The Formula 4 Central European Zone Championship, better known as F4 CEZ, starts its fourth season as an FIA-certified championship this weekend, with a grid set to be among the largest seen in any junior single-seater championship this year. Feeder Series tells you all you need to know about the upcoming, record-breaking season of the Czech Republic–based series.

By Maciej Jackiewicz

Last year, 29 drivers competed in at least one round of F4 CEZ. This tally will undoubtedly be beaten this year, as there are more than 40 cars on the full-season entry list, a number scarcely believable in a championship that had as few as seven starters in the 2024 season finale.

The 2025 season was marked by the title battle between the Jenzer duo of Max Karhan and Gino Trappa. The latter won the championship by nine points after the former scored 13 podiums in a row to catch up.

For 2026, Trappa has moved up to Eurocup-3 with Hitech, making this the second time in a row that the F4 CEZ champion went on to compete in Eurocup-3 after 2024 champion Oscar Wurz raced with Drivex last year. Karhan, meanwhile, is returning to F4 CEZ for a third full year, and his only goal will be the championship crown.

The series will continue to use the Tatuus T-421 cars with Pirelli tyres, making it similar to other F4 championships in Europe, including Italian F4. 

The calendar

For the first time since 2023, the F4 CEZ calendar features two F1 circuits. Like last year, Red Bull Ring hosts the season opener, but the Hungaroring replaces the second Spielberg round as it comes back to the series after a two-year hiatus. It now also moves to the end of the season.

• Round 1: Red Bull Ring (11–12 April)
• Round 2: Salzburgring (30–31 May)
• Round 3: Slovakia Ring (6–7 June)
• Round 4: Autodrom Most (1–2 August)
• Round 5: Automotodrom Brno (12–13 September)
• Round 6: Hungaroring (24–25 October)

The format

Because of the high number of entries, the weekend format has been modified to accommodate all of the cars. 

The qualifying sessions will be divided into two groups, each running for 20 minutes. Then, the drivers will be divided into three groups: A for the drivers classified first, fourth, seventh and so on; B for those in second, fifth, eighth and so on; and C for those in third, sixth, ninth and so on. Race one will be contested between groups A and B, race two between groups B and C and race three between groups A and C.

After the three qualifying races, the top 32 will be drawn up by adding all the points obtained by each driver in the races. Drivers who do not score points will be ordered by the best finishing position of the weekend. This top 32 will be allowed to compete in race four, the final race of the weekend. This structure resembles what is used in certain Italian F4 rounds held at circuits with capacity limits.

The points system has been modified as well. In lieu of a classic F1-style points system used earlier, F4 CEZ will utilise the MotoGP points system. The winner will get 25 points, and the remainder of the top 15 will get 20, 16, 13, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. No points will be awarded for pole positions or fastest laps.

Where to watch

While free practice and qualifying sessions will not be broadcast, the races will be available to watch on the YouTube channel of F4 CEZ with English commentary.

Teams and drivers

The provisional teams’ entry list published by F4 CEZ in February featured 15 teams and 43 entries. However, as some teams decided to field fewer cars than originally planned – including Maffi Racing, who reduced their line-up from six cars to four, and Renauer Motorsport, who field two cars instead of three – spots for the teams that were originally put in the reserve list opened up.

Ultimately, there are 44 cars competing for 21 different outfits this year. No other F4 series in Europe has ever seen so many different entities participate. Two teams that competed in 2025 are not returning to the series – family team Henni Performance and F4 CEZ Academy, which was run by JMT Racing in 2025.

Jenzer Motorsport

Jenzer Motorsport have been the team to beat since the inauguration of F4 CEZ in 2023. They won the teams’ championship three times, and thanks to Ethan Ischer, Oscar Wurz and Gino Trappa, they have a 100 per cent success rate in the drivers’ championship as well. For the 2026 season, the Swiss outfit based in Lyss field six cars in the series.

Teodor Borenstein (#20) is a well-known name for F4 CEZ fans. After making his car racing debut with Jenzer in 2024, the 17-year-old Czech driver returned to the team for 2025. He began the year in the Formula Winter Series before returning to F4 CEZ and finishing 11th overall with a best result of fourth scored on home soil in Brno. He is back with the team for this year in F4 CEZ after again competing in FWS, in which he scored his first F4 podium at Portimão.

The only female driver in Jenzer’s line-up is Ella Häkkinen (#21). The 15-year-old Czech-Finnish driver, daughter of the two-time F1 world champion Mika Häkkinen, has been part of the McLaren Driver Development Programme since November last year. In 2025, she competed in the OK and OK-N classes of karting, finishing fifth in the Champions of the Future Academy Program’s OK-N competition.

The youngest-ever person to drive a Formula E car in an official session, the 16-year-old Elia Weiss (#22) is going to F4 CEZ for this year with Jenzer. The driver from Germany started his F4 career last year by completing two rounds of FWS with Cram Motorsport. He stayed with the Italian team for the main part of the year in Italian F4 and E4, finishing 28th in the former. This winter, he made a switch to R-ace GP for the UAE4 Series, a campaign he ended in 16th with a best finish of fourth.

Georgiy Zasov (#25) is the first of the 2026 F4 rookies in Jenzer’s line-up. The Swiss driver, who turned 15 in December, competed in senior karting across 2025. Most notably, he finished 13th in the OK-N class of the WSK Euro Series and 19th in the same class of the WSK Final Cup. At the beginning of this year, he competed in three rounds of FWS with his F4 CEZ team, taking his best result of 14th at Barcelona.

Markas Šilkūnas (#26) made his car racing debut in FWS with Jenzer, albeit without scoring any points across the five-round campaign. In 2025, the 17-year-old from Lithuania won the Champions of the Future Academy Program title in the OK-N class. In January this year, he became the inaugural champion of the Champions of the Future Program Macau event, also in the OK-N class.

This is the third full year of the collaboration between Max Karhan (#144) and Jenzer Motorsport. The 17-year-old Czech driver’s F4 career started with the Swiss team in 2023, but he reached new heights in 2024 and 2025. He finished third and second in the championship respectively, and for this year he is aiming to continue this trend and win the title. Last year, he lost the title by nine points to Gino Trappa, even with a 13-race podium streak to end the season.

Maffi Racing

After making their F4 CEZ debut in 2024, Maffi Racing finished second twice in the teams’ standings. Thanks to Kirill Kutskov in 2024, the team known for their Italian F4 exploits secured a runner-up position in the drivers’ standings as well. For 2026, the Swiss team will try to improve on Kutskov’s second place with their four drivers.

The most likely to do so is David Walther (#7), who is returning to Maffi for the 2026 F4 CEZ campaign after running a partial season last year. The 18-year-old Dane won one of the races at the Red Bull Ring but did not return to the series after round four in Most, when he sat third in the standings. He completed the full season in Italian F4, with his best finish in the series being 12th position scored during the final round at Misano.

The second Dane in the Maffi Racing line-up is Nikolaj Dyrved (#14). The 19-year-old made his F4 CEZ debut last year and finished 14th overall with two points to his name, earned from two 10th-place finishes at the Red Bull Ring and Slovakia Ring. The same year, he started in three races of Nordic 4, with his best result being 10th.

Igor Polak (#5) made his F4 CEZ debut with Maffi Racing in the last two rounds of the 2025 season, and he is back with the Swiss team for 2026. The Polish driver, who signed with Maffi in February 2025 as part of the team’s training program, tested at Italian circuits before and after his F4 racing debut.

Another Pole who was a part of Maffi’s training program in 2025 is Cezary Bień (#12). The 14-year-old driver, who comes from the world of sim racing, was too young to make his F4 racing debut last year, but like Polak, he tested extensively with the team on a number of Italian tracks. He will only do the collective tests and free practice in the season opener as he is still too young to compete in the races.

Renauer Motorsport

The 2025 season was Austrian team Renauer Motorsport’s first full campaign in F4 CEZ. Although the team run by Sepp Renauer did not win a race, their drivers appeared on the podium six times, including a double podium in the second Red Bull Ring round thanks to William Karlsson and Hady-Noah Mimassi. For the 2026 season, the team are back in the championship with a two-car line-up.

Tomas Rudokas (#6) already made his racing debut with Renauer Motorsport, scoring four points in the Formula Winter Series before his campaign was cut short because of a thumb injury. This was not the 16-year-old Lithuanian’s first car racing experience, however, as he competed in the Baltic Touring Car Championship and the Porsche Sprint Challenge Central Europe across 2025.

Andreas Lo Bue (#8) made his F4 CEZ and car racing debut on his 15th birthday last year, as he joined Maffi Racing partway through the opening round of the season. The Swiss driver finished the season in 10th overall, with 53 points, with his best race result being a fifth position scored at the Salzburgring.

Mathilda Racing

The team founded by Michael Paatz to compete mostly around the Nürburgring Nordschleife debuted in single-seaters last year, when Michael’s daughter Mathilda switched to F4 CEZ after her rookie French F4 season in 2024. For this year, the team will expand from one to three cars in the series, although only two will compete in the season opener.

Though for this year she will not compete in the whole season, Mathilda Paatz (#18) is back with her father’s team. The 17-year-old German, whose main campaign for 2026 is F1 Academy with Aston Martin’s support, scored one podium in last year’s F4 CEZ season to finish seventh in the overall standings. This year, she also took part in three rounds of the Formula Winter Series, scoring a podium at Estoril with a third place and finishing 18th overall.

Another female driver in the Mathilda Racing line-up for the season opener is 16-year-old Jade Jacquet (#9). The French driver made her F4 debut last year in her domestic championship, a year after Paatz. She finished 24th in the standings with her best finish being 11th at Le Mans. This year, her main campaign is in F1 Academy as the series’ Williams-supported driver. In the season opener at Shanghai, she finished 13th in race one.

Zengő Motorsport

Zengő Motorsport are most known from touring car racing. Founded in 1996 by Zoltán Zengő, the Hungarian team competed in the World Touring Car Championship with Norbert Michelisz, who went on to become a world touring car champion and TCR World Tour winner. Last year, the team decided to expand into F4 CEZ with one car, and neither the number of cars nor the driver has changed for this year.

Benett Gáspár (#555) drove the sole Zengő Motorsport entry last year and will do so again this year. The 16-year-old from Hungary did not finish on the podium last year, but he came close at the Slovakia Ring with two fourth-place finishes and finished ninth overall. He and the team also competed in one round of E4, in which Gáspár took a best finish of 17th.

Real Racing

Romanian karting team Real Racing started their F4 journey in 2024, when they fielded two cars in Italian F4 and one in Euro 4. Since that year, they have also competed part-time in F4 CEZ, but this season is the first they will enter on a full-time basis. They enter two cars into the series.

Real Racing’s first driver in F4 CEZ is Samuil Ivanov (#13) from Bulgaria. The 19-year-old is the 2023 Rotax Max Challenge Bulgaria champion in the Senior Max class. He tested a Formula Renault 2000 car at the Serres track in Greece in December last year before completing several more F4 tests car this year – at Serres with the Bulgarian Motorsport Academy and at Cremona and Mugello with Real.

Knud Nielsen (#31) was initially confirmed to be doing only Italian F4 and E4 with Real Racing, but as the Romanian outfit had moved up from the reserve list in F4 CEZ, he also joined the team’s line-up for his rookie season in F4 CEZ. The 17-year-old Dane’s biggest achievement in 2025 was the third place he scored at the brand-new FIA Karting Arrive and Drive World Cup in the Senior class. He also finished third in the Rotax Max Challenge International Trophy’s DD2 class at Le Mans.

Janík Motorsport

Janík Motorsport were the highest-placed Czech team in last year’s F4 CEZ standings, finishing seventh with 36 points to their name. The team, who race in such other Central European series as TCR Eastern Europe and Clio Cup Bohemia, will feature a fully Czech three-driver line-up for this season.

The only driver with F4 experience in the line-up is David Gorčica (#88). The 16-year-old made his car racing debut with the outfit last year at the Red Bull Ring. He regularly scored points in the second half of the season and ended the campaign in 12th with 35 points. His best result was seventh place, which he scored three times.

The first of the newcomers to car racing and Janík Motorsport is Tobiáš Paško (#33). The 17-year-old had competed in karting since 2020 across Europe, with his main campaign in 2025 being the Senior Max class of the Rotax Max Challenge Czech Republic, in which he finished 21st. He also competed part-time in the CEE Rotax Max Challenge. In February, he completed an F4 test with Janík at Vallelunga.

Contrary to most of the others on the grid, Albert Písařík (#11) is a complete rookie in terms of any motorsport. In February, he completed a two-day F4 test with Janík Motorsport at Valencia. This year, alongside F4 CEZ, the 16-year-old will continue his show jumping career, which began in 2019 and saw him compete in the juniors level of the 2025 FEI Jumping European Championship in Riesenbeck. 

AS Motorsport

The Slovenian outfit AS Motorsport, run by Andrej Slak, have been competing in Italian F4 since 2018 and have become a known underdog in the series. Their journey in F4 CEZ started in 2024, and since then, the team have run one full-time car. This year, the team have expanded to two cars plus an additional one in partnership with PA Racing. The season opener will feature only two cars run by AS Motorsport.

Michalina Sabaj (#75) has been a part of the AS Motorsport’s F4 CEZ program since the very beginning in 2024. The 21-year-old from Poland finished fifth in 2024 with 84 points, but last year she scored only two points and went on to finish 15th overall. She also took part in the F1 Academy rookie test at Navarra, finishing 13th and 15th in the morning and afternoon sessions respectively.

PA Racing by AS Motorsport

This year is the first in which AS Motorsport brings a partner to the F4 CEZ grid. PA Racing are an Italian team whose main focus is rallying. Last year, they competed mostly in the Rally2 class across Italian regional championships. For this year, alongside the Slovenian team, they will field one car in F4 CEZ.

The sole driver competing under the PA Racing by AS Motorsport banner is Ginevra Panzeri (#10). The 17-year-old from Italy made her first steps in single-seater racing last year, competing in FWS and E4. She finished the first championship in 36th and the second one in 38th. This year, she also competed in FWS and scored her first career points in F4 after a chaotic race at Estoril, ultimately finishing 29th in the standings. Panzeri also competes in French F4 this year.

JMT Engineering

JMT Engineering, also known as JMT Racing, are one of the three teams to have competed in F4 CEZ since the inception of the series, although they never ran a full season. Last year, apart from competing as JMT in rounds five and six with F1 Academy’s Nicole Havrda, the team ran the F4 CEZ Academy outfit for František Němec. This year, three drivers will compete with the team.

František Němec (#17) is back with the team, but this time not under the F4 CEZ Academy banner. The Czech driver born in 2008 started his racing career in hillclimbs, but after partaking in the F4 CEZ Academy programme in 2024, he switched to circuit racing. His first full car racing season came in F4 CEZ last year, and he ended the year 13th overall with a best finish of sixth.

The F4 CEZ Academy programme is the reason Stefan Treneski (#427) could make his F4 CEZ debut last year. After beating his fellow academy programme competitor Lukáš Houlík in a test, he gained an opportunity to race in the last two rounds of the F4 CEZ season with Janík Motorsport. For this year, the 18-year-old North Macedonian switches to JMT Engineering for his first full campaign in the series.

Roman Roubíček (#65) is by far the most experienced driver on the F4 CEZ grid. The 60-year-old Czech driver has been active in racing since the 1990s, and although he was entered for the Salzburgring round of F4 CEZ last year, in the end he did not compete at all in 2025. In 2024, he finished ninth in the F3 Cup class of Drexler-Automotive Formula Cup. That year, he also made his Euroformula Open debut in the season finale at Monza.

Cram Motorsport

Founded in 1994, Cram Motorsport have become a staple in the world of junior single-seaters. In recent years, the Italian team have competed in a range of F4 series across Europe, and for this year, they are adding F4 CEZ to this list as they field three cars in the series.

The main 2026 campaign for Ava Dobson (#29) is in F1 Academy, but like Paatz, the 17-year-old American driver will compete in F4 CEZ too, although she is missing the first round at the Red Bull Ring. Last year, Dobson competed full-time in GB4 and Saudi Arabian F4, finishing 19th and 11th overall respectively, with one podium in the former scored at Donington Park. In the inaugural round of F1 Academy this year, she scored one point in the second race.

The driver who will take the place of Dobson for round one is single-seater debutant Lubo Ruykov (#TBA). The 15-year-old is thus the second Bulgarian driver on this year’s F4 CEZ grid after Ivanov. After competing in the OK-NJ, OK-J and Junior ROK classes of karting across 2024, he stepped away from karting last year, with his only appearances being endurance events in Bulgaria. His main campaign for 2026 is Italian F4 with Trident.

Another addition to Cram’s line-up is Brazil’s Alexandre Louza (#15). The 15-year-old Brazilian was the 2025 runner-up of his local Fórmula Delta series. At the end of last year, he made his F4 debut in Brazilian F4’s last two rounds with a best finish of eighth, and he expanded his experience at this level in two rounds of FWS with Cram, with his best finish in the series being 22nd at Aragón.

Simon Rechenmacher (#3) is the only rookie in Cram’s full-time line-up. The 16-year-old from Germany has competed in KZ2 karts since 2024. Last year, he finished seventh in the Champions of the Future Euro Series in the class and 13th in the FIA Karting World Cup. In December, Rechenmacher tested with Cram at Motorland Aragón.

Dutt Motorsport

It has been nine years since Dutt Motorsport last competed in single-seaters, when current team owner and LMP2 driver Laurents Hörr competed in France’s V de V Challenge Monoplace. Since then, the German team have competed mainly in karting, but for this year they are back in single-seaters as they field one car in F4 CEZ.

The driver who will run in the sole Dutt Motorsport car is Germany’s Noah Nölken (#42). The 15-year-old has been part of the German team’s line-up in karting for three years, and last year, he took part in his home series the Deutsche Kart Meisterschaft in the X30 Junior class, finishing in ninth overall. At the beginning of March, Nölken completed a test with Dutt Motorsport at Oschersleben, which Feeder Series learned was his first outing in a car since he suffered an injury at the end of 2025.

Harp Racing

Harp Racing are an Italian team created in 2010. Since then, they have been regularly competing in the FX Pro Series, an Italian championship using old Tatuus T-014 F4 cars. From this year on, however, the team will field one car in an official F4 championship with their debut in F4 CEZ. Additionally, two more cars are entered in collaboration with Drivex.

Piotr Orcholski (#35) is the only driver that will compete under the Harp Racing name, although his season will only consist of the last three events as he is not yet 15 years old. Nevertheless, the Polish driver, whose background is in rallying and hillclimbs, extensively tested with Harp across the winter and made his competitive racing debut in Fórmula Delta with the team, finishing fourth in one of the races.

In lieu of Orcholski, Filippo Fiorentino (#35) will appear in the season opener at the Red Bull Ring. The 17-year-old from Brazil competed in three F4 series across 2025 – Spanish F4; its winter series, Eurocup-4; and his home series, Brazilian F4. In the last of those, he finished fourth overall despite missing the opening round. In 2025, Fiorentino also made his debut in Eurocup-3 – the series in which he will continue racing with Drivex this year having finished 16th in the 2026 Eurocup-3 winter series.

Drivex

Drivex is a well-known name in the world of junior single-seaters. The Spanish team created in 2005 compete in series such as Eurocup-3 and Spanish F4, winning the drivers’ title in the latter in 2019 with current F1 driver Franco Colapinto. This year, for the first time in their history, the team founded by ex–F1 driver Pedro de la Rosa will compete in an F4 series based outside of Spain, as they enter two cars in F4 CEZ in collaboration with Harp Racing.

Jorge Bruno (#76) joins the joint Drivex and Harp Racing effort for 2026 in F4 CEZ. The 18-year-old driver competed in his local championship, Fórmula 2 Argentina, across 2025, scoring one win at Autódromo de Concepción del Uruguay and two further podiums to finish 10th overall despite missing the final three rounds. Apart from F4 CEZ, he is also confirmed to compete in Spanish F4 with Drivex’s sister outfit, DX Racing Team.

By contrast, Leo Nilsson (#96) did not accumulate any car racing experience before entering F4 CEZ with Drivex. The 16-year-old Swede has been competing in the most important series of senior karting across 2025, finishing 37th in the FIA Karting European Championship and 42nd in the Champions of the Future Euro Series. Nilsson also tested with Drivex at Navarra in February 2026.

HunOK Motorsport

HunOK Motorsport are a brand-new Hungarian racing team, created in 2025 to support the journey of Patrik Lipovics into F4. The team based in Győr have been testing their F4 car since April 2025 in preparation for racing this year with Lipovics as their driver.

Before this year, 15-year-old Patrik Lipovics (#19) had competed in karting mostly around Central Europe. Last year, he finished as the runner-up in the Senior class of Rotax Max Challenge Hungary, losing the title by one point. He also finished fourth in the same class of the CEE Rotax Max Challenge. Apart from karting, he has been testing HunOK’s F4 car across tracks in his native Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia in preparation for this year’s F4 CEZ campaign.

Scuderia Buell

The Argentinian team Scuderia Buell, who are based in Italy, have been steadily entering European single-seaters in recent years. Last year, alongside competing in F4 US and the Ligier Junior Formula Championship, they fielded cars in the FX Pro Series and Italian F2000, but after purchasing a Tatuus T-421 at the end of last year, the team are now entering their first-ever season in F4 CEZ.

Sixteen-year-old Agustín Sepúlveda (#27) is the sole Scuderia Buell driver in F4 CEZ this year. The Chilean driver is the South American Karting Championship winner in the OK class, having won the title in his home country in July 2025. He also competed in the FIA World Karting Championship, finishing 18th overall, and came 10th in the senior category of the FIA Karting Academy Trophy. His car racing debut came in January, when he won a race at the Homestead-Miami track in Formula FARA.

SG Motors

The last time the Italian team SG Motors competed in a race was on 12 November 2023, when Mattia Bucci won a race in FX Pro Series for the team. Since then, the team based in Ascoli Piceno have been testing across Europe with their Tatuus T-421. This year, they are bringing two cars to F4 CEZ – one under the SG Motors banner and one under the ABA Racing by SG Motors alias.

Mio Olert (#52) will make his F4 racing debut with SG Motors this year. The 17-year-old from Sweden comes to single-seater racing from karting in the senior categories. Last year, on the international stage, Olert finished sixth in the three-round FIA Karting Academy Trophy’s Senior class. Back home in Sweden, he competed part-time in the Senior class of Rotax Max Challenge Sweden, finishing 23rd overall. He already completed some F4 tests with SG Motors last year, in October at Magione and in December at Barcelona.

ABA Racing by SG Motors

ABA Racing is the name of the team with whom Aleksandar Bogunović competed in karting while he was in the Mini category and later in occasional ROK events. For this year, Bogunović runs under this name again, but this time in F4 CEZ instead of karting after an agreement was reached between SG Motors and the Auto Sport Federation of Slovenia.

Aleksandar Bogunović (#86) made his F4 debut in Eurocup-4 SWC last year. The 18-year-old Slovenian driver did one round with Cram Motorsport and one with the GRS Team outfit supported by TC Racing. He continued with the latter alliance in the main Spanish F4 campaign but did not score points across the season, his best finish being 14th.

Sladecka Motorsport

Slovak team Sladecka Motorsport made their competitive F4 racing debut in two rounds of the Carbonia Cup last year. This year, the Slovak team enter F4 CEZ with one car. Team boss Filip Sládečka is a highly experienced racing driver who has competed in selected touring car and GT events across Europe in the 2010s, including rounds of the FIA GT3 European Championship and the European Touring Car Cup.

Miroslav Kepák (#69) is the only Slovak driver, as well as the only Sladecka Motorsport entry, in F4 CEZ. Last year, he gave Sladecka Motorsport their F4 debut in the Carbonia Cup, with his best finish in the D5 class, which is reserved for F4 cars, being a fifth place at Brno. Alongside this campaign, the Slovak driver competed in his local series, Rotax Max Challenge Slovakia and the Slovak national karting championship, finishing 26th and 20th respectively in the Senior Rotax class.

STEP Motorsport

There had never been a Danish team in F4 CEZ – until this year. STEP Motorsport make their debut in F4 CEZ after four years of competition in Denmark’s open-wheel series. Since their single-seater racing debut in Danish F4 in 2022, the team won the teams’ championship in the series three times in a row while also taking two drivers’ titles. They field three cars for this year’s F4 CEZ, having already fielded one car in the last round of this year’s FWS.

Erik Poulsen (#2) only turned 15 in January this year, but he already has F4 experience. The Danish-Swedish driver competed in two rounds of FWS, including the season finale at Barcelona, in what was STEP’s first competitive outing in the second-generation F4 car. His best finish in the series was 19th. Last year, he represented Sweden in the junior class of the FIA Karting Academy Trophy, in which he scored a podium at Valencia and finished 10th overall.

Another Poulsen, although not related, in the STEP Motorsport line-up is the 15-year-old Viktor Snebjørn Poulsen (#77). In contrast to Erik Poulsen, the Dane made his car racing debut last year, taking part in the Nordic 4 season with STEP. He scored five podiums, including a win at Jyllands-Ringen, to finish sixth overall. This winter, Poulsen competed in four rounds of FWS with AS Motorsport. His best result in the series was 17th, achieved twice.

Alexia Danielsson (#61), daughter of 2006 Formula Renault 3.5 champion Alx Danielsson, also competed in Nordic 4 last year, her second full campaign in the series. In 2025, she finished ninth overall with a win in the second race at Karlskoga. The 17-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, also competed in the one round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Scandinavia and Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica. She is part of the More Than Equal project created by ex–F1 driver David Coulthard with the goal of helping female drivers reach F1.

Technorace

Technorace returned to Italian F4 last year after a four-year hiatus, though they were by no means fully inactive. In the meantime, they had competed in the FX Pro Series to prepare for the comeback. The duo with which they ended the 2025 Italian F4 season will continue with the team for this year’s F4 CEZ season.

Francesco Pio Coppola (#78) was the main component of Technorace’s line-up in Italian F4, running six of the seven rounds. His best chance at scoring points came in the season opener at Misano, in which he finished 11th, barely missing out on the points. This was ultimately the 17-year-old Italian’s best result of the season, as he went on to finish 30th overall.

Last year, 15-year-old Antonio Errigo (#99) competed only in the season finale of Italian F4 at Misano, with his best finish being 23rd in race three. Despite racing only in one round, Errigo has tested with Technorace extensively since December 2024 at several of Italy’s most known venues, including Monza and Mugello. In February, he took part in the team’s shakedown at Cremona alongside Coppola.

The grid at a glance

Team	#	Driver
STEP Motorsport	2	Erik Poulsen
	61	Alexia Danielsson
	77	Viktor Snebjørn Poulsen
Cram Motorsport	3	Simon Rechenmacher
	15	Alexandre Louza
	29	Ava Dobson
	TBA	Lubo Ruykov
Maffi Racing	5	Igor Polak
	7	David Walther
	12	Cezary Bień
	14	Nikolaj Dyrved
Renauer Motorsport	6	Tomas Rudokas
	8	Andreas Lo Bue
Mathilda Racing	9	Jade Jacquet
	18	Mathilda Paatz
PA Racing by AS Motorsport	10	Ginevra Panzeri
Janík Motorsport	11	Albert Písařík
	33	Tobiáš Paško
	88	David Gorčica
Real Racing	13	Samuil Ivanov
	31	Knud Nielsen
JMT Engineering	17	František Němec
	65	Roman Roubíček
	427	Stefan Treneski
HunOK Motorsport	19	Patrik Lipovics
Jenzer Motorsport	20	Teodor Borenstein
	21	Ella Häkkinen
	22	Elia Weiss
	25	Georgiy Zasov
	26	Markas Šilkūnas
	144	Max Karhan
Scuderia Buell	27	Agustín Sepúlveda
Harp Racing	35	Piotr Orcholski
		Filippo Fiorentino
Dutt Motorsport	42	Noah Nölken
SG Motors	52	Mio Olert
Sladecka Motorsport	69	Miroslav Kepák
AS Motorsport	75	Michalina Sabaj
Drivex	76	Jorge Bruno
	96	Leo Nilsson
Technorace	78	Francesco Pio Coppola
	99	Antonio Errigo
ABA Racing by SG Motors	86	Aleksandar Bogunović
Zengő Motorsport	555	Benett Gáspár

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