The GB3, Eurocup-3, Spanish F4 and Japanese F4 seasons came to a close this weekend as Saudi F4 and Formula Trophy Malaysia set up December title deciders. Feeder Series reviews all the action in those series – plus Brazilian F4’s non-championship F1 support round.

By Feeder Series

It’s the last review of the year with more than three championships featured. Activity is quieting down, especially in Europe, where Eurocup-3, GB3 and Spanish F4 brought to an end the planned junior single-seater races on the continent. Keep reading to hear more from some of the key players in all three series that weekend.

There was also a season finale in Japanese F4 at Motegi, where the teams’ title came down to the final race. Two mid-week races in the centrally run Saudi Arabian F4 championship kicked off the activity in our review, while in Formula Trophy Malaysia, LN4 Fusion won their first-ever race at Sepang on the same day that co-founder Lando Norris won Formula 1’s São Paulo Grand Prix.

That event also marked the first – and for now only – running of the Brazil Junior Trophy, the special branding used by Brazilian F4’s organisers for the three non-championship races on the F1 undercard with their own standings. And in the main series, the field was completed by F2 championship leader Rafael Câmara, making his grand prix debut for Haas at his home race.

Below the formula racing level, Italy hosted the FIA Karting World Championship for the OK and OK-Junior classes. Dean Hoogendoorn was crowned champion in the senior category. The Williams junior and USF Juniors driver won the final by just over half a second from Henry Domain, while Alpine junior Ilie Tristan Crisan came third. Belgian driver Antoine Venant won the junior category after consistently running at the front throughout the weekend, ahead of Ferrari junior Daniel Mirón Lorente and Miguel Manzano Suárez.

GB3: Bedrin scoops drivers’ title with two more wins in Barcelona finale

Barcelona did not disappoint as the host of GB3’s season finale, providing an action-packed championship-deciding weekend in which VRD Racing’s Nikita Bedrin secured the 2026 GB3 drivers’ championship while his team clinched the teams’ title.

Bedrin set the pace in qualifying one, taking pole position with a 1:33.389, only seven hundredths ahead of GB3 debutant Lewis Wherrell. The JHR Developments driver’s standout performance continued into qualifying two as he took pole with a 1:33.033, three hundredths ahead of Elite Motorsport’s Fred Green,  also making his first start in the championship.

From pole, Bedrin started race one only needing to finish in the top seven to clinch the drivers’ title.. However, he lost the lead into the first corner as Xcel Motorsport’s Rowan Campbell-Pilling rocketed from fifth to first.

The race was neutralised on lap two with Leon Wilson’s Arden Motorsport machine stranded in the gravel.

Campbell-Pilling pulled off an excellent restart on lap five to maintain the lead, but five laps later he met his match as Bedrin caught and passed him around the outside of Turn 1 to retake the lead.

Bedrine continued to lead over Campbell-Pilling for the next five laps and took the chequered flag as both the race winner and the 2026 GB3 champion. Campbell-Pilling settled for second while his Xcel teammate Lucas Fluxá finished third.

“I had to win it to [feel like a] champion,” Bedrin told Feeder Series after the race. “I didn’t want to finish P2 or anything to win the championship. I wanted to do it the proper way by winning the race as well.”

In race two, Wherrell held on to first position into the opening corner, but he faced pressure from Rodin Motorsport’s Abbi Pulling, who had cleared Green for second position. Wherrell grew his lead over Pulling for the first six laps, but that all came apart when a safety car came out after  Hitech debutant Theo Palmer got stuck in the gravel at Turn 1.

Wherrell got a good restart and held his lead from Pulling, while Green lost out to the hard-charging new champion Bedrin with five minutes to go. Just one lap later, the 20-year-old took second from Pulling, leaving only Wherrell ahead of him. Wherrell held  on admirably, but in the end, it was just not enough. Bedrin snatched the race lead with three corners to go, leaving Wherrell to come home second in his second-ever GB3 start while Pulling rounded out the podium.

Having shown good pace all weekend, Campbell-Pilling had no trouble leading into Turn 1 from pole in race three. Hillspeed’s Aurelia Nobels also had a good start from third, pressuring Campbell-Pilling the whole way through the first corner, but Campbell-Pilling had extra speed and pulled away as Elite Motorsport’s Flynn Jackes overtook Nobels at the beginning of lap two.

Nobels then came under pressure from fourth-placed Bedrin by lap 10, but double-waved yellows for an incident for Palmer gave the Brazilian temporary respite. By the next lap, however, Bedrin completed the move for third.

A safety car on lap 13 for Hitech’s Yuhao Fu’s stricken car at Turn 5 neutralised proceedings The race restarted with just one lap remaining, but the last-lap shootout did not faze Campbell-Pilling, who delivered another strong restart to pull away from Jackes. He crossed the line first to take his second win of 2026, with Jackes securing second and Bedrin completing his title-winning season with a third place.

“It’s been an awesome weekend,” Campbell-Pilling told Feeder Series after the race. “To come here, a track I’ve never raced at before, and to do what we’ve done this weekend – it’s really strong.”

While Bedrin was untouchable up top, ending on 534 points, the runner-up position was not decided until race three. It eventually went the way of Hitech’s Deagen Fairclough, whose sixth-place finish handed it to him by just three points over Fluxá.

Bedrin’s podium in race three also meant VRD Racing secured the teams’ championship, with 15-point advantage over runners-up Rodin Motorsport.

Report by Isabelle Chandler

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Nikita Bedrin, 1:33.389	Lewis Wherrell, +0.071s	Kyuho Lee, +0.138s
Qualifying 2	Lewis Wherrell, 1:33.033	Fred Green, +0.030s	Abbi Pulling, +0.045s
Race 1 (15 laps)	Nikita Bedrin, 26:33.611	Rowan Campbell-Pilling, +0.975s	Lucas Fluxá, +1.427s
Race 2 (15 laps)	Nikita Bedrin, 25:42.688	Lewis Wherrell, +0.540s	Abbi Pulling, +3.463s
Race 3 (15 laps)	Rowan Campbell-Pilling, 25:30.278	Flynn Jackes, +0.637s	Nikita Bedrin, +1.273s

Standings	Drivers	Teams
P1	Nikita Bedrin, 534	VRD Racing, 859
P2	Deagen Fairclough, 401	Rodin Motorsport, 844
P3	Lucas Fluxá, 398	Xcel Motorsport, 769
P4	Martin Molnár, 377	Hitech, 739
P5	Maxim Rehm, 340	Elite Motorsport, 524
P6	Rowan Campbell-Pilling, 339	Hillspeed, 387
P7	Patricio Gonzalez, 287	Arden Motorsport, 240
P8	Abbi Pulling, 261	Fortec Motorsports, 82
P9	Flynn Jackes, 255	Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing, 35
P10	Kyuho Lee, 229	Akcel GP, 6

Read the previous round’s report here.

Eurocup-3: Al Azhari secures runner-up spot with two trips to the rostrum

Hitech’s Keanu Al Azhari scored two podiums in the final weekdn of EUrocup-3’s 2026 season in Barcelona to win the battle for runner-up in the drivers’ standings, which went down to Sunday’s race after Palou Motorsport’s Heitor Dall’Agnol scored his second victory of the year on Saturday.

Last year’s Brazilian F4 champion overtook his polesitting teammate James Egozi on the run down to Turn 1 in the opening race, leaving the American to fend off Kacper Sztuka and René Lammers through the following two turns. Further down the order, Enzo Tarnvanichkul collided with Christopher Feghali and was left stranded in the Turn 1 runoff along with Matteo Giaccardi, who suffered an engine failure.

Racing resumed at the end of lap three, and Dall’Agnol maintained his lead up at the front as Al Azhari, who started fifth, began to pressure Egozi after passing Sztuka down the straight on lap seven. On lap 16, the Emirati driver finally made his move around the outside of Turn 2 to take second.

In the end, after 19 laps, Dall’Agnol finished ahead of Al Azhari and Egozi, elevating himself to third in the standings and eight points away from the runner-up spot.

“[After] a win in Hungary as well, it’s really nice that I could win in Barcelona!” the Brazilian driver told Feeder Series after the race. “And I think I can fight [for] the vice championship. I’m very, very happy. I know we have the pace and tomorrow we’ll push for it.”

Al Azhari started on pole for race two alongside Egozi, who was swiftly overtaken by Ean Eyckmans off the line. The Belgian driver immediately turned his sights on the Alpine junior and attempted to overtake around the outside of Turn 1 but had to take to the escape road to avoid contact, dropping behind once more.

Al Azhari began to increase his lead to Eyckmans from there and had built a gap of almost four seconds when the first of two safety cars was deployed on lap seven. At Turn 5, Tarnvanichkul tagged Juan Cota into a spin, beaching the Spanish driver in the gravel.

The second safety car came on lap 11, the first racing lap after the previous deployment, when Bianca Bustamante stopped on track at the same corner following contact with Dani Maciá.

The green flag flew two laps later, and Al Azhari continued on unchallenged to take his fourth win of the season and secure the runner-up spot in the championship, 26 points ahead of fifth-place finisher Dall’Agnol. Eyckmans and Egozi completed the podium.

“The pace I had was outstanding and the car just felt incredible,” Al Azhari told Feeder Series afterwards. “From yesterday we knew we had the pace to do it – we just had to get quali right and we got pole. The team did a great job with the car and I could just keep my eyes forward and enjoy the race.”

After taking two third places, 2026 champion Egozi ended his Eurocup-3 season with 15 podiums,five more than Esteban Masson’s total of 10 in his championship-winning campaign. Teams’ champions Palou Motorsport also ended 2026 with 26 podiums, eclipsing MP Motorsport’s 2024 tally of 25.

Report by Seb Tirado

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	James Egozi, 1:32:613	Heitor Dall’Agnol, +0.138s	René Lammers, +0.150s
Race 1 (19 laps)	Heitor Dall’Agnol, 31:56.483	Keanu Al Azhari, +0.458s	James Egozi, +3.140s
Qualifying 2	Keanu Al Azhari, 1:32.465	James Egozi, +0.110s	Ean Eyckmans, +0.110s
Race 2 (18 laps)	Keanu Al Azhari, 32:05.366	Ean Eyckmans, +5.780s	James Egozi, +7.447s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	James Egozi, 355	Palou Motorsport, 579	Heitor Dall’Agnol, 199
P2	Keanu Al Azhari, 225	MP Motorsport, 417	Ean Eyckmans, 194
P3	Heitor Dall’Agnol, 199	Hitech, 283	René Lammers, 191
P4	Ean Eyckmans, 194	Griffin Core by Campos, 226	Alex Powell, 82
P5	René Lammers, 191	Tecnicar, 105	Rafaël Pérard, 73
P6	Kacper Sztuka, 85	Drivex, 62	Christopher Feghali, 64
P7	Alex Powell, 82	Double R Racing, 16	Thomas Strauven, 61
P8	Rafaël Pérard, 73	GRS Team, 4	Gino Trappa, 36
P9	Gianmarco Pradel, 69	TC Racing, 1	Santino Panetta, 36
P10	Christopher Feghali, 64		Dani Maciá, 20

Read the previous round’s report here.

Spanish F4: Schormans secures title early in eventful Barcelona finale

Despite suffering misfortunes in qualifying on Saturday morning, MP Motorsport’s Kasper Schormans sealed his maiden single-seater championship in Spanish F4’s season finale at Barcelona after his main rival Noah Monteiro fell out of mathematical contention in race one.

Schormans stopped on track in the opening minutes of qualifying and continued to suffer mechanical issues throughout the session. As he was the cause of a red flag, he lost his fastest lap and was ultimately classified in 34th.

Polesitter Elliot Kaczynski held the lead from pole position ahead of his teammate Nathan Tye, who defended from front-row starter Daniel Kelleher through the opening corners. Behind, Jensen Burnett ended up beached in the Turn 1 gravel following contact with Monteiro, bringing out the safety car.

Once the green flag flew at the end of lap three, Kaczynski continued to keep his Drivex teammate Tye at bay for the rest of the race, eventually crossing the line first by just under a second. Vivek Kanthan was initially third but was later promoted to second after Tye was handed a five-second post-race penalty for a jump start and dropped to third.

“In the [test] days we struggled a bit, it was hard for me to make a whole lap. But we had the pace [and] the qualifying today was amazing and the race pace as well,” Kaczynski told Feeder Series after the race.

Schormans finished 13th and Monteiro finished in eighth, leaving the Dutch driver 49 points ahead of the winter series champion with 47 points still available. As such, he mathematically secured the championship with two races remaining.

Post-race, Kaczynski was found to have weaved between Turns 11 and 12, which had been prohibited this weekend to reduce the risk of a restart incident, and was demoted to 17th with a 30-second penalty. This promoted Monteiro to seventh and reduced Schormans’ advantage to 47 points, but as Schormans would still hold more second-place finishes in the event of Monteiro scored maximum points, the title still belonged to the Dutch driver.

Kanthan inherited the victory, Tye reclaimed second and Rocco Coronel inherited third.

Kaczynski beat polesitter Kanthan off the line in race two to snatch the lead. Kanthan’s teammate Monteiro bogged down from third and was swallowed up by the rest of the top 10 through the first sector.

The safety car was then deployed for Alfons Miettinen’s stricken GRS, which was left terminally damaged following a Turn 8 collision with Luna Fluxá. Racing resumed two laps later, but the safety car returned on lap four after Schormans and Jean-Paul Karras speared into the barrier entering Turn 5. The red flag was then flown the next lap.

Fifteen minutes later, Kaczynski led the field to green to start lap seven and ran unopposed to victory, this time ahead of Kanthan and Andrej Petrović and without any penalty.

Sunday morning saw Tye top qualifying. Ahead of the race, both he and Kaczynski were disqualified from qualifying after both their cars were found to have had unauthorised modifications to their engine wiring harnesses. Drivex launched an appeal against the decisions, however, and the pair were permitted to start from their original positions.

After a delayed start owing to confusion over the final grid order, a fast-starting Tye immediately forced Kelleher – who again started second – to defend from Borys Łyżeń and ultimately lose positions to Kaczynski, Nacho Tuñón and Petrović.

The T-Code pair’s subsequent battle helped their Drivex counterparts start pulling away at the front just as Philippe Armand Karras careered into the Turn 7 gravel after contact with Pablo Riccobono Bello, bringing out the safety car. Just as in race two, a second deployment then came on the restart lap, this time for a stopped Maria Germano Neto on the pit straight.

The race ultimately ended under a prolonged third safety car deployment to recover Riccobono Bello and Zijun Zhao, who came to blows at Turn 2 on lap 11. Tye took victory ahead of Kaczynski and Tuñón.

“The speed was mega all day,” Tye told Feeder Series after the race. “Going into [the race] I felt really confident. The car was just really unbelievable and I couldn’t be more thankful to the team.”

Race three’s classification still remains provisional pending the outcome of Drivex’s appeal against the aforementioned qualifying stewards’ decisions. The standings are therefore also provisional.

Report by Seb Tirado

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Elliot Kaczynski, 1:42.994	Daniel Kelleher, +0.216s	Vivek Kanthan, +0.238s
Race 1 (18 laps)	Vivek Kanthan, 32:56.179	Nathan Tye, +0.528s	Rocco Coronel, +3.692s
Race 2 (14 laps)	Elliot Kaczynski, 37:46.721	Vivek Kanthan, +1.458s	Andrej Petrović, +2.004s
Qualifying 2*	Nathan Tye, 1:42.431s	Daniel Kelleher, +0.049s	Elliot Kaczynski, +0.058s
Race 3 (15 laps)	Nathan Tye, 32:20.244	Elliot Kaczynski, +0.366s	Nacho Tuñón, +0.768s

*Note: Nathan Tye and Elliot Kaczynski were disqualified from qualifying two for a technical infringement; the decision is suspended pending an appeal.

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Kasper Schormans, 258	MP Motorsport, 454	Kasper Schormans, 258
P2	Noah Monteiro, 210	Griffin Core by Campos, 338	Rocco Coronel, 202
P3	Rocco Coronel, 202	T-Code, 293	Borys Łyżeń, 188
P4	Borys Łyżeń, 188	Drivex, 269	Elliot Kaczynski, 131
P5	Andrej Petrović, 184	KCL by MP, 220	Daniel Kelleher, 90
P6	Vivek Kanthan, 166	Campos Racing, 116	Aleix Piñera, 70
P7	Nathan Tye, 147	Tecnicar, 70	Jacob Micallef, 38
P8	Elliot Kaczynski, 131	Monlau Motorsport, 31	Jensen Burnett, 34
P9	Nacho Tuñón, 113	TC Racing, 12	Miki Blascos, 27
P10	Daniel Kelleher, 90	DX Racing Team, 10	Max Radeck, 10

Read the previous round’s report here.

Japanese F4: Shirasaki sweeps Motegi to help Kageyama clinch back-to-back teams’ titles

Ryo Shirasaki was already crowned Japanese F4’s drivers’ champion at the previous round at Autopolis, but his double visit to the top step at the Motegi season finale helped his Kageyama Racing team overturn the 30-point deficit to TGR-DC Racing School and take the title in the teams’ championship by three points.

Shirasaki came only second in qualifying, finishing 0.167 seconds behind Toyota junior Ryo Sakai, who himself was in the fight for second in the drivers’ standings. Honda junior Kazuma Kurosawa took his season-best qualifying result of third, 0.173s behind Sakai. It was the same trio in the same order setting the fastest second-best times.

In the first race Shirasaki simply had a better launch than Sakai and took the lead into Turn 1. Kurosawa was hit by Ponos Racing’s Megumu Suzuki and both dropped to the rear of the field, with Bionic Jack Racing’s Soichiro Shioda inheriting  third. Suzuki retired at Turn 11, resulting in a safety car deployment on lap two.

The race resumed at the end of the third lap. Yuta Suzuki passed Shioda for third at Turns 7 and 8 on lap four.

On lap eight, B-Max’s Haruto Nakai passed Shioda for fourth at Turn 7. A lap later Muto and Ryutaro Sakai crashed at Turn 5, with both cars unable to continue. The race ended behind the safety car, with Shirasaki winning from Suzuki and Nakai. Sakai crossed the line second but received a five-second penalty for a false start, demoting him to 14th.

Seven points separated TGR-DC at the top from Kageyama going into the final race. Because only their best-finishing driver’s result counts towards each team’s overall tally, all Kageyama needed was a win as the team would win the title even tied on points thanks to their number of wins.

Shirasaki’s start to the second race was again better than Sakai’s, but he couldn’t get ahead. The pair fought until Turn 4, and a midfield collision a corner later meant any battling would have been stalled regardless – but not before Nakai passed Kurosawa for third on the inside of Turn 8.

The race restarted on lap five, and Shirasaki took the lead at the final corner on lap six after Sakai ahead ran wide over the grass. Sakai also lost second to Nakai after running wide at Turn 3 on lap nine.

Shirasaki won the race and with that took home the teams’ championship for Kageyama Racing. Nakai and Sakai completed the podium.

In the drivers’ championship, Muto came second on 123 points, level with Sakai but ahead on countback, while Kenta Kumagai and Masaki Hamabe came fourth and fifth having been in contention for second in the standings ahead of the weekend as well.

In the Independent Class, Yutaka Toriba won the weekend’s only race but finished just one point shy of second in the drivers’ championship. That honour went to “Kentaro”, who ended the season tied on 179 points, 22 behind stay-at-home champion “Hirobon”, who did not attend the final two rounds.

Report by Finjo Muschlien

Champion class
Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Ryo Sakai, 1:56.749	Ryo Shirasaki, +0.167s	Kazuma Kurosawa, +0.173s
Race 1 (13 laps)	Ryo Shirasaki, 30:25.191	Yuta Suzuki, +1.074s	Haruto Nakai, +1.405s
Race 2 (13 laps)	Ryo Shirasaki, 29:03.759	Haruto Nakai, +2.046s	Ryo Sakai, +3.942s

Independent class
Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Yutaka Toriba, 1:58.217	“Kentaro”, +0.067s	Makio Saito, +0.177s
Race (13 laps)	Yutaka Toriba, 28:21.818	“Kentaro”, +0.831s	Makio Saito, +5.302s

Standings	Champion class		Independent class
	Drivers	Teams	Drivers	Teams
P1	Ryo Shirasaki, 244	Kageyama Racing, 252	“Hirobon”, 201	Team 5Zigen, 201
P2	Masana Muto, 123	TGR-DC Racing School, 249	“Kentaro”, 179	Field Motorsport, 179
P3	Ryo Sakai, 123	OTG Motor Sports, 106	Yutaka Toriba, 178	Kageyama Racing, 178
P4	Kenta Kumagai, 106	Bionic Jack Racing, 92	Masayoshi Oyama, 84	B-Max Engineering, 147
P5	Masaki Hamabe, 104	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team, 74	Nobuhiro Imada, 81	Akiland Racing, 130
P6	Soichiro Shioda, 92	Mitsusada Racing, 70	“Dragon”, 80	Rn-sports, 108
P7	Buntaro Igarashi, 78	B-Max Engineering, 69	Shoichiro Akamatsu, 78	Eagle Sports, 78
P8	Ryutaro Sakai, 70	Ponos Racing, 61	Makio Saito, 74	Bionic Jack Racing, 69
P9	Syo Momose, 68	Akiland Racing, 38	“Ikari”, 69	Helm Motorsports, 60
P10	Haruto Nakai, 67	Eagle Sports, 22	William Sakai, 60	Zap Speed, 30

Read the previous round’s report here.

Formula Trophy Malaysia: LN4 Fusion wins on debut weekend as Anton takes championship lead

LN4 Fusion are taking home a winner’s trophy from their competitive debut after Jesse Phillips’ last-lap overtake in race two of Formula Trophy Malaysia at Sepang, while Iñigo Anton took the championship lead with a win and a second place.

Axle Sports’ Anton and Jaime Ambrose locked out the front row for races one and three, with Anton more than half a second quicker in each qualifying session.

He got away well in race one, as did Timo Jüngling, who surged past Ambrose into the first corner.

At the end of the lap, Ben Anh Nguyễn – who took two podiums in round one – collided with teammate Aaryan Singh and retired in pit lane.

By lap five, all eyes were on Oleksandr Bondarev, who was chasing Aaron Mehta for fourth. The Ukrainian finally passed Mehta around the outside of Turn 4 on lap seven, shortly before Mehta’s rear wing inexplicably collapsed.

Up ahead, the top three were more than 10 seconds ahead of everyone else as Anton sailed to his first single-seater win.

The top eight were reversed for race two, putting Chen Sicong and Phillips on the front row. Rafael Vaessen had the best start and settled into second after the opening corners, while contact between Bondarev and Ambrose left both needing to pit to repair damage.

Phillips reclaimed second from Vaessen through Turns 5 and 6, but the Singaporean held third until lap three, when Timo Jüngling  passed him into Turn 4.

Shortly after came a saving grace for Bondarev and Ambrose via a safety car for Singh’s stricken car following a collision with Kareen Kaur. The race restarted on lap six and at the end of the lap, Jüngling hit Phillips’ rear on the main straight and broke his front wing, although he still completed the overtake into Turn 1.

Behind Phillips and the slowing Jüngling, Vaessen, Lucas Nanji and Josh Feng went three-wide along the back straight in their battle for fourth. Feng came out on top, and fourth became third as Jüngling slowly fell back before boxing at the end of lap eight.

On the last lap, Phillips was on Chen’s tail. Chen ran wide in the final corner, and the Briton slipped through to earn LN4 Fusion their first win. Feng endured a difficult lap and dropped to sixth, promoting Vaessen to the final podium position.

The rain arrived for race three, but all cars started on slicks. Jüngling outdragged Ambrose and passed him for second into Turn 1, while Phillips spun Feng in Turn 2 and received a five-second penalty for the incident.

Jüngling led by the end of the lap, and the top three remained in their positions until the flag. There was little action behind despite worsening conditions in the final laps.

After 14 laps, Jüngling became the fifth different driver and Xcel Motorsport the fifth team to win this season. Second place for Anton gave him the championship lead on 61 points, with Jüngling, Juste Mulder and Vaessen all on 43 points.

Report by Mitchell Ash

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Iñigo Anton, 2:10.506	Jaime Ambrose, +0.579s	Timo Jüngling, +0.768s
Qualifying 2	Iñigo Anton, 2:09.749	Jaime Ambrose, +0.602s	Timo Jüngling, +0.743s
Race 1 (14 laps)	Iñigo Anton, 30:44.529	Timo Jüngling, +1.407s	Jaime Ambrose, +5.412s
Race 2 (12 laps)	Jesse Phillips, 30:42.879	Chen Sicong, +0.131s	Rafael Vaessen, +5.044s
Race 3 (14 laps)	Timo Jüngling, 31:24.161	Iñigo Anton, +2.455s	Jaime Ambrose, +3.568s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Iñigo Anton, 61	Evans GP, 105	Jaime Ambrose, 85
P2	Timo Jüngling, 43	Axle Sports, 91	Aaron Mehta, 81
P3	Juste Mulder, 43	LN4 Fusion, 73	Jesse Phillips, 58
P4	Rafael Vaessen, 43	Xcel Motorsport, 51	Christian Ayrouth, 45
P5	Ben Anh Nguyễn, 41	Pinnacle Motorsport, 36	Taisei Murakami, 43
P6	Jesse Phillips, 39	Black Blade Racing, 36	Skye Lee, 35
P7	Marco Manson, 35	Evans GP Academy, 3	Wilder Lindberg, 30
P8	Oleksandr Bondarev, 34		Kareen Kaur, 30
P9	Chen Sicong, 33		Nawin Natiphanon, 27
P10	Jaime Ambrose, 30		Arafath Sheikh, 22

Read the previous round’s report here.

Brazilian F4: Fogaça dominates non-championship Interlagos round with maiden wins

Cavaleiro Sports’ Fabrício Fogaça dominated Brazilian F4’s non-championship round at Interlagos in support of F1’s São Paulo Grand Prix, capitalising on the absence of usual frontrunners Fausto Arnaudo and Bernardo Gentil to win two of three races.

Fogaça, who primarily competes in Italian F4, topped qualifying, setting the best fastest and second-fastest times to earn pole for both races one and three. Naim Saleh and series debutant Vicky Farfus qualified behind him.

Fogaça maintained his lead into turn one of the first race as Celo Hahn jumped ahead of front-row starter Farfus, but the 15-year-old soon clawed back second when Hahn ran wide at Turn 4. She then snatched the lead at the same spot a lap later and continued outfront until the safety car was deployed for Franco Paolini’s stopped car on lap four.

Fogaça reclaimed the lead on the lap seven restart. An error under braking for Turn 10 nearly undid his work – though he held off both Farfus and Hahn, who switched places through Turn 11.

As Farfus attempted to fight back a lap later, the race was neutralised again for Saleh, who had stopped on track exiting Junçao. A third safety car was deployed on the restart lap after Elias Barbosa went into the Turn 4 barriers while battling Pietro Mesquita. After a last-lap shootout, Fogaça won with a thin margin of 0.295 seconds over Hahn and Farfus.

Luiz Queiroz started from the front for the wet reverse-grid race. The formation lap and an additional five laps were completed behind the safety car before the chequered flag was flown roughly 15 minutes after the start, with no racing laps completed. Queiroz, Gianni Giovanelli and Federico Díaz stood on the podium.

On the opening lap of race three, a poor start caused Fogaça to lose the lead to Saleh and face pressure in the subsequent corners from Louza. Two laps later, the battle for third opened up when Louza, defending against Elias Barbosa, went wide exiting Turn 10 and dropped two positions. Barbosa also fell back, with Hahn and Farfus making their way into third and fourth respectively and continuing to battle for the bottom step of the podium across the following laps.

Having stayed close behind Saleh, Fogaça regained the lead halfway through the race into Turn 4 on lap seven. Saleh lost nearly a second per lap to the leader and eventually came within range of Hahn and Farfus, who were still battling. Farfus overtook Saleh on the final corner with three minutes to spare, and Hahn followed one lap after.

Fogaça retained his lead until the end, 3.7s over Farfus behind. Hahn and Saleh maintained third and fourth.

The weekend’s own standings – referred to as the Bradesco Fórmula GP for branding reasons – were topped by Fogaça on 42 points. Farfus and Hahn were jointly 11 points behind, though Farfus, the series’ only female competitor, was classified second on account of finishing one position higher than Hahn in race two.

Report by Ethan Engelson

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Fabrício Fogaça, 1:36.790	Naim Saleh, +0.038s	Vicky Farfus, +0.170s
Race 1 (16 laps)	Fabrício Fogaça, 31:59.394	Celo Hahn, +0.295s	Vicky Farfus, +1.124s
Race 2 (5 laps)	Luiz Queiroz, 14:57.432	Gianni Giovanelli, +0.920s	Federico Diaz, +1.505s
Race 3 (15 laps)	Fabrício Fogaça, 26:52.272	Vicky Farfus, +3.694s	Celo Hahn, +5.555s

Event standings	Drivers
P1	Fabrício Fogaça, 42
P2	Vicky Farfus, 31
P3	Celo Hahn, 31
P4	Paulo Willemann, 23
P5	Gianni Giovanelli, 17
P6	Luiz Queiroz, 16.5
P7	Alexandre Louza, 16
P8	Federico Díaz, 15.5
P9	Naim Saleh, 8
P10	Pedro Lins, 4

Read the previous round’s report here.

F4 Saudi Arabia: Seah and Owen trade wins in second Bahrain round

Isaac Seah and Archie Owen once again took one win apiece in the second Bahrain round of F4 Saudi Arabia, with the Singaporean moving up to second in points, 47 points behind the Welshman, with two rounds remaining.

At the start of the round, Owen had the upper hand. For the first race on Tuesday afternoon, he qualified on pole, but the Singaporean got a better launch and took the lead on the run down to Turn 1 as three cars behind stalled off the line.

Harrison Mackie slotted into second as Owen got a poor exit from the corner while trying to re-pass Seah around the outside.

The next few laps were relatively tame. On lap nine, Mackie ran wide on the exit of the final corner, which kickstarted a spectacular late-race duel with Owen. Mackie emerged victorious on track after a lap and a half of wheel-to-wheel battling, but the fight meant Seah could pull away even further to take his second win of the season. A post-race penalty for Mackie for changing directions more than once nonetheless elevated Owen to the position he chased so aggressively on track.

Devin Walz was fourth, while Hamza Al Fayez took fifth after fending off Zakaria Doleh’s attacks throughout the 12-lap affair. Amin Kara Osman found his way past Jordyn Martin at Turn 1 on lap nine after a spirited mid-race battle.

Owen was on pole again for race two on Wednesday, and this time he was able to hold the lead at the start, with Seah and Osman trailing him in second and third. Behind them, returnee Rachel Robertson moved into eighth on lap two after passing Faris Organji at Turn 4, which became seventh at the end of the lap, when Zakaria Doleh fell down the order and retired because of a mechanical issue.

On lap seven, Mackie passed Abdullah Kamel for fourth at the same corner, forcing the Saudi Arabian to defend from Walz. The pair then collided on the following lap as they headed up to Turn 9, with the Saudi Arabian emerging with a rear-right puncture that led to his retirement. Walz escaped unscathed, though not without having to hold back Robertson, already on course for a season-best sixth.

Up ahead, Owen led all 12 laps to extend his championship lead over Seah, while Osman took his first podium of the season in third. With 78 points, the German driver is the final driver mathematically eligible for the championship with two rounds remaining, with Bahrain absentee Marlon Bayer joining Mackie and Seah in the short list of drivers who could still mathematically unseat Owen on 166 points.

Report by Marco Albertini

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Archie Owen, 2:05.802	Isaac Seah, +0.130s	Abdullah Kamel, +0.559s
Race 1 (12 laps)	Isaac Seah, 25:22.625	Archie Owen, +8.746s	Harrison Mackie, +12.935s
Qualifying 2	Archie Owen, 2:06.089	Isaac Seah, +0.096s	Amin Kara Osman, +0.523s
Race 2 (12 laps)	Archie Owen, 25:23.116	Isaac Seah, +2.622s	Amin Kara Osman, +10.183s

Standings	Drivers	Rookies
P1	Archie Owen, 166	Archie Owen, 166
P2	Isaac Seah, 119	Isaac Seah, 119
P3	Harrison Mackie, 103	Marlon Bayer, 83
P4	Marlon Bayer, 83	Amin Kara Osman, 78
P5	Amin Kara Osman, 78	Devin Walz, 60
P6	Devin Walz, 60	Hamza Al Fayez, 34
P7	Hamza Al Fayez, 34	Veer Chopra, 33
P8	Zakaria Doleh, 34	Georges Nassar, 17
P9	Veer Chopra, 33	Eva Dorrestijn, 2
P10	Abdullah Kamel, 27

Read the previous round’s report here.

Header photo credit: Jack Morrison