Photo: F4 CEZ

Formula 4 Central European Zone has published a six-round calendar for 2026, featuring visits to two Formula 1 tracks.

Besides from F1’s F4-spec support series F1 Academy, the only other F4 championships confirmed to also race on more than one F1 track next year are British F4 and the renamed F4 United Arab Emirates and will do so by taking trips abroad.

The 2026 F4 CEZ season will begin on April 10-12 at the Red Bull Ring, home of Austrian Grand Prix, then there will be a lengthy break before round two at the Salzburgring on May 29-31.

After two Austrian rounds, racing moves to Slovakia a week later at Slovakia Ring, then to the Czech Republic almost two months later. Autodrom Most hosts round four on July 31-August 2, and there will be races at Brno on September 11-13.

The final round is at the Hungaroring, where the Hungarian Grand Prix takes place, on October 23-25.

Brno, the Red Bull Ring Ring and Slovakia Ring have been mainstays of the calendar since the series launched in 2022 as ACCR F4, Most has featured every year since 2023 and there have been trips to the Salzburgring for the last two seasons.

The Hungaroring held the opening round of the 2023 season, with fellow Hungarian track Balaton Park being used for that year’s season finale then taking over the round one slot in 2024.

An in-season test will precede each round next year, with weekends taking the format of a pre-event test session, a 40-minute practice session, 20-minute qualifying then three 25-minute races.

Race one’s grid will continue to be set by the results of qualifying, race two’s grid will now use drivers’ second-best qualifying laptimes rather than race one’s results, and a draw will be used to determine how many positions from race one’s results get reversed to form race three’s grid. There will be five possible outcomes, ranging from the top eight to the top 12 being flipped.

F4 CEZ has attracted Harp Racing and Step Motorsport to the grid for 2026. Step has run a driver to the Danish F4 title twice, and is heading south-east from Denmark with three cars. Italian outfit Harp comes from the Formula X Pro Series, where it runs two first-generation F4 cars. It has brought a Gen2 chassis so it can race in an FIA F4 championship next year.

Danish-Swedish karter Erik Poulsen will step up to single-seaters with Step, and Polish hillclimber and touring car racer Piotr Orcholski will contest the second half of the 2026 season with Harp after turning 15.

Poulsen came 10th in the FIA Academy Trophy for ‘Academy Junior’ class karts this year, and 23rd in the ‘Academy Senior’ class last year.

Harp has also collaborated with Champion Cup kart, the rental karting competition in Italy, to offer F4 testing to its winner.

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The Denmark-based Nordic 4 and Nordic Championship Formula titles were decided in a dramatic final round at Jyllandsringen on September 27/28.

Title contender Sebastian Bach topped practice, his 1m06.964s benchmark comfortably out of reach of everyone else until rival Marius Kristiansen got within 0.232 seconds of his pace with his penultimate lap. Silas Egedal and Alexia Danielsson were the only others within a second of him.

In qualifying Bach was not quite able to match his earlier pace as he set a 1m07.054s. His non-improvement proved costly, as Kristiansen beat him to race one pole by 0.109s and 14-year-old Egedal was only 0.011s behind him. Victor Snebjoern Poulsen was 0.484s off pole in fourth, edging Magnus Pedersen by 0.06s.

Formula 5 benchmark man Mads Hoe was sixth, 1.003s slower than Kristiansen and 0.029s quicker than top Formula Renault 1.6 driver Hampus Varis.

Race one concluded the day, and victory was fought for between Kristiansen and Bach. Hoe got into third early on, before Pedersen tracked him down and got ahead. Egedal and Poulsen also battled until the latter spun and had to work his way back up the order. Egedal was penalised despite the pair believing there was no contact, and after it was applied Egedal was classified seventh. F5 runner Anton Morsing climbed from 19th to 10th, and Poulsen was 11th.

They all gained a place post-race, as on-the-road winner Kristiansen was disqualified over technical non-compliance and Bach became victorious. It closed up the title fight, and put Kristiansen at the back of race two’s reversed grid the next day.

There was a bit of drama getting him into 19th place on the dummy grid, and Egedal stalled from third but recovered the lost places at the end of the formation lap and was straight into second on the real start. It only took a few corners for him to clear FR1.6 runner Richard Olson, and in the race’s second half he pulled away up front.

Casper Nissen took second from Olson into turn one on lap two, while Kristiansen jumped to eighth on lap one, and took fourth from Poulsen as lap four began. He took third from top FR1.6 driver Melvin Kalousdian on lap six, at which point there was too large a gap to make up to the top two. Kalousdian would finish sixth, behind Pedersen and Hoe.

Pedersen led the title decider lights-to-flag, with Nissen starting and finishing second. Bach ended lap one in third while Kristiansen had climbed four spots to 10th. Another two places were gained on lap two, then progress stalled once he got into seventh.

Kristiansen was helped by Poulsen retiring from sixth on lap 11, then he got stuck behind Hoe. He passed him on the last lap, and found himself in third as Bach was penalised 20s for disrespecting double waved yellow flags brought out late on due to Robin Hafstrom stopping on track. Bach dropped to eighth, losing the Nordic 4 title to Kristiansen but still taking the NCF crown by one point.

Hoe and Morsing were promoted to fifth and sixth, taking the F5 titles in the respective series, and Olson was a non-starter. The champions were only confirmed two-and-a-half weeks after the finale, when the Danish motorsport federation issued the final points tables.

Kalousdian took the crown in Sweden’s FR1.6-based Formula Nordic series, which also concluded its season.

Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics, FR1.6 entrants in bold]
Race 1 (15 laps)
1 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport 16m57.056s
2 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +6.664s
3 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +14.311s
4 Casper Nissen STEP Motorsport +14.671s
5 Melvin Kalousdian Race Team Gellerasen +19.439s
6 Silas Egedal Team FSP +19.540s
7 Hampus Varis +20.180s
8 Richard Olson +25.164s
9 Anton Morsing Mads Hoe Motorsport +28.742s
10 Victor Snebjoern Poulsen STEP Motorsport +29.049s
Pole: Kristiansen, 1m06.945s
Fastest lap: Bach, 1m07.270s

Race 2 (15 laps)
1 Egedal 17m03.274s
2 Nissen +3.521s
3 Marius Kristiansen Team FSP +4.152s
4 Pedersen +11.036s
5 Mads Hoe +18.371s
6 Kalousdian +19.031s
7 Bach +19.305s
8 Varis +19.674s
9 Morsing +25.609s
10 Mille Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +31.822s
FL: Kristiansen, 1m07.106s

Race 3 (15 laps)
1 Pedersen 16m59.788s
2 Nissen +2.150s
3 Egedal +6.171s
4 Kristiansen +9.338s
5 Mads Hoe +11.627s
6 Morsing +24.269s
7 Kalousdian +25.276s
8 Bach +26.047s
9 Alexia Danielsson Team FSP +26.537s
10 Varis+26.963s
FL: Nissen, 1m07.281s

Nordic 4 standings
1 Kristiansen 288   2 Bach 267   3 Mads Hoe 224   4 Nissen 218   5 Pedersen 202   6 Poulsen 142  7 Morsing 113   8 Egedal 103   9 Danielsson 56   10 Kalousdian 50

Danish F5 standings (incl. FR1.6)
1 Mads Hoe 327   2 Morsing 299   3 Mille Hoe 194   4 Kalousdian 166   5 Mads Larsen 140   6 Varis 124   7 Jorgen Leerskov 95   8 Robin Hafstrom 80   9 Niels Ejnar Rytter 69   10 Olson 68

Nordic Championship Formula standings
1 Bach 279   2 Kristiansen 278   3 Nissen 197   4 Poulsen 185   5 Mads Hoe 172   6 Pedersen 167   7 Morsing 113   8 Egedal 103   9 George Sebastian Pavolopoulos 86   10 Kalousdian 78

FNordic standings
1 Kalousdian 371   2 Olson 284   3 Hafstrom 258   4 Varis 234   5 Viktor Molander 119   6 Louise Larsson 116   7 Olivia Ernstsson 91   8 Joannis Matentzoglou 88   9 Andreas Aichhorn 66

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Sebastian Bach went unbeaten at Swedish circuit Falkenberg last weekend to move into the Nordic Championship Formula lead.

In pre-event testing, Marius Kristiansen set a 43.716s to pip Formula 4 rival Bach to top spot by 0.128 seconds. Formula 5 driver Mads Hoe was 0.184s behind in third.

Bach lowered the pace in practice, setting a 43.307s and having a notably large 0.462s gap to Kristiansen in second around the short lap. Victor Snebjoern Poulsen was 0.007s slower than Kristiansen, with Casper Nissen and Alexia Danielsson also within a second of the pace.

It was a lot closer in qualifying, with Bach topping the timesheet by just 0.015s over Kristiansen and 0.064s to Poulsen. Hoe was 0.32s off pole in fourth, just ahead of George Sebastian Pavlopoulos.

Bach would have had a bigger margin had his fastest lap not been deleted for overtaking the safety car as it headed into the pits.

Melvin Kalousdian was the top Formula Renault 1.6-driving Formula Nordic entrant in 10th, within 0.1s of the top seven and 0.655s slower than Bach.

A lights-to-flag victory followed for Bach in race one, which he won by 2.987s. Poulsen passed Kristiansen for second early on, and a distant Pavlopoulos held off Nissen for fourth by 0.387s.

Hoe was F5 winner in sixth after a bad start which he had to make his way back up the order from, and Kalousdian finished a second clear of FNordic rival Richard Olson in eighth.

Alexia Danielsson and Mille Hoe were non-starters due to technical issues, and the engine issues which plagued the latter led to her brother Mads giving up his car so she could drive it in race two the next day.

Race two’s reversed grid set up more action, and Cecille Noer-Jensen collided with Hoe early on. Nissen made his way to the front before the safety car came out to remove Noer-Jensen’s car, but then fumbled the restart and Pavlopoulos took the lead.

Kristiansen and Bach made their way past Pavlopoulos and finished 2.37s apart, but victory went to the latter after Kristiansen was penalised five seconds for track limits abuse.

Anton Morsing was F5 winner in fourth, holding off several F4 drivers, and Hoe recovered to 10th. Kalousdian and Olson’s fight for eighth place, and FNordic victory, was decided by 0.238s.

Bach was on pole again for race three, which was twice interrupted by the safety car but did not prove disruptive in his route to victory. Kristiansen was second, and Pavlopoulos denied Poulsen third by 0.08s. Kalousdian and Morsing won their classes in fifth and sixth, with Morsing finishing just 0.044s ahead of Nissen.

Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics, FR1.6 entrants in bold]
Race 1 (26 laps)
1 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport 19m09.319s
2 Victor Snebjoern Poulsen STEP Motorsport +2.987s
3 Marius Kristiansen Team FSP +3.872s
4 George Sebastian Pavlopoulos STEP Motorsport +11.543s
5 Casper Nissen STEP Motorsport +11.930s
6 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +16.690s
7 Anton Morsing Mads Hoe Motorsport +17.288s
8 Melvin Kalousdian Race Team Gellerasen +32.663s
9 Richard Olson +33.663s
10 Robin Hafstrom +35.255s
Pole: Bach, 43.560s
Fastest lap: Bach, 43.710s

Race 2 (23 laps)
1 Bach 19m15.249s
2 Kristiansen +2.630s
3 Pavlopoulos +4.013s
4 Morsing +10.725s
5 Nissen +11.092s
6 Poulsen +11.270s
7 Alexia Danielsson Team FSP +11.699s
8 Kalousdian +25.302s
9 Olson +25.540s
10 Mille Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +29.984s
FL: Bach, 43.739s

Race 3 (17 laps)
1 Bach 18m48.232s
2 Kristiansen +0.406s
3 Pavlopoulos +3.702s
4 Poulsen +3.782s
5 Kalousdian +5.683s
6 Morsing +6.364s
7 Nissen +6.408s
8 Hampus Varis +6.925s
9 Olson +7.351s
10 Hafstrom +8.105s
FL: Kristiansen, 44.022s

Championship standings
1 Bach 166   2 Kristiansen 143   3 Poulsen 115   4 Mads Hoe 91   5 Pavoloupolos 76   6 Nissen 64   7 Morsing 60   8 Pedersen 50   9 Danielsson 43   10 Kalousdian 32

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Photo: Nordic 4

Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen took two wins and the title in the final Nordic 4 round at Jyllandsringen.

In the week of the event, the Formula 4 championship announced it would stengthen its ties with the Formula Renault 1.6-based Formula Nordic for 2025.

The Danish and Swedish motorsport federations, and the two respective competitions, have agreed that in addition to sharing grids next year they will make a combined Nordic Championship Formula (NCF) classification taking into account all Nordic 4 and FNordic events.

Since there are already four instances of shared grids, it means F4 drivers only need to do further FNordic rounds in Sweden (in the to-be-determined calendar) for a full NCF campaign. Those two events would only earn them NCF points, since they would not be Nordic 4 rounds.

STEP Motorsport driver Jakobsen was fastest by 0.662 seconds in practice for the finale over Team FSP’s Louis Leveau, who then dominated qualifying. He set a 1m15.762s to take pole by 1.134s over Formula 5 driver Mads Hoe, with Jakobsen 1.319s off the pace in third.

Jakoben leapt from third to first on the opening lap of race one, and stayed at the front for the rest of the race to clinch the title. Leveau held second until lap nine, when an incident sent him down to eighth and then into retirement.

Magnus Pedersen, who started 17th, was the driver who inherited second placem and Hoe held off FSP’s Marius Kristiansen for third. STEP’s Gustaw Wisniewski recovered from a drive-through penalty to finish fourth, and Enzo Hallman was the top FNordic driver in seventh. Just 1.5s but two places behind was Daniel Varverud, enough for him to win the FNordic title.

Hallman and his rival Peder Saltvedt started on the front row for the reversed-grid race two, with Wisniewski and team-mate Sebastian Bach on row two. Unsurprisingly the two F4 drivers leapt past the FR1.6 duo and Wisniewski took his maiden win. Hallman sunk to eighth, but still took home maximum FNordic points.

Jakobsen finished fourth, which helped put him on pole for race three based on the combined finishing positions from earlier in the day. He converted it into a dominant win, his 12th of the season, with F5 champion (and overall FNordic runner-up) Hoe a distant third after Pedersen lost out on a podium finish to a 10s penalty for colliding with another driver.

Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics, FR1.6 entrants in bold]
Race 1 (12 laps)
1 Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen STEP Motorsport 16m18.504s
2 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +6.450s
3 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +13.460s
4 Marius Kristansen Team FSP +13.608s
5 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport +13.752s
6 Gustaw Wisniewski STEP Motorsport +15.333s
7 Enzo Hallman +17.092s
8 Peder Saltvedt Saltvedt Racing +18.535s
9 Daniel Varverud +18.853s
10 Carl Pramming RaceCraft Driver Academy +19.442s
Pole: Louis Leveau, 1m15.762s
Fastest lap: Jakobsen, 1m08.150s

Race 2 (14 laps)
1 Wisniewski 16m13.184s
2 Bach +3.960s
3 Kristiansen +4.090s
4 Jakobsen +6.583s
5 Pedersen +8.499s
6 Hoe +14.164s
7 Laerke Ronn Sorensen STEP Motorsport +21.984s
8 Hallman +22.948s
9 Albin Stureson +24.179s
10 Saltvedt +28.258s
FL: Kristiansen, 1m07.942s

Race 3 (15 laps)
1 Jakobsen 17m16.166s
2 Kristansen +9.653s
3 Hoe +15.570s
4 Bach +16.885s
5 Pedersen +20.701s
6 Saltvedt +26.391s
7 Sorensen +29.331s
8 Sebastian Schou STEP Motorsport +30.444s
9 Hallman +34.035s
10 Leveau Team FSP +34.887s
FL: Jakobsen, 1m07.666s

Nordic 4 standings
1 Jakobsen 399   2 Hoe 321   3 Pedersen 288   4 Bach 263   5 Kristiansen 230   6 Leveau 145   7 Sorensen 130   8 Wisniewski 110   9 Larsen 67   10 Danielsson 45

FNordic standings
1 Varverud 298   2 Hallman 264   3 Saltvedt 225   4 Hafstrom 198   5 Stureson 182   6 Andreas Aichhorn 91   7 Molander 74   8 Joannis Matentzoglou 38   9 Birk August Larsen 26   10 Philip Engbaek 14

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STEP Motorsport’s Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen put one hand on the Nordic 4 title by winning all three races in the penultimate round at Padborg Park.

Jakobsen was beaten to top spot in practice by Magnus Pedersen, who went fastest by 0.227 seconds, then in qualifying Mads Hoe took his self-run Formula 5 car to pole. He set a 1m00.035s to lead STEP’s Gustaw Wisniewski by 0.317s.

Wisniewski’s team-mates Jakobsen, Sebastian Bach and Laerke Ronn Sorensen were a further 0.021s, 0.061s and 0.083s behind respectively.

In race one Wisniewski immediately picked up a drive-through penalty for jumping the start, but he did not serve it and it was converted into a 10s penalty. To overcome the penalty he therefore needed to clear Jakobsen, as both of them had got past Hoe, but was unable to and finished 0.499s behind him. That dropped him to sixth in the final results, with Hoe and Pedersen completing the podium.

Team FSP’s Alexa Danielsson had reversed-grid pole for race two but stopped on the formation lap. She eventually got going again without assistance, and took her place at the front.

At the start she did enough to keep the lead into turn one, as her team-mates struck trouble. Marius Kristiansen spun following contact with Jakobsen exiting turn two, and Mads Kjeldtoft Ljungberg stopped on track.

Sorensen ran in second, and the safety car led the field through lap two. On the restart Sorensen dived to Danielsson’s inside, leaving space for Jakobsen to get into second before then passing Sorensen for the lead. He immediately pulled away and never looked back.

Hoe passed Danielsson for third on lap seven, and Bach went past a lap later. A few corners after that Hoe crashed out, and yellow flags waved. Danielsson continued to lose ground, while Bach pursued Sorensen. He pressured her into a lock-up at turn one on the penultimate lap and seized the position.

Jakobsen and Bach shared the race three front row, and despite a lot of wheelspin Jakobsen led into turn one as Bach had an even worse start. Sorensen spun at turn one, blocking Ljungberg’s path, and Pedersen took second.

He initially created a gap, while unable to match Jakobsen, but by lap five he was under pressure from Bach and Wisniewski. Bach got ahead at turn two on lap seven, then a queue formed behind Pedersen.

Wisniewski ran alonside him at the start of lap 12 but could not get through. An aggressive move on the last corner of lap 14 broke Pedersen’s defences, and behind them Hoe just held off Louis Leveau.

Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics]
Race 1 (16 laps)
1 Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen STEP Motorsport 16m31.561s
2 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +1.417s
3 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +3.085s
4 Marius Kristiansen Team FSP +9.205s
5 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport +10.475s
6 Gustaw Wisniewski STEP Motorsport +0.499s
7 Laerke Ronn Sorensen STEP Motorsport +12.699s
8 Alexia Danielsson Team FSP +18.376s
9 Mads Kjeldtoft Ljungberg Team FSP +21.724s
10 Louis Leveau +28.809s
Pole: Hoe, 1m00.035s
Fastest lap: Pedersen, 1m00.157s

Race 2 (15 laps)
1 Jakobsen 16m20.039s
2 Bach +6.022s
3 Sorensen +7.755s
4 Pedersen +9.465s
5 Danielsson +9.866s
6 Wisniewski +12.245s
7 Mads Kjelde Larsen Mads Hoe Motorsport +22.848s
8 Leveau +23.927s
9 Jorgen Leerskov Leerskov Racing +24.494s
10 Mille Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +29.399s
FL: Kristansen, 1m00.926s

Race 3 (16 laps)
1 Jakobsen 16m27.032s
2 Bach +12.004s
3 Wisniewski +17.332s
4 Pedersen +19.983s
5 Mads Hoe +22.241s
6 Leveau +22.810s
7 Kristiansen +25.542s
8 Danielsson +25.756s
9 Sorensen +39.883s
10 Larsen +43.362s
FL: Jakobsen, 1m00.074s

Championship standings
1 Jakobsen 337   2 Mads Hoe 281   3 Pedersen 247   4 Bach 223   5 Kristiansen 185   6 Leveau 135   7 Sorensen 115   8 Wisniewski 84   9 Larsen 60   10 Danielsson 45

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Photo: Nordic 4

Nordic 4 returned to Sweden for an action-packed fifth round of the season at Falkenberg.

Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen led a STEP Motorsport 1-2-3 in practice, a 43.680s putting him 0.189 seconds ahead of Sebastian Bach on the high-speed circuit. Gustaw Wisniewski was third, with Mads Hoe and Daniel Varverud 0.565s and 0.653s off the pace respectively in fourth and fifth as the top Formula 5 and Formula Renault 1.6 drivers.

The STEP trio were more closely matched in qualifying, with Wisniewski setting a 43.407s to take pole by 0.022s over Jakobsen. Bach was 0.05s back, and Team FSP’s Marius Kristiansen was 0.299s behind in fourth. Hoe qualified sixth, and Enzo Hallman was top FR1.6 runner in ninth.

Race one took place on a soaking wet track, and Jakobsen slid into the lead at the start but Kristiansen made the best launch and tried to nose past before turn one as Magnus Pedersen got into third.

Jakobsen led Kristiansen by 1.068s by the end of lap one, with Pedersen third and Wisniewski already 3.2s back in fourth. The gaps grew on lap two, an it was so wet Jakobsen almost slid off on lap three.

F5 driver Jorgen Leerksov did spin off, getting beached on the grass, and the safety car was summoned as Formula Nordic racer Viktor Molander stalled on track.

Racing resumed on lap six, and Jakobsen quickly built a 1.3s lead. It ebbed and flowed thereon, and although Kristiansen set the fastest lap on lap 14 he found himself two seconds behind a lap later. In the final three laps he began to close back in, but still finished 1.6s behind Jakobsen.

Pedersen was 13.8s back, and had a charging Louis Leveau behind him at the end. Leveau started seventh, and fell to 12th on lap one. He was back in the top 10 by lap seven, was eighth a lap later then was frequently fastest on track as he chased the group fighting for fourth. He cleared them all, meaning Wisniewski finished fifth.

Hallman took sixth from Bach as they went either side of a lapped car, and Albin Stureson finished eighth from 12th on the grid to take reversed-grid pole for race two. Hoe struggled but still took the F5 win in 10th.

A crash in another series that left fluid on the track meant race two was delayed, and Molander stalled on the formtion lap which led to further delays and then more fluid clean-up. There was a second formation lap, then drivers headed around again but this time went to the pits as red flags waved.

After another delay, racing began and Bach swept around the outside of Stureson at turn one to lead as Varverud spun. Bach sprinted away until Alexia Danielsson stopped exiting turn three and the safety car was called at the end of lap three.

Racing resumed on lap six, and Birk August Larsen had a high-speed crash at the final corner. The safety car was not needed, and Hallman made his way from eighth to sixth and into a battle with Leveau. There was a five-car fight up front, but when Bach came uner attack on lap 10 it actually allowed him to pull away from the four behind.

At the last corner, Leveau struck the inside kerb and went into Pedersen, sending them both spinning onto the grass alongside the pit straight. Racing again went uninterrupted, with Jakobsen now in second and outpacing Bach as Wisniewski found himself holding off Hoe for third.

Jakobsen took the lead from Bach as they lapped someone on lap 14, with Wisniewski pressuring Bach in the remaining laps.

Kristiansen was fifth, Hallman finished a very distant sixth (before a 10s penalty for overtaking under yellow flags demoted him to eighth), and Laerke Ronn Sorensen spun away seventh with two laps remaining. Pedersen still scored points by finishing 14th.

Race three’s grid was based on the finishing positions of the first two races combined, putting Jakobsen on pole ahead of Kristiansen. The latter started slowly and was passed by Wisniewski, but reclaimed second place on lap one. However he then fell to fourth on lap six after almost going off at the last corner.

Wisniewski then chased Jakobsen mid-race, but once they began lapping cars the gap between them ebbed and flowed. On lap 13, Wisniewski lost a second as he lapped someone, while Jakobsen almost rear-ended an F5 car at the end of lap 21. The top two closed back up, and Jakobsen took the points lead and his seventh win of 2024 by 0.614s.

Bach held off Kristiansen once he was gifted third place, and Pedersen finished fifth ahead of former points leader Hoe.

Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics, FR1.6 entrants in bold]
Race 1 (21 laps)
1 Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen STEP Motorsport 19m42.867s
2 Marius Kristiansen Team FSP +1.605s
3 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +13.824s
4 Louis Leveau Team FSP +14.467s
5 Gustaw Wisniewski STEP Motorsport +15.021s
6 Enzo Hallman +18.279s
7 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport +20.662s
8 Albin Stureson +21.529s
9 Daniel Varverud +26.976s
10 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +35.158s
Pole: Wisniewski, 43.407s
Fastest lap: Leveau, 50.690s

Race 2 (19 laps)
1 Jakobsen 16m02.649s
2 Bach +0.795s
3 Wisniewski +1.159s
4 Hoe +3.140s
5 Kristiansen +3.398s
6 Mads Kjelde Larsen Mads Hoe Motorsport +17.360s
7 Varverud +18.238s
8 Hallman +21.868s
9 Peder Saltvedt Saltvedt Racing +22.326s
10 Robin Hafstrom +23.160s
FL: Wisniewski, 43.765s

Race 3 (26 laps)
1 Jakobsen 19m12.391s
2 Wisniewski +0.614s
3 Bach +1.648s
4 Kristiansen +2.191s
5 Pedersen +5.333s
6 Hoe +7.324s
7 Leveau +10.066s
8 Hallman +12.435s
9 Laerke Ronn Sorensen STEP Motorsport +17.661s
10 Varverud +22.485s
FL: Wisniewski, 43.648s

Championship standings
1 Jakobsen 262   2 Mads Hoe 253   3 Pedersen 208   4 Bach 177   5 Kristiansen 167   6 Leveau 122   7 Sorensen 92   8 Wisniewski 53   9 Larsen 53   10 Mille Hoe 45

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Photo: Nordic 4

Nordic 4 headed to Sweden for round three of the season, and its races at Karlskoga ran in conjunction with the Formula Renault 1.6-spec Formula Nordic.

Track action began on Friday with a test session, topped by Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen, then a practice session where Jakobsen set a 1m05.661s to be fastest by 0.628 seconds over Magnus Pedersen.

Qualifying took place on Saturday morning, and Jakobsen was fastest again. He set a 1m05.392s to lead Formula 5 racer Mads Hoe and Pedersen by 0.647s, with Louis Leaveau a further 0.022s behind in fourth and Sebastian Bach 0.913s off the pace in fifth. Daniel Varverud was the top FNordic runner in sixth.

A massive downpour hit the track before race one in the afternoon, and Peder Saltvedt managed to miss his grid slot and slide off the track so his car had to be pulled away before the race could begin.

Jakobsen nailed the start, while Pedersen and Varverud had cleared Hoe by turn one.

As Jakobsen streaked away, Hoe was left holding off Marius Kristiansen and Leveau. On lap six the trio closed back in on Varverud, and Hoe passed him at the start of lap seven. Kristiansen and Leveau overtook him a few corners later, then Leveau managed to also get ahead of Kristiansen. Varverud promptly retired in the pits.

There was a 4.4s gap between the top two and 22s back to third when the safety car appeared on lap nine, and Pedersen tried passing Jakobsen around the outside of turn one when racing resumed. He failed, then slid off into the barriers later in the lap.

Jakobsen now had a 4.5s lead over Hoe, which grew to 12.878s by the finish. Bach joined the battle for third late on, and Albin Stureson was FNordic’s top driver in sixth.

It was dry on Sunday morning for the reversed-grid race two. Alexia Danielsson started on pole but was behind Robin Hafstrom and Leveau by the end of lap one. Jakobsen passed her on lap three, and on lap four Leveau and Jakobsen overtook Hafstrom while Danielsson lost fourth to Kristiansen.

On lap six Kristiansen, Pedersen (who started 16th) and Hoe got past Hafstrom as Danielsson sunk even further down the order. Hoe’s retirement a lap later did nothing to help her, and Jakobsen finally broke Leveau’s defences on lap eight.

Jakobsen built a 4.616s lead over the remaining 10 laps, Kristansen held off multiple attacks from Pedersen for third and Bach finished fifth. Hafstrom retired in the pits while running in sixth, so F5 winner Mads Kjelde Larsen inherited the position.

Laerke Ronn Sorensen had to fight his way past Varverud and Stureson to finish seventh.

Jakobsen had race three pole, and took another dominant win. Leveau held off Kristiansen until lap six, when he moved across him at turn one and broke Kristiansen’s front wing. On lap seven Leveau retired, and Bach started attacking Kristiansen. He could not get past, and it allowed Hoe (who started 11th) and Pedersen to close in.

Hoe passed Bach on lap 15 and Kristiansen on his first attempt a lap later, with Kristiansen then going off and retiring. Pedersen cleared Bach on his first attempt on lap 17, then the trio ran in line until the end.

Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics, FR1.6 entrants in bold]
Race 1 (15 laps)
1 Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen STEP Motorsport 20m25.920s
2 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +12.878s
3 Louis Leveau Team FSP +13.230s
4 Marius Kristiansen Team FSP +13.809s
5 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport +14.250s
6 Albin Stureson +21.409s
7 Robin Hafstrom +22.128s
8 Alexia Danielsson Team FSP +22.996s
9 Enzo Hallman +24.264s
10 Mads Kjelde Larsen Mads Hoe Motorsport +24.757s
Pole: Jakobsen, 1m05.392s
Fastest lap: Jakobsen, 1m14.263s

Race 2 (18 laps)
1 Jakobsen 20m09.861s
2 Leveau +4.616s
3 Kristiansen +5.764s
4 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +6.015s
5 Bach +9.927s
6 Larsen +19.199s
7 Laerke Ronn Sorensen STEP Motorsport +21.648s
8 Stureson +24.102s
9 Daniel Varverud +24.437s
10 Danielsson +25.625s
FL: Jakobsen, 1m05.710s

Race 3 (18 laps)
1 Jakobsen 20m07.739s
2 Hoe +11.448s
3 Pedersen +11.623s
4 Bach +11.877s
5 Sorensen +18.768s
6 Varverud +25.868s
7 Danielsson +26.892s
8 Hafstrom +31.962s
9 Mille Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +32.031s
10 Larsen +36.582s
FL: Jakobsen, 1m06.066s

Championship standings
1 Mads Hoe 152   2 Jakobsen 142   3 Pedersen 127   4 Bach 108   5 Kristiansen 97   6 Leveau 80   7 Sorensen 72   8 Larsen 40   9 Mille Hoe 25   10 Danielsson 23

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Mads Hoe dominated the final Danish Formula 4 round of 2022 at Jyllandsringen, as Julius Dinesen was crowned champion.

Dinesen, Sebastian Gravlund and Mika Abrahams went into the weekend fighting for the title, while reigning champion Hoe switched from his usual Formula 5 car to return to an F4 machine.

It was Gravlund who took pole, with a massive 0.937-second gap to Dinesen and 1.032s over the debuting Mikkel Gaarde Pedersen in third.

Gravlund’s advantage did not last long though, as Dinesen overtook him on the opening lap of race one. Hoe started in fourth and only need three laps to make his way to the front, before pulling away to take a record-breaking win by 2.91s.

Gravlund got back ahead of Dinesen on lap four, with Dinesen lacking the pace to stay with the top two.

Gaarde Pedersen, who despite only just turning 14 has already done plentiful test miles in an F4 car, finished fourth on his debut despite having to use the joker lap-style ‘penalty lane’ by the final corner, and Abrahams and Victor Nielsen did battle over fifth before Nielsen fell to seventh.

Nielsen started on the reversed-grid pole for race two and led for almost the entire race until Hoe, from seventh on the grid, came through at turn one with two laps to go.

Abrahams had similarly spent a long time in second place until Hoe got by on lap nine, then he lost further ground as he dropped behind Magnus Pedersen, Theodor Jensen and Abrahams. Just behind Abrahams was Dinesen, who made fell back on lap one from fifth on the grid. It meant he went into the final race eight points ahead of Gravlund.

Hoe and Gravlund shared the front row for race three, but between them by the end of lap one was Gaarde Pedersen and Pedersen from eighth and fifth on the grid respectively. The safety car was summoned as multiple cars spun and the cars of Abrahams and Mille Hoe needed to be recovered from the gravel.

Dinesen emerged from the chaos a distant seventh, but gained a spot when Michella Rasmussen fell to the back. After many laps chasing Nielsen, Dinesen then made it into fifth, and after that an error from Gaarde Pedersen promoted him another place and cost the debutant a maiden podium.

As Hoe romped to a 5.809s win – the 16th of his career – and rose from seventh to third in the standings despite missing two rounds, Dinesen followed third-placed Gravlund home to clinch the title.

Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics]
Race 1 (14 laps)
1 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport 16m29.213s
2 Sebastian Gravlund Team FormulaSport +2.910s
3 Julius Dinesen STEP Motorsport +12.509s
4 Mikkel Gaarde Pedersen GP Racing +24.654s
5 Mika Abrahams Team FSP +25.340s
6 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +26.039s
7 Victor Nielsen STEP Motorsport +30.628s
8 Theodor Jensen Team FormulaSport +1m00.382s
9 Mille Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +1 lap
10 Oliver Kratsch Mads Hoe Motorsport +1 lap
Pole: Gravlund, 1m22.326s
Fastest lap: Mads Hoe, 1m08.268

Race 2 (15 laps)
1 Mads Hoe 17m14.422s
2 Nielsen +1.668s
3 Gravlund +3.846s
4 Pedersen +4.249s
5 Jensen +6.776s
6 Abrahams +8.092s
7 Dinesen +8.149s
8 Mille Hoe +41.764s
9 Kratsch +41.859s
10 Michella Rasmussen Henriksen Racing +58.089s
FL: Mads Hoe, 1m06.924s

Race 3 (13 laps)
1 Mads Hoe 16m21.494s
2 Pedersen +5.809s
3 Gravlund +9.445s
4 Dinesen +9.727s
5 Gaarde Pedersen +11.697s
6 Jensen +15.790s
7 Nielsen +34.014s
8 Kratsch +1m04.341s
9 Rasmussen +1m05.633s
Ret Abrahams
FL: Mads Hoe, 1m08.176s

Championship standings
1 Dinesen 278   2 Gravlund 273   3 Mads Hoe 208   4 Abrahams 204   5 Nielsen 199   6 Pedersen 198   7 Jensen 162   8 Frederik Stena 62   9 Henriksen 51   10 Mille Hoe 49

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The victories were shared across the three races in Danish Formula 4’s penultimate round at Padborg Park.

Team FormulaSport’s Sebastian Gravlund was the driver who topped qualifying, and he was able to open up a big gap at the start of race one following a collision between Theodor Jensen and Magnus Pedersen at the opening corner.

It allowed Julius Dinesen through into second, and he had a 2.5-second gap to overcome through the rest of the race.

He got it down to under under a second on lap 10, and after a few more laps was all over the leader’s gearbox. On the penultimate lap, Gravlund had a bad exit from turn one but somehow remained ahead into turn two. Dinesen got his move done later in the lap, despite his own mistake, then there was yellows at the final corner as Peter Henriksen crashed out as it started to rain.

Dinesen ended up winning by 1.140s from Gravlund, with Pedersen third and Mika Abrahams fourth after getting by Jensen late on.

Oliver Kratsch won the Formula 5 class and started on pole for the reversed grid race two, which counted for little as he stalled and it was Jensen who led the opening lap as Victor Nielsen went deep into the opening corner then had a bit of contact with Jensen.

They spent the race’s first half battling hard, with Gravlund just behind in third, although on lap eight a failed move by Nielsen at turn one allowed Gravlund to get by into second place in the lead group of six.

Eventually that became a pack of four, with Abrahams at the back, but there was no change of positions until the last lap when Gravlund got passed by Nielsen and appeared to pick up a puncture as he then sank to seventh.

Jensen held on to win by 0.587s ahead of Nielsen and 0.979s ahead of Abrahams.

Championship leader Dinesen finished fourth, and had pole for the twilight race three on Saturday. He held off Jensen’s turn one attacks on lap one, but couldn’t do the same on lap two, and then had to sit behind him through a brief safety car period after Abrahams car ground to a halt on track.

Gravlund then demoted Dinesen to third on the restart lap, and two laps later took the lead from Jensen by going around his outside at turn one which then became the inside for turn two.

From there he pulled away to win by 6.69s, with Dinesen challenging Jensen for second through the final laps. Pedersen and Nielsen fought for fifth but their battle got too close and Pedersen ended up dropping to seventh.

Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics]
Race 1 (16 laps)
1 Julius Dinesen STEP Motorsport 17m55.649s
2 Sebastian Gravlund Team FormulaSport +1.140s
3 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +2.386s
4 Mika Abrahams Team FSP +3.558s
5 Theodor Jensen Team FormulaSport +4.818s
6 Victor Nielsen STEP Motorsport +7.230s
7 Oliver Kratsch Mads Hoe Motorsport +25.538s
8 Peter Henriksen Henriksen Racing +37.055s
9 Mille Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +38.596s
Ret Michella Rasmussen Henriksen Racing
Pole: Gravlund, 59.941s
Fastest lap: Dinesen, 1m00.651s

Race 2 (16 laps)
1 Jensen 16m40.404s
2 Nielsen +0.587s
3 Abrahams +0.979s
4 Dinesen +2.312s
5 Pedersen +5.056s
6 Henriksen +12.534s
7 Gravlund +12.587s
8 Kratsch +15.523s
9 Hoe +21.191s
10 Rasmussen +59.169s
FL: Dinesen, 1m01.274s

Race 3 (14 laps)
1 Gravlund 16m04.169s
2 Jensen +6.690s
3 Dinesen +7.187s
4 Nielsen +15.600s
5 Henriksen +23.009s
6 Hoe +23.339s
7 Pedersen +25.915s
8 Rasmussen +45.760s
9 Kratsch +46.106s
Ret Abrahams
FL: Gravlund, 1m00.960s

Championship standings
1 Dinesen 245   2 Gravlund 225   3 Abrahams 186   4 Nielsen 169   5 Pedersen 160   6 Jensen 140   7 Mads Hoe 133   8 Frederik Stena 62   9 Henriksen 51   10 Mille Hoe 43

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Photo: Boxengasse Media – Motorsport Photo & PR

Julius Dinesen now sits 35 points clear in the Danish Formula 4 title race after he won the third race at Jyllandsringen.

The accumulated points of the first two races of the weekend set the grid for the third, putting Mika Abrahams on pole ahead of Dinesen, Sebastian Gravlund and Victor Nielsen.

Abrahams led the way into turn one but then almost spun through turn two, due to a hit from Dinesen he later apologised for, and there was a lot of avoiding action from the drivers behind.

Dinesen and Gravlund had the easiest job in avoiding him and promptly moved into the top two positions, and Gravlund pressured Dinesen for the lead later around the lap.

He couldn’t find a way past, and that proved to be his best opportunity of the race as Dinesen grew his lead to 1.575 seconds over the 14 laps of the race.

Also able to slip past Abrahams on lap one was the self-run Magnus Pedersen, and he was quickly gapped by the top two. On lap four, Formula 5 runner Mads Hoe passed Abrahams started to close in on Pedersen. Once he got onto his gearbox he could not find a way through, but he pressure on the F4 driver at every corner and although Pedersen held on to fourth place, he does drop to third in the standings behind Gravlund.

Abrahams finished a very distant fifth, and came under late pressure from Victor Nielsen who had started in fourth but dropped all the way down the order with a lap one off and had to fight his way back through to finish just on Abraham’s tail in sixth.

One of the drivers he passed on the way was Frederik Stena, who spent most of the race in defence but lost multiple places and finished way back in ninth – albeit with a heavily repaired floor – and behind the debuting Aurelia Nobels and Theodor Jensen.

Race results (14 laps) [F5 entrants in italics]

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