Formula 1 returned from summer break with its final trip to Zandvoort, joined by F1 Academy for its fourth and last race at the venue, but that wasn’t all the racing action this weekend. Feeder Series reviews a busy weekend with the latest results from British F4, Spanish F4, Japanese F4 and AU4.

By Feeder Series

It was F4’s weekend in the sun, with three FIA F4 series and another three F4-level series competing across three continents. Four of those series raced at familiar venues, with British F4, AU4, Nordic 4 and Spanish F4 returning to their respective tracks for a second time this year – in the case of Spanish F4, as a replacement for the canceled Madrid round. 

Nordic 4’s trip to Jyllandsringen saw Elias Adestam take his second pole position of the year, which the Swede converted to victory – joined by Rosanne den Drijver and Richard Olson on the podium – before retiring from the subsequent two races. The second race was won by Den Drijver with Mille Hoe in second and Olson in third, while Matteis Stigsen won the third race with Den Drijver and Olson again rounding out the podium. Olson’s trio of third-place finishes helped him extend his championship lead to 39 points heading into the final round. 

As for the series covered in detail here, AU4 also held its penultimate round this weekend, and after the action concluded, just six points separate the top two in the title fight. Although the F4 series in the United Kingdom, Spain and Japan each have three rounds remaining, there was no shortage of championship drama, particularly in the British series, as points leader Dries Van Langendonck was excluded before the weekend even began. Read on to see how it all shook out, and tune in again tomorrow on web and later today on our broadcast channels to hear what happened in F1 Academy.

British F4: Wherrell capitalises on Van Langendonck’s exclusion to close points gap to four

The last-minute suspension of British F4 points leader Dries Van Langendonck shook up British F4’s seventh round of 2026 at Donington Park.

Between Thursday’s practice and qualifying on Saturday morning, news broke that Rodin Motorsport’s star driver Van Langendonck, the championship leader by 41 points entering the round, would be excluded from the remainder of the Donington Park event, having amassed 12 points on his licence in the last 12 months. The McLaren junior was not alone in this fate, with Virtuosi Racing’s Joseph Smith, twice a race winner in the series this season, also excluded for the same reason. 

In qualifying, Chris Dittmann Racing’s Tommy Harfield took his first pole of the season ahead of George Proudford-Nalder, while title contenders Ethan Jeff-Hall, Theo Palmer, and Lewis Wherrell – who stood to benefit the most from Van Langendonck’s exclusion – managed third, sixth, and seventh respectively. 

From second on the grid in race one, Jaber Al Sabah capitalised on a better launch to take the lead from Harfield before Redgate corner. A compromised line through the first corner put Harfield under pressure from Jeff-Hall, though he held second through the Old Hairpin.

The top three pulled clear from there, and despite further challenges from Jeff-Hall on Harfield and Harfield on Al Sabah, the trio held position as they took the chequered flag. 

Further back, GB4 championship leader and British F4 debutant Alex O’Grady made a strong recovery after being compromised in qualifying, climbing 11 places through the race to finish 15th. 

Henry Mercier lined up on reverse-grid pole for the first time in race two, making it a CDR pole position lockout at Donington Park. But like Harfield in the race prior, the American failed to hold the lead into Redgate corner, losing out to the Red Bull–liveried Hitech of Scott Kin Lindblom. 

At the end of lap one, Jarrett Clark lunged down the inside of Mercier for second but could not hold the position. Their compromised lines left the pair exposed heading into Goddards, and Wherrell slipped down the inside and snatched second. 

Despite a safety car to collect Al Sabah’s beached Xcel from the Old Hairpin, Lindblom kept his head down and rebuilt his gap ahead of Wherrell to take his first win of the season. Clark rounded out the podium.

For the third time in the weekend, the second-place starter made a better start than the polesitter, with George Proudford-Nalder challenging Harfield into Redgate. This time, however, Harfield held his lead through the opening corners. 

Proudford-Nalder’s early assault left him off line heading through Hollywood and the Craner Curves, enabling Jeff-Hall to close the gap and ultimately get past heading through McLean’s. Now on the back of Harfield, the Mercedes junior dove down the inside at Goddards, momentarily taking the lead before Harfield got better traction heading down the pit straight. 

An incident for O’Grady brought out the safety car on lap three, and as the Lotus peeled back into the pits three laps later, Jeff-Hall looked more composed on colder tyres, placing his Argenti alongside Harfield through the Craner Curves before taking the lead at the Old Hairpin. Desperately attempting to regain the lead while defending from Proudford-Nalder, Harfield took the outside line through McLean’s. The two second-year drivers tangled, spinning into the gravel and bringing out the safety car again. 

At the restart, Proudford-Nalder held the lead ahead of Rodin’s Ethan Lennon and JHR’s Wherrell as the red flag flew for contact between Timo Jüngling and Ethan Carney at the Melbourne hairpin. The Australian took his second win of the season when the race was called with three minutes remaining. 

Despite his suspension, Van Langendonck narrowly retained his lead in the overall championship standings by four points over Wherrell, though he fell further adrift of the JHR driver in the Rookie Cup standings. 

Report by Gavin Guthrie

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Tommy Harfield, 1:29.540	George Proudford-Nalder, +0.080s	Ethan Jeff-Hall, +0.115s
Race 1 (14 laps)	Jaber Al Sabah, 21:09.669	Tommy Harfield, +0.680s	Ethan Jeff-Hall, +1.142s
Race 2 (12 laps)	Scott Kin Lindblom, 20:06.796	Lewis Wherrell, +1.245s	Jarrett Clark, +2.541s
Race 3 (10 laps)	George Proudford-Nalder, 19:38.771	Ethan Lennon, +0.549s	Lewis Wherrell, +0.852s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Dries Van Langendonck, 194	Hitech, 384.5	Lewis Wherrell, 274.5
P2	Lewis Wherrell, 190	Rodin Motorsport, 282	Dries Van Langendonck, 248
P3	Theo Palmer, 169.5	Virtuosi Racing, 277.5	Jaber Al Sabah, 209
P4	Ethan Jeff-Hall, 148.5	JHR Developments, 249	Cameron Nelson, 201.5
P5	George Proudford-Nalder, 144.5	Argenti Motorsport, 146.5	León Hedfors, 130
P6	Scott Kin Lindblom, 139	Xcel Motorsport, 100	Mate Kobakhidze, 123
P7	Ethan Lennon, 108	Fortec Motorsport, 99	Timo Jüngling, 110
P8	Adam Al Azhari, 104	Chris Dittmann Racing, 98	Jackson Wolny, 80
P9	Tommy Harfield, 103		Piotr Orzechowski, 51
P10	Jaber Al Sabah, 95		Vegard Klemetsen, 47

Read the previous round’s report here.

Spanish F4: Schormans sweeps podium and swipes points lead at Jarama

A new Spanish F4 championship leader emerged from the chaos of Jarama as Kasper Schormans moved to the top of the standings, while previous leader Noah Monteiro slipped to fourth in the standings after only managing a best finish of fifth in race two.

After a defensive start from polesitter Borys Łyżeń against Schormans, the safety car was quickly deployed for a stalled Max Mokarem. Once racing resumed at the end of lap two, Łyżeń pulled a gap down the main straight as Schormans battled with Jacob Micallef and Rocco Coronel into Turn 1. 

A second safety car deployment then came at the beginning of lap four after a collision between Jean-Paul Karras and Louis Cochet terminally damaged the latter at Turn 8. The race restarted at the end of lap eight, and Łyżeń continued slowly building a gap. On lap 11, contact between Rodrigo Martínez and Alfons Miettinen caused both to stop in the Turn 1 gravel, triggering another safety car deployment.

The race ultimately ended under a fourth safety car period as Sandro Pérez, Jorden Moodley and Mokarem came to blows near the end of the previous intervention at Turn 10. Between the interruptions, Łyżeń locked up at Turn 1, and Schormans snatched the lead and thus the race victory,with Micallef completing the podium.

“I broke quite early because I knew that Borys was going to try and brake late,” Schormans told Feeder Series after the race. “He broke a bit too late, locked up the fronts, and I could switchback him.”

Elliot Kaczynski took his maiden pole position in Sunday’s qualifying session for race three, an unexpected result for the ‘really happy’ Swedish driver.

“I didn’t even know I was on pole!” he told Feeder Series. “It didn’t really feel that great, to be fair, and I was really surprised when I came into the pits.”

Race two started 20 minutes later than scheduled after Luna Fluxá got beached at Turn 10 on the formation lap and polesitter Łyżeń mistakenly left his grid slot during the aborted start and had to be pushed back by the marshals. Łyżeń was later handed a reprimand for the error.

At the start, Mokarem collided with Kaczynski off the line, which brought out the red flag on the following lap. Fifteen minutes and two laps behind the safety car later, Łyżeń led the field to half a lap of racing before Maria Germano Neto got beached at Turn 3, bringing out the safety car again. 

The race finished under a third safety car period as Moodley also got beached at Turn 3 on the penultimate lap, with Łyżeń taking victory ahead of Schormans and Vivek Kanthan – the top three each finishing where they started. 

Race three again saw an opening-lap safety car, this time for Cochet’s collision with a stalled Juste Mulder. Racing resumed at the end of lap four, and Kaczynski fended off Schormans through the opening corners whilst Beau Lowette tangled with Fluxá at Turn 1, eliminating both from the race and necessitating another safety car.

Once the race got back underway on lap 10, Kaczynski capitalised on a battle between Łyżeń and Schormans to build a buffer, which lasted until the next lap when Nacho Tuñón crashed into the Turn 3 barriers following contact with Fausto Arnaudo.

In the three laps after the safety car deployment, Kaczynski fought with and ultimately beat Schormans to take his maiden single-seater victory. Łyżeń initially rounded out the podium but later received a 10-second penalty for a collision with Kanthan, dropping him to 17th. Tecnicar’s Aleix Piñera inherited third.

“I knew that it’s quite difficult to overtake on this track, so I had my plan to defend a bit,” Kaczynski told Feeder Series after the race. “My tyres [were] really, really dirty the whole race, so actually I struggled quite much, to be fair. I was a bit stressed, but I gave it my all.” 

Schormans now leads the standings on 140 points, 18 ahead of Łyżeń and 22 ahead of Andrej Petrović. Top-eight finishes for Coronel also helped MP Motorsport extend their newfound teams’ championship lead from T-Code, who now sit 40 points behind.

Report by Seb Tirado

Interviews by Teo Mozo

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Borys Łyżeń, 1:32.929	Kasper Schormans, +0.193s	Vivek Kanthan, +0.250s
Race 1 (17 laps)	Kasper Schormans, 33:37.055	Borys Łyżeń, +0.764s	Jacob Micallef, +1.362s
Qualifying 2	Elliot Kaczynski, 1:32.311	Kasper Schormans, +0.081s	Borys Łyżeń, +0.081s
Race 2 (12 laps)	Borys Łyżeń, 34:42.763	Kasper Schormans, +0.342s	Vivek Kanthan, +0.636s
Race 3 (16 laps)	Elliot Kaczynski, 31:46.309	Kasper Schormans, +0.234s	Aleix Piñera, +0.987s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Kasper Schormans, 140	MP Motorsport, 251	Kasper Schormans, 140
P2	Borys Łyżeń, 122	T-Code, 211	Borys Łyżeń, 122
P3	Andrej Petrović, 118	Griffin Core by Campos, 148	Rocco Coronel, 111
P4	Noah Monteiro, 114	KCL by MP, 138	Aleix Piñera, 70
P5	Rocco Coronel, 111	Drivex, 135	Elliot Kaczynski, 53
P6	Nacho Tuñón, 97	Tecnicar, 70	Jacob Micallef, 36
P7	Nathan Tye, 86	Campos Racing, 37	Miki Blascos, 19
P8	Vivek Kanthan, 70	Monlau Motorsport, 21	Jensen Burnett, 18
P9	Aleix Piñera, 70	DX Racing Team, 6	Daniel Kelleher, 13
P10	Elliot Kaczynski, 53	G4 Racing, 4	Juste Mulder, 7

Read the previous round’s report here.

Japanese F4: Shirasaki dominates Suzuka, extends win streak to six

Ryo Shirasaki extended his Japanese F4 championship lead to 45 points after sweeping the series’ Suzuka round and adding victories five and six to his ongoing win streak.

The Kageyama Racing driver was the fastest in qualifying, finishing 0.048 seconds ahead of TGR-DC Racing School’s Masaki Hamabe and 0.106s ahead of Hamabe’s teammate Ryo Sakai.

Hamabe started well in the first race and got on the inside of Shirasaki going into Turns 1 and 2, but he remained second after Turn 3. Mitsusada Racing’s Ryutaro Sakai inherited one place to take third at the start as Ryo Sakai dropped to sixth. Ryutaro Sakai then gained another place on the opening lap when he overtook Hamabe on the inside of Turn 16. 

On the second lap, Masana Muto attacked his TGR teammate Hamabe at Turn 11, getting alongside him and passing him on the inside of Spoon corner’s first apex as the third TGR car of Buntaro Igarashi followed through at the second. Igarashi then bravely passed Muto  at 130R, but Muto regained third, overtaking Igarashi on the outside of Turns 1 and 2 on the following lap. 

A safety car was called with three laps to go as OTG Motor Sport’s Miki Onaga beached herself on the outside of Turn 2. The green flags were not waved again, and Shirasaki took his fifth win in a row ahead of Ryutaro Sakai and Muto. 

Shirasaki, Ryo Sakai and Bionic Jack Racing’s Soichiro Shioda locked out the front positions at the start of the second race. While Shirasaki and Sakai stayed in first and second, Shioda dropped to fourth behind  Igarashi.

The safety car was called out on track on the second lap following an incident between Taisei Murakami and Kota Umemoto that left both stranded in the gravel trap at Turn 2. The race resumed at the end of lap four.

Shioda overtook Igarashi for third around the outside of Turns 1 and 2 on lap seven.

On lap eight, the race was again interrupted by a safety car period, triggered when Sena Yamamoto crashed into the barriers at Turn 9. The race finished behind the safety car, and Shirasaki took his second win of the weekend, ahead of Ryo Sakai and first-time podium finisher Shioda. 

Shirasaki now leads the championship on 150 points, 45 over Muto, who came just 10th in the second race having started 13th.

In the Independent Class, “Hirobon” and Nobuhiro Imada shared the wins. “Hirobon” leads the standings on 151 points, 52 points ahead of Yutaka Toriba. Imada’s win marked his first win in the series this season.

Report by Finjo Muschlien

Champion Class
Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Ryo Shirasaki, 2:07.282	Masaki Hamabe, +0.048s	Ryo Sakai, +0.106s
Race 1 (11 laps)	Ryo Shirasaki, 25:43.080	Ryutaro Sakai, +0.561s	Masana Muto, +0.678s
Race 2 (11 laps)	Ryo Shirasaki, 28:12.549	Ryo Sakai, +0.639s	Soichiro Shioda, +1.218s

Independent Class
Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Nobuhiro Imada, 2:09.294	“Kentaro”, +0.184s	“Hirobon”, +0.330s
Race 1 (11 laps)	“Hirobon”, 30:01.071	“Dragon”, +0.552s	Makio Saito, +1.578s
Race 2 (11 laps)	Nobuhiro Imada, 28:19.093	“Hirobon”, +1.201s	“Kentaro”, +2.355s

Standings	Champion Class		Independent Class
	Drivers	Teams	Drivers	Teams
P1	Ryo Shirasaki, 150	Kageyama Racing, 158	“Hirobon”, 151	Team 5Zigen, 151
P2	Masana Muto, 105	TGR-DC Racing School, 155	Yutaka Toriba, 99	B-Max Engineering, 115
P3	Ryo Sakai, 71	OTG Motor Sports, 48	Nobuhiro Imada, 81	Kageyama Racing, 99
P4	Buntaro Igarashi, 68	Mitsusada Racing, 45	“Kentaro”, 81	Field Motorsport, 81
P5	Kenta Kumagai, 48	HFDP with B-Max Racing, 45	“Dragon”, 68	Akiland Racing, 76
P6	Masaki Hamabe, 48	Akiland Racing, 33	Masoyoshi Oyama, 60	Rn-sports, 71
P7	Ryutaro Sakai, 45	Ponos Racing, 25	“Ikari”, 47	Bionic Jack Racing, 47
P8	Syo Momose, 43	Bionic Jack Racing, 21	Masayuki Ueda, 35	Eagle Sports, 30
P9	Yuzuki Miura, 38	B-Max Engineering, 20	Isao Nakashima, 34	Zap Speed, 30
P10	You De Lu, 33	Team 5Zigen, 10	Shoichiro Akamatsu, 30	Helm Motorsports, 24

Read the previous round’s report here.

AU4: Manson snatches Gen2 lead in rocky weekend for AGI

Only six points separate new AU4 championship leader Marco Manson of Tim Macrow Racing and Jensen Marold of AGI Sport after the fourth round of 2026 at The Bend as the pair claimed the round’s three races between them.

A set of shock penalties shook up the grid for race one as fastest qualifier Marold, Joe Imbrogno, Brock Burton, Angus Baills, De’argo Stewart and Luca Cosolo all received grid penalties for failing to heed a yellow flag in qualifying, promoting William Beck to his first pole in the category.

A stall for Jamie-Lee Su immediately plunged race one into yellow-flag conditions as Manson overtook polesitter Beck early on. The two New Zealanders immediately stretched away from the rest of the pack, Xavier Babbage-Hockey more than a second behind in third.

Into Turn 5, debutant Imbrogno got past Marold for fourth, but the latter took the place back on exit. 

A late off for Su prompted a safety car period. The race was effectively reduced to a two-minute sprint, and at the restart, Babbage-Hockey took second place from Beck before spinning. In the chaos, Brock Burton and Marold both got past Beck. The New Zealander briefly went off the track, allowing Imbrogno to take fourth place just before reaching the start-finish straight.

Manson came home in first with a 3.790-second buffer to Burton and Marold, while Wilson took the Gen1 victory ahead of Jackson Culver and Lewis Gotch. 

Marold’s brilliant race two start saw him jump both Beck and Manson to take first into the opening corner and immediately stretch away. Despite a determined defence from Beck, his compatriot overtook him later in the lap and slotted into second as Wilson overtook Gen1 polesitter Culver.

Imbrogno then overtook Babbage-Hockey for fourth at the beginning of lap two before Baills ran off the track. Wilson, avoiding a collision with Baills, went off and over the grass, eventually retiring with an overheated car. Babbage-Hockey took fourth back from Imbrogno as Burton pitted with a broken front wing.

A black and white flag for Rugby Mangan – warning him against weaving down the straight – hampered his defence, enabling Rixon Salvino to pass him for third in the Gen1 class. The penultimate lap saw Babbage-Hockey snatch a hard-fought third from Beck, a position he maintained to take his first podium of the season. Marold took victory ahead of Manson, extending his lead, while Culver took the Gen1 win ahead of Gotch and Salvino.

A pit lane start for Marold in race three promoted Imbrogno to the front of the grid, the debutant immediately stretching away as Baills, Burton, and Stewart traded places. Wilson, with a new engine and floor after race two, overtook Culver and Gotch to take a two-second class lead as a mistake from Imbrogno sent him slightly off track, opening the door for Manson to take first. Beck and Imbrogno narrowly avoided contact as Manson streaked away.

As Cosolo overtook Flack and then Burton, Baills passed Stewart for fourth before losing the front of his nosecone on lap five. Lap eight saw Cosolo overtake Babbage-Hockey and Marold pass Flack, with Marold moving past Burton two laps later.

Salvino passed Mangan for fourth in class on lap 11 as Marold then passed both Babbage-Hockey and Stewart on lap 11. A lap later, he followed Cosolo in overtaking Baills.

Stewart retired late on with a mechanical issue as Imbrogno closed the gap to Manson to under a second. Manson held on for his second victory of the round ahead of Imbrogno and Beck, as Wilson cleared Gen1 rival Culver by 11.4s. 

Gotch crossed the line third but was later disqualified for a tyre infringement, promoting Salvino to the position. 

Report by Anabelle Bremner

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	William Beck, 1:49.961	Marco Manson, +0.300s	Jensen Marold, +0.301s
Qualifying 2	Jensen Marold, 1:49.352	Joe Imbrogno, +0.296s	Marco Manson, +0.511s
Race 1 (8 laps)	Marco Manson, 27:15.781	Brock Burton, +3.790s	Jensen Marold, +4.652s
Race 2 (13 laps)	Jensen Marold, 28:12.413	Marco Manson, +5.310s	Xavier Babbage-Hockey, +5.473s
Race 3 (13 laps)	Marco Manson, 27:59.504	Joe Imbrogno, +0.486s	William Beck, +5.513s

Standings	Gen 2 Drivers	Gen 1 Drivers
P1	Marco Manson, 255	Jackson Culver, 229
P2	Jensen Marold, 249	Koby Wilson, 228
P3	William Beck, 111	Lewis Gotch, 216
P4	Luca Cosolo, 107	Martin Dudley, 122
P5	De’argo Stewart, 88	Rugby Mangan, 90
P6	Angus Bailis, 85	Rixon Salvino, 80
P7	Brock Burton, 78	Matteo Kazaglis, 30
P8	Lana Flack, 74
P9	Xavier Babbage-Hockey, 69
P10	Joe Imbrogno, 41

Read the previous round’s report here.

Header photo credit: Connor Botha