Photo: Red Bull

Every year, some of junior single-seaters’ top drivers are handed professional opportunities. Some lead to long-term careers in sportscars, while others try out the more cut-throat world of F1 and IndyCar

In addition to annually ranking the top 50 drivers in junior single-seater racing since 2011, Formula Scout also recognises the achievements of the very best of those who ‘graduate’ into the world of professional racing each year.

After making his Formula 1 debut in last year’s season finale, Jack Doohan began 2025 with a full-time seat at Alpine but he only lasted six race weekends before being demoted back to the reserve driver role he had spent the previous two years in.

His replacement was Franco Colapinto, who had starred in his surprise step up to F1 in 2024 when he joined Williams for the final third of the season. He scored five points in nine races, while in 2025 he went points-free and had several costly crashes. Alpine was uncompetitive at most events, and Colapinto was thoroughly outshone by team-mate Pierre Gasly. He initially raced with a five-round deal, then held the seat race-by-race before Alpine committed at the end of the European leg of the season to keeping Colapinto in the car for the rest of 2025. By November, the seat was then retained for 2026 too.

In IndyCar, Jacob Abel realised his dream of being on the grid by leaving his family’s Abel Motorsports team after eight years with them. He joined Dale Coyne Racing, whose place in the pecking order was up and down during the season, but the 2024 Indy Nxt runner-up failed to make a mark at the top level. He was in the top 20 in just one qualifying session and two races.

Seita Nonaka somehow pieced together a near-complete rookie campaign in Super Formula. He started off with Team Impul at Suzuka, then raced for KCMG at Twin Ring Motegi where he finished eighth in race two to claim his only points.

After missing the next round, he returned to the grid in TGM Grand Prix’s line-up for the remaining events and set the fastest lap in the season’s third race at Fuji Speedway. Despite handling his team switches well, Nonaka didn’t turn his four seasons of Super Formula Lights experience into big results like other SF rookies have been capable of and was 17th in the standings.

Photo: KCMG

The driver he replaced at TGM GP was fellow Toyota junior Hibiki Taira, who did four races with Impul in 2024 and scored two points as well as racing a lot in sportscars. His 2025 SF campaign began so weak he was demoted to a reserve driver role.

After being a reserve driver for an F1 and a Formula E team in 2024, Zane Maloney didn’t continue with either in 2025 to pursue a race seat in FE with Lola Yamaha Abt. It resulted in coming a points-free last in the championship.

Roy Nissany became the most experienced driver in the history of second-tier single-seater racing in 2023, then was out of action last year. He returned to racing in 2025 in the European Le Mans Series, and came 15th in his first campaign racing prototype sportscars. His team-mate for the first three races was Francesco Simonazzi, with the 2024 Euroformula runner-up also doing three races in International GT Open which put him 27th in the standings.

Eligible for this list until June, when he returned to junior single-seaters, was Joseph Loake. As can often be the case, his career lost momentum when he stepped up from Britain’s racing scene to the FIA Formula 3 Championship last year and scored eight points to sit 26th in the table. Prior to that he had won a touring car title, starred in British Formula 4 and come third in GB3, and this year his main programme was with Garage 59 in GT World Challenge Europe’s Enduro rounds.

At what can be considered the top level of GT racing (a status several championships can put a claim on), Loake was Monza Three Hours runner-up, went second fastest in his qualifying session at the Spa 24 Hours before his team-mate Marvin Kirchhofer put their McLaren 720S GT3 Evo on pole, then finished that race in sixth. That crew, completed by Kirchhofer’s fellow McLaren factory driver Benjamin Goethe, ended the season an impressive seventh in the Endurance Cup standings.

Clearly with an eye still on an open-wheel dream, despite earning McLaren’s backing in sportscars, Loake made a USF Pro 2000 cameo at Road America and finished fifth on debut in North American single-seaters’ third tier.

As none of the names in bold made the cut, here is Formula Scout’s Class of 2024… Key Wins (W), poles (P), fastest laps (FL)

10. Levente Revesz HUNGARY 20y/o
Int. GT Open champion (4 W, 1 P, 1 FL), 9th in 24H Series Middle East Trophy – GT3 class   2024: 5th in Euroformula (1 W, 2 FL)   2023: 9th in Euroformula (1 W), 25th in FRegional Europe & FRegional Middle East

Photo: Fotospeedy

Some drivers become far more competitive with a switch of disciplines, as proven by Revesz in a canny career move this year.

He was a backmarker throughout his single-seater career, scoring 15 points across 92 races in five championships over three years, until he stepped up to the third-tier Euroformula championship for the last three rounds of its 2023 season.

By then the championship utterly lacked depth, and was ruled by German outfit Motopark which was propping up the entry list but also dominating with ease. Since Revesz joined the grid with Motopark, and he was in an eight-car field, he was able to take a win and two other podiums.

That prompted him to stick about for 2024 with the team, and against a similarly uninspiring opposition he claimed one win and seven other podiums before dropping off the grid with two rounds to go. By then Motopark had also become a top team in the International GT Open championship, which like Euroformula is promoted by GT Sport.

Revesz moved into its GT squad for 2025, and he unlocked far more performance than ever before as he won four races in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo he co-drove and was crowned champion.

9. Syun Koide JAPAN 26y/o
11th in Super GT, 16th in Super Formula   2024: Super Formula Lights champion

Photo: Super Formula

Photo: Super Formula Lights

By Honda’s reckoning, Koide has not done enough to earn a second season in SF but his rookie campaign with B-MAX Racing still had highlights. And while his team is certainly a heavyweight in junior single-seaters, as proven by Koide’s own march to the 2024 SF Lights title with them, it isn’t at the top level where it only runs one car.

Koide started his SF career by qualifying seventh for his first race at Suzuka, a track he has never been strong at historically. That impressive result was thrown away at the start as he limped off the line and dropped to last. After the first safety car period he was gapped by the rest of the field, but in the race’s second half he rose to 14th place.

The next day he qualified 12th, and had a far better race. Two places were lost at the start, but he gained those back and two more with a lengthy first stint. He utilised his fresher tyres to then pass Kamui Kobayashi, before a penalty lifted him to eighth.

Two 14th places at Twin Ring Motegi followed, then Koide was off the pace and got a penalty at Autopolis. He bounced back by qualifying 11th for race one at Fuji Speedway, but another slow start set up an opening lap in which he gained and lost places. By lap four he had been shuffled down to 18th, and after pitting early he only made it back up to 15th.

A very similar thing occurred the next day, consigning Koide to 17th. Sportsland Sugo was very different, as Koide set the pace in free practice one. But in qualifying a totally avoidable kerb-riding moment caused damage that meant he stopped a few moments later and triggered red flags. From last place, he climbed up to 13th in the race.

Koide had top-10 potential on the return to Fuji but qualified 13th, and despite heavy rain meaning the race ran entirely behind the safety car he was able to fall to last on lap two. Race two, which Koide qualified ninth for, was cancelled due to fog.

That meant the final round at Suzuka became a triple-header, and opening lap action proved to be Koide’s biggest weakness again until the last race. A great launch lifted him from 12th to ninth, he made two further places during the lap then after his pitstop dropped him to 10th he made two overtakes on a safety car restart before scoring points in ninth.

8. Gabriel Bortoleto BRAZIL 21y/o
19th in F1   2024: F2 champion (2 W, 2 P, 2 FL)   2023: FIA F3 champion (2 W, 1 P, 3 FL)

Photo: Sauber Group

Bortoleto’s career accelerated on F1’s support bill, winning the FIA F3 and Formula 2 titles back-to-back and being picked up by Sauber to race in F1 this year.

While the memorable moments of his rookie campaign were mostly crashes, including a 57G shunt on home soil, he still shone on the most competitive stage of all and was the lead Sauber driver at the chequered flag in 10 grands prix.

Bortoleto had spent 2023 and ’24 as a McLaren junior, so was familiar with F1 simulators and facilities, but since it was a different team he debuted with there was plenty of learning to do surrounding its working methods.

It was clear that chief technical officer Mattia Binotto [pictured above] had a lot of faith in Bortoleto’s abilities and when Sauber was at its strongest he was consistently progressing to Q2 and even making it to Q3 three times. This included outqualifying Fernando Alonso, who helms the A14 Management firm which oversees Bortoleto’s career.

The unfamiliar tracks after F1’s European leg unsurprisingly led to a dip in form, but he still scored a point in Mexico City.

Bortoleto raced without the pressure of fighting for his future, since he was signed on a two-year deal, but staying out of trouble when fighting for positions is still an area needing improvement so not to add to his crash count.

7. Zak O’Sullivan ENGLAND 20y/o
15th in SF, 3rd in Super GT – GT300 class (1 W, 1 FL)   2024: 16th in F2 (2 W, 1 FL)   2023: 2nd in FIA F3 Championship (4 W, 1 P, 3 FL)

Photo: Super Formula

In addition to being Envision Racing’s simulator driver in FE, O’Sullivan joined Toyota’s ranks to race in SF this year.

Despite being a Williams junior and having been called up to drive in an F1 practice session while still in F3, a funding issue cut O’Sullivan’s rookie F2 season short in 2024. He had won the feature race in Monaco and a shortened Spa-Francorchamps sprint race, but was actually one of the slowest in the field on race pace and lacked consistency.

SF was a totally different challenge, including a language barrier, on tracks he was totally new to. But O’Sullivan adapted instantly by qualifying 10th on debut and finishing that race in eighth.

He failed to finish in race two at Suzuka, but at Motegi he rose from 14th to 12th in race one, then from 13th to 11th in race two, and at Autopolis he qualified eighth. He saved his car from spinning as it squirreled while he went up the gears at the race’s start, which briefly dropped him to 11th, and was up to fourth when he crashed out before making his required pitstop.

Fuji was a low point for pace, qualifying no higher than 19th and therefore not being in contention for points, but in race one he was faster than Kondo Racing team-mate Kenta Yamashita as he rose to 14th. His potential was shown far better at Sugo, where he qualified eighth then finished seventh in the wet.

He applied what he had learned on the return to Fuji, and utilised his wet-weather prowess, to net an 11th place finish.

In the Suzuka finale there was a huge crash in race one, he could do little from from the back of race two’s grid, and it was a similar story in race three. Meanwhile in Super GT, which marked his first foray into sportscars and in a car shared with an inexperienced team-mate, O’Sullivan took a win and a second place en route to third in the GT300 class standings.

For a total newcomer to Japanese racing, and in SF’s pitstop era, it was a year to be proud of.

6. Jamie Chadwick ENGLAND 27y/o
3rd in European Le Mans Series (3 W), DNF in Le Mans 24H   2024: 7th in Indy Nxt (1 W, 1 P)   2023: 12th in Indy Nxt

Photo: Javier Jimenez

Chadwick’s victory in Indy Nxt last year showed how much she had developed since her rookie season in 2023, but she changed trajectory for 2025 by joining IDEC Sport in the European Le Mans Series. She was partnered with Mathys Jaubert and Dani Juncadella, both established GT racers but rookies in the LMP2 prototype class they were entering.

The trio started fifth for their debut at Barcelona (which like all races was four hours long), and were down to 11th at one point but made their way to the front and finished second. They then won at Paul Ricard, despite ending a wet opening lap in 14th. There was plenty of early drama, and Chadwick rose to fifth before handing over as the track became more treacherous.

It was an up-and-down race at Imola, where the crew spent time in the lead but then quickly ended up a lap down, returned to the lead lap then fell several laps behind. The trio lost a lot of time in traffic, but Chadwick did best at not losing places.

At Spa-Francorchamps, she ran fifth until two pitstops during a virtual safety car period. Prolonged interruptions meant no opportunities to recover places, and after her stint ended the crew’s race got harder and they finished 18th.

On home soil at Silverstone an early pitstop put Chadwick in 15th, and she recovered to 11th before the driver changes began and more places were gained. Her team-mates took the car further up the order to a win that revitalised their title hopes. At the Algarve finale. Chadwick lost second place on lap one, cannily reclaimed it a few laps later while lapping traffic then was shuffled down to fifth. Not long before being swapped out, she took fourth in a dramatic moment she triggered. While a fourth podium was claimed, with their title rivals ahead it meant IDEC’s trio came third in the standings.

Chadwick also drove the car at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and ran sixth in class during her double stint. IDEC competed in collaboration with Genesis Magma Racing, which has signed Chadwick as reserve driver for its Hypercar squad next year.

5. Louis Foster ENGLAND 22y/o
23rd in IndyCar (1 P)   2024: Indy Nxt champion (8 W, 7 P, 7 FL)   2023: 4th in Indy Nxt (2 W, 4 P, 2 FL), 12th in FRegional Oceania (1 W, 4 FL)

Photo: Chris Jones

Photo: RLLR

IndyCar’s Rookie of the Year may have only come 23rd in the standings, as one of only three full-time drivers without a top-10 finish, but he also claimed a pole, led three races and impressed Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing enough to land a multi-year contract extension.

The championship rivals F1 for its strength in depth, physical intensity, variety of circuits and onus on experience, and Foster had two full-time team-mates who already had 328 starts between them so had plenty of knowledge to lean on.

He qualified 16th for his debut, but retired in a lap one collision, so round two at The Thermal Club marked his first exposure to tyre durability in race conditions. Foster started 10th, way ahead of his team-mates, and ran in eighth early on before he lost pace and drifted down the order with each stint until he was a lapped 24th. It was an important day of learning.

Qualifying was Foster’s strength everywhere but ovals, as he started in the top 10 for six races on road and street courses but on average qualified 19th for oval races.

On Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course he qualified third and finished 11th, his joint-best race result which was repeated at Road America where he took pole and was almost a second quicker than team-mate Graham Rahal in sixth. At Mid-Ohio he finished 14th from sixth on the grid, and also made the top 10 in Toronto and at Laguna Seca.

Foster’s tally of 14 finishes from 17 races was a better record than seven drivers in the field, and he was the leading RLLR driver across the line in four races including the second one around the Iowa Speedway oval.

The 2024 Indy Nxt champion’s best oval race in IndyCar was his first: the Indianapolis 500. He qualified 20th, ran as high as sixth, and finished on the lead lap in 12th.

4. Igor Fraga BRAZIL/JAPAN 27y/o
6th in SF (1 W, 2 FL), 18th in Super GT – GT300 class   2024: NC in Super GT – GT300 class   2023: 4th in SF Lights (1 W, 1 P, 1 FL), 23rd in Super GT – GT300 class

Photo: Super Formula

Formerly an esports star, a Formula Regional champion and a Red Bull junior, Fraga returned to real-world racing two years ago and came fourth in SF Lights with one win and 23rd in Super GT’s GT300 class. He continued there in 2024, while waiting on the sidelines for a chance to race at single-seaters’ top level in SF.

That happened in 2025 as Nakajima Racing signed him, and he seized the opportunity with both hands.

He qualified eighth for his debut, but had to start from the pits and then got caught in an incident that put him a lap down. While he started 14th for race two the next day, Fraga was in the top 10 by the second corner. Having ended lap one in eighth, he then joined several other drivers in taking the risk of an early pitstop on lap two. It paid off, and he charged to sixth before a penalty moved him up another spot.

At Motegi he was 0.135s away from claiming pole for race one, and finished only 3.772s behind the winner in third. It wasn’t so simple for race two, as he started sixth, struggled for pace early on and dropped to 15th before recovering to ninth place.

Fraga said the set-up was very sensitive, and he was driving the car in an agressive style with possibly more time in races spent side-by-side with rivals than any other driver in the field. When there were clashes, he came out on top.

A fall from sixth to 20th in the first two laps at Autopolis prompted Fraga to pit on lap three, and from there he climbed back up to eighth. The Fuji double-header was productive too. He qualified in the top eight both times, finished eighth in race one then ran seventh in race two before making a second pitstop put him a lap down. Sixth and eighth places at Sugo and Fuji followed, and he was 0.076s off pole for the race that got rescheduled to run at Suzuka.

Fraga qualified third, finished second and set the fastest lap in race one, led every lap of race two to deliver Nakajima’s first win since 2022, then rose from sixth to fourth (with fastest lap) in the finale.

3. Andrea Kimi Antonelli ITALY 19y/o
7th in F1 (1 P, 3 FL)   2024: 6th in F2 (2 W, 4 FL)   2023: FREC champion (5 W, 4 P, 5 FL), FRME champion (3 W, 3 P, 5 FL)

Photo: Mercedes-AMG F1

Photo: Mercedes-AMG F1

The Mercedes-AMG F1 team’s long-time protege finally arrived at single-seaters’ top level this year, and immediately slotted into a seat with his backer as its seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton left for Ferrari.

Joining a race-winning team as a rookie rather than learning the challenges of F1 under a little less pressure with a team further down the grid meant Mercedes had to protect and support Antonelli rather than outsource that responsibility and it was slow to react at times to both external issues, such as social media abuse, and internal like drops in confidence.

In only his fifth year of single-seater racing, Antonelli became the highest-scoring F1 rookie of all time, the youngest driver to lead an F1 race and finished on the podium four times including sprint races.

However team-mate George Russell scored over twice as many points as him, an important metric for assessing any driver’s season, and only two drivers (one being Bortoleto) exceeded his tally of retiring from four grands prix.

Antonelli qualified 12 places lower than Russell on debut, but finished one place behind him in fourth and was only two places behind in qualifying next time out, which was for the Chinese Grand Prix’s sprint race. In his first eight races, the teenager only finished lower than seventh once but in the next nine rounds he had his four non-finishes and only scored twice. That was the European leg of the season, mostly on familiar tracks, but he couldn’t click with the soft (C6) tyre compound.

The exception was the Canadian Grand Prix, a track he had no reference for and therefore nothing to lose confidence against, and he qualified fourth on the C6 tyres then clinched his maiden podium in third place.

In the flyaway leg of the season, Antonelli’s confidence returned and he grabbed three more podiums. At Interlagos, he started and finished second in both the sprint race and grand prix, the latter after holding off Max Verstappen. The drive was touted as a sign of what’s to come from the young Italian.

2. Ollie Bearman ENGLAND 20y/o
13th in F1   2024: 18th in F1, 12th in F2 (3 W)   2023: 6th in F2 (4 W, 3 P, 2 FL)   2022: 3rd in FIA F3 Championship (1 W, 1 FL)

Photo: Haas F1

Photo: Haas F1

Outscoring his grand prix-winning team-mate Esteban Ocon in his rookie season was a stellar job by Bearman, who learned a lot from his three F1 races in 2024 (that catapulted him into his 2025 seat and a likely future berth at Ferrari).

The highlight was the Mexico City Grand Prix, where he took his and Haas’s (joint) best race result in F1 by finishing fourth.

That came in a run of four consecutive Q3 appearances, which translated into points finishes each time. Bearman also converted a strong start position into points at Suzuka, while at several events he showed an ability to charge up the order.

He rose from 17th to eighth in the Chinese GP, 20th to 10th at Bahrain (between Red Bull Racing’s Yuki Tsunoda and Antonelli), and from the pitlane to sixth at Zandvoort. That was down to a power unit change, which would’ve boosted his pace.

Like Antonelli, Bearman already has a colossal fanbase and he expertly handled the attention and pressure of the F1 paddock. In fact, he looked at ease most of the time.

At no point did Bearman cite his height, a constant disadvantage for reaching the car’s minimum weight, for lacking pace and his early run of points in Asia was a great bounceback from Haas’s unexpectedly tricky season opener.

1. Isack Hadjar FRANCE 24y/o
12th in F1    2024: 2nd in F2 (4 W, 1 P, 2 FL)   2023: 14th in F2 (1 FL), 7th in Macau GP

Photo: Red Bull

Photo: Red Bull

Unlike Antonelli and Bearman, there was an element of surprise surrounding Hadjar’s brilliance in his rookie F1 season. His superb sophomore F2 season in 2024 put him second in Formula Scout’s top 50 junior single-seater drivers of the year, and earned him an F1 seat at Racing Bulls over Red Bull’s Super Formula star Ayumu Iwasa.

As Formula Scout’s focus is on the series below F1 there is a limited understanding of just how ‘easy’ RB’s car was to drive compared to Red Bull Racing’s, and whether that contributed to the rotation of drivers between the two teams on the opposite side of the garage to Hadjar after just two rounds. But regardless of the team’s potential, Hadjar maximised his own.

He qualified 11th for his debut, while his first team-mate Tsunoda was fifth, but the next day he was holding back tears as he told media “it feels terrible” to crash out two corners into the formation lap and not even get to race.

Hadjar moved on from that embarassment quickly, qualifying seventh for the next two grands prix, the top Racing Bulls driver both times, and scored his first points. That trend continued, with 10 further points-scoring races, 17 more Q3 appearances, outqualifying his team-mate 22 times across the season and finishing ahead of them 18 times.

The highlights results-wise were Zandvoort, where Hadjar qualified fourth and claimed his team’s first podium since 2021 by finishing third, in Monaco where he started fifth and finished sixth, and Monza where he scored from 19th on the grid.

He moves to Red Bull for 2026, and F1’s technical overhaul should mean he avoids the struggles others had at the team.

NC. Taylor Barnard ENGLAND 21y/o
currently 13th in Formula E   2024-25: 4th in FE (2 P)   2024: 21st in F2 (1 W), 2nd in FRME (5 W, 4 P, 1 FL)   2023-24: 22nd in FE   2023: 10th in FIA F3 Championship (1 W), 2nd in FRME (2 W, 3 FL)

Photo: McLaren

There are a lot of reasons why Barnard deserves the number one spot on this list as the most exciting junior single-seater graduate of the last year, but arguably that graduation came in 2024.

The former protege of Nico Rosberg had a slow start to his single-seater career, and joining new team PHM Racing as a third-year Formula 4 driver in 2022 was a risk but it paid off superbly. He was runner-up to Antonelli in ADAC F4 and then FRegional Middle East at the start of 2023, before stepping up to the FIA F3 Championship with Jenzer Motorsport in the equivalent of a loan deal.

The end of that campaign featured starring drives that may have only left him 10th in the standings but put him firmly on the international map again. A McLaren test in FE set such an impression that he was then signed as reserve driver, while PHM’s pipeline also pushed him up to F2 for 2024 less than four weeks before the season began.

His first F2 points came when he won the Monaco sprint race, and he’d gained circuit experience a month prior by making his FE debut. Barnard was called up mid-event, and drove from 22nd to 14th on a track where overtaking is very difficult.

He raced for McLaren again in the Berlin double-header at the start of May, and scored in both races. In the second he charged from 18th to eighth, showing immense potential, and he qualified 14th for the first race.

By August, McLaren had decided to hand Barnard a full-time for the 2024-25 campaign. Once his future was determined, Barnard decided to end his F2 campaign four rounds early and his pre-season preparations for FE began.

The year ended with the season-opening Sao Paulo E-Prix, and despite qualifying 17th a starring drive meant Barnard broke the record for FE’s youngest ever podium finisher. The rest of the season occurred this year, and four further podiums and two poles put the 21-year-old a stellar fourth in the standings, outscoring his team-mate by over 80 points.

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Euroformula has attracted its first driver for 2024, with Hungarian racer Levente Revesz signing with Motopark.

The German team has run the majority of the entries in the championship over the last few seasons, and fielded the last five champions through its main operation and its Japanese satellite squad CryptoTower Racing Team.

Revesz will be embarking on his fourth year of single-seater racing. He started off in Italian Formula 4 in 2021, coming 31st in the standings with two points.

He stepped up to Formula Regional for 2022, and was 23rd and 28th respectively in the Asian and European championships. Although he scored more in 2023, he came 25th in both the European and Middle East championships and did not get a top-five finish until he decided to leave FREC with two rounds to go and join Motopark in Euroformula.

Stepping up to the Formula 3-level series proved immediately effective. The 18-year-old finished fifth on debut at Monza then took two podiums, at Mugello he finished sixth and fourth, then at Barcelona he took a fifth place, a win and a seventh to rise up to ninth in the standings.

“I’m very much looking forward to attacking the new season in Euroformula together with Motopark,” said Revesz. “Last season we made great progress on the last three events, and we will keep that momentum going into the upcoming season. I have grown close to the team already as a result we can communicate very effectively, which will surely benefit us.”

Motopark’s team principal Timo Rumpfkeil added: “During the races Levi did with us in 2023 he progressed very well and secured well-deserved podiums and his maiden race win. He has done a good winter test programme with us, I am confident that he is well prepared for the 2024 season and will be a strong contender for the 2024 championship.”

In this month’s development update from racing simulator game iRacing, a statement was made that indicated Euroformula and Super Formula Lights will replace their Dallara 320 car with a successor design this season:

“In March, we will keep up this momentum [of bringing new cars to the game] with the addition of the Dallara 324, which is essentially the little brother of the [Dallara] SF23. In the real world, variants of this car are raced in the SF Lights series and the Euroformula Open championship. In iRacing, this car will be positioned at the C level.”

Euroformula has denied it will change cars this year, but told Formula Scout that introducing the Dallara 324 as its spec chassis in 2025 is an option.

SF Lights meanwhile announced last June that it would break with its roots by becoming a spec series for 2024. From its creation in 1979 as Japanese F3, and following its rebranding and adoption of the Dallara 320 four years ago, the series has been open to multiple engine suppliers.

After several month of development by TOM’S, a new 1.6-litre turbocharged engine manufactured by Toyota has got approval to replace the naturally aspirated Spiess and TOM’S units previously used in the Dallara 320.

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Enzo Trulli, Levente Revesz and Francesco Simonazzi shared the wins in the final round of the Euroformula season at Barcelona.

Series returnee Trulli topped qualifying by 0.073 seconds over CryptoTower Racing Team team-mate Charlie Wurz, with champion Noel Leon and Cian Shields 0.3s back. Simonazzi was initially fastest but qualified fifth, 0.69s off the pace, and the grid was completed by Jakob Bergmeister, Revesz and Vladimir Netusil.

Wurz failed to get going initially at the start of race one, with Leon doing the same and Simonazzi jumping up to second place. Leon fell back to the back but gained a place back by passing Netusil, while Wurz dropped to fourth.

Netusil retired from the race at the end of lap two, while Leon passed Shields for sixth. He went by Bergmeister at turn one on lap four, while Wurz started to attack Revesz for third place through lap five.

He got ahead at turn one a lap later, and his next target was Simonazzi who was already 2.2s adrift of Trulli. Wurz pulled off an amazing move on lap eight, going around the outside of Simonazzi at turn one. Simonazzi briefly thought about trying to get back past a few corners later but realised he could not match Wurz.

The gaps between the top four grew until lap 10 of 17 when Leon tried passing Revesz around the outside of turn one but punctured his rear-right wheel on Revesz’s front wing and spun into the gravel.

Revesz also dropped down the order, and later pitted for a new front wing, while the safety car came out and bunched up the field.

Racing resumed on lap 13 and Wurz attempted a repeat of his turn one move but cut the first two corners. That put him ahead of Trulli, but he had to hand the lead back to him. Behind them, Shields passed Simonazzi for third.

Trulli ended up taking victory by 0.844s, with Shields completing the podium 4.681s behind.

Bergmeister had reversed-grid pole for race two, but a slow start meant he conceded the lead straight away to Revesz. From fourth on the grid Shields managed to get alongside Revesz on the run to turn one but was unable to take the lead from him.

Wurz passed Simonazzi for third at turn three, with Leon, Trulli and Bergmeister completing the seven-car field as Netusil skipped the race.

Revesz stayed up front for the rest of the race to take his first win on his seventh start, although he did face pressure from Wurz at times. Wurz passed Shields down the inside of turn one on lap four, then he tried going around the outside of Revesz there on lap eight but went off-track. The same thing happened on lap 14, and in the remaining laps he did not try again.

Leon finished fourth after passing Simonazzi down the inside of turn five on lap 12.

Bergmeister got another chance to make use of reversed-grid pole in race three, and this time tucked to the inside to keep himself in the lead down the pit straight. But a late-braking move from Simonazzi into turn one put him into the lead, and he never looked back.

The top two pulled away, while Leon got into third on lap one and stayed there. On lap six Trulli made tyre-on-tyre contact with him at turn one as he trie to pass him, and a lap later they almost made contact again. That helped bring Wurz onto their tail, and Wurz tried passing Trulli around the outide of turn one on lap 11 but had contact and cut the first two corners so had to give fourth place back to Trulli at turn five.

Results round-up
Race 1 (17 laps)
1 Enzo Trulli CryptoTower Racing 29m02.309s
2 Charlie Wurz CryptoTower Racing +0.844s
3 Cian Shields Motopark +4.681s
4 Francesco Simonazzi BVM Racing +5.539s
5 Levente Revesz Motopark +5.940s
6 Jakob Bergmeister CryptoTower +7.457s
Ret Noel Leo Motopark
Ret Vladimir Netusil Effective Racing
Pole: Trulli, 1m31.246s
Fastest lap: Wurz, 1m32.967s

Race 2 (17 laps)
1 Revesz 26m23.150s
2 Wurz +0.490s
3 Shields +1.532s
4 Leon +3.812s
5 Simonazzi +6.278s
6 Trulli +7.165s
7 Bergmeister +8.818s
FL: Wurz, 1m32.278s

Race 3 (17 laps)
1 Simonazzi 26m32.946s
2 Bergmeister +0.947s
3 Leon +1.375s
4 Trulli +3.562s
5 Wurz +3.983s
6 Shields +6.964s
7 Revesz +13.940s
FL: Wurz, 1m32.847s

Championship standings
1 Leon 394   2 Shields 307   3 Simonazzi 289   4 Bryce Aron 238   5 Bergmeister 148   6 Wurz 139   7 Joshua Dufek 138   8 Juju Noda 118   9 Revesz 103   10 Trulli 98

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Motopark has a revised line-up for this weekend’s Euroformula round at Monza, as Levente Revesz joins the team.

Jakob Bergmeister, who is currently sixth in the standings with two podiums, is unable to compete and Revesz will take over his car. The 18-year-old Hungarian steps up from Formula Regional European Championship, where he lies 25th in the standings with two points. Last year he came 28th in the championship.

Motopark’s announcement of Revesz indicates he will contest further Euroformula rounds, with races at Mugello next week. Revesz would be unable to drive at the Barcelona season finale as it is on the same date as FREC’s final round.

Having withdrawn from the last Euroformula round at the Red Bull Ring, Noda Racing has decided not to return for this weekend but will still be at Monza as team boss Hideki Noda has decided to enter his daughter Juju into the supporting BOSS GP races.

Noda will be racing a Formula Renault 3.5 car (at the same level as modern-day Formula 2 cars) in this weekend’s BOSS GP races at Monza rather than return to Euroformula which is also at the track. She has recently been testing the Dallara T12 at several circuits, including at Mugello today where she was slower than drivers in third-tier GP3 cars.

The absence of Bergmeister and Noda from the Euroformula grid means there are no drivers competing for Rookie Trophy honours at Monza. Bergmeister currently leads Noda by 10 points in the rookie classification.

Joshua Dufek and Charlie Wurz will continue to drive for Motopark’s Japanese satellite operation CryptoTower Racing Team after making their debuts last time out, and NV Racing’s Paolo Brajnik is absent through a work committment meaning the series will have its joint smallest field of 2023 with just eight cars.

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Levente Revesz has moved from Van Amersfoort Racing to Arden for his second Formula Regional European Championship season.

The 17-year-old made his FRegional debut at the start of last year in the Asian championship, racing for Evans GP. He took a best finish of ninth from the 15-race campaign, and came 23rd in the standings.

He then joined VAR in Europe and came 28th in the standings there with a best result of 14th. He finished inside the top 20 four times over 19 races. The 17-year-old is doing two series again this year, with his FRegional Middle East campaign with R-ace GP beginning this weekend. The FREC season starts in April.

“I am happy to have found the agreement with Arden for 2023 FREC season,” said Revesz. “I did several winter test days with Arden and the feeling with the car and the team was great.”

“I look forward to start my second season in FREC and I’m sure that together with Arden we can get good results.”

Before racing in FRegional, Revesz did a single year in Formula 4. He did two rounds of the ADAC championship as a guest driver and made the top 10 twice, and scored once in the Italian championship.

“I’m really pleased to welcome Levente into the Arden family,” said the team’s manager Ben Salter.

“We came very close to a deal last year but this year all things have aligned. If Levente can maintain the performance he showed during the winter testing we should be in for a very strong season.”

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Embarking on full campaigns in the five-round series is Hungarian driver Levente Revesz and Formula 4 graduate Nikhil Bohra.

Revesz raced in FRMEC’s predecessor series FRegional Asian Championship at the start of 2022, coming 23rd in the points table with Evans GP, then raced for Van Amersfoort Racing in FRegional European Championship where he was a points-free 28th in the standings.

He is reuniting with R-ace, having driven for the team in two ADAC F4 rounds in 2021. Revesz also came 31st in the Italian F4 championship that year with AKM Motorsport.

American-Indian-Singaporean racer Bohra also made an ADAC F4 cameo with R-ace two years ago in what was his single-seater debut, and began 2022 driving for R-ace in F4 United Arab Emirates. After finishing 20th there, he joined US Racing for his European programmes, coming 16th in ADAC F4 after only doing two rounds and 13th in Italian F4.

In R-ace’s third FRMEC car, Francesco Braschi and Martinius Stenshorne will share driving duties.

Italian teenager Braschi raced in various F4 series through 2020 and ’21, and stepped up to FRegional with R-ace in a part-time FRAC campaign last year. He scored twice, then raced for three other teams in FREC to come 26th in the standings.

He will do FRMEC’s two January rounds at Dubai Autodrome and Kuwait Motor Town, then Stenshorne will take over the remaining three rounds in February at Kuwait, Dubai and Yas Marina Circuit.

The 16-year-old Norwegian protege of Nicolas Todt started his car racing career with R-ace in last year’s F4 UAE championship, and claimed his maiden podium on his seventh start. He added two more podiums to his CV en route to seventh in Italian F4 with Van Amersfoort Racing, and starred in two guest appearances in ADAC F4 with the team.

A one-off drive in Spanish F4 with VAR’s partner team Monlau Motorsport resulted in enough points to put him 17th in the standings.

R-ace’s fourth FRMEC car is split between Matias Zagazeta (rounds one to three) and Tim Tramnitz (rounds four and five).

The 2021 British F4 runner-up had a tricky transition to FRegional last year, finishing no higher than 18th in a full FREC campaign with G4 Racing.

Tramnitz, who was ADAC and Italian F4 runner-up in 2021, made his move up to FREC with the debuting Trident team and fared better with eight points scores, a best finish of fourth and a end position of 15th in the championship. However his year started badly as he broke his back in a freak F4 testing crash.

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Revesz comes from Hungary and was a rookie this year in the ADAC and Italian Formula 4 championships. He claimed a best result of ninth place in both series, and has since been doing testing in the FRegional car used in FREC.

Next month he will be in the United Arab Emirates making his category debut with Evans GP in FRegional Asian Championship to warm up for his FREC attack.

“Things are developing extremely fast for me,” said Revesz.

“I did only one year of F4 racing and now I am about to jump up to the next level. The car is amazing to drive and obviously quite different from the F4 that I used to race with.”

Revesz did several tests with Arden before joining VAR post-season, and he will now partner Kas Haverkort – who came 16th in FREC this season – at the team next year.

“Levente is very eager to learn and that is essential,” VAR’s chief executive officer Rob Niessink said.

“Stepping up from F4 to FREC is a great move for him. As this is only his second year in single-seaters, he will face the challenge of learning in an incredibly competitive environment. However, at the same time will this environment help him to accelerate his progress throughout the season. Our team is extremely dedicated to support him in every way possible and we look forward to get started with Levente!”

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Evans GP has signed its second and third drivers for the 2022 Asian Formula 3 season, with Formula 4 graduates David Morales and Levente Revesz joining Frederick Lubin.

The Australian team, fronted by successful championship engineer Josh Evans, was formed this year and made its competition debut in Asian F3. It came second in the 2021 teams standings with two wins.

Morales has taken podium finishes in the British and NACAM F4 championships since moving into single-seaters in 2019.

“I’m excited to be joining Evans GP for the 2022 Asian F3 championship,” said the 18-year-old American.

“I’m still yet to drive the Regional Formula 3 car but I know I will have a strong team to support me. The team achieved numerous race wins and podiums last season and help to development a number of young drivers. I’m looking forward to working with them and developing further as a driver.”

Revesz comes from Hungary and was a rookie this year in the ADAC and Italian F4 championships. He claimed a best result of ninth place in both series, and has since been doing testing in the Formula Regional car used in Asian F3.

“We welcome Levente to the team in what will be his first step up to Formula [Regional],” said Evans.

“This year was his first year of car racing, and he has been performing well in what is arguably the most competitive F4 championship in the world.”

Evans GP is the only team to announce its signings for the 2022 Asian F3 season so far. Mumbai Falcons is linked to running Formula 2 race-winner Jehan Daruvala for a second consecutive season, and Hamda Al Qubaisi is anticipated to race for the Prema-supported Abu Dhabi Racing team.

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Tim Tramnitz headed an 12-car turnout in ADAC Formula 4 free practice at Hockenheim on Friday.

Representative laptimes were only set in the afternoon session, 10 seconds faster than the morning’s.

Van Amersfoort Racing’s Joshua Dufek only completed an outlap in FP1 but was straight to the top in FP2, holding first place for the first 10 minutes until US Racing’s Alex Dunne set a 1m41.641s.

That kept him ahead for a minute before VAR’s points leader Ollie Bearman set a 1m41.313s, and after that there were no improvements for half of the session.

In the final four minutes the action geared up again, with Nikita Bedrin edging Bearman’s best by 0.004 seconds before Dufek knocked enough tenth off it a minute later.

Bearman returned to first place by posting the first sub-1m41s lap, and US Racing’s Tramnitz slotted into second place by 0.016s behind him. Tramnitz stayed out to set one more lap before the chequered flag was waved, and with 20s to go went 0.189s faster than Bearman to end the day’s running on top.

In the morning session there had been a red flag stoppage almost immediately, and laptimes were over the two-minute mark through the first half of the session with only half of the drivers having one on track.

R-ace GP’s Sami Meguetounif set a 1m58.686s with 10 minutes to go, and he brought that benchmark down into the 1m54s and then 1m53s before the end of the session. That put him over 1.2s clear of Bearman in second place, while R-ace team-mate Victor Bernier was third fastest.

The slowest driver overall across the two sessions was Italian F4 regular Levente Revesz, who will race this weekend with R-ace. Absent from the action were BWR Motorsports’ Taylor Barnard and VAR’s Bence Valint.

Free practice results

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Karting star and recent single-seater debutant Nikita Bedrin will race in ADAC and Italian Formula 4 for Van Amersfoort Racing later this year.

The Russian was one of the star rookies of senior karting in 2020, winning the WSK Super Master Series and Champions of the Future titles in OK karts, as well as finishing fourth in WSK’s Champions Cup and Euro Series.

He made his first car racing appearances in F4 United Arab Emirates last month with Xcel Motorsport, and picked up one podium from the three rounds he raced in. The 15-year-old now embarks on a full campaign in Italy and select ADAC rounds.

“I am pumped about all that’s heading my direction, already now, but also in the near future,” said Bedrin.

“I’m currently working with the VAR team to get fully prepped for the start of the season. I have to honestly say that it feels very good to be surrounded by a team that is at least as motivated and dedicated as I am.

“I know I’ll have a tough year ahead of me and my focus will be on learning, but being the competitive person I am, I’ll be looking forward to make a difference on the track.

“I literally can’t wait to finally race at all these famous circuits that I know so well from the simulator.”

Bedrin joins second-year racers Ollie Bearman, Joshua Dufek, Cenyu Han and Bence Valint in VAR’s stable of F4 drivers.

“We strongly believe that experience in karting is an essential element for successful growth in motor racing,” VAR’s CEO Rob Niessink stated.

“Through talent and extreme dedication Nikita impressed the international crowd by his performances. The step to F4 is big though, especially when it concerns the Italian and German championships.

“Even though there is no pressure for this season, Nikita is extremely eager and currently working hard with our team to get fully prepared.

“It really is a joy to see somebody so young, being so dedicated. Together with Nikita, our guys are very excited to get started and to support him in what is the next step of his career.”

AKM Motorsport has made its first signing for 2021, bringing in Hungarian karting graduate Levente Revesz.

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