Formula 1’s end-of-year rookie test and F2’s post-season test firmly signal the dénouement of a calendar year, but there are still a few more races to be held in 2025. Feeder Series previews Formula Trophy’s and Brazilian F4’s final rounds.

By Feeder Series

Can you believe it’s the final weekend of junior single-seaters for 2025? Well, not quite. There’s still some testing taking place next week and a tiny number of smaller series to round out the year, but for all intents and purposes, Formula Trophy’s finale and Brazilian F4’s season-ending double-header will bring our editorial coverage this year to a close.

F4 Saudi Arabia rounded out its 2025 season at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit on Saturday, making history as the first mixed-gender single-seater grid to have more female drivers than male. GB4 champion Ary Bansal returned to the series with a double pole position, but he lost the lead in race one to eventual winner Kit Belofsky, with Red Bull junior Christopher El Feghali taking third. Bansal converted pole to victory in race two followed by Belofsky and Saudi driver Abdullah Ayman Kamel. Belofsky’s championship was already secured before the weekend began, and he ended the 10-race season with 189 points, four wins and four additional podiums.

Indian F4 is expected to hold their final round this weekend, with the venue having moved from the streets of Mumbai to the Madras International Circuit. The schedule will be compressed into one day, with practice, qualifying and the two races all held on Sunday. Shane Chandaria currently leads the standings on 158 points, 24 ahead of Sachel Rotgé. 

With the end of the international karting season, the FIA selected two young racers to support in 2026. Sixteen-year-old Yuzuki Sato won the Senior shootout in Campos F4 machinery, earning €250,000 to put towards an F4 campaign. The Japanese driver won the FIA Academy Trophy earlier in the year, and the shootout at Spain’s Aspar Circuit marked his first known test in F4 machinery. The Junior shootout a day prior – held in Parolin karts – was won by FIA Karting Junior World Championship runner-up Valerio Viapiana, whose prize will go towards FIA Karting events in the OK class.

1. Formula Trophy: Round 3, Abu Dhabi
2. Brazilian F4: Rounds 5 and 6, São Paulo
3. Feeder Series quarterly update: Autumn 2025
   1. Broadcast
   2. Editorial
   3. Social

Formula Trophy: Round 3, Abu Dhabi

Circuit: Yas Marina Circuit, 5.281 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC +4)

Friday 12 December

• 18:10–19:10: Practice 1
• 20:30–21:30: Practice 2
• 22:00–23:00: Practice 3

Saturday 13 December

• 11:15–11:30: Qualifying 1
• 11:35–11:50: Qualifying 2

• 13:55–14:25: Race 1
• 17:15–17:45: Race 2

How to follow: Races will be live-streamed on the official Formula Trophy YouTube channel with English commentary and on Motorsport Television Deutschland’s YouTube channel with German commentary. Live timing will be available on RaceResults.

Weather forecast: Sunny with a slight breeze all weekend; no rain forecast.

What to know: Formula Trophy heads into its grand finale this weekend – once again in Abu Dhabi – and it’s anyone’s game. 

Super sub Oleksandr Bondarev dominated both races last weekend, while Niccolò Maccagnani catapulted himself from fifth to first in the standings thanks to back-to-back second-place finishes. 

Alp Aksoy and Adam Al Azhari took a third-place finish each, while former championship leader Theo Palmer dropped to fourth after a disappointing weekend, retiring in race one and picking up just one point in race two.

As for the round two debutants, Bondarev had a singularly successful weekend, while Jarrett Clark and Nicolas Stati picked up ten and six points respectively. 

F1 Academy’s Nina Gademan will contest this weekend’s round with Hitech, whom she competed in this year’s British F4 championship with, and round one race winner Payton Westcott returns to her Mumbai Falcons cockpit in place of Bondarev. 

Fifty points are up for grabs in this weekend’s two-race finale, meaning that mathematically, the top 10 are all in contention for the championship. Maccagnani leads on 66 points, but close behind are Aksoy on 62 and David Cosma Cristafor on 53. 

Report by Anabelle Bremner

Read the first round’s report here.

Brazilian F4: Rounds 5 and 6, São Paulo

Circuit: Autódromo José Carlos Pace (Interlagos), 4.309 km

Schedule: All times local (GMT−3)

Round 5

Wednesday 10 December

• 08:00–08:40: Free practice 1
• 10:00–10:40: Free practice 2
• 12:40–13:00: Qualifying
• 17:00–17:30: Race 1

Thursday 11 December

• 09:20–09:40: Race 2
• 15:30–16:00: Race 3

Round 6

Friday 12 December

• 08:00–08:40: Free practice 1
• 11:50–12:30: Free practice 2
• 16:25–16:45: Qualifying

Saturday 13 December

• 08:20–08:50: Race 1

Sunday 14 December

• 08:50–09:10: Race 2
• 15:30–16:00: Race 3

How to follow: Live timing is available on Audace Tech, and races are streamed on the championship’s YouTube channel.

Weather forecast: Warm and dry during the week, with a chance of rain on Saturday and Sunday.

What to know: Brazilian F4 hosts six races in just five days at Interlagos to conclude its 2025 season, with perhaps its most dominant driver yet on the brink of being crowned champion.

The series was supposed to join parent championship Stock Car Pro Series at the Autodrómo Brasília at the end of November, but the circuit was not homologated by the FIA ahead of time. Instead, the series will hold a double event at Interlagos this week, with round five taking place on Wednesday and Thursday and round six from Friday to Sunday.

In the previous three championship rounds, all held at Velocitta, Heitor Dall’Agnol took seven podiums across nine races. He has a healthy lead of 72 points in the standings, more than the 62-point lead with which inaugural champion Pedro Clerot won in 2022. Currently, only three drivers are within 100 points of Dall’Agnol’s 197: Pedro Lima, on 125 following an overturned penalty from round three; Filippo Fiorentino, on 120, and Murilo Rocha, on 113. 

Each drivers’ worst two scores will be dropped after Thursday’s races, but with Dall’Agnol currently set to lose only eight points and 70 available per round, the chasing drivers will all need to outscore him to keep their chances alive until the weekend.

In November, the series held a non-championship round supporting the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. Fiorentino won races one and three, a feat he will surely use as motivation in the final events, while F1 Academy’s Rafaela Ferreira triumphed in race two. 

That second race, however, was marked by a serious incident for Ethan Nobels that has ruled him out of the upcoming rounds as he recovers from head and chest injuries. Replacing him at Cavaleiro Sports is Fórmula Delta championship contender Alexandre Louza (#15). The Goiás native will make his F4 debut ahead of a two-round entry in the Formula Winter Series with Cram Motorsport next year.

Following Ciro Sobral’s move to Bassani Racing ahead of the non-championship round, Rocha will leave the team, effectively swapping places with Sobral to join TMG Racing.

Report by Mitchell Ash

Read the previous championship round’s report here and the report on the non-championship round at Interlagos here.

Feeder Series quarterly update: Autumn 2025

Broadcast

On the video front, the Feeder Series Podcast’s 2025 concluded with coverage of a wide range of junior championships, with F2, F3, GB3 and F4 all having representatives. Short clips of new podcast episodes went hand in hand with the regular weekend previews across social channels to continue the growth of vertical video content from Feeder Series. 

The wide series coverage also allowed long-time series editors to make their debut on the podcast. George Sanderson and Francesca Brusa demonstrated that expert knowledge runs deep throughout our team with their insights during their maiden appearances. And it wasn’t just recent podcasts that showcased deep junior racing understanding. Alice Cook’s video on the speed differences between different series continues to educate, while her narration of Calla Kra-Caskey’s five female drivers who could reach F1 also finds new audiences.

Perhaps the biggest surprise in viewership comes from one driver who did reach in F1. While the  episodes with F1 graduates Gabriel Bortoleto, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Isack Hadjar, plus title contender Oscar Piastri, remain popular Franco Colapinto’s hour with us from May 2024 surged in interest, almost doubling the already record views of 25,000 in August to 47,000 at the time of writing. Most encouragingly, the watch hours in that same period jumped from 4,000 to 22,700, suggesting newcomers really liked what they saw and stuck around to hear from the Alpine driver.

— Jim Kimberley, head of broadcast

Editorial

With a busy summer behind us, we spent the fall focused on wrapping up coverage of our myriad championships and digesting all that happened this year. But that did not stop us from making our way to paddocks, with our international team of reporters meeting in groups at Donington Park, Monza and Macau to carry out on-the-ground reporting.

The most significant addition to our publication routine was our weekly testing reports, which have already attracted lots of readers. Testing leads Finjo Muschlien, Francesca Brusa and George Sanderson have shepherded the team through the wild goose chase of uncovering the who, what, when and where of junior series testing all across the world. It’s all in service of the ultimate why – preparation for 2026 and finding out which tests might be indicative of race seats.

Speaking of which, our two most-read articles from the past three months were our 2026 F2 and F3 grid prediction pieces. The driver line-ups are now just about complete, and you can find out when everybody was announced at the bottom of each article. We know you probably made your own predictions too. How many did you get right?

And if you missed any part of the action this year, stay tuned – our final two weeks of 2025 will be dedicated to the best and brightest prospects that you’ll want to follow into 2026 and beyond.

— Michael McClure, head of editorial

Social

The world of junior single-seater social media didn’t slow down this autumn as champions were crowned left, right and centre. We filled the time on Instagram with news, interesting statistics and discussions.

The most popular post was a number of quotes by 2023 Formula 2 champion Théo Pourchaire, discussing his time in feeder series and what came after for him. You were also keen to be involved in the debate about the most impressive F2 debutant this season, and while Leonardo Fornaroli was ultimately crowned champion as a rookie, we also received a lot of votes for fellow contenders Luke Browning and Alex Dunne.

On TikTok, we started a new series in which we discuss next year’s F3 grid, dedicating one post to each 2026 driver. Don’t worry – we will talk about the F2 drivers soon as well! Nevertheless, you most enjoyed our post for when McLaren announced three drivers named Ella would be part of the team’s driver development programme in 2026, which of course lined up perfectly with a certain song by Rihanna.

We would be remiss not to mention the departure of social media manager Amy Schulz, who did fantastic work for us over the past year. In return, our new hires Isabella de Rozarieux and Daisy Turvey have already made their mark ever since they joined us in September.

Finally, last month, many Feeder Series staff members visited Setting Purple Sectors, a charity event set up by F2 and F3 commentator Chris McCarthy of Feeder Series’ Transfer Weekly fame. The event was also attended by many feeder series drivers, such as Jak Crawford, Alisha Palmowski and Callum Voisin, and it raised a total of £10,526 for Young Epilepsy. The event provided us with lots of content, which will appear on our social media pages soon. And if you’re wondering how we performed: multiple staff members finished on the overall podium!

— Jordy van de Bunt, head of social media

All times and forecasts listed above are subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, follow each series’ websites or social media pages.

Header photo credit: Formula Trophy