GB3 at Spielberg, British Formula 4 at Zandvoort and USF Juniors at Lime Rock Park were the three biggest feeder series championships racing this weekend. Feeder Series reports on what happened in each one.

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The theme for this weekend was uncharted territory, in setting above all. GB3 made its first-ever visit to the rolling hills of Styria, while USF Juniors became the first series on the IndyCar ladder to visit Lime Rock since 2012. British F4 had been to Zandvoort before, but the novelty came this time on the broadcast side, with qualifying streamed for the first time in the series’ history. Read on for a summary of how things played out.

The UCS Formula Cup broadcast, on the other hand, was not available until race three this weekend, and only four drivers competed in the rookie class. Stepan Suslov once again dominated the weekend, winning all three races and cruising towards a championship win in both the overall standings and the rookie class. With his main opponent Alexis Størksen participating in UCS’ European Endurance Prototype Cup this weekend, Suslov  on 218 points now has a 125-point gap over the Frenchman in the rookie standings.

In the gentleman drivers’ class, Frédéric Boillot now has the same number of points as well as a 121-point gap over Alexandre Lima. Despite having missed the first round of the season, the Portuguese-licensed driver managed to take second in the class with his first overall podium in race one.

While neither Suslov nor Boillot have wrapped up their titles, another driver did so this weekend. Formula Nordic’s fourth round of six took place this weekend with three races at Falkenbergs Motorbana, and Hampus Varis grew his victory streak to eight and his points lead to 116 to become the series’ undisputed champion. Only 110 points remain in the final two rounds, which feature two races each.

Closest rival Robin Hafström’s best result was second place in race two, in which he led home Andreas Aichhorn. Vincent Kraft and Fredrik Lindholm were second and third respectively in both races one and three.

1. GB3: VRD take a clean sweep in Spielberg as Bedrin extends points lead
2. British F4: Van Langendonck regains points lead with two wins as Wherrell fails to score
3. USF Juniors: Kennedy dominates Lime Rock as Pasiewicz inches closer to title

GB3: VRD take a clean sweep in Spielberg as Bedrin extends points lead

VRD Racing enjoyed their strongest GB3 weekend yet by taking all three wins on the series’ first visit to the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria, with lead driver Nikita Bedrin claiming two wins and a second place to strengthen his grasp on the points lead.

Bedrin and VRD were not necessarily expected to be so dominant. Both Deagen Fairclough and Rehm outpaced the Italian-licensed driver in testing, while in qualifying one Rodin Motorsport’s Martin Molnár  set the fastest time with a 1:24.539, replicating his result from a week before in Hungary. Rehm and Bedrin followed.

Bedrin then went fastest in qualifying two with a 1:24.345, 0.320 seconds ahead of Molnár in second and four tenths over Xcel Motorsport’s Lucas Fluxá in a season-best third.  

At the start of race one, however, Molnár lost out on first place to Rehm going into Turn 1 and second place to Bedrin soon after. An incident between Hillspeed’s Peter Bouzinelos and Arden Motorsport’s Lewis Gilbert at Turn 3 on lap two brought out the safety car, which brought the pack back together and reduced Rehm’s lead.

Rehm held first position on the restart, but Bedrin was hot on his heels. The two ran side by side on multiple occasions until another safety car for an off for VRD’s Rodrigo Gonzalez curtailed their battling. The duel resumed after the restart, but a five-second track limits penalty for Rehm seemed to settle it in Bedrin’s favour. Still, the VRD driver overtook him for the lead with two laps to go and crossed the line in first, with Fluxá in second and Hitech’s Deagen Fairclough in third. Fairclough, however, received a one-place penalty of his own, which promoted Molnár to the final podium position.  

Starting on pole for race two, Bedrin had a good start, while Fluxá passed Molnár going into Turn 1. Fluxá didn’t have an easy job, though, as he had to hold off teammate Rowan Campbell-Pilling, who had also passed Molnár on the opening lap. 

Bedrin led a race free of safety cars from lights to flag, with Fluxá coming in second. Campbell-Pilling finished third on track but received 15 seconds’ worth of penalties for track limits violations, dropping him to eighth and promoting Rehm to third. Nine drivers in total earned at least one time penalty for track limits.

Disaster struck for Deagen Fairclough when the Hitech driver stalled on the grid just before lights out for race three. This sent the remaining drivers on another formation lap lap, led by VRD Racing’s Rodrigo Gonzalez. However, when the race finally started, it was his brother, Patricio Gonzalez, who took the lead before an opening-lap incident involving Rodin Motorsport’s Abbi Pulling, Rehm and Campbell-Pilling brought out the safety car. 

Gonzalez maintained his position on the first restart, pulling away from his brother. The second restart late in the race began similarly, but the elder brother dropped from second to 13th when he took a trip to the gravel following a collision with Elite Motorsport’s Kyuho Lee on the penultimate lap. This incident promoted Bedrin to second place from 11th on the grid, while Wilson took his first podium in the championship.

Bedrin now holds a 106-point lead in the drivers’ championship with 319 points, ahead of  Fluxá who sits on 213. Molnár retakes third position with 206 points. VRD’s perfect weekend also gave them the lead of the teams’ championship with 490 points, ahead of Rodin Motorsport with 443. Xcel Motorsport were promoted to third position with 344.  

Report by Isabelle Chandler

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Martin Molnár, 1:24.539	Maxim Rehm, +0.067s	Nikita Bedrin, +0.112s
Qualifying 2	Nikita Bedrin, 1:24.345	Martin Molnár, +0.320s	Lucas Fluxá, +0.409s
Race 1 (14 laps)	Nikita Bedrin, 25:59.664	Lucas Fluxá, +3.817s	Martin Molnár, +4.616s
Race 2 (18 laps)	Nikita Bedrin, 25:51.286	Lucas Fluxá, +3.458s	Maxim Rehm, +7.927s
Race 3 (12 laps)	Patricio Gonzalez, 23:01.838	Nikita Bedrin, +0.841s	Leon Wilson, +1.324s

Standings	Drivers	Teams
P1	Nikita Bedrin, 319	VRD Racing, 490
P2	Lucas Fluxá, 213	Rodin Motorsport, 443
P3	Martin Molnár, 206	Xcel Motorsport, 344
P4	Maxim Rehm, 193	Hitech, 314
P5	Patricio Gonzalez, 146	Elite Motorsport, 259
P6	Flynn Jackes, 124	Hillspeed, 171
P7	Abbi Pulling, 114	Arden Motorsport, 143
P8	Kyuho Lee, 108	Fortec Motorsports, 61
P9	Rowan Campbell-Pilling, 105	Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing, 10
P10	Deagen Fairclough, 102

Read the previous round’s report here.

British F4: Van Langendonck regains points lead with two wins as Wherrell fails to score

McLaren junior driver Dries Van Langendonck made amends for his roughest outing of the season by winning twice at Zandvoort and retaking the championship lead from Lewis Wherrell, whose uncharacteristic non-score significantly dented his championship hopes.  

At the track closest to his home in Belgium, Van Langendonck took pole position in qualifying with a 1:37.213, 0.140 seconds ahead of Hitech’s Scott Lindblom. Argenti Motorsport’s Ethan Jeff-Hall rounded out the top three, 0.206s behind Van Langendonck.  

The Belgian driver got a super start off the line in race one, with Hitech’s Theo Palmer and Lindblom slotting in behind him. Following a safety car deployment on lap two due to Sun Anzhe’s excursion in the gravel at Turn 1, Van Langendonck commanded the restart, holding a steady gap over Palmer and Lindblom until the chequered flag to take the victory. 

Xcel Motorsport’s Mate Kobakhidze started the reverse-grid race two on pole but lost the lead to Rodin Motorsport’s Ethan Lennon going into Turn 1. From there, Kobakhidze had to hold off Chris Dittmann Racing’s Tommy Harfield, but their battle only lasted one lap before the pair collided exiting Turn 3, forcing the Georgian to retire on the spot.

This incident promoted CDR’s Alba Larsen and JHR Developments’ Cameron Nelson to the podium positions, but neither they nor George Proudford-Nalder, who passed Nelson at the restart, had much time to challenge Lennon. The safety car was called once again following a multi-car incident just two turns into the restart lap. 

After that, the pack only got one full lap of racing before the chequered flag, and Lennon held his own on the restart to win. Larsen clinched her first single-seater podium, albeit in third after George Proudford-Nalder made a successful lunge at Turn 1 for second position.

Van Langendonck got another great start from pole in race three, holding off Lindblom and Jeff-Hall. He had just started to pull away when the safety car came out for the first time because of an incident between Ella Lloyd and Haarni Sadiq at Turn 1 that left the latter stranded.

When the race restarted with 13 minutes to go, Van Langendonck couldn’t pull away too much as Lindblom and Jeff-Hall were both hot on his heels. Jeff-Hall pressured Lindblom for second but went wide into the gravel on the second lap after the restart, dropping down the pack and promoting Palmer into third position. 

Moments later, an incident between Virtuosi’s Emma Felbermayr and CDR’s Daniella Sutton at the high-speed Turn 6 brought out the second safety car. The race restarted with a minute and a half to go, and Van Langendonck got a strong restart to sail away to his fourth win of the season. Lindblom was second, while Palmer held off Nelson for third place. 

Van Langendonck’s spectacular weekend contrasted with a miserable one for Wherrell, who failed to score a single point. The JHR Developments driver qualified down in 14th and finished the three races 12th, 21st and 17th. Still, he holds second overall on 132 points, now 47 behind Van Langendonck, seven ahead of Palmer and eight ahead of Lindblom. The latter two have helped Hitech to a 72-point lead over Rodin, 304 to 232, while Van Langendonck leads Wherrell by 43 points in the rookie standings. 

Report by Isabelle Chandler

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Dries Van Langendonck, 1:37.213	Scott Kin Lindblom, +0.140s	Ethan Jeff-Hall, +0.206s
Race 1 (12 laps)	Dries Van Langendonck, 21:20.539	Theo Palmer, +0.540s	Scott Kin Lindblom, +3.177s
Race 2 (9 laps)	Ethan Lennon, 21:39.086	George Proudford-Nalder, +0.501s	Alba Larsen, +0.949s
Race 3 (11 laps)	Dries Van Langendonck, 25:06.781	Scott Kin Lindblom, +0.982s	Theo Palmer, +1.292s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Dries Van Langendonck, 179	Hitech, 304	Dries Van Langendonck, 233
P2	Lewis Wherrell, 132	Rodin Motorsport, 232	Lewis Wherrell, 190
P3	Theo Palmer, 125	Virtuosi Racing, 194	Jaber Al Sabah, 140
P4	Scott Kin Lindblom, 124	JHR Developments, 174	Cameron Nelson, 133
P5	Ethan Jeff-Hall, 109	Argenti Motorsport, 113	Timo Jüngling, 118
P6	George Proudford-Nalder, 94	Fortec Motorsport, 93	León Hedfors, 87
P7	Adam Al Azhari, 86	Chris Dittmann Racing, 53	Mate Kobakhidze, 83
P8	Ethan Lennon, 71	Xcel Motorsport, 42	Jackson Wolny, 54
P9	Jarrett Clark, 69		Vegard Klemetsen, 47
P10	Joseph Smith, 64		Piotr Orzechowski, 28

Read the previous round’s report here.

USF Juniors: Kennedy dominates Lime Rock as Pasiewicz inches closer to title

Edward Kennedy set the pace in the penultimate round of the 2026 USF Juniors season at Lime Rock, crossing the line first in both races from pole. However, the first of those wins was later given to Karol Pasiewicz, who benefitted from the Canadian’s false start to increase his points lead with one round remaining.

After winning both races at Mid-Ohio, 14-year-old Kennedy continued his strong form into qualifying on Friday, securing pole for both races by 0.0441 seconds ahead of Pasiewicz. In race one, Kennedy held off an ambitious move from his teammate Dean Hoogendoorn at Turn 1 to maintain the lead in the early stages as the Dutchman fell to fifth after briefly taking to the grass on lap three.

As the VRD Racing by Pole Position driver pulled away from the rest of the field, Hoogendoorn overtook Max Cuthbert at Turn 1 to get up to fourth on lap eight. Just one lap later, the safety car was deployed after a crash between Aryan Narola and Casper Nissen at the same corner.

When the race restarted on lap 14, Kennedy wasted no time in pulling away from the rest of the pack, and ended the 35-lap affair 1.1325s ahead of Pasiewicz and Bex Cranston. After the race, however, Kennedy was given a five-second penalty for jumping the rolling start, dropping him to third and handing over the win to Pasiewicz, who increased his points lead from 51 to 70 as title rival Max Mokarem was 10th.

From pole in race two, Kennedy once again led the way, this time from Cranston. Pasiewicz and Hoogendoorn battled for third, the championship leader prevailing on lap seven as the Dutchman went off at the exit of Turn 2 – just as he did in race one – and fell to 14th. Two laps later, Jared Oselka spun out of the race at Turn 5, forcing the safety car to be deployed on track.

On the lap 14 restart, Cranston went around the outside of Kennedy through the first two corners to take away the lead from the Canadian.

The Connecticut native led for most of the second half, but after defending fiercely in the closing stages, Kennedy went back past for the lead with two laps to go, copying and pasting Cranston’s move 20 laps earlier. From there, Kennedy held on to win race two ahead of the Exclusive Autosport driver and Pasiewicz, while Mokarem rounded out his quiet weekend by taking ninth.

With one more round left in the season, Pasiewicz leads the way by 80 points over Mokarem and 87 over Cranston. The Pole can clinch the title at Road America as early as race one if he has a margin of 66 or more points over the nearest driver. In the teams’ standings, Zanella’s lead has shrunk to 22 points over VRD by Pole Position, while single-car operation Olivia Racing are 65 behind.

Report by Marco Albertini

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Edward Kennedy, 51.5129	Karol Pasiewicz, +0.0441s	Dean Hoogendoorn, +0.2158s
Race 1 (35 laps)	Karol Pasiewicz, 34:06.0060	Bex Cranston, +0.6231s	Edward Kennedy, +3.8675s
Race 2 (35 laps)	Edward Kennedy, 33:35.9641	Bex Cranston, +0.6592s	Karol Pasiewicz, +1.2290s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Karol Pasiewicz, 284	Zanella Racing, 295	Karol Pasiewicz, 284
P2	Max Mokarem, 204	VRD Racing by Pole Position, 273	Max Mokarem, 204
P3	Bex Cranston, 197	Olivia Racing, 230	Bex Cranston, 197
P4	Olivier Mrak, 189	Exclusive Autosport, 230	Olivier Mrak, 189
P5	Victor Couto, 179	JHDD powered by ECR, 147	Victor Couto, 179
P6	Cole Medeiros, 175	DEForce Racing, 134	Cole Medeiros, 175
P7	Iván Machado Pérez, 167	Berg Racing, 58	Iván Machado Pérez, 167
P8	Edward Kennedy, 163		Edward Kennedy, 163
P9	Leonardo Serravalle, 154		Leonardo Serravalle, 154
P10	Max Cuthbert, 150		Max Cuthbert, 150

Read the previous round’s report here.

Header photo credit: Connor Botha