New champions were crowned in at the Formula 4 level in French F4 and AU4 as FRegional Japan and Brazilian F4 also held events this weekend. Feeder Series reviews what happened.

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There may not have been a broadcast for French F4 this weekend, but there was plenty of action behind closed doors. Editor Perceval Wolff-Taffus was on site at Le Mans to watch the events unfold, posting live on X and recapping everything you missed below.

The AU4 championship decider in the Gen2 class was televised this weekend, and Noah Killion prevailed after finishing all three races first on track. A late penalty on Sunday for a collision in race three meant he only keeps two of them, with the third victory going the way of Brock Burton. 

FRegional Japan’s penultimate round at Fuji set up the title showdown in two months’ time, while Brazilian F4’s third round at Velocity solidified Heitor Dall’Agnol’s status as the clear title favourite.

In Nordic 4’s season finale at Jyllandsringen, Marius Kristiansen was crowned champion after a hard-fought battle with Sebastian Bach. Kristiansen was disqualified from race one for a technical infraction, but third and fifth in the other races was enough to secure him the title. Silas Egedal took his maiden win in race two, and Magnus Pederson won race three.

In the simultaneous Formula Nordic events, Melvin Kalousdian completed his third clean sweep of the season to take the championship, winning 13 of 17 races.

1. FRegional Japan: Umegaki wins both races, secures safe points lead ahead of season finale 
2. French F4: Munoz secures the title as two drivers take their maiden win
3. Brazilian F4: Dall’Agnol extends points lead as Lima secures maiden win
4. AU4: Killion secures championship with dominant weekend

FRegional Japan: Umegaki wins both races, secures safe points lead ahead of season finale 

TOM’S’ Kiyoshi Umegaki won both races at FRegional Japan’s penultimate round at Fuji this weekend to extend his victory streak to four and his lead in the championship to 23.5 points over teammate Tokiya Suzuki.

That gap over Suzuki entering the final three races at Suzuka in November could be crucial, as it is greater than the 21 points Suzuki could make up if he won and Umegaki came second in all races.

Suzuki was fastest in the first qualifying, with Umegaki in second and B-Max Racing’s Kazuhisa Urabe in third. The trio also completed the top three in the second qualifying session, but this time Umegaki was fastest ahead of Suzuki and Urabe.

Suzuki led into Turn 1 in the first race, but behind him, Ponos Racing’s Kento Omiya jumped from fourth to second, relegating Umegaki to third. Just one lap later, Umegaki retook second position at the same spot with a seven-tenth gap to Suzuki ahead.

The gap between Suzuki and Umegaki grew to 1.6 seconds by lap six, but from there, Umegaki closed up more every lap. Despite getting within half a second on the final lap, he could never launch an attack – but it didn’t matter.

Suzuki crossed the line first but received a five-second post-race time penalty for track limits, which handed the win to Umegaki. Urabe came home a distant third after passing Omiya around the outside of Turn 1 on lap 12. 

Umegaki kept the lead at the start of the second race, but Suzuki behind had to defend from Urabe going into Turn 3. Suzuki ultimately stayed ahead, growing his gap over the B-Max Racing driver while chasing Umegaki. 

On laps four and six, Suzuki attacked Umegaki at Turn 1, but he was too far behind to pass on both occasions. 

Omiya, running fourth, then lost his rear-right tyre approaching the final corner on lap eight and had to retire from the race, ending his slim hopes of taking the title. 

On lap 12 of 15, Suzuki spun at the exit of Turn 5 and dropped to third position behind Urabe. Although he managed to close the two-second gap to just half a second as they entered the final lap, he was unable to launch a final attack to regain the position.

Up front, Umegaki took his second win of the weekend, 11.563s ahead of Urabe, with  Suzuki, following just six hundredths behind. 

Report by Finjo Muschlien

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Tokiya Suzuki, 1:37.316	Kiyoshi Umegaki, +0.181s	Kazuhisa Urabe, +0.548s
Qualifying 2	Kiyoshi Umegaki, 1:36.470	Tokiya Suzuki, +0.083s	Kazuhisa Urabe, +0.682s
Race 1 (15 laps)	Kiyoshi Umegaki, 24:28.449	Tokiya Suzuki, +4.353s	Kazuhisa Urabe, +10.497s
Race 2 (15 laps)	Kiyoshi Umegaki, 24:24.543	Kazuhisa Urabe, +11.563s	Tokiya Suzuki, +11.623s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Masters
P1	Kiyoshi Umegaki, 235	TOM’S Formula, 268.5	Yutaka Toriba, 205.5
P2	Tokiya Suzuki, 211.5	B-Max Racing Team, 159	“Yuki”, 100
P3	Kento Omiya, 157.5	Ponos Racing, 157.5	“Yugo”, 89
P4	Kazuhisa Urabe, 119	Aiwin, 82	“Akita”, 88
P5	Yu Oda, 73.5	Rn-sports, 73.5	Shoichiro Akamatsu, 73
P6	Lin Chenghua, 62	Ragno Motor Sport, 62	Yuki Tanaka, 15
P7	Yutaka Toriba, 60	Hitotsuyama Racing, 57
P8	Jia Zhanbin, 57	Fujita Pharmacy Racing, 45
P9	Anna Inotsume, 57	Abbey Racing, 24
P10	Hideaki Irie, 45	Eagle Sports, 11

Read the previous round’s report here.

French F4: Munoz secures the title as two drivers take their maiden win

Alexandre Munoz took the French F4 title with a race to spare in French F4’s season finale, held behind closed doors at the Le Mans Bugatti Circuit, as Arthur Dorison and Matteo Giaccardi each won races for the first time.

For the previous three years that Le Castellet hosted the season finale, track limits posed problems. The move to Le Mans this year was expected to ameliorate the issue, but they instead became an even bigger talking point, with more than 200 laps deleted in qualifying.

Championship leader Alexandre Munoz lost both of his pole positions for exceeding track limits too many times. His demotion to fourth promoted Louis Iglesias and Arthur Dorison to race one and three poles respectively and placed him behind title rival Roussel for both races.

The duo started alongside one another on the second row and ran side by side for nearly the entire first lap trying stay ahead of the other – at all costs. Rintaro Sato, Rafaël Pérard, Guillaume Bouzar and Rayan Caretti all overtook them in the opening three laps, while Dorison, who started second, also lost two positions after locking up at the Dunlop Chicane.

Out front, Iglesias built a solid gap and resisted the pressure from Sato at the end of the race, with Pérard completing the podium and Bouzar fourth.

Behind them, there was a heated battle across several laps in the middle of the race. Dorison fended off Caretti, who lost two places to the squabbling championship rivals on lap seven. They then swapped positions themselves on lap 13, giving Munoz two crucial points over his rival.

The reverse-grid race was more hectic, with a great battle for the lead between polesitter Malo Bolliet, Pérard and Matteo Giaccardi in the early stages interrupted by an opening-lap safety car for Sato and Nicolas Pasquier’s spins and a subsequent collision between Pasquier and Héloïse Goldberg.

Pérard lost three positions following the restart before having high-speed contact with Caretti at the Dunlop Curve, bringing out the safety car for a second time on lap 10.

While Bolliet, Giaccardi and Bouzar pulled away and maintained that order until the end, Hugo Herrouin, Caretti, Roussel and Munoz all battled during the second half of the race. Caretti passed Herrouin for fourth on lap 12 before contact between Herrouin and Roussel on lap 15 ended the former’s race and dropped the latter, crucially, behind Dorison and Munoz. An engine issue then forced Caretti to retire on the final lap. 

In this confusion, Dorison snatched fourth in front of Munoz and Roussel. Munoz was therefore crowned the new French F4 champion with one race to spare as celebrations and tears of joy emanated from his family in the pit lane.

Post-race penalties later in the evening awarded the win to Giaccardi, with Bolliet dropped to fourth because of his defence against Pérard and Roussel earning a drive-through penalty for his collision with Herrouin. The results of race two remain provisional pending an appeal.

Roussel took the lead of race three at the start, but he was spun by Sato at the Dunlop Chicane and forced to retire. Munoz had to take avoiding action behind them but ultimately  took the lead from Dorison and Bouzar. Now fighting for second in the championship, Dorison clung to Munoz until the final lap but finished 0.294 seconds behind the freshly crowned champion, who took his fifth race win of the year.

Caretti delivered a strong recovery drive from his disappointing 13th in qualifying to finish fourth. Sato crossed the line fifth but earned a 31-second penalty for the collision with Roussel, while Pérard in sixth also earned a 15-second penalty for track limits, promoting Giaccardi and Roméo Leurs respectively to their places.

Dorison and Bolliet were also told by race direction mid-race to give back one position for cutting the chicane, but they did not do so, and all drivers were eventually cleared by the race stewards. Dorison provisionally finished as the runner-up in the championship, level on points with Roussel but with more three wins to his name.

Report by Perceval Wolff-Taffus

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Louis Iglesias, 1:37.418	Arthur Dorison, +0.003s	Jules Roussel, +0.077s
Race 1 (19 laps)	Louis Iglesias, 31:18.705	Rintaro Sato, +1.284s	Rafaël Pérard, +5.041s
Race 2 (17 laps)*	Mattéo Giaccardi, 31:37.728	Guillaume Bouzar, +2.345s	Arthur Dorison, +4.008s
Race 3 (16 laps)	Alexandre Munoz, 30:05.285	Arthur Dorison, +0.294s	Guillaume Bouzar, +1.128s

Standings	Drivers
P1	Alexandre Munoz, 247
P2	Arthur Dorison, 186
P3	Jules Roussel, 186
P4	Rayan Caretti, 153
P5	Guillaume Bouzar, 145
P6	Louis Iglesias, 111
P7	Rafaël Pérard, 95
P8	Malo Bolliet, 88
P9	Rintaro Sato, 81
P10	Montego Maassen, 80

Editor’s note: The results of race two are provisional pending an appeal.

Read the previous round’s report here.

From the paddock: Following a qualifying session marked by  track-limits drama, Roussel, Munoz’s biggest challenger for the French F4 title, talked about his progress throughout the year. Despite only scoring six points, Roussel added that he was satisfied with the meeting as he improved on the areas he mentioned in the article, which you can read here.

Brazilian F4: Dall’Agnol extends points lead as Lima secures maiden win

Heitor Dall’Agnol may not have taken victory at Velocitta this weekend, but he nonetheless extended his championship lead to 56 points over Murilo Rocha as he maintained his record of top-five finishes in every race.

Pedro Lima dominated qualifying, setting both the fastest and second-fastest laps to take pole for races one and three. But on the grid for race one, he struggled to get off the line and dropped to ninth, leaving Dall’Agnol to streak clear of the field.

Filippo Fiorentino rocketed from sixth to second after dodging the slow-starting Pietro Mesquita, with Alceu Feldmann Neto prevailing in the opening-lap battle for third with Pedro Lins. They continued battling until lap eight, when Lins spun while attempting a move down the inside of Feldmann Neto at the Curva do Guiga.

Having pulled several seconds clear of the battle for third, Fiorentino then began hunting down the dominant Dall’Agnol. In the end, though, he didn’t need to close further. Dall’Agnol had positioned himself too far forward in his grid box at the start and earned himself a drive-through penalty, which he served at the end of lap 10.

Lima, meanwhile, had clawed his way back to third after his opening-lap difficulties, but he too received a 20-second penalty for a jump start of his own and ended up 11th.

Fiorentino therefore won the race by 13.678 seconds ahead of Feldmann Neto and Rocha, while Dall’Agnol made up six places after his penalty to take home fourth, just 0.225s off the podium.

Rogério Grotta started from pole for race two, but Renzo Barbuy got a better launch and outdragged him to Turn 1. Nevertheless, Grotta got the better exit and retook the lead entering Turn 2, leaving Barbuy to fend off Ciro Sobral.

From there, Grotta began to pull away and took a comfortable victory by 6.082s. Barbuy looked assured of second until he experienced a brake disc failure on lap 11, which caused him to lock up multiple times before he ultimately retired.

His retirement handed second to Sobral and third to Dall’Agnol, while Celo Hahn took fourth from ninth on the grid. After defeating Mesquita in a late-race battle, Christian Helou finished a season-best fifth from 12th and Ethan Nobels came home sixth despite running 15th and last early on.

Lima and Dall’Agnol both got strong starts from race three and quickly gapped Feldmann Neto. They went largely unchallenged from there as a spirited battle broke out in the lower midfield behind race two winner Grotta and Lins, who eventually prevailed and took eighth place. Grotta proved the bottleneck and slipped all the way back to 11th, which became 10th following Mesquita’s late-race retirement.

Before that, Feldmann Neto had lost three places on lap nine, falling behind Rocha, Fiorentino and Mesquita. None of them could challenge the top two, however. Lima put up a staunch defence against Dall’Agnol in the final laps, and they finished the race separated by just 0.053s.

Report by Michael McClure

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Pedro Lima, 1:26.250	Heitor Dall’Agnol, +0.118s	Pedro Lins, +0.164s
Race 1 (22 laps)	Filippo Fiorentino, 32:14.659	Alceu Feldmann Neto, +13.678s	Murilo Rocha, +17.790s
Race 2 (15 laps)	Rogério Grotta, 22:04.983	Ciro Sobral, +6.082s	Heitor Dall’Agnol, +10.673s
Race 3 (22 laps)	Pedro Lima, 32:17.296	Heitor Dall’Agnol, +0.053s	Murilo Rocha, +2.127s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Heitor Dall’Agnol, 145	Heitor Dall’Agnol, 174	TMG Racing, 293
P2	Murilo Rocha, 89	Murilo Rocha, 119	Bassani Racing, 197
P3	Filippo Fiorentino, 84	Pedro Lima, 96	Cavaleiro Sports, 162
P4	Pedro Lima, 73	Pietro Mesquita, 91
P5	Pietro Mesquita, 62	Pedro Lins, 84
P6	Ethan Nobels, 61	Celo Hahn, 52
P7	Ciro Sobral, 58	Cadi Baptista, 48
P8	Pedro Lins, 53	Christian Helou, 39
P9	Rogério Grotta, 52	Enricco Abreu, 30
P10	Alceu Feldmann Neto, 48	Bernardo Gentil, 28

Read the previous round’s report here.

AU4: Killion secures championship with dominant weekend

AU4’s title fight culminated in a showdown between Isaac McNeill and Noah Killion at Sydney Motorsport Park. On points alone, McNeill entered the round four points ahead, but once each driver’s three lowest finishes were dropped, Killion led the championship. With such fine margins in play, it was anyone’s game this weekend.

Harrison Duske started race one from pole, but Killion took the lead from second into Turn 1 while rival McNeill held fourth.

On lap four, Chloe Lane, newly racing in the Gen2 class, ran wide at Turn 7, skidding across the grass and colliding with Koby Wilson at the hairpin. Lane continued after pitting, while Wilson retired, triggering an extended safety car period.

Killion led after the restart and took the victory – as well as the championship lead – ahead of Duske and Kokotovich, who swapped places on the penultimate lap. Both Kokotovich and Brock Burton received five-second penalties for restart infringements, however, demoting them to fifth and sixth respectively and handing the final podium place to McNeill.

In Gen1, polesitter Andrew Fitzpatrick won from De’argo Stewart and JesseJames Samuels.

Killion led race two from pole ahead of Duske as Burton and McNeill both overtook Kokotovich into Turn 1. Burton then ran wide at Turn 2 on lap two, allowing Kokotovich and McNeill through. McNeill took third from Kokotovich at the same corner a lap later.

On lap five, Stewart ran wide at Turn 5 and spun into the wall, handing second in the Gen1 class to Wilson. Just one lap later, Imogen Radburn spun at Turn 8, ending her race and bringing out the safety car.

The neutralisation ended with one lap left, and on the restart, Samuels went rocketing into the wall at Turn 2, ending his race prematurely. Killion again took the Gen2 victory ahead of Duske and McNeill, while Fitzpatrick won in Gen1 ahead of Wilson and Jamie-Lee Su.

Duske overtook polesitter Killion into Turn 1 as race three began. McNeill passed Kokotovich for third soon after, but he received a five-second penalty for a start infringement. Stewart then retired for the second consecutive race after spinning at the hairpin, bringing out the safety car. 

The race restarted, but contact on lap seven between Killion and Duske left the latter stranded and facing backwards at Turn 3. McNeill inherited first with Kokotovich behind, but the AGI driver locked up and hit McNeill’s rear at Turn 2 on lap nine, damaging his front wing.

Killion therefore reclaimed second, with Burton, Radburn and Lane following through. Killion then hunted down and passed McNeill for first at Turn 4 at lap 11 as the Volante Rosso driver struggled for grip.

Killion crossed the line first for the third time this weekend and secured the AU4 championship. A post-race penalty for the collision with Duske ultimately dropped him to fifth, one spot ahead of the Tim Macrow Racing driver. The penalties put Burton, Radburn and Lane on the overall podium, while Gen1’s Fitzpatrick scored a third consecutive class win.

Report by Anabelle Bremner

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Harrison Duske, 1:29.2342	Noah Killion, +0.1518s	Cohen Kokotovich, +0.2697s
Qualifying 2	Noah Killion, 1:28.8878	Harrison Duske, +0.3237s	Cohen Kokotovich, +0.7147s
Race 1 (12 laps)	Noah Killion, 26:55.7312	Harrison Duske, +1.1315s	Isaac McNeill, +5.4024s
Race 2 (12 laps)	Noah Killion, 27:07.9048	Harrison Duske, +0.3465s	Isaac McNeill, +0.9289s
Race 3 (14 laps)	Brock Burton, 26:53.5618	Imogen Radburn, +0.3201s	Chloe Lane, +1.5035s

Standings	Gen 2 Drivers	Gen 1 Drivers
P1	Noah Killion, 268	Jensen Marold, 317
P2	Isaac McNeill, 241	Andrew Fitzpatrick, 236
P3	Harrison Duske, 212	Koby Wilson, 201
P4	Imogen Radburn, 156	De’Argo Stewart, 128
P5	Cohen Kokotovich, 143	JesseJames Samuels, 126
P6	Brock Burton, 135	Chloe Lane, 122
P7	Georgia Morgan, 60	Xavier Babbage-Hockey, 70
P8	Chloe Lane, 29	Lawrence Katsidis, 64
P9	Nathan Gotch, 20	Jamie-Lee Su, 55
P10		Christian Ayrouth, 32

Read the previous round’s report here.

Header photo credit: Edern Frouin