The Nordic junior single-seater scene has undergone significant rebranding in recent years as it aims to provide a suitable platform for young talents and gentlemen drivers alike in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Feeder Series explains the two-class, three-series structure in existence for 2025 and tells you what you need to know about Nordic 4, the Nordic Formula Championship and Formula Nordic.

By Finjo Muschlien

Nordic 4 has expanded into a twin championship in 2025 as it introduces the Nordic Championship Formula and holds even more events with Formula Nordic.

Nordic 4, based in Denmark, is now known as the Danmaksmesterskabet, or Danish championship in English, and consists of eight rounds. Formula Nordic will consist of seven rounds, of which six are joint events with Nordic 4, while the Nordic Championship Formula will comprise joint events with both Nordic 4 and, on selected occasions, Formula Nordic. But what is the point behind this? 

When the calendar was announced on 8 November 2024, series promoter Alex Stubberup Frederichsen said the changes created ‘a model that makes it possible to race a regional championship on a relatively low budget, while at the same time making the Danish championship a bit more attractive for those who do not race on large budgets’. In other words, drivers can choose the set of rounds that best matches their budget and schedule and still compete for a championship title.

The calendar

Having extended the calendar from six to seven rounds last year, the combined Nordic package will add an eighth round in 2025. In doing so, however, the championship splits into three separate competitions. Six of the eight rounds – 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8 – will contribute points to the Danish championship, while rounds 2–3 and 5–8 will contribute points to the Nordic Championship Formula. Meanwhile, rounds 2–3 and 5–8 will also contribute points to the Formula Nordic championship, which also has a standalone round at Ljungbyhed.

Nordic 4 / Nordic Championship Formula

• Round 1: Padborg Park (26–27 April): Nordic 4
• Round 2: Anderstorp Raceway (9–10 May): Nordic 4, Nordic Championship Formula
• Round 3: Karlskoga Motorstadion (30 May–1 June): Nordic Championship Formula
• Round 4: Ring Djursland (21–22 June): Nordic 4
• Round 5: Falkenbergs Motorbana (11–13 July): Nordic Championship Formula
• Round 6: Jyllands-Ringen (22–24 August): Nordic 4, Nordic Championship Formula
• Round 7: Padborg Park (12–13 September): Nordic 4, Nordic Championship Formula
• Round 8: Jyllands-Ringen (27–28 September): Nordic 4, Nordic Championship Formula

Formula Nordic

• Round 1: Anderstorp Raceway (9–10 May)
• Round 2: Karlskoga Motorstadion (30 May–1 June)
• Round 3: Ljungbyhed (27–28 June)
• Round 4: Falkenbergs Motorbana (11–13 July)
• Round 5: Jyllands-Ringen (22–24 August)
• Round 6: Padborg Park (12–13 September)
• Round 7: Jyllands-Ringen (27–28 September)

The format

The weekend kicks off with a 15-minute practice session before a qualifying session determines the grid for the first race. The starting grid for the second race is determined by the results of race one, with the top eight in reverse order.

Points from the first two races determine the starting grid for race three, with the driver who has scored the most points starting from pole position. Points are awarded using the standard FIA points format, while drivers have to choose one championship in which they want to be classified.

Where to watch

Rounds 1, 4, 6 and 7, which support the Danish Super GT championship, will have their Sunday races broadcast on the Dansk Motorsport YouTube channel. Live timing for all races will be available on raceresult.dk. Formula Nordic’s YouTube channel also streams selected races.

Drivers and teams

Nordic 4 teams

Step Motorsport

Having won the teams’ championship and fielded both drivers’ champion Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen and rookie champion Sebastian Bach in 2024, Step Motorsport will run four rookies along with Bach as they seek to defend their trophies in 2025. Jakobsen left single-seaters after 2024 and shifted his focus to racing prototypes in the Prototype Cup Germany with Mücke Motorsport, with further support from Step’s management. The team provided an intense testing programme for their Nordic 4 drivers over the winter with track days at Danish, Swedish and Spanish circuits.

Casper Nissen (#1) joins Step Motorsport for his debut F4 season. The 14-year-old steps up from junior karting off the back of winning the junior class of the Rotax Max Challenge Euro Trophy for RS Competition. 

George Sebastian Pavlopoulos (#65) likewise debuts in F4 in 2025. The 15-year-old was the runner-up in the junior max category of the RMC Greece championship in 2024.

Sebastian Bach (#88) is the only returning driver Step fields in 2025 and is generally seen as one of the title favourites. The 16-year-old came fourth overall in the 2024 championship and won the rookie championship. Following the main season, Bach did several tests and the first three rounds of the 2025 Formula Winter Series with AS Motorsport, in which he collected two points finishes. 

Victor Snebjørn Poulsen (#7) makes his F4 debut in 2025 as he steps up from karting. The 15-year-old competed in the Junior 125 class of the Sweden-based Sydsvenskans Kart Champion Cup, in which he came third. Additionally, Poulsen competed in other karting championships in Denmark and Italy.

MP Racing

Privateer entries are common in Nordic 4, and one of them is the family-run MP Racing team, who field Magnus Pedersen (#12) for his fourth year in the series. The Ryomgård-based racer had two very successful seasons after a learning year in 2022. In 2023 and 2024, Pedersen finished second and third overall in the drivers’ championship respectively, and in 2023, he was the runner-up by just four points. 

FSP

FSP are the only team to have competed in every season of both Danish F4 and Nordic 4. The team, led by Nordic 4 series promoter Alex Stubberup Frederichsen, has fielded a handful of rising stars in recent years, including WEC Hypercar driver Malthe Jakobsen, Mercedes junior and current F3 driver Noah Strømsted, and GT World Challenge drivers Sebastian Øgaard and Conrad Laursen.

Marius Kristiansen (#15) had a solid debut year in Nordic 4 last season, finishing fifth overall and as the second-best rookie behind Bach. The 19-year-old was a title winner in Danish karting, most recntly winning the OK-Senior class of the 2021 Danish sporting federation’s karting series. 

Alexia Danielsson (#61) likewise enters her second season of Nordic 4 in 2025. The 16-year-old finished 10th overall in the standings last year with a best result of fifth, which she secured in the second Padborg round. Danielsson also raced in the Swedish-based Aquila Formula 1000 last year and tested with Italian F4 and F4 CEZ team AS Motorsport over the winter.

RaceCraft Driver Academy

Entering their second season in Nordic 4, the RaceCraft Driver Academy, led by former Danish F4 driver Frederik Stenå, reduces their line-up from two cars to one for the 2025 season.

Cecilie Nør-Jensen (#22) is the team’s only driver as she contests her maiden single-seater season. Nør-Jensen spent the 2024 season in the Danish Super 2L Championship with Outzen Motorsport, finishing 20th overall. 

Nikolaj Dyrved (#11) only found out at the last minute that he would race at the opening round at Padborg, Feeder Series understands. Dyrved has only raced at the first round so far while he evaluates options to also race in the upcoming rounds. Along with Nordic 4, he competes in F4 CEZ and took a best result of 14th at the opening round at Spielberg two weeks ago.

SE Racing 

SE Racing is another privateer entrant running Silas Egedal. The 13-year-old will make his single-seater debut later in the year as he is too young to compete in Nordic 4. Egedal, part of Step Motorsport’s junior driver programme, spent the 2024 season in junior karting.

Formula 5 teams

Few junior single-seater series around the world have multiple classes and different cars used in their championships, but the best-known remains Nordic 4, with its Formula 5 class for FFord cars. Danish F4 used to be the only series using different cars in its championship while being FIA-certified. Other multi-class single-seater series – such as the Carbonia Cup, the Drexler-Automotive Formula Cup, the F2000 Italian Formula Trophy series and the recently renamed AU4 Championship – all do not have FIA certification.

Mads Hoe Motorsport

Having entered every season since the launch of Danish F4 in 2017, Mads Hoe Motorsport and owner Mads Hoe (#47) went on to win multiple titles, not just in the Formula 5 class but also overall. Both driver and team won the 2021 overall championship, beating the likes of Emmo Fittipaldi Jr and Juju Noda, who both raced in the F4 class that year.

Hoe, 27, won the Formula 5 title four times in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2024, while his sister Mille Hoe (#56) and Oliver Kratsch won the titles in 2022 and 2023 respectively. The younger Hoe, 24, returns for the 2025 season after having been a regular overall points scorer since her Formula 5 title win.

Mads Kjelde Larsen (#16) competed with the team last year already, finishing second in the Formula 5 class. The 16-year-old tested LMP3 machinery with Mücke Motorsport at Portimão and Aragón earlier this year.

Anton Morsing (#53) contested the first round of the 2024 Nordic 4 season for RaceCraft in the F4 class, but in 2025, he will make the move to the Formula 5 class. The 16-year-old spent the remainder of the 2024 season in karting and also tested F4 machinery with AS Motorsport.

Rytteriet

Niels Ejnar Rytter (#49) will continue to race in Nordic 4 with privateer entrant Rytteriet. The 67-year-old has been a part-time competitor in Nordic 4 and predecessor Danish F4 since its launch in 2017. He came fifth in the championship’s Formula 5 class last year. 

Leerskov Racing

Likewise returning as a privateer entrant is Jørgen Leerskov (#4) with his own team. Leerskov ran a partial campaign in Danish F4 in 2023, racing in the final three rounds, while he competed in all but one round in 2024, finishing sixth in the Formula 5 class. 

Sønderskov Motorsport

Line Sønderskov (#39) has partially entered every season of Nordic 4 and Danish F4 so far and returns for 2025 with private entrant Sønderskov Motorsport, though she has yet to make an appearance. The 27-year-old had a best finish of fourth in the Formula 5 class in 2019 and 2020, but she has yet to win a race in the class.

Formula Nordic drivers

The majority of Formula Nordic’s entrants are privateers. In the opening round, only two drivers ran under team banners, both as single-car entries.

Privateer Olivia Ernstson (#17) stepped up from karting for her debut in single-seaters in 2025. The 14-year-old Swede competed in the first five rounds of the 2025 WSK Super Master Series, racing for Ward Racing in the OK-class.

Louise Larsson (#51) also made her debut in Formula Nordic this year having gained previous single-seater racing experience in Aquila Formula 1000, in which she came 10th overall in 2024. From 2020 to 2022, Larsson competed in the Renault Junior Cup Sweden, bagging a best result of sixth overall in 2021, before moving to the NXT Gen Cup in 2023, in which she finished 17th overall.

Reigning Aquila Formula 1000 champion Richard Olson (#72), another privateer, made the switch to Formula Nordic in 2025. The 21-year-old took 12 wins and four further podium finishes in the 24 races he competed in last year. 

In February 2024, Hampus Varis (#90) received the Ronnie Peterson Memorial Foundation scholarship, which gave him the chance to compete in the Australian Kart Championship’s KZ2 class in 2024. The 17-year-old moved to Australia without his family, but for 2025 he has returned to his home country to make the step into single-seaters.

Örebon-based Melvin Kalousdian (#22) is one of two drivers with a named team, racing for RaceTeam Gelleråsen. The 13-year-old steps up from karting off the back of winning the Swedish karting championship in the Junior 125 category as well as the South Swedish Kart Champion Cup in the OK Junior class. 

Having come fourth in the championship last year, Robin Hafström (#61) returns for his second season in the championship. The 18-year-old previously competed in Aquila Formula 1000 Sweden, finishing fifth and eighth overall respectively in 2022 and 2023.

Eighteen-year-old Albin Stureson (#23) likewise enters his second season of Formula Nordic in 2025, having finished fifth in his debut year. In addition to Formula Nordic, Stureson competed in the KZ2 class of the FIA Karting European Championship, finishing 20th, and the Swedish karting championship, finishing fourth. Stureson did not take part in the first round of the season. 

Having finished sixth overall with a best result of fourth at the very first race of the season at Anderstorp in 2024, Andreas Aichhorn (#87) returns for his third season of Formula Nordic in 2025 with own team Aichhorn Racing. The 18-year-old spent just two years in karting prior to his single-seater debut. “I thought the formula car suited my driving style better than the kart even though I only drove a few test laps,” Aichhorn explained ahead of his Formula Nordic debut in 2023. 

Viktor Molander (#88) came seventh in Formula Nordic in 2024 with a best result of fifth at the opening round at Anderstorp. The 17-year-old returns for his third full season in the championship, racing with the Project F1 outfit.

Having come eighth in the championship in 2024 after competing in just three rounds, 20-year-old Joannis Matentzoglou (#18) enters his second season in the championship. The Greek-licenced driver bought his car from former World Touring Car Championship team Nika Racing and has kept the Swedish outfit’s basic livery but has no direct affiliation with the team.

RPC Motorsport

Having competed in just three rounds of Formula Nordic last year, Norwegian Birk August Larsen (#40) came ninth overall with a best result of fifth in class in the second race at Gelleråsen. The 18-year-old will enter his third season in the championship in 2025, staying with Norwegian team RPC Motorsport, who have run several of his countrymen in previous years. Larsen did not take part in the opening round at Anderstorp.

Philip Engbæk Racing

Also missing from the opening round was Philip Engbæk (#10), who is set to return for his second season in Formula Nordic in 2025 with family team Philip Engbæk Racing. In 2024, the 16-year-old finished 10th overall with a best result of seventh having competed in just two rounds. He was the runner-up in the Swedish Kart League Junior 60 class in 2020. 

The story so far in 2025…

Returning drivers Sebastian Bach of Step Motorsport, MP Racing’s Magnus Pedersen and FSP’s Marius Kristiansen shared the wins at the first Nordic 4 round at Padborg. Pedersen’s triumph in race two was particularly impressive given that he led after the first corner despite starting from sixth.

In the second Nordic 4 round at Anderstorp, F5 driver Mads Hoe took pole position and all three wins. Pedersen took the lead at the start of the first race with Kristiansen jumping to second, but a few laps later Hoe took the lead back after the pair battled. Hoe went on to win the race.

In the second race, Hoe fought his way through from eighth to first position, with Bach finishing in second and Nissen in third, while Pedersen dropped to 10th after a puncture in the late stages. Hoe also won the third race, starting from pole, despite being put under pressure by Kristiansen in Turn 1 as Bach and Victor Snejbørn Poulsen rounded out the podium.

In Formula Nordic on the same weekend, Melvin Kalousdian took three wins in his first single-seater round.

Header photo credit: Grippo