If you missed out on this weekend’s junior single-seater action while absorbing Monaco’s chaos or revelling in the Indianapolis 500, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered with our weekend review. 

By Feeder Series

Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix was the main attraction this weekend – and its existence a topic of contention in some quarters . While the reignited debates about the race’s place on the calendar did not spill over into the support rounds, F2 and F3 provided plenty of talking points, which our editors fleshed out yesterday.

Several F4-spec series raced elsewhere in Europe over the weekend, and GB4’s action at Oulton Park even stretched into Monday on the UK’s spring bank holiday. British F4 in Snetterton wrapped up on Sunday with a new championship leader in Red Bull junior Fionn McLaughlin, while Italian F4’s visit to Vallelunga featured another masterful weekend by Kean Nakamura-Berta.

Over in the United States, Álex Palou has redefined dominance in IndyCar by taking his fifth win from six races in the Indianapolis 500, but there was more variability in its support series this weekend. Ariel Elkin’s recent form meant his victory in USF Pro 2000’s Freedom 90 Friday night was less of an upset, but Anthony Martella was the surprise winner of the slightly shorter Freedom 75 in USF2000 held earlier that evening.

As happened with Super Formula Lights’ second round last weekend, heavy rain affected proceedings in FRegional Japan and led the first race of the season to award only partial points. F4 SEA had its share of rain too, but the monsoons avoided the circuit and enabled Thailand’s first junior single-seater races since 2020 to take place. Sunny skies greeted competitors taking part in Australia’s renamed AU4 Championship for the first time in 2025. 

Keep reading to find out everything that happened on track on yet another frenetic weekend of racing across the world. 

1. FRegional Japan: Suzuki takes two wins on debut weekend
2. Italian F4: Nakamura-Berta claims races one and two as Wheldon and Gomez share Sunday wins
3. British F4: McLaughlin takes points lead as Pisczyk struggles in qualifying
4. GB4: Wild weather provides entertaining spectacle at Oulton Park
5. F4 SEA: Sawer retains perfect record with three more victories
6. USF Pro 2000: Elkin laps all but six cars to take crushing win at IRP
7. USF2000: Martella takes maiden series win in dominant fashion
8. AU4: McNeill takes early advantage in Gen 2 class as Marold sweeps Gen 1

FRegional Japan: Suzuki takes two wins on debut weekend

Formula Regional Japan kicked off its 2025 season at Okayama, with TOM’S drivers and Toyota juniors Tokiya Suzuki and Kiyoshi Umegaki sharing the wins across the three races.

Three practices took place Friday in dry conditions, with Ponos Racing’s Kento Omiya the fastest in the combined results. In a wet qualifying Saturday morning, Suzuki topped the first session, beating B-Max Racing’s Kazuhisa Urabe by 2.265 seconds and setting the best second-fastest time of the session as well to secure pole for the third race. Suzuki also paced the second qualifying session, this time by 0.311s over Umegaki. 

Rain was still falling heavily when the first race on Saturday afternoon took place. The field completed six laps behind the safety car before the race was halted. Four laps counted towards the race results, and half points were awarded. The results mirrored the first qualifying’s except that Yu Oda gained 10th place and half a point after Eagle Sports’ Yuki Tanaka did not take the start. 

Confusion accompanied the start of race two on Sunday morning. “Akita” crashed between Turns 4 and 5 on the formation lap, delaying the start. After the second formation lap, Suzuki and Omiya, who started first and third, each went one grid box too far, causing another delayed start. Each received a five-second time penalty for the incident. 

The race, now shortened from 18 to 16 laps, finally got underway 18 minutes after the first formation lap with Suzuki maintaining his lead. Urabe had a great start to jump from fourth to second at Turn 1, while Umegaki ran wide at the same spot and dropped to fifth behind Omiya and Hitotsuyama Racing’s Anna Inotsume.

Later that lap, Urabe and Omiya collided at Turn 4, dropping Urabe to sixth position and earning Omiya another five-second time penalty. Behind them, Aiwin’s Yutaka Toriba and Tanaka collided, taking out Tanaka, while Toriba retired in the pits. This incident brought out the safety car. 

The race restarted on lap five, and Suzuki built his gap over Umegaki to more than five seconds after 12 laps. But Umegaki caught up again and reduced the gap to 2.109s, enough to take the win because of Suzuki’s penalty. Omiya crossed the line second but dropped to fourth with his penalties, giving Oda his first podium.

Race three was declared wet after a pre-race rain shower soaked the track, but all drivers started on slick tyres. Suzuki kept his lead off the line while Umegaki overtook Inotsume in Turn 1 for fourth position. Umegaki then passed Urabe on lap six.

The safety car came out on lap nine after Jia Zhanbin stopped at Turn 11. At the restart at the end of lap 14, Oda, who fought through the field from 11th, overtook Urabe for fourth but crashed on his own at Turn 4 on the final lap. 

With two wins and a second-place finish, Suzuki leads the drivers’ championship by 55.5 points, 8.5 ahead of teammate Umegaki. 

Report by Finjo Muschlien

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Tokiya Suzuki, 1:44.057	Kazuhisa Urabe, +2.265s	Kento Omiya, +2.325s
Qualifying 2	Tokiya Suzuki, 1:43.463	Kiyoshi Umegaki, +0.311s	Kento Omiya, +1.834s
Race 1 (4 laps)	Tokiya Suzuki, 11:23.010	Kazuhisa Urabe, +0.916s	Kento Omiya, +1.288s
Race 2 (16 laps)	Kiyoshi Umegaki, 30:02.239	Tokiya Suzuki, +2.891s	Yu Oda, +6.974s
Race 3 (17 laps)	Tokiya Suzuki, 30:20.201	Kento Omiya, +0.295s	Kiyoshi Umegaki, +1.186s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Masters
P1	Tokiya Suzuki, 55.5	TOM’S Formula, 62.5	Yutaka Toriba, 37.5
P2	Kiyoshi Umegaki, 46	Ponos Racing, 37.5	“Akita”, 27
P3	Kento Omiya, 37.5	B-Max Racing Team, 31	Yuki Tanaka, 15
P4	Kazuhisa Urabe, 31	Hitotsuyama Racing, 21
P5	Anna Inotsume, 21	Rn-sports, 16.5
P6	Yu Oda, 16.5	Aiwin, 14
P7	Yutaka Toriba, 14	Fujita Pharmacy Racing, 11
P8	Hideaki Irie, 11	Abbey Racing, 8
P9	“Akita”, 8	Eagle Sports, 2
P10	Jia Zhanbin, 7

Italian F4: Nakamura-Berta claims races one and two as Wheldon and Gomez share Sunday wins

Kean Nakamura-Berta extended his Italian F4 championship lead to 125 points with two wins in the second round at Vallelunga, while David Cosma Cristofor took a surprise pole, Sebastian Wheldon sailed to victory in race three and Gabriel Gomez triumphed in a chaotic finale.

Nakamura-Berta set a 1:49.658 to top a wet first qualifying session. Qualifying two, however, took place on a drying track, and PHM Racing’s Cosma Cristofor set a 1:45.127 right before the red flag to earn pole for races two and three.

Nakamura-Berta led race one from lights to flag, holding off Tomass Štolcermanis by 0.430 seconds. Štolcermanis had started third but passed Luka Sammalisto for second at Campagnano on lap one after a side-by-side battle. 

With just three and a half minutes remaining, the Finn slid off at Tornantino and brought out the second safety car of the race, which never returned to green-flag conditions. Elevated to the podium instead was Gabriel Gomez, who had started fifth and overtook teammate Maxim Rehm at Campagnano on lap one. 

Cosma Cristofor started from pole for his fifth Italian F4 race, but a slow getaway dropped him to ninth by the end of lap one. In his stead, Nakamura-Berta slotted into the lead and eventually claimed the win from Sebastian Wheldon, who stormed to second from fifth and fought with Nakamura-Berta in the second half of the race.

An opening-lap incident between David Walther and Nathanaël Berreby called for the race’s only safety car intervention. At the restart, Štolcermanis and Gomez overtook Emanuele Olivieri, who started third and had to settle for fifth. Gomez then took advantage of an off by Štolcermanis at Turn 12 on the final lap to finish third.

Cosma Cristofor also failed to convert pole into victory in race three, finishing 14th. Sammalisto took the lead into Turn 1 followed by Olivieri, who then swept around the Finn at Cimini 2 before going deep at Campagnano. Wheldon, who started fifth, inched closer to the lead and passed Sammalisto on lap two. 

Sammalisto and Olivieri then made contact the following lap, which dropped the former to 25th and earned the latter a 25-second penalty that put him 21st. While Sammalisto recovered to 11th, Wheldon claimed victory by 2.709s followed by Alex Powell and Maximilian Popov, who started 10th and seventh respectively. 

Nakamura-Berta, Wheldon and Štolcermanis, the top three on the final’s grid, all failed to triumph. On lap one, Wheldon and Nakamura-Berta touched before  Cimini 1, giving the former a puncture and the latter a broken front wing, while a technical issue at the start forced Štolcermanis to retire.

Gomez capitalised on the chaos to steal the lead, which he preserved until the end to collect his first Italian F4 win. R-ace GP’s Powell and Olivieri fought for second for much of the race, with Olivieri passing his teammate at Cimini 1 on lap nine. Salim Hanna then took third from Powell at the same spot on the last lap.

Report by Francesca Brusa

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 1:49.658	Emanuele Olivieri, +0.537s	Maxim Rehm, +0.577s
Qualifying 2	David Cosma Cristofor, 1:45.127	Luka Sammalisto, +1.549s	Tomass Štolcermanis, +1.895s
Race 1 (15 laps)	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 30:17.056	Tomass Štolcermanis, +0.430s	Gabriel Gomez, +1.161s
Race 2 (16 laps)	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 27:40.035	Sebastian Wheldon, +0.667s	Gabriel Gomez, +1.109s
Race 3 (15 laps)	Sebastian Wheldon, 27:28.638	Alex Powell, +2.709s	Maksimilian Popov, +3.726s
Race 4 (15 laps)	Gabriel Gomez, 27:50.529	Emanuele Olivieri, +3.584s	Salim Hanna, +5.856s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 125	Prema Racing, 290	Salim Hanna, 135
P2	Sebastian Wheldon, 96	US Racing, 122	Artem Severiukhin, 103
P3	Gabriel Gomez, 78	R-ace GP, 110	Marcus Sæter, 91
P4	Maksimilian Popov, 71	Van Amersfoort Racing, 104	Zhenrui Chi, 81
P5	Salim Hanna, 70	Jenzer Motorsport, 61	Oleksandr Bondarev, 70
P6	Emanuele Olivieri, 70	Maffi Racing, 9	Dante Vinci, 54
P7	Tomass Štolcermanis, 60	Real Racing, 2	David Cosma Cristofor, 50
P8	Alex Powell, 40	PHM Racing, 0	Aleksander Ruta, 43
P9	Marcus Sæter, 28	Technorace, 0	Bader Al Sulaiti, 36
P10	Artem Severiukhin, 24	Viola Formula Racing, 0	Ludovico Busso, 27

Read the previous round’s report here.

British F4: McLaughlin takes points lead as Pisczyk struggles in qualifying

Red Bull junior Fionn McLaughlin took the British F4 championship lead in the final race at Snetterton as rivals Jimmy Pisczyk and August Raber each faced difficulties.

Pisczyk, the points leader after Silverstone, appeared off the pace through testing and could only qualify 13th. McLaughlin took both pole positions ahead of Fortec Motorsport’s Henry Joslyn and championship contender Martin Molnár of Virtuosi Racing, while late entrant to the series Theo Palmer impressed in his first qualifying session of the year to end up fourth.

In race one, McLaughlin held the lead through the early laps as Adam Al Azhari, starting from the third row, slotted into second after a slow start for Palmer. Further back, Pisczyk had to pit on lap one after early contact before ultimately returning to pit lane to retire two laps later. 

McLaughlin made contact with a bollard on lap four and damaged the front wing of his Hitech, forcing him to on the following lap. That promoted Al Azhari to the race lead, which he held for the rest of the race.

Rowan Campbell-Pilling looked set to take third, having started 11th and defended against Ethan Jeff-Hall for the majority of the race, before a five-second penalty demoted him to seventh and handed Jeff-Hall the position.

The mix of slick and grooved tyres on a greasy track brought chaos to the start of race two, with five cars out before the end of lap one. An extended recovery process on circuit and the imminent start of the British Touring Car Championship race ultimately forced the event to be delayed and restarted. 

This restart proved to be a blessing for Tommy Harfield and Joel Bergström, who were both caught up in the opening-lap carnage. As Raber pulled an early lead from pole, Harfield passed Bergström for second at the start and began closing up to Raber, setting the fastest lap in the process. 

Though Harfield made several challenges for the lead in the dying laps of the race, Raber managed to hold off the CDR driver for the win. Bergström told Feeder Series he ran ‘quite a calm race after lap one’ en route to third as Al Azhari and Leo Robinson slowed one another down while disputing fourth.

McLaughlin started from pole again for race three, but unlike in race one, he converted it into his first race win of the season. The Irish driver pulled out a seven-tenth gap by the end of lap one and had the pace over Molnár to extend it until the end. 

Further back, Pisczyk, starting 13th, made up five places off the start before picking through the pack. Aided by Yuhao Fu’s retirement and teammate Al Azhari’s visit to pit lane, the Australian crossed the line fourth in a strong recovery drive that limited the damage to his championship challenge.

McLaughlin’s win moved him to the lead of the drivers’ standings, though the gap at the top remains small, with the top four separated by only 14 points.

Report by Gavin Guthrie

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Fionn McLaughlin, 1:48.949	Henry Joslyn, +0.138s	Martin Molnár, +0.212s
Race 1 (11 laps)	Adam Al Azhari, 20:24.462	Henry Joslyn, +1.896s	Ethan Jeff-Hall, +7.928s
Race 2 (11 laps)	August Raber, 20:21.657	Tommy Harfield, +0.165s	Joel Bergström, +6.323s
Race 3 (14 laps)	Fionn McLaughlin, 25:42.818	Martin Molnár, +4.827s	Henry Joslyn, +5.795s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies	Challenge Cup
P1	Fionn McLaughlin, 103	Hitech, 155	Fionn McLaughlin, 168	Tommy Harfield, 145
P2	Martin Molnár, 94	Rodin Motorsport, 144	Thomas Bearman, 145	Charlie Edge, 134
P3	Jimmy Piszcyk, 91	Argenti Motorsport, 136	Xavier Avramides, 90	Alba Larsen, 73
P4	August Raber, 89	Virtuosi Racing, 89	Theo Palmer, 73	Ella Lloyd, 66
P5	Tommy Harfield, 68	JHR Developments, 89	Henry Mercier, 73	Harri Reynolds, 39
P6	Adam Al Azhari, 57	Chris Dittmann Racing, 63	Charlie Edge, 69
P7	Henry Joslyn, 57	Fortec Motorsport, 58	Cole Hewetson, 67
P8	Ethan Jeff-Hall, 54	Xcel Motorsport, 46	Alba Larsen, 49
P9	Thomas Bearman, 53		Piotr Orzechowski, 11
P10	Rowan Campbell-Pilling, 48

Read the previous round’s report here.

GB4: Wild weather provides entertaining spectacle at Oulton Park

Daniel Guinchard extended his GB4 championship lead to 36 points over Elite Motorsport’s Alexandros Kattoulas with a win and a fourth-place finish in a dramatic Oulton Park round that featured changeable conditions in two races.

While the top five on race one’s grid opted for slicks, KMR Sport’s Alex O’Grady chose wets and surged from sixth to the lead in three corners, executing an impressive double overtake around the outside of Cascades.

O’Grady led Magnussen, who started 11th, by 5.732 seconds after lap one, with fellow wet runners Stefan Bostandjiev surging to third from 10th, Megan Bruce to fourth from 19th and Enzo Hallman to fifth from 17th.

Following a mid-race safety car period due to spins for Dayton Coulthard and Leandro Juncos, O’Grady held the lead for his first GB4 victory ahead of Magnussen. Megan Bruce had passed Bostandjiev on lap two and almost scored her first podium but settled for a career-best fourth after Hallman overtook her into Turn 1 on the final lap. Guinchard finished 13th after losing out in the strategic ‘coin toss’.

KMR team principal Kevin Mills said he was surprised no other frontrunner started on wets.

“The rain was coming in. I don’t really know why everybody else stood and looked at each other,” Mills said. “People that were in the championship, like the Elite cars and Guinchard, they just covered each other, so they stayed all on slicks. We were nowhere near the championship at that point, so we could gamble.”

Guinchard started race two from pole and took victory by 3.067s over Juncos and O’Grady. Hillspeed’s Juncos, however, was disqualified for overtaking Kattoulas under yellows, promoting O’Grady to second and Kattoulas to third.

The weather also affected the reverse-grid race three. Five drivers opted for wets heading to the grid, but everyone else pitted to change tyres by the end of the formation lap after Lily-May Watkins’ crash delayed the start. 

As a result, only five cars started from the grid, all towards the back.

“We don’t get the five-second board, which is annoying because that’s when everyone starts revving, and the lights are delayed on the back gantry, so they came on two seconds before the lights went off,” explained Caitlyn McDaniel, one of the five to start from the grid.

After the start, Callum Baxter changed to slicks, a choice that proved inspired. He charged from last on lap one to third on lap nine, just 0.099s behind Coulthard, as the track dried. Baxter’s final lap was 10.072s quicker than that of winner Hallman.

“It was so much fun making all those passes,” Baxter said. “My main focus was to just lose as little time as possible in each pass.… We would catch up to a group, but I could see another group way up the road.”

The extra formation lap shortened the race’s duration to 16 minutes, and Hallman avoided having to fend off Baxter by taking the flag 1.137s after time expired.

Report by George Sanderson

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Daniel Guinchard, 1:34.806	Alexandros Kattoulas, +0.039s	Ary Bansal, +0.296s
Race 1 (8 laps)	Alex O’Grady, 17:12.082	Luca Magnussen, +2.506s	Enzo Hallman, +4.151s
Race 2 (8 laps)	Daniel Guinchard, 17:23.649	Alex O’Grady, +3.401s	Alexandros Kattoulas, +3.877s
Race 3 (9 laps)	Enzo Hallman, 16:01.137	Dayton Coulthard, +6.371s	Callum Baxter, +6.470s

Standings	Drivers	Teams
P1	Daniel Guinchard, 188	Elite Motorsport, 361
P2	Alexandros Kattoulas, 152	Hillspeed, 285
P3	Isaac Phelps, 147	Douglas Motorsport, 272
P4	Ary Bansal, 146	Graham Brunton Racing, 204
P5	Enzo Hallman, 130	Fortec Motorsport, 201
P6	Alex O’Grady, 128	KMR Sport, 191
P7	Leandro Juncos, 97	Arden Motorsport, 141
P8	Dayton Coulthard, 94	Pace Performance, 126
P9	Leon Wilson, 94	Fox Motorsport, 73
P10	Alex Berg, 88	ADM, 51

Read the previous round’s report here.

F4 SEA: Sawer retains perfect record with three more victories

Evans GP’s Alex Sawer dominated another F4 SEA round from start to finish once again, taking all three race wins and both pole positions in the series’ second round at Buriram to lead the championship with a comfortable 80-point advantage over teammate Seth Gilmore.

Having taken both pole positions again in qualifying, Sawer broke away from the pack at the start as Wang Zhongwei and Worapong Aiemwichan started from the pit lane A battle for fourth developed between Thomas Yu Lee and Iñigo Anton in the opening laps. The Filipino driver passed Lee into Turn 3 on lap three but ran wide at Turn 6, conceding a position to Rishon Rajeev as well.

On lap four, Ben Nguyen had an apparent failure that sent him into the gravel trap at Turn 9, bringing out the safety car. Racing resumed on lap seven, with Sawer already a second ahead as they crossed the start-finish line. Gilmore in second started to feel pressure from Ayrton Asdathorn, who shaped for an overtake but found  no possibilities.

Iñigo Anton, however, found a gap to pass his BlackArts Racing teammate Rajeev on lap 10 at Turn 4 for fifth. He then passed Lee for fourth on the penultimate lap as Sawer took the chequered flag 7.2 seconds ahead of Gilmore.

The top six from qualifying one were reversed for race two, putting Rajeev on pole. The race started behind the safety car because of the drizzly conditions, and pit lane starter Aiemwichan spun at Turn 3 on the slippery surface on the first green-flag lap.

As Rajeev gapped the field that lap, Sawer climbed from sixth into second, breezing past Anton for second into Turn 11. He then swept around the outside of Rajeev at Turn 4 a few corners later to take the lead.

Behind the top three, Gilmore ran wide at Turn 3 while attempting to steal fourth from Asdathorn, which earned him a warning for exceeding track limits. Rajeev dropped down the order in the final 10 minutes, losing positions to Anton, Asdathorn and Gilmore. 

Asdathorn then snatched second from Anton at Turn 11 with four and a half remaining, but Anton fought back into Turn 3 as Asdathorn ran wide. Their battling brought Gilmore into the fray, and the Australian overtook the home hero for third at the exit of the corner. Asdathorn then lunged on Anton at the last corner but just missed out, finishing 0.119s behind.

The sun came out once again for the third and final race of the weekend, though the track remained slightly damp from the earlier rain and the race began behind the safety car again. Lee, starting sixth, jumped to third before the green flag flew, an infringement that earned him a five-second penalty. Gilmore reclaimed the position into Turn 3. 

All the while, Sawer sailed to his sixth win of the season with a 12.7-second margin, whilst Asdathorn slowly built a gap over Gilmore and clung to second by 1.141s.  

Report by Grayson Wallace

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Alex Sawer, 1:38.871	Ayrton Asdathorn, +0.311s	Seth Gilmore, +0.786s
Qualifying 2	Alex Sawer, 1:38.643	Ayrton Asdathorn, +0.522s	Seth Gilmore, +0.832s
Race 1 (15 laps)	Alex Sawer, 27:52.152	Seth Gilmore, +7.290s	Ayrton Asdathorn, +8.622s
Race 2 (14 laps)	Alex Sawer, 27:32.368	Iñigo Anton, +10.609s	Seth Gilmore, +10.917s
Race 3 (15 laps)	Alex Sawer, 26:41.788	Ayrton Asdathorn, +12.777s	Seth Gilmore, +13.918s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Alex Sawer, 188	Evans GP, 288	Iñigo Anton, 138
P2	Seth Gilmore, 108	BlackArts Racing, 169	Ben Anh Nguyen, 103
P3	Iñigo Anton, 85	Star Performance, 66	Ayrton Asdathorn, 86
P4	Rishon Rajeev, 84	Origine Motorsport, 57	Joshua Berry, 70
P5	Wang Zhongwei, 57		Worapong Aiemwichan, 42
P6	Ayrton Asdathorn, 55
P7	Thomas Yu Lee, 54
P8	Ben Anh Nguyen, 42
P9	Cheng Meng, 33
P10	Joshua Berry, 25

USF Pro 2000: Elkin laps all but six cars to take crushing win at IRP

TJ Speed Motorsports’ Ariel Elkin led almost the entirety of the Freedom 90 at Indianapolis Raceway Park and lapped all but six cars to take his third win of the USF Pro 2000 season and jump to second in the drivers’ standings, 41 points behind Max Garcia.

Elkin was not a favourite after the first two sessions, in which Garcia and Nicholas Monteiro respectively set the pace.

In qualifying, Mac Clark narrowly beat Elkin to take pole by 0.0053 seconds, while 61-year-old Charles Finelli matched his career-best qualifying from six years ago at the same venue with seventh. 

On the first green-flag lap, Elkin overtook polesitter Clark around the outside of Turns 3 and 4 despite nearly losing control of the car on exit. Title protagonists Alessandro De Tullio and Garcia held third and fourth, while Brady Golan lost three places in the opening laps to drop to eighth.

Having re-passed Michael Costello on lap 12, Golan lunged to the inside of Monteiro for sixth at Turn 3 on lap 30 and stole the position, but he had a wobble exiting Turn 4 the next lap and relinquished it again.

On lap 38, Golan got back past teammate Monteiro on the exit of Turn 2 for the final time . The Brazilian-American had lost time while trying to lap Jorge Garciarce, who was seven laps down after failing to get off the grid and having to pit.

On lap 48, just past the halfway point, Joey Brienza spun in Turn 3 and hit the wall, bringing out a full-course caution. When the race resumed nine laps later, Elkin capitalised on the four lapped cars between him and Clark to pull away.

Clark got stuck behind Elkin’s TJ Speed Motorsports teammate Sebastian Manson, running two laps down. That gave Alessandro de Tullio the chance to overtake him around the outside of Turn 2 a lap later, and by the time Clark finally passed Manson, he had lost several seconds to De Tullio.

The Turn 3 driver closed on Elkin until he too struggled in lapped traffic over the final 10 laps. As Elkin easily lapped eighth-placed Taylor, who had lost three spots since the restart, De Tullio lost a second while trying to pass Finelli.

De Tullio closed the gap by a second and a half over the final five laps, but Elkin was too far ahead. The Israeli driver took his third win in four races by 1.2236s ahead of De Tullio and Clark. Points leader Garcia finished fourth ahead of Golan, while Monteiro passed Costello for sixth on the penultimate lap.Taylor and Jacob Douglas came home eighth and ninth, whilst 2024 Freedom 75 winner Tanner DeFabis, who crashed at Turn 2 in qualifying, rose from the back of the grid to 10th, having passed Jace Denmark for the spot on lap 75.

Finelli dropped from seventh to 17th at the rolling start and came home 16th, three laps down on Elkin and one spot ahead of Garciarce. 

Report by Marco Albertini

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Mac Clark, 39.4618	Ariel Elkin, +0.0053s	Alessandro de Tullio, +0.0664s
Race 1 (90 laps)	Ariel Elkin, 35:20.6150	Alessandro de Tullio, +1.2236s	Mac Clark, +5.9577s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Max Garcia, 231	Pabst Racing, 270	Max Garcia, 231
P2	Ariel Elkin, 190	Turn 3 Motorsport, 179	Ariel Elkin, 190
P3	Alessandro de Tullio, 183	TJ Speed Motorsports, 167	Jacob Douglas, 141
P4	Mac Clark, 174	Exclusive Autosport, 128	Max Taylor, 141
P5	Jacob Douglas, 141	VRD Racing, 104	Michael Costello, 129
P6	Max Taylor, 141	Jay Howard Driver Development, 53	Joey Brienza, 85
P7	Michael Costello, 129	FatBoy Racing!, 36	Sebastian Manson, 77
P8	Jace Denmark, 118	Comet/NCMP Racing, 34	Owen Tangavelou, 74
P9	Nicholas Monteiro, 113	DEForce Racing, 33	Tanner DeFabis, 70
P10	Cooper Becklin, 102		Carson Etter, 52

Read the previous round’s report here.

USF2000: Martella takes maiden series win in dominant fashion

Anthony Martella took his first USF2000 win in the Freedom 75, the season’s sole oval race, after stealing the lead on lap 12 and never looking back.

Benchmark Autosport’s Ayrton Houk bested the Canadian in qualifying at Indianapolis Raceway Park on Thursday, taking pole with a 41.9474-second time across his two laps.

Just before it was meant to get underway after Timothy Carel got stuck on the grid; But as track marshals pushed his car to try to get it started, they broke his rear wing, meaning he never got to start the race.

At the start, officially lap four, Houk made a good getaway as Martella briefly dropped to third but overtook Thomas Schrage to return to second shortly before the first lap came to a close. The Canadian then caught up to Houk and began attacking him on lap eight, but it was to no avail – at least initially.

Four laps later, Martella went to the inside of Houk into Turn 3 and completed the move as he began lap 13, taking the lead of the race going down into Turn 1. As Martella began pulling a gap, Houk fell down the order, being overtaken on the inside by Schrage and G3 Argyros in the space of nine laps.

Houk, running the outside line, was then overtaken by Caleb Gafrarar for fourth on lap 24, the lap before Elliot Cox completed a move on Evan Cooley for sixth. The next lap, Cooley fell to eighth after being overtaken by Brad Majman around the outside of the first two turns. Houk fell further down the order after being overtaken by Cox on lap 27 and Majman on lap 30.

On lap 38, Cox overtook Gafrarar for fourth through the first two turns and was followed by Majman, who started 11th, just a lap later. The Friday practice pacesetter continued his rise through the field by going side by side with Cox for an entire lap before completing the pass on lap 41. Majman then cut down a two-second gap to Argyros and took third around the outside of the first two turns nine laps later.

Just before being lapped by Martella on lap 61, Jeshua Alianell suddenly slowed exiting Turn 2. As the Canadian swerved to avoid Alianell, race control called a full-course caution, though the DEForce Racing car’s problem appeared to resolve itself moments later.

The race resumed on lap 66 of 75 with Martella pulling away as Majman began attacking Schrage for second. But Schrage used the lapped car of Eddie Beswick, running the preferred high lane, to put a car between himself and Majman. Gafrarar, meanwhile, passed Argyros for third with five laps remaining.

Ahead of them, Martella concluded a dominant drive to win by 1.8s ahead of Schrage and teammate Majman. Polesitter Houk fell to 11th having nearly been lapped before the full-course yellow, whilst Jack Jeffers finished ninth, giving Schrage the points lead by a margin of seven heading into Road America.

Report by Marco Albertini

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying (two laps)	Ayrton Houk, 41.9474	Anthony Martella, +0.0313s	Thomas Schrage, +0.2049s
Race 1 (75 laps)	Anthony Martella, 29:27.3190	Thomas Schrage, +1.8009s	Brad Majman, +2.6199s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Thomas Schrage, 190	Jay Howard Driver Development, 195	Jack Jeffers, 183
P2	Jack Jeffers, 183	VRD Racing, 186	Liam McNeilly, 163
P3	Liam McNeilly, 163	Exclusive Autosport, 169	Teddy Musella, 135
P4	Teddy Musella, 135	Pabst Racing, 130	Caleb Gafrarar, 116
P5	G3 Argyros, 135	DEForce Racing, 64	Evan Cooley, 114
P6	Caleb Gafrarar, 116	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development, 47	Anthony Martella, 106
P7	Evan Cooley, 114	Benchmark Autosport, 45	Brad Majman, 102
P8	Anthony Martella, 106	Synergy Motorsport, 38	Sebastian Garzon, 102
P9	Brad Majman, 102		Jeshua Alianell, 75
P10	Sebastian Garzon, 102		Christian Cameron, 74

Read the previous round’s report here.

AU4: McNeill takes early advantage in Gen 2 class as Marold sweeps Gen 1

The renamed AU4 Championship kicked off its 2025 season at The Bend Motorsport Park with a new multi-class structure. In the main Gen 2 class, Isaac McNeill took one victory and two podiums to walk away with a four-point lead over Harrison Duske.

Duske topped the first qualifying session by 0.1018 seconds over Noah Killion, who then topped qualifying two by 0.669s as Duske finished a lowly 12th.

Duske capitalised on race one pole to pull away on the opening lap as Radburn passed Killion on the opening lap to take second. Killion, a single-seater rookie, then spun at high speed at Turn 10 and fell to the rear of the field.

McNeill passed Radburn at Turn 1 for second on lap two before Radburn returned the favour three laps later. Duske was within striking distance at the time, but he stretched his gap over Radburn to win by 5.4208s.

Killion had scythed past the first-generation Mygale cars to rise to fifth by lap four, but even after passing Brock Burton for fourth and setting multiple fastest laps, he remained 12 seconds behind McNeill in third.

McNeill, starting fourth, was the biggest winner early in race two, stealing second at the start by sweeping around Duske into Turn 1 before passing Killion down the inside there for the lead on lap two.

Duske then duelled with Killion through the opening sector of lap three and passed him around the outside of Turn 1 on lap four, but he made a mistake at Turn 13. Killion pounced, and Radburn followed him through into Turn 1 on lap five as Burton likewise smelled opportunity.

Killion ate into McNeill’s advantage throughout the race and began attacking the Volante Rosso driver with three laps left. His initial around-the-outside attempt at Turn 1 did not succeed, but his dive down the inside at Turn 6 did. Killion stretched his lead to 2.2468s by the flag as Radburn held off Duske for third.

Killion led from pole again in race three as McNeill passed Radburn for second. Duske jumped to fourth from sixth and overtook Radburn for third into Turn 6 on lap two.

McNeill hounded Killion on lap three but got baulked entering the final corner, giving Duske a chance to draw alongside. Still, McNeill’s strong tow down the straight helped him steal the lead into Turn 1. The three drivers behind quickly swallowed up the polesitter, who sank through the field with an apparent issue.

Duske trailed eventual winner McNeill in the closing laps and faced pressure from Radburn, who made several moves before whipping past around the outside of Turn 1 on the last lap.

Killion finished 11th overall, behind several of the first-generation cars. Within that class, Jensen Marold took all three victories ahead of Koby Wilson and Andrew Fitzpatrick. JesseJames Samuels also fought for podiums in races one and three but spun in each.

Lawrence Katsidis was the only masters driver to have finished all three races.

Report by Michael McClure

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Harrison Duske, 1:50.7734	Noah Killion, +0.1018s	Imogen Radburn, +0.2231s
Qualifying 2	Noah Killion, 1:51.8810	Imogen Radburn, +0.6690s	Isaac McNeill, +2.0560s
Race 1	Harrison Duske, 27:38.2035	Imogen Radburn, +5.4208s	Isaac McNeill, +7.4109
Race 2	Noah Killion, 27:44.4137	Isaac McNeill, +2.2468	Imogen Radburn, +7.0154s
Race 3	Isaac McNeill, 27:48.3476	Imogen Radburn, +6.5296s	Harrison Duske, +7.9063s

Standings	Gen 2 Drivers	Gen 1 Drivers	Masters
P1	Isaac McNeill, 58	Jensen Marold, 80	Lawrence Katsidis, 68
P2	Harrison Duske, 54	Koby Wilson, 54	Nicholas Filipetto, 25
P3	Imogen Radburn, 51	Andrew Fitzpatrick, 45
P4	Noah Killion, 46	De’argo Stewart, 34
P5	Brock Burton, 30	JesseJames Samuels, 30
P6	Cohen Kokotovich, 20	Lawrence Katsidis, 18
P7	Georgia Morgan, 16	Chloe Lane, 18
P8		Nicholas Filipetto, 6

Header photo credit: Alex Galli