into the lead from fifth on the grid and held it for most of the race, but with three laps to go, the South Korean spun at Turn 1, giving Edward Pearson first place. Pearson, who had charged from fifth to second in the first half of the race, then led until the end, giving series newcomers Nielsen Racing their first-ever win in junior formulae.

Shin held on to finish second, and the podium was completed by David, who kept up his streak of podiums dating back to last season’s final round.

José Garfias was on pole for the reverse-grid race two and held the lead for the first third of the race until he made a mistake at Turn 1 on lap seven and conceded first place to David. The Sri Lankan kept Shin at bay until the checkered flag, taking his third win in the series by less than a second. Behind them, Pearson won a hard-fought battle for third against Kucharczyk to complete the podium as Garfias fell down to seventh by the end.

Garfias was on pole again for race three but lost the lead at the start to Shin, who kept the position over a fast-starting David. But on lap three, David overtook Shin on the main straight to take the lead and begin gapping his teammate.

With eight laps to go, Diego de la Torre’s car came to a halt on the main straight after his fire extinguisher went off, forcing a safety car period to be called. At the restart, Shin briefly grabbed the lead into Turn 1 but bounced over the exit kerb and lost momentum, giving David a chance to repass him at Turn 3.

At the same time, Fernando Barrichello’s car stopped on the main straight, causing a second safety car. The race was red-flagged shortly afterwards once it became clear that it would not resume.

With his second victory, David kept up his 100 per cent podium record in the series as Shin took three second places from three races. Having stalled in the first two races, Kucharczyk enjoyed a strong final race to take his first Euroformula Open podium.

Motopark lead the teams’ standings by 34 points over Nielsen Racing and 37 over BVM Racing.

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Tymek Kucharczyk, 1:36.272	Yevan David, +0.226s	Edward Pearson, +0.421s
Race 1 (18 laps)	Edward Pearson, 29:28.137	Michael Shin, +2.824s	Yevan David, +6.399s
Race 2 (18 laps)	Yevan David, 29:11.347	Michael Shin, +0.849s	Edward Pearson, +3.702s
Race 3 (13 laps)	Yevan David, 24:46.581	Michael Shin, +0.212s	Tymek Kucharczyk, +0.585s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Yevan David, 65	Team Motopark, 50	Yevan David, 30
P2	Michael Shin, 55	Nielsen Racing, 16	Everett Stack, 24
P3	Edward Pearson, 43	BVM Racing, 13
P4	Tymek Kucharczyk, 33	NV Racing, 0
P5	Fernando Barrichello, 26
P6	José Garfias, 26
P7	Everett Stack, 20
P8	Diego de la Torre, 16
P9	Vladislav Ryabov, 13
P10	Finley Green, 6

Report by Marco Albertini

British F4: Harfield takes points lead as penalties shake up the order 

The first round of the British F4 season featured three different winners from as many races, with penalties affecting the podium finishers in each. The driver who emerged in the lead, however, was Challenge Cup driver Tommy Harfield, who took no victories but inherited first place overall Sunday evening after a five-second penalty he received in race two was overturned. The Chris Dittmann Racing driver leads Rodin Motorsport’s Jimmy Piszcyk by two points.

Fortec Motorsport’s Henry Joslyn took a surprise double pole on his F4 debut, finishing 0.048 seconds ahead of second-year August Raber. Pre-season championship favourite Leo Robinson, meanwhile, managed only 14th, a performance that Hitech team manager Dominic Stott, speaking with Feeder Series, attributed to Robinson’s “being too cautious” with respect to track limits. 

In race one, Joslyn lost the lead to Raber at the start of lap two before a mistake at the final chicane on lap seven put the Fortec driver out of the race. From the third row of the grid, Piszcyk jumped both Ethan Jeff-Hall and Fionn McLaughlin to take third into the first corner, though McLaughlin retook the place just two laps later.

After Joslyn’s crash, Raber, McLaughlin and Piszcyk held their positions to the chequered flag, but a five-second penalty for jumping the start dropped Piszcyk to ninth. Harfield inherited third, while McLaughlin’s second-place finish also earned him the Rookie Cup win over Thomas Bearman and Charlie Edge.

Joel Bergström started from pole in Sunday morning’s reverse-grid race alongside Chase Fernandez. The Xcel Motorsport driver outdragged Bergström to take the lead into Turn 1 before he extended the gap to half a second through the opening lap. Fernandez controlled the race from there, holding the lead through the restart after a safety car caused by teammate Yuhao Fu’s stricken car at Coppice. 

Molnár, who appeared several tenths faster than those around him after the restart, passed the JHR Developments cars of Rowan Campbell-Pilling and Bergström in the closing laps to take second. Molnár’s overtake on Bergström enabled both Campbell-Pilling and Rodin’s Adam Al Azhari to slip past on the final lap counted in the results, though five-second post-race penalties for both allowed Bergström to retain third.

Harfield was fifth behind Piszcyk but was originally dropped to 13th before his track-limits penalty’s rescission.

Raber once again led McLaughlin and Piszcyk over the line in race three, with polesitter Joslyn having dropped to fourth by the end of lap two. This time, however, Raber and McLaughlin were the ones who received five-second penalties, both for track-limits violations late in the race, handing Piszcyk victory. Joslyn, otherwise primed for second, was the third of six drivers to receive such a penalty, allowing Harfield and Molnár to take their second podiums of the weekend. 

Despite his penalty, McLaughlin still topped the rookie class to take a hat-trick of Rookie Cup wins and with them the Rookie Cup lead. In the Challenge Cup, Harfield’s three wins have given him a 26-point advantage over JHR’s Harri Reynolds.

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Henry Joslyn, 1:04.968	August Raber, +0.048s	Fionn McLaughlin, +0.118s
Race 1 (15 laps)	August Raber, 20:06.657	Fionn McLaughlin, +0.460s	Tommy Harfield, +2.384s
Race 2 (13 laps)	Chase Fernandez, 16:08.915	Martin Molnár, +0.149s	Joel Bergström, +3.706s
Race 3 (18 laps)	Jimmy Piszcyk, 20:39.867	Tommy Harfield, +1.257s	Martin Molnár, +1.692s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies	Challenge Cup
P1	Tommy Harfield, 41	Argenti Motorsport, 47	Fionn McLaughlin, 65	Tommy Harfield, 65
P2	Jimmy Piszcyk, 39	Hitech, 43	Thomas Bearman, 46	Harri Reynolds, 39
P3	Martin Molnár, 37	Rodin Motorsport, 39	Xavier Avramides, 33	Charlie Edge, 38
P4	August Raber, 32	Chris Dittmann Racing, 39	Charlie Edge, 29	Alba Larsen, 35
P5	Chase Fernandez, 26	Virtuosi Racing, 33	Alba Larsen, 28	Ella Lloyd, 18
P6	Fionn McLaughlin, 24	JHR Developments, 32	Henry Mercier, 22
P7	Rowan Campbell-Pilling, 21	Xcel Motorsport, 25	Cole Hewetson, 22
P8	Leo Robinson, 20	Fortec Motorsport, 1
P9	Ethan Jeff-Hall, 16
P10	Joel Bergström, 10

Report by Gavin Guthrie

Header photo credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography