A frenetic weekend of action in regional- and national-level European single-seaters culminated in the crowning of a new champion and decisive shifts in several sizzling title battles. Feeder Series reviews all the action.

By Feeder Series

For the final time this year, we’ve had so many junior single-seater races that we’ve had to split our weekend review into two parts – three if you count F2, the review of which will follow this evening.

The bulk of the action happened in Europe, especially in Spain. Half the European series raced in Barcelona, where rain affected Sunday’s running and even led Italian F4’s final race to be suspended partway through. Both the FRegional Europe and Euroformula Open title battles remain wide open – with the former’s top two drivers tied on points – but Italian F4’s Kean Nakamura-Berta has a healthy enough advantage that he could wrap up the title early at the finale in a month’s time.

Eurocup-3 and Spanish F4, meanwhile, competed on the other side of Spain at Jerez, where two dominant championship leads extended their advantages. Eurocup-3’s Mattia Colnaghi built up an insurmountable 71-point gap to clinch the drivers’ title a round early, with MP Motorsport also wrapping up the teams’ title. Spanish F4’s Thomas Strauven still has two more rounds to contest, but his 110-point advantage over René Lammers is increasingly unlikely to be overhauled.

British F4 also raced at Donington Park, and Fionn McLaughlin’s race one victory helped him put one hand on the title heading into the season finale at Brands Hatch in two weeks. We’ll cover the championships in Asia and the Americas tomorrow, but keep reading here to understand how all the developments in Europe occurred.

1. FRegional Europe: De Palo wins race one and ties points with Slater, Deligny gets redemption in race two
2. Euroformula Open: Kucharczyk maintains points lead as Shin wins wet-dry race three
3. Eurocup-3: Colnaghi and MP Motorsport crowned champions with a round to go 
4. Italian F4: Nakamura-Berta extends points lead as race three suspended
5. Spanish F4: Strauven maintains dominant points lead as Eyckmans takes maiden victory 
6. British F4: Harfield takes CDR’s second win as Bansal wraps up Challenge Cup

FRegional Europe: De Palo wins race one and ties points with Slater, Deligny gets redemption in race two

The third to last round of the 2025 FR Europe season is officially in the books, but the championship is nowhere near being decided. Despite taking victory in race one and leaping back to the top of the standings, Matteo De Palo and Freddie Slater now have the same number of points, 226, heading into Hockenheim after both missed the podium in race two. That race was dominated by Enzo Deligny, who is now third on 198 points and tied with Pedro Clerot after narrowly defeating the Brazilian in race two. 

De Palo topped both collective test sessions on Friday, but on Saturday, Group A’s Freddie Slater beat his championship rival to pole position with a 1:35.250 to the Italian’s 1:35.279. 

The fate of race one was determined in just a handful of laps. De Palo came out on top in the four-wide action at the start into Turn 1, while Deligny lost his front wing in contact and was forced to retire. Jin Nakamura, who had started in fifth, made the most of the chaos and passed Pedro Clerot for third. The Brazilian driver, however, took back the position into Turn 1 on lap four.

Clerot eventually caught Slater and touched wheels with the Briton while attempting a pass at Turn 2 on lap 17. He didn’t manage to pull it off and eventually rounded out the podium, with Slater finishing second and De Palo claiming his fourth win of the season as well as the championship lead by four points. 

Difficult conditions met the grid on Sunday morning, and qualifying two got underway with a delay. Group A’s Enzo Deligny was the only driver to usurp the benchmark set by Group B’s Pedro Clerot, claiming pole position with a 1:53.250.

Because of unsuitable track conditions, race two started behind the safety car, which led the pack for two laps. Green-flag action lasted just about as long, as contact between Édouard Borgna and Giovanni Maschio in Turn 11 on the fourth lap broke the Italian driver’s left-rear suspension and neutralised the race. 

Slater, who had started from seventh on the grid, wasted no time at the restart on lap seven, overtaking first De Palo around the outside at Turn 4 and then Michael Belov second at Turn 5 to climb up to fifth.

The drivers in the leading group held positions until the 17th and penultimate lap, when fourth-placed Evan Giltaire ran off the track while attempting to pass Akshay Bohra in Turn 1 and had to take the long way around. The Frenchman gave the position back to the R-ace driver, but in doing so he opened the door for Slater at Turn 4. The Englishman ultimately lost the position because of an excursion in the gravel on the last corner of the last lap.

Out front, Deligny led from lights to flag to claim his third victory in the championship, with Clerot and Bohra rounding out the podium. 

Report by Francesca Brusa

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1, Group A	Freddie Slater, 1:35.250	Enzo Deligny, +0.133s	Jin Nakamura, +0.189s
Qualifying 1, Group B	Matteo De Palo, 1:35.279	Pedro Clerot, +0.128s	Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi, +0.286s
Race 1 (20 laps)	Matteo De Palo, 32:51.419	Freddie Slater, +3.859s	Pedro Clerot, +4.290s
Qualifying 2, Group B	Pedro Clerot, 1:53.773	Evan Giltaire, +0.673s	Matteo De Palo, +2.214s
Qualifying 2, Group A	Enzo Deligny, 1:53.250	Akshay Bohra, +0.605s	Michael Belov, +0.658s
Race 2 (18 laps)	Enzo Deligny, 32:44.550	Pedro Clerot, +0.386s	Akshay Bohra, +10.816s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Freddie Slater, 226	R-ace GP, 382	Dion Gowda, 22
P2	Matteo De Palo, 226	Prema Racing, 377	Ean Eyckmans, 2
P3	Enzo Deligny, 198	Van Amersfoort Racing, 298	Reno Francot, 1
P4	Pedro Clerot, 198	Trident, 248	Edu Robinson, 0
P5	Akshay Bohra, 133	ART Grand Prix, 217	Tim Gerhards, 0
P6	Evan Giltaire, 125	Saintéloc Racing, 64	Édouard Borgna, 0
P7	Rashid Al Dhaheri, 95	CL Motorsport, 21	Saqer Al Maousherji, 0
P8	Hiyu Yamakoshi, 86	RPM, 7	Arthur Aegerter, 0
P9	Taito Kato, 71	G4 Racing, 0	Zhenrui Chi, 0
P10	Nikita Bedrin, 64	Akcel GP, 0	Enea Frey, 0

Read the previous round’s report here.

Euroformula Open: Kucharczyk maintains points lead as Shin wins wet-dry race three

Tymek Kucharczyk won race one of Euroformula Open’s second-to-last round of 2025 to take a 23-point lead over title rival Michael Shin, who won a wet-dry race three after gambling on slick tyres.

Early-season points leader Yevan David started on pole for race one, but a sluggish getaway dropped him to third and handed the lead to Kucharczyk, who led the opening stages from Diego de la Torre.

Behind them, Everett Stack and Shin collided at Turn 1 on lap three while battling for fifth, leaving Shin with a rear-right puncture and Stack with a broken front wing. Both pitted for repairs.

On lap 11, David passed De la Torre for second, with Garfias following him through after De la Torre went wide at the final corner on lap 13. Four laps later, José Garfias locked up entering Turn 1 and took to the gravel, falling from third to 10th.

Ahead of them, Kucharczyk led all 17 laps to win ahead of David and Fernando Barrichello, who edged out Edward Pearson for the final podium spot after a spirited late-race battle with the Briton and De la Torre.

Following De la Torre’s five-second penalty for a jump start, Alessandro Famularo inherited sixth place in race one and thus reverse-grid pole for race two. Famularo quickly lost the lead to Barrichello, who went from fourth to first before Turn 1, before Barrichello was passed by Pearson around the outside of the same corner a lap later.

Barrichello tried to re-take the lead, but Pearson held him off. The then Brazilian fell to third on lap 13 after David passed him at Turn 1.

At the front, Pearson built a 2.221-second lead to win ahead of David and Barrichello, while Kucharczyk took fourth ahead of teammate Famularo.

Debutant Theo Micouris was on reverse-grid pole for race three, which started behind the safety car in damp conditions. During the safety car period, Shin was the only car to pit for slick tyres.

The gamble proved inspired. As Micouris led the field to green on lap three, Shin began to carve through the field. He rose to sixth after three laps of green-flag racing before passing the next five cars in the following three laps to take the lead

From there, Shin was as many as 10 seconds per lap faster than everyone else. He took his fourth win by an astonishing 83.914 seconds, with a 20-second post-race penalty leaving barely a dent in his advantage.

Micouris, who remained on wet tyres, took his first Euroformula Open podium ahead of Garfias, who inherited third following Stack’s last-lap puncture to keep his slim title hopes alive. The American was classified ninth despite not crossing the line.

Famularo, David and Barrichello all pitted mid-race for slick tyres and finished fourth, fifth and sixth respectively. De la Torre planned to make the same gamble on lap eight but crashed at the pit entry and retired.

Report by Marco Albertini

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Yevan David, 1:31.990	Tymek Kucharczyk, +0.023s	Diego de la Torre, +0.234s
Race 1 (17 laps)	Tymek Kucharczyk, 26:56.446	Yevan David, +0.949s	Fernando Barrichello, +9.664s
Race 2 (17 laps)	Ed Pearson, 27:48.162	Yevan David, +2.221s	Fernando Barrichello, +6.947s
Race 3 (17 laps)	Michael Shin, 31:49.065	Theo Micouris, +63.914s	José Garfias, +66.993s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Tymek Kucharczyk, 321	Team Motopark, 270	Yevan David, 187
P2	Michael Shin, 298	BVM Racing, 189	Everett Stack, 158
P3	Yevan David, 293	Nielsen Racing, 175	Luca Viişoreanu, 20
P4	José Garfias, 259	NV Racing, 3	Preston Lambert, 18
P5	Edward Pearson, 214		Gino Trappa, 18
P6	Fernando Barrichello, 188		Enzo Yeh, 14
P7	Everett Stack, 167		Francisco Soldavini, 14
P8	Diego de la Torre, 129		Cadi Baptista, 4
P9	Alessandro Famularo, 48
P10	Shawn Rashid, 41

Read the previous round’s report here.

Eurocup-3: Colnaghi and MP Motorsport crowned champions with a round to go 

After adding two more podiums to his running tally of eight this season, rookie Mattia Colnaghi secured the Eurocup-3 drivers’ championship with a round to spare, becoming the first driver in the championship’s short history to do so. Not only did the Italian-Argentine driver’s haul of 53 points over the weekend gave him an insurmountable lead of 71 points over his closest championship rival, Valerio Rinciella, but it also won his MP Motorsport team their second consecutive teams’ title. 

Kacper Sztuka finished fastest in qualifying on Saturday morning, but his five-place grid penalty from his Spa collision with Rinicella meant that Enzo Tarnvanichkul was promoted to pole position, with Jules Caranta alongside him. On the race start, the Thai driver immediately defended from Colnaghi on the run down to Turn 1, forcing the championship leader into the grass as the Red Bull junior trio and Rinicella went four-wide.

Further back, Lorenzo Castillo made contact with a slow-starting Lenny Ried, momentarily sending the Mexican driver airborne and breaking his front-left suspension. This forced him to pull over in the gravel on the outside of Turn 1 and caused a safety car deployment so the marshals could recover his car.

Also on that first lap, Andrés Cárdenas made contact with Sztuka at Turn 2, giving the former terminal damage and dropping the latter to the back of the field.

Once the race restarted at the end of lap two, Tarnvanichkul immediately began to create a gap over Caranta, who in turn began to pull away from Colnaghi. 

In the final 10 minutes, Campos’ Caranta began catching teammate Tarnvanichkul and Rinicella similarly began to gain on MP stablemate Colnaghi.

In the end, however, Caranta and Colnaghi maintained second and third respectively behind Tarnvanichkul, who took his first Eurocup-3 victory. The fourth Red Bull junior of Ernesto Rivera pitted with a terminal mechanical issue on lap 12 after having risen from 12th on the grid to seventh.

Colnaghi started on pole for race two alongside Sztuka, and both had good launches to maintain their positions. The same, however, could not be said for Colnaghi’s closest championship rival Rinicella, who fell back to sixth behind Rivera, Emerson Fittipaldi Jr and Francisco Macedo and eventually finished there.

The only major incident in a mostly trouble-free race came on lap 14, when Jesse Carrasquedo came to blows with Oscar Wurz at the Turn 6 hairpin and spun the Austrian driver. Carrasquedo finished a lap down after pitting to replace his front-left tyre and subsequently received a five-place grid penalty for causing the incident.

Colnaghi, already the 2024 Spanish F4 champion, took the chequered flag on lap 20 with an almost five-second lead over the Polish driver to secure his second championship in as many years. Behind the pair came Ernesto Rivera to complete the podium and make it the first time that every Red Bull junior in the series stood on the rostrum during a weekend. 

Report by Seb Tirado

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Kacper Sztuka, 1:37.885	Enzo Tarnvanichkul, +0.026s	Jules Caranta, +0.059s
Race 1 (18 laps)	Enzo Tarnvanichkul, 31:43.648	Jules Caranta, +0.281s	Mattia Colnaghi, +1.839s
Qualifying 2	Mattia Colnaghi, 1:36.646	Kacper Sztuka, +0.062s	Valerio Rinicella, +0.083s
Race 2 (20 laps)	Mattia Colnaghi, 33:18.847	Kacper Sztuka, +4.636s	Ernesto Rivera, +7.657s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Mattia Colnaghi, 256	MP Motorsport, 478	Mattia Colnaghi, 256
P2	Valerio Rinicella, 185	Campos Racing, 346	Ernesto Rivera, 176
P3	Ernesto Rivera, 176	Griffin Core by Campos, 315	Jules Caranta, 103
P4	Kacper Sztuka, 162	Palou Motorsport, 98	James Egozi, 97
P5	Jesse Carrasquedo, 135	KCL by MP Motorsport, 58	Enzo Tarnvanichkul, 95
P6	Jules Caranta, 103	Saintéloc Racing, 35	Maciej Gładysz, 87
P7	James Egozi, 97	Allay Racing, 18	Andrés Cárdenas, 60
P8	Enzo Tarnvanichkul, 95	GRS Team, 10	Francisco Macedo, 35
P9	Maciej Gładysz, 87	Drivex, 6	Yani Stevenheydens, 10
P10	Andrés Cárdenas, 60	DX Racing Team, 0	Oscar Wurz, 6

Read the previous round’s report here.

Italian F4: Nakamura-Berta extends points lead as race three suspended

Italian F4’s only weekend of racing outside its national borders reinforced the trends that had shaped the championship thus far. Kean Nakamura-Berta extended his championship lead over Gabriel Gomez, with whom he split the victories. Race three was suspended after heavy rain made it impossible to compete safely, even with a safety car intervention. 

Despite not topping any of the free practice sessions, Emanuele Olivieri was the indisputable protagonist of qualifying, securing pole position for races two and three. Kean Nakamura-Berta went fastest with a 1:41.864 in a red-flagged first session to earn pole for race one. 

Early drama kicked off the first race of the weekend as Gomez, who qualified fourth, struggled off the line at the start. Prema Racing’s Salim Hanna and Sebastian Wheldon passed Olivieri for second and third, and the American driver quickly overtook his teammate at Turn 3 to claim second. After his stall, Gomez made contact with Luca Viişoreanu that left him with terminal damage, and he retired from the race in the pits the next lap.

As lap 14 got underway, Wheldon’s run hit a dead end as got a bad exit from Turn 2 and lost places to Hanna and Olivieri. By the end of the 18th lap, he was sixth behind Chi Zhenrui and Luka Sammalisto, who made his way up the order after starting from 10th.

Out front, Nakamura-Berta secured his eight win of the season to extend his championship lead. Hanna and Olivieri followed him home. 

The wet race two started behind the safety car as the track conditions were declared unsuitable for a standing start. The green flag flew on lap three, and Maksimilian Popov passed Wheldon for fifth heading into Turn 10. The next time around, leader Olivieri paid the price for an excursion at the last corner by losing places to Gomez and Nakamura-Berta across the line.

The top three held position until the race’s latter stages, but Hanna in fourth tumbled down to seventh behind Popov, Wheldon and Sammalisto by lap 13. 

Meanwhile, Olivieri lost his spot on the podium after being overtaken at Turn 3 by Popov on lap 12 and Wheldon on lap 15. 

At the same time, Viișoreanu wound up in the gravel at the final corner, bringing out the safety car on the 15th lap. It led the field across the line as Gomez secured his third win of the year, with Nakamura-Berta and Popov joining him on the podium. 

Race three began with the sun setting in the background. At the start, Olivieri lost positions to the fast-starting Wheldon and Nakamura-Berta to tumble down to third before being passed by Gomez down the main straight on the second lap.

On lap four, an incident at Turn 2 involving Ludovico Busso and David Walther brought out the safety car. As time passed and the sun approached the horizon, the rain on the circuit started getting heavier, and race control was forced to suspend the session as the field began lap six.

ACI Sport has yet to issue a decision on whether the race’s provisional results will be retained or annulled. As of now, the series has not updated its standings to include the results of the race, which remains suspended. 

Report by Francesca Brusa

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 1:41.864	Emanuele Olivieri, +0.118s	Salim Hanna, +0.351s
Qualifying 2	Emanuele Olivieri, 1:41.460	Gabriel Gomez, +0.037s	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +0.116s
Race 1 (19 laps)	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 33:00.984	Salim Hanna, +5.072s	Emanuele Olivieri, +6.030s
Race 2 (17 laps)	Gabriel Gomez, 34:19.197	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +0.522s	Maksimilian Popov, +1.121s
Race 3 (4 laps)	Sebastian Wheldon, 7:18.214	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +0.626s	Gabriel Gomez, +1.193s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 289	Prema Racing, 626	Salim Hanna, 295
P2	Gabriel Gomez, 216	US Racing, 354	Zhenrui Chi, 253
P3	Sebastian Wheldon, 175	R-ace GP, 250	Artem Severiukhin, 171
P4	Salim Hanna, 138	Van Amersfoort Racing, 161	Oleksandr Bondarev, 161
P5	Alex Powell, 126	Jenzer Motorsport, 95	Marcus Sæter, 153
P6	Emanuele Oliveri, 123	PHM Racing, 46	Dante Vinci, 145
P7	Zhenrui Chi, 112	Real Racing, 14	David Cosma Cristofor, 115
P8	Maksimilian Popov, 104	Maffi Racing, 9	Aleksander Ruta, 106
P9	Luka Sammalisto, 90	Technorace, 0	Bader Al Sulaiti, 78
P10	Tomass Štolcermanis, 60	Cram Motorsport, 0	David Walther, 59

Editor’s note: The results of race three are provisional and are not currently counted towards the standings.

Read the previous round’s report here.

Spanish F4: Strauven maintains dominant points lead as Eyckmans takes maiden victory 

Thomas Strauven extended his gap atop the Spanish F4 standings to 110 points after scoring a podium and a victory at Jerez. Fellow Belgian Ean Eyckmans scored his first career victory, whilst Jan Przyrowski, who took pole for all three races, fell to fourth in the standings after a torrid weekend.

The Polish driver’s first race lasted only a few seconds after he stalled at the start and Campos teammate Miguel Costa crashed into the back of his stranded car. Both drivers escaped uninjured as the safety car led the field through pit lane while marshals recovered their cars.

Ahead of the melee, René Lammers led into Turn 1 from the slow-starting Eyckmans, Reno Francot and Strauven. Lammers’ quick launch, however, was due to a jump start, for which he received a drive-through penalty. 

The race restarted at the end of lap three, but green-flag running lasted only two laps. On lap five, Rafaela Ferreira collided with Matúš Ryba at Turn 10, beaching the Slovakian and causing another safety car period. The Brazilian later received a 10-second time penalty for causing the incident.

Lammers caught the pack off guard as he led the field to green halfway down the pit straight at the end of lap eight. Eyckmans kept with Lammers from there, inherited the lead once the Dutchman pitted to serve his penalty on lap 12.

Eyckmans pulled away to take his first career victory, but the battles continued behind him. On the final lap, Strauven attacked Francot for second with a late switchback into Turn 6. After going wheel to wheel through the next few corners, the championship leader got past at Turn 10 before a looming Juan Cota dived down Francot’s inside at the next corner to take third. 

Przyrowski stalled again in race two, this time falling to 11th. Lammers again snatched the lead and quickly pulled away from Cota, who in turn created a gap over Nathan Tye. 

After overhauling Strauven and Gino Trappa by lap five, Przyrowski began pursuing Francot, a battle that came to a head when he spun the Dutchman at the final hairpin on lap 11. Przyrowski received a 10-second penalty, dropping him from sixth at the flag to 13th.

After 16 laps, Lammers took a comfortable victory ahead of Cota and TyeStrauven’s ninth-place finish meant his podium streak, which started at Aragón, ended after 11 races, while Eyckmans retired on lap seven.

In race three, Przyrowski got off the line but lost a place to Strauven on the run to Turn 1. Cota nearly passed him as well through Turn 2, but Przyrowski shuffled him wide, which earned him a five-second post-race penalty.

Behind the trio, a multi-car battle for ninth ended with contact between Vivek Kanthan and Niklas Schaufler, who was beached at Turn 6, and Santino Panetta and Christopher Feghali, who sustained front wing damage after spinning. The safety car was deployed while Schaufler’s car was recovered.

Strauven led the field to green at the end of lap four. He and Przyrowski quickly pulled away as Lammers overtook Cota for third down the inside of Turn 4 despite dipping two wheels in the gravel. 

In the end, Strauven held on for victory, with Przyrowski’s penalty demoting him to sixth. Lammers and Cota completed the final top three.

Report by Seb Tirado

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Jan Przyrowski, 1:43.908	Ean Eyckmans, +0.185s	Juan Cota, +0.189s
Race 1 (15 laps)	Ean Eyckmans, 32:02.943	Thomas Strauven, +2.347s	Juan Cota, +3.226s
Qualifying 2	Jan Przyrowski, 1:43.198	Thomas Strauven, +0.087s	Juan Cota, +0.118s
Race 2 (16 laps)	René Lammers, 27:59.674	Juan Cota, +1.374s	Nathan Tye, +4.852s
Race 3 (17 laps)	Thomas Strauven, 32:34.068	René Lammers, +2.188s	Juan Cota, +3.840s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Thomas Strauven, 278	Griffin Core by Campos, 365	Ean Eyckmans, 162
P2	René Lammers, 168	MP Motorsport, 299	Noah Monteiro, 81
P3	Ean Eyckmans, 162	Campos Racing, 120	Niklas Schaufler, 57
P4	Jan Przyrowski, 146	KCL by MP Motorsport, 116	Vivek Kanthan, 53
P5	Juan Cota, 111	Rodin Motorsport, 97	Christopher El Feghali, 50
P6	Nathan Tye, 96	Drivex, 61	Miguel Costa, 8
P7	Reno Francot, 82	T-Code by Amtog, 44	Francisco Monarca, 6
P8	Noah Monteiro, 81	TC Racing, 9	Kaiden Higgins, 1
P9	Niklas Schaufler, 57	Monlau Motorsport, 6	Kyuho Lee, 1
P10	Vivek Kanthan, 53	DX Racing Team, 1	Sacha van ‘t Pad Bosch, 0

Read the previous round’s report here.

British F4: Harfield takes CDR’s second win as Bansal wraps up Challenge Cup

Fionn McLaughlin edged closer to the British F4 crown with victory in race one at Silverstone, narrowly defeating Chris Dittmann Racing’s Tommy Harfield, who bounced back with his second win of the season in race three. 

Silverstone’s expansive paved run-offs tempted several drivers, including Harfield, to push the limits in qualifying. His best lap – just 0.002 seconds behind polesitter Martin Molnár’s best – was deleted, demoting him to fourth.

Nevertheless, Harfield’s second-best time put him on pole for race one alongside Fortec Motorsport’s Ary Bansal. McLaughlin capitalised on Bansal’s poor getaway to take second before sweeping past Harfield on the run to Maggots. 

The Red Bull junior looked to have the measure of Harfield early on, extending his lead to 0.847s by the end of lap eight. But McLaughlinbegan to struggle for grip as the race approached half distance, helping Harfield eat into his lead. 

Harfield made several passing attempts, pulling out of McLaughlin’s slipstream to look down the inside at Brooklands, but couldn’t find a way past. He started the final lap just 0.178s behind McLaughlin and finished 0.456s in arrears. 

Rodin’s Adam Al Azhari had pole for the reverse-grid race two and built up a 0.763s lead by lap two. Having started alongside him, Hitech’s Joseph Smith faced pressure from the Argenti duo of August Raber and Ethan Jeff-Hall early on, with the trio going side by side through Luffield onto lap two. 

Both Argentis got by on lap three, and Raber quickly closed on Al Azhari, crossing the line just 0.221s behind at the end of lap five. A subsequent safety car deployment brought Jeff-Hall back into the fray, and the trio remained close on the restart. 

Raber snatched the lead onto lap 13, but as they ran three-wide through Brooklands the next lap, Jeff-Hall used the outside line to sweep around both Raber and Al Azhari for first. 

As the Mercedes junior held the inside through Luffield, Al Azhari was forced wide, allowing Ary Bansal through into third. He finished there for his second podium of the weekend, while Jeff-Hall maintained his lead over Raber to take his first series victory. 

McLaughlin leapt into first by the opening corner of race three as Molnár got a slow start and fell behind the fast-starting Jimmy Piszcyk too. Harfield also passed Molnár for third at Brooklands before the end of the lap and began chasing Piszcyk, overtaking him at Brooklands on lap four. 

Seeking to avenge his narrow defeat in race one, the CDR driver closed to just 0.140s behind McLaughlin before the safety car was deployed on lap seven to clear Cole Hewetson’s stricken Xcel Motorsport car. On the restart, Harfield applied pressure on McLaughlin before making another bold move down the inside at Brooklands a lap later to snatch the lead. 

After another safety car deployment, Harfield began pulling away out front, lapping around 0.2s per lap faster than McLaughlin and setting the fastest lap in the process. He took his and CDR’s second win in British F4 with a 1.538s lead. 

Further back, Bansal’s fourth place was enough for him to sweep the Challenge Cup wins this weekend and take the title ahead of Ella Lloyd and Charlie Edge despite entering one fewer round than each of them.

Report by Gavin Guthrie

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Martin Molnár, 54.318	Fionn McLaughlin, +0.040s	Ary Bansal, +0.074s
Race 1 (22 laps)	Fionn McLaughlin, 20:13.019	Tommy Harfield, +0.456s	Ary Bansal, +1.763s
Race 2 (20 laps)	Ethan Jeff-Hall, 20:10.347	August Raber, +0.619s	Ary Bansal, +1.075s
Race 3 (23 laps)	Tommy Harfield, 25:23.011	Fionn McLaughlin, +1.538s	Jimmy Piszcyk, +2.239s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies	Challenge Cup
P1	Fionn McLaughlin, 318.5	Hitech, 481.5	Fionn McLaughlin, 462	Ary Bansal, 280
P2	Jimmy Piszcyk, 257	Rodin Motorsport, 452	Thomas Bearman, 283.5	Ella Lloyd, 258.5
P3	Martin Molnár, 257	Argenti Motorsport, 349	Theo Palmer, 231	Charlie Edge, 215
P4	Tommy Harfield, 220	Virtuosi Racing, 283	Cole Hewetson, 224	Alba Larsen, 194
P5	August Raber, 178	Fortec Motorsport, 250	Xavier Avramides, 203	Arjen Kräling, 140
P6	Ethan Jeff-Hall, 169	Chris Dittmann Racing, 197	Henry Mercier, 181.5	Thomas Ingram Hill, 97
P7	Adam Al Azhari, 165	JHR Developments, 155.5	Alba Larsen, 146	Joseph Smith, 81
P8	Henry Joslyn, 149	Xcel Motorsport, 121.5	Arjen Kräling, 117	Salim Hanna, 65
P9	Thomas Bearman, 143.5		Charlie Edge, 109	Haarni Sadiq, 44
P10	Rowan Campbell-Pilling, 127.5		Salim Hanna, 53	Harri Reynolds, 39

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