Four and a half months after last year’s finale, Brazilian Formula 4 returns to action at Interlagos, the same track where the 2025 season ended. Feeder Series tells you all you need to know about the series’ fifth season.
By Marco Albertini
Started in 2022 as Brazil’s highest level of single-seater racing, Brazilian F4 has been a staple on Stock Car Brazil’s support package ever since. It has also supported the F1 São Paulo Grand Prix weekend since 2023.
Last year, Heitor Dall’Agnol was crowned champion for TMG Racing in his first season in junior formulae with four wins to his name and seven further podiums. This year, the 16-year-old will join Palou Motorsport to race in Eurocup-3, having already raced with the Spanish team in the series’ winter championship earlier this year.
The calendar
The 2026 calendar will feature seven rounds, just as last season’s did. Interlagos will once again feature for three rounds, serving as the season opener and finale. Notably, Velocitta, which hosted three rounds last year, will drop off the calendar entirely, with Goiânia returning to the series after a year out to host the second and fifth rounds of the season in May and October respectively.
Autódromo Brasília is set to return to the calendar to host round four in September after last year’s plans for the venue to be the penultimate round fell through at the last minute in November. The third round will be held at Cuiabá in June, at the recently built Autódromo Internacional de Mato Grosso.
- Round 1: Autódromo José Carlos Pace (24–26 April)
- Round 2: Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia) (15–17 May)
- Round 3: Autódromo Internacional de Mato Grosso (18–20 June)
- Round 4: Autódromo Internacional de Brasília (25–27 September)
- Round 5: Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia) (16–18 October)
- Round 6: Autódromo José Carlos Pace (6–8 November)
- Round 7: Autódromo José Carlos Pace (11–13 December)
The format
The format of each weekend will remain the same for 2026. Two 40-minute practice sessions and a 20-minute qualifying session will take place on Friday to begin the weekend.
Race one’s grid will be set by drivers’ second-fastest laps in qualifying, while race two’s will be set by the first race’s results, albeit with the reversal of the top eight finishers. Race three’s grid will be based off of the qualifying results. The first and last races of the weekend will be 30 minutes plus one lap long, while the reverse-grid race two will last 20 minutes plus one lap.
For the longer races, the points system will be the same as F1’s. Race two will give out points to the top eight finishers, with 15 going to the winner and one point to the eighth-place finisher. All three races will award a bonus point for fastest lap, while race three will award two bonus points for pole position.
Where to watch
Races will be streamed live on the series’ YouTube channel and High Speed TV with Portuguese commentary.
Teams and drivers
The same three teams that have been part of the series since 2023 – TMG Racing, Bassani Racing and Cavaleiro Sports – will continue in the series, fielding no fewer than three cars each this season. All but three drivers hail from Brazil.
TMG Racing
After winning both the teams’ and drivers’ titles with Heitor Dall’Agnol, TMG Racing return to the series with a six-car line-up to defend both titles.
Celo Hahn (#1) continues with the team for his second full-time season in the series. The 16-year-old from São Paulo was 12th in last year’s standings with the team after taking a pair of podiums, including a second-place finish in the reverse-grid race of the final Interlagos round.
Remaining in Brazil to continue his single-seater career, Alexandre Louza (#15) joins TMG for his first full season in Brazilian F4 after racing in the final two rounds last year with Cavaleiro. Last year, the 15-year-old from Goiás primarily raced in Fórmula Delta, in which he was the runner-up in points. He most recently also made appearances in selected Formula Winter Series rounds as well as the F4 CEZ opener for Cram Motorsport.
Also returning to the series is João Paulo Sanzovo (#45), who joins TMG having made his F4 debut in last year’s non-championship round at Interlagos for Cavaleiro. The 18-year-old from the state of São Paulo previously raced in Fórmula Delta, taking a seventh-place championship finish with a win at the first Interlagos round.
Having only competed in the first two rounds of the 2025 season with Cavaleiro, Bernardo Gentil (#88) switches to TMG Racing for his first full season in Brazilian F4. The 16-year-old, who hails from Fortaleza in Brazil’s north-east, returns to single-seaters after spending most of last year in karts, notably finishing 10th in the FIA Karting World Cup’s OK-N class.
After completing an extensive testing programme for GRS in Spain, Gianni Giovanelli (#4) makes the surprise switch to TMG Racing and Brazilian F4 for his first full season in junior formulae. The 22-year-old Argentine most recently competed with GRS in the Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship, finishing 28th in points with a best result of 17th in race one at Aragón.
TMG Racing’s highest-placed returning driver is Pietro Mesquita (#59), who returns to the team for his second Brazilian F4 season. The 16-year-old from São Paulo was eighth in last year’s standings with two podiums, both coming from the first Interlagos round. Mesquita also finished third twice in the non-championship São Paulo Grand Prix–supporting Interlagos round.
Bassani Racing
Last year’s runners-up in the teams’ standings, Bassani Racing fielded four full-time cars last year, two of which ended the year second and third in the drivers’ standings in the hands of Murilo Rocha and Pedro Lima respectively.
Hailing from Mato Grosso, the state where the series’ newest circuit is located, Paulo Willemann Filho (#48) joins Bassani to continue his single-seater trajectory after winning the Fórmula Delta title last year. The 15-year-old won several titles in Brazil in 2024 before stepping up to cars.
Elias Barbosa (#21) returns to Bassani after racing with them in last year’s non-championship Interlagos round on F1’s support bill. The 17-year-old from Brazil’s Federal District primarily raced in Fórmula Delta last year, scoring two wins en route to a fifth-place points finish in the overall standings.
Fourteen-year-old Franco Paolini (#16) won’t make his Brazilian F4 debut for Bassani until the Cuiabá round, after he turns 15. The Argentine, however, is no stranger to single-seaters, being a race winner in the Florida-based Formula FARA last season in first-generation Ligier F4 machinery.
Fellow Argentine Nacho Díaz (#72) switches to Brazilian F4 and Bassani after racing in Formula 2 Argentina last year. Competing for LR Team, the 17-year-old Monte Maíz native took six wins and four additional podiums to secure third place in points. In 2025, Díaz also made appearances in F3 Metropolitana, winning on debut at Córdoba.
The highest-placed returning driver from last year, Brasília native Pedro Lins (#70) remains with Bassani for his second season in Brazilian F4. The 18-year-old won the reverse-grid races at the first Velocitta and last Interlagos rounds to take sixth in points.
Cavaleiro Sports
Gualhuros-based Cavaleiro Sports, who won the teams’ and drivers’ titles in 2023, were third in last year’s standings with three wins to their name. Two of those came courtesy of Alceu Feldmann Neto, who finished fifth in points as their highest-placed driver.
Fabrício Fogaça (#33), who turned 15 in February, joins Cavaleiro for his competitive single-seater debut after testing Formula 4 machinery with AKM Motorsport at Cremona in late February. The Ribeirão Preto–born driver participated in the extra practice session at the third Velocitta round last year for his first taste of single-seater machinery on a race weekend.
Sixteen-year-old Enricco Abreu (#29), meanwhile, is no stranger to Cavaleiro. The São Paulo native raced with the team in last year’s Brazilian F4 season, finishing 13th in points with a best result of fourth in the reverse-grid race of the third Velocitta round.
Rodrigo Rocha (#77) will join Cavaleiro to make his debut in Brazilian F4. The 44-year-old São Paulo native finished fourth in last year’s Formula Delta standings. He has participated in several tests and sampled F4 machinery last July at Interlagos for TMG Racing.
Alan Moraes Soloviov (#12) will make his long-awaited competitive single-seater debut, having tested previous- and current-generation F4 machinery since early 2023. The 19-year-old Brazilian’s last competitive outing in motorsport was in karts, when he raced in the F4 Graduados class of the 2022 São Paulo Light Cup.
The grid at a glance
| Team | # | Driver |
| TMG Racing | 1 | Celo Hahn |
| 4 | Gianni Giovanelli | |
| 15 | Alexandre Louza | |
| 45 | João Paulo Sanzovo | |
| 59 | Pietro Mesquita | |
| 88 | Bernardo Gentil | |
| Bassani Racing | 16 | Franco Paolini |
| 21 | Elias Barbosa | |
| 48 | Paulo Willemann Filho | |
| 70 | Pedro Lins | |
| 72 | Nacho Díaz | |
| Cavaleiro Sports | 12 | Alan Soloviov |
| 29 | Enricco Abreu | |
| 33 | Fabrício Fogaça | |
| 77 | Rodrigo Rocha |
Header photo credit: Marcelo Machado de Melo / Vicar
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