Through their satellite team T-Code, Tecnicar have become dark horses in the fight for both Spanish F4 titles this year. Their drivers currently sit within eight points of championship leader Noah Monteiro, whilst the team themselves lead the standings on 182 points. Feeder Series spoke to Nacho Tuñón and Andrej Petrović to get their perspective on how the team cracked the Spanish F4 code.

By Seb Tirado

In their second seasons of Spanish F4, Tuñón and Petrović have taken three wins and four further podiums between them in nine races.

In the final race at Portimão in early June, the pair scored the Tecnicar operation’s first ever 1-2 finish, with Tuñón taking the victory. This result was later taken away from them, however, when they were both handed drive-through penalties – converted to 30 seconds – for not maintaining a maximum distance of five car lengths behind the safety car. 

After the weekend concluded, Tecnicar appealed to the appeals and disciplinary committee of RFEDA, the Spanish motorsport federation and the organisers of Spanish F4. On 30 June, three weeks after the event and nine days after the third round at Aragón, the committee concluded that the procedure for the inquiry that resulted in the penalties was not in line with the regulations. As a result, Petrović’s and Tuñón’s penalties were overturned, restoring them to first and second on track and elevating them from sixth and seventh in the standings respectively.

Petrović, who is currently third with 92 points, sees Tecnicar’s current position as a culmination of the work he and the team put in throughout 2025. 

“When I first joined Tecnicar at the beginning of last year, the team was super small,” the Serbian driver said. “The engineers were all really new to everything, and no one was really experienced. We didn’t have the proper equipment, we didn’t have the dynos to test the engines [and] the chassis were old as well. 

“When I joined, the goal was to be able to get Tecnicar to be consistently in the points. And that’s what we did for the first year.”

Scoring points regularly, never mind title contention, was already a major step up for the Valencia-based team. In 2024, before the T-Code satellite was even founded, the main Tecnicar team scored just two points across the Spanish F4 season courtesy of Adam Al Azhari. 

Petrović finished 11th in the Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship last year, scoring Tecnicar’s maiden victory at the F4 level in the final round at Navarra – the first event featuring the T-Code satellite. Remaining with T-Code thereafter, he went on to finish 12th in the main season but could only manage a best result of fourth on two occasions.

In this year’s winter series, which he contested with T-Code, Petrović finished third with two wins and two further podiums, his best championship result since he finished as the runner-up in Saudi Arabian F4’s 2024 season. It was also the best placement for any Tecnicar-run driver in any series.

Outside of Spanish F4, Petrović also made his Eurocup-3 debut with Tecnicar in the season opener at Paul Ricard. He finished 16th in the first two races and 11th in the final race of the weekend, just under three seconds away from the points. 

“We didn’t really have a competitive car in Paul Ricard, so it was really difficult, combined with me not having experience in Eurocup,” the 20-year-old said. “But throughout the weekend [I was] improving a lot, and then in the last race I just missed out on points by one position.

“It was a good learning curve for me [and] for the future and a good learning curve for the team.” 

Tuñón, currently second with 94 points, likewise pointed towards the progress made over the past 18 months. 

“We’ve been working so hard, not only this winter [but] also the year before,” he said. “We’ve been checking all the details in the workshop, working on the simulator. Obviously I train every day physically. I think we are doing a great job, and the results speak for themselves.”

Tuñón finished 11th on his single-seater debut at the 2025 Portimão Eurocup-4 round and went on to finish 26th in Spanish F4 with two best results of 12th. He improved to ninth in Eurocup-4 earlier this year, taking his first career points with a third-place finish in the opening race of the season at Portimão.

Last month, the Spanish driver also made his Eurocup-3 debut at Imola, racing the #22 car driven first by Petrović and then by Casper Stevenson. He initially took a best finish of seventh in race one on Saturday but was later demoted to 19th after being handed a 10-second penalty for using push-to-pass behind the safety car.

“It’s a bit of a rookie mistake,” Tuñón told Feeder Series in the Imola paddock. “I should’ve prevented this, but nothing we can do now. I will learn from it and for sure not do it again.”

In that afternoon’s sprint race, Tuñón ran wide at Acque Minerali on the penultimate lap whilst running ninth and pitted at the end of the lap. He was classified 21st. On Sunday, the 19-year-old was running eighth on the penultimate lap when Christopher Feghali hit his left-rear tyre entering Rivazza. He sustained a puncture and had to pull off at Turn 1. 

Despite the misfortune, Tuñón was still grateful for the opportunity to show what he was capable of in Eurocup-3 machinery.

“I’m really happy with the potential we showed,” he told Feeder Series after the weekend. “The pace was amazing in the last race – we did the second-fastest lap. And hopefully I can have another chance in Eurocup-3.”

Looking ahead to the next Spanish F4 round at Jarama, the pair are hoping to keep their championship momentum going against Monteiro, who won twice at the circuit during the winter series.

For Petrović, scoring two podiums at Jarama over the winter with only one day to learn the circuit gives him hope of keeping his title chances alive.

“I adapted quite well, so now it’s a plus that I already know the track. To be honest I’m quite confident,” he said. “I think I’ve [also] improved a lot in my driving compared to the winter series and especially compared to the first round in Valencia.

“I’m quite happy going back to Jarama because I had two good results. I didn’t go to the biggest step of the podium, but I hope this time I can do that.” 

Tuñón scored points in the first two races at Jarama but could only manage 19th after stalling at the start of the final race. Nevertheless, he still took lessons from that weekend, most notably from the dramatic race one incident with Kasper Schormans that saw the Dutch driver vault the tyre barrier at Turn 6. 

“I wasn’t penalised for it, but for sure I think I could’ve done things to avoid it before,” he said. “If I didn’t make a mistake the corner before, that would not have happened, so it’s little things to improve from. 

“I know what to do and I’m looking forward to it. I like the track and [I’ll] keep going forward with this momentum.”

Additional reporting by Mitchell Ash

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