Photo: Spanish Winter Championship

Drivex School’s Nathan Tye leads the Spanish Formula 4 Winter Championship, also known as E4, after round one at Algarve.

The top 12 from qualifying one were reversed to form the front of race two’s grid on Saturday, putting Luna Fluxa (Campos Racing) on pole ahead of Simon Bulbarella (Drivex) and Daniel Kelleher (Campos). Race one winner Tye started 11th, and Andrej Petrovic (Tecnicar Motorsport) lined up fifth.

An amazing launch lifted Rocco Coronel from eighth to third by the opening corner, and MP Motorsport team-mate Reno Francot took a few corners to rise from 10th to sixth. Petrovic tried taking the lead from Fluxa around the turn five hairpin but was sent off and then attacked through turn 10 as well before the safety car neutralised the action. Pablo Riccobono (Global Racing Service) had been wheeled off the pit straight, and Aleix Pinera (Tecnicar) had stopped further around the lap.

Kelleher sat third after starting slowly but then passing Coronel, and there was crash drama on lap two that put Felipe Reijs (MP) and Beau Lowetter (TC Racing) out.

Racing resumed on lap six, and Petrovic got alongside Fluxa twice before making an overtake stick. He then maintained a gap that did not allow her to fight back, and won by 0.865 seconds. Coronel went down Kelleher’s inside into turn one on lap seven, and Francot then attacked Kelleher hard through lap nine until he found a way past.

Kasper Schormans (MP) and Tye finished sixth and seventh, and Noah Monteiro (Campos) charged from 31st to 10th.

Sunday morning began with qualifying two, and Tye edged Monteiro to pole by 0.041s. Vivek Kanthan (Campos) was 0.183s off in third, and 0.071s split Francot, Petrovic and Nacho Tunon (Tecnicar) in the next places. Ty Fisher (Campos), Coronel, Schormans and Kelleher were also within 0.5s of pole, and one second covered the top 19.

Tye was not pressured at first in race three, as Kanthan resisted Francot’s attacks for third place. Monteiro was filling Tye’s mirrors from lap four onwards, then the safety car appeared on lap eight as Schormans had stopped on track. On the lap 11 restart, Tye left it as late as possible to return to racing speeds but did not spend long at pace as Philippe Armand Karras (G4 Racing), Kelleher and Fisher collided at turn five and Jacob Micallef (Campos) retired after spinning.

Two laps remained when racing resumed, and Tye held off Monteiro for a points lead-extending second win.

Francot had attacked Kanthan again at turn five on lap five but gone off, twice on the lap 15 restart, then on the final lap squeezed down Kanthan’s inside at turn five and forced him deep. That left room on the inside for Coronel to slip past for third, and contact with Francot heading to turn six then dropped Kanthan behind Petrovic and Tunon.

Results round-up
Race 2 (11 laps)
1 Andrej Petrovic Tecnicar Motorsport 23m13.549s
2 Luna Fluxa Campos Racing +0.865s
3 Rocco Coronel MP Motorsport +1.771s
4 Reno Francot MP Motorsport +3.590s
5 Daniel Kelleher Campos Racing +4.235s
6 Kasper Schormans MP Motorsport +6.286s
7 Nathan Tye Drivex School +6.970s
8 Nacho Tunon Tecnicar Motorsport +7.613s
9 Vivek Kanthan Campos Racing +7.884s
10 Noah Monteiro Campos Racing +9.172s
Fastest lap: Francot, 1m45.957s

Race 3 (16 laps)
1 Tye 33m25.892s
2 Monteiro +0.361s
3 Coronel +1.860s
4 Francot +2.263s
5 Petrovic +2.650s
6 Tunon +3.127s
7 Kanthan +3.775s
8 Fluxa +4.534s
9 Jean Paul Karras G4 Racing +5.218s
10 Simon Bulbarella Drivex School +7.434s
Pole: Tye, 1m44.796s
FL: Kanthan, 1m45.142s

Championship standings
1 Tye 56   2 Monteiro 31   3 Kanthan 30   4 Petrovic 28   5 Tunon 26   6 Coronel 23   7 Francot 22   8 Schormans 15   9 Fluxa 13   10 Kelleher 12

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Photo: Palou Motorsport

James Egozi will remain with Palou Motorsport in Eurocup-3 this year after winning several races with the team last season.

The 18-year-old American did both the main championship and the winter series in 2025, with the latter kicking things off. He came third in the standings of the three-round series, taking two wins, a second place and a pole.

In the main championship he was ninth after missing the last round, and had five top-five finishes including his victory.

Egozi also did two Formula Regional European Championship rounds last year, and finished 14th in the Macau Grand Prix.

Palou has partnered with Prema for the 2026 Eurocup-3 season, with the latter providing “engineering support in multiple areas throughout the year, including the use of the Prema simulator and advanced technical tools”.

Elsewhere on the grid, Luca Viisoreanu has joined the Thibaut Courtois-owned TC Racing and Stylianos Kolovos has been signed by Drivex School.

Viisoreanu, 16, has experience of third-tier single-seaters (as Eurocup-3 moves to faster cars for 2026) through two Euroformula outings last year. A sixth place was his best result.

He primarily competed in F4 with Real Racing Team, which is run from his home country Romania. A race-winning F4 Central European Zone cameo put him 15th in the standings, while he went points-free in his E4 cameo and came 24th in Italian F4 where he missed the last round. In 2024, also with Real Racing Team, he had come 22nd in E4.

“Eurocup-3 is an important step in my career and a key season to prepare as best as possible for the future,” said Viisoreanu.

“I’m confident that TC Racing is the right environment to keep growing as a driver, and I’m excited to be part of a competitive project with clear and ambitious goals.”

Kolovos is also 16 and has Euroformula experience. The Greek made his single-seater debut in the Monza season finale, and finished ninth on his second start.

He has raced OK class karts since 2024, coming 24th in WSK’s Champions Cup, 26th in its Euro Series, 54th in the Champions of the Future series and 62nd in CIK-FIA World Championship.

Eurocup-3 will run a winter series again this year, and it starts next weekend. Kacper Sztuka has been announced as driving for Tecnicar Motorsport in the three-round series. The 20-year-old Pole came 27th in the FIA Formula 3 Championship two years ago, then stepped down to Eurocup-3 for its last season as a FRegional-based entity.

A podium from his part-time winter series campaign put him 11th in the standings, and in the main championship he was third. Sztuka won twice, claimed five other podiums and two poles. He also came 24th in FREC, which he did three rounds of.

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Photo: GRS

Valerio Rinicella topped Eurocup-3’s final in-season test of the year at Barcelona, where 2025’s racing will conclude this weekend.

There are eight changes to the entry list for the season finale, including several notable absentees.

MP Motorsport’s champion Mattia Colnaghi, Palou Motorsport’s James Egozi and Drivex School’s Oscar Wurz are all racing in the Macau Grand Prix this weekend rather than being in Spain, while three-car team Allay Racing will be absent.

Drivex has replaced Wurz with Ricardo Baptista, who made two Spanish Formula 4 outings with the team this year, and Lorenzo Campos takes over Colnaghi’s car. Campos is currently 27th in Spanish F4, where he raced for Monlau Motorsport.

Adam Hideg is becoming the sixth different driver of Drivex’s #17 car this year, and switches allegiance from Palou after coming 19th in Eurocup-3’s winter series with the team.

Global Racing Service is expanding to two cars by bringing back Yani Stevenheydens, who contested the first two rounds, to partner new signing Maximilian Popov. After debuting last time out with USF Pro 2000 runner-up Ariel Elkin at the wheel, Tecnicar Motorsport will run two cars this weekend for Elkin and Daniel Macia. The latter has a wide mix of racing experience, and came fifth in Spanish F4 in 2021.

Testing on Wednesday was split into three sessions, and in the first MP’s Rinicella set a 1m35.627s to comfortably outpace everyone.

There was a 0.534-second gap to team-mate Maciej Gladysz in second, with the same margin splitting second to 10th place.

Campos Racing’s Jules Caranta was third fastest, 0.036s slower than Gladysz, and MP’s Emmo Fittipaldi was fourth. Hideg failed to set any laps.

Rinicella was quickest again in session two, but set a slower pace. This time a 1m36.039s he posted early on put him on top by 0.186s over late improver Gladysz, with Campos’s Ernesto Rivera 0.318s behind in third. The top 15 was covered by 0.868s, with 18 of the 28 drivers failing to improve on their session one times.

Sainteloc Racing’s Lorenzo Castillo and Palou’s Zack Scoular struck trouble in session three that triggered red flags.

Gladysz was the driver to beat through that session, setting a 1m36.391s early on and improving to 1m35.993s after the stoppage. That would go unbeaten, and it meant he trimmed Rinicella’s advantage in the test’s overall classification to 0.366s.

Campos’s Jesse Carrasquedo Jr got within 0.166s of Gladysz with four-and-a-half minutes to go of testing, then improved two laps to be 0.043s off and third overall for the day, with team-mate Kacper Sztuka similarly making two major gains at the very end to sit 0.161s behind Gladysz and demote Caranta to fifth in the combined classification.

Fourth to eighth in session three was split by 0.071s, and included MP’s Andres Cardenas, Campos’s Francisco Macedo and Drivex’s Michael Belov who were among the 13 improvers.

Test results

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Thomas Strauven took a double pole in Spanish Formula 4 qualifying at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit on Saturday.

The day kicked off with practice, and Campos Racing’s Jan Przyrowski set a 1m33.681s to be quickest by 0.09 seconds.

A quarter of the 35-car field spent time at the top once flying laps were being set during the 40-minute session, which was split in two by a red flag period caused by Tecnicar Motorsport’s Aleix Pinera crashing out at turn four.

Pinera is making his single-seater debut this weekend, having finished 17th in the IAME Winter Cup and come 18th in IAME’s Euro Series on X30 Senior karts this year, while 2024 French F4 runner-up Yani Stevenheydens has joined Global Racing Service’s line-up.

He came 13th in the 2025 Spanish F4 Winter Championship then 21st in Eurocup-3’s winter series and is currently 16th in its main championship after doing the first two rounds.

Stevenheydens ended practice in 24th, the first driver to be over a second off the pace. MP Motorsport’s Rene Lammers was Przyrowski’s closest rival, with Strauven (Campos), Ean Eyckmans (MP), Andrej Petrovic (Tecnicar), Vivek Kanthan (Campos) and Reno Francot (MP) also all within a third of a second of him.

Drivex School’s Christopher Feghali topped the timesheet several times but ended practice in 11th.

Qualifying was in the early afternoon, and TC Racing’s Alfio Spina was quickest at first. He led Pinera a third of the way through the 20-minute session, then Pinera improved to 1m35.331s but Strauven moved to the top as he went 0.554s faster than him.

He was not ahead for long, as MP’s Hudson Schwartz set a 1m34.676s. MP’s Juan Cota (MP) and Przyrowski completed a top five covered by a second.

Strauven responded on his next lap with a 1m33.827s, putting him 0.459s clear of Cota, with Przyrowski a further 0.048s behind.

Francot began the session’s second half by edging ahead of Cota by 0.014s, and improved again on his next lap. But Strauven did the same, posting a 1m33.813s to remain on top by 0.22s. Lammers and Przyrowski were less than 0.05s behind Francot.

Przyrowski later cut Strauven’s advantage to 0.113s, and Cota demoted Francot to fourth by 0.001s.

Strauven and Przyrowski made 0.001s gains with five minutes to go, and found more pace on their next laps. A 1m33.69s kept Strauven ahead by 0.086s, as Lammers set two 1m33.9s laps to take and then hold third place.

Nobody improved at the end, locking in a top five featuring Cota and Francot, and also the race two grid set by drivers’ second-best laptimes.

Strauven earned pole for that race by 0.222s over Przyrowski, with Lammers a further 0.019s back while Cota and Francot were fourth and fifth again.

Eyckmans was the top rookie, and will start sixth for both races, with a second covering the top 22 in qualifying.

Qualifying round-up
Race 1 grid
1 Thomas Strauven Campos Racing 1m33.690s
2 Jan Przyrowski Campos Racing +0.086s
3 Rene Lammers MP Motorsport +0.235s
4 Juan Cota MP Motorsport +0.342s
5 Reno Francot MP Motorsport +0.343s
6 Ean Eyckmans MP Motorsport +0.395s
7 Santino Panetta TC Racing +0.417s
8 Niklas Schaufler MP Motorsport +0.440s
9 Vivek Kanthan Campos Racing +0.473s
10 Miguel Costa Campos Racing +0.497s

Race 2 grid
1 Strauven 1m33.703s
2 Przyrowski +0.222s
3 Lammers +0.243s
4 Cota +0.383s
5 Francot +0.412s
6 Eyckmans +0.479s
7 Costa +0.505s
8 Schafuler +0.535s
9 Noah Monteiro Campos Racing +0.554s
10 Kanthan +0.569s

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Tecnicar Motorsport will make its Eurocup-3 debut at Jerez this weekend, running USF Pro 2000 runner-up Ariel Elkin.

It had previously been announced that Spanish team Tecnicar would join the grid in 2026 when Eurocup-3 goes from being a Formula Regional-based series to a third-tier competition by introducing the Dallara 326 chassis.

Elkin, 18, came fourth in USF Juniors last year then leapt up to the third-tier USFP2000 for 2025. As a rookie he claimed three victories, three poles and will likely test an Indy Nxt car in the off-season as he evaluates where to race next year.

Alan Orzynski, currently second in the Formula 4-spec Skip Barber Formula Race Series, will become the fifth different driver this year to race Drivex School’s #15 entry in Eurocup-3 at Jerez, while Palou Motorsport is without Luciano Morano (who is yet to score this season) and has replaced him with Brazilian F4 points leader Heitor Dall’Agnol.

In the supporting Spanish F4 championship, there are also line-up changes for this weekend. Drivex’s other #15 car will appear for the third time this season, and will be driven by Rafaela Ferreira.

The 20-year-old Brazilian was fourth in her home F4 championship last year, and this year has been driving for Campos Racing in Europe. She came 24th in the Formula Winter Series standings as a part-timer, and is currently 11th in the all-female F1 Academy championship.

TC Racing is without Santiago Baztarrica, who sits 20th in the points table, and its three-car line-up will be completed by Brazilian driver Rogerio Grotta. He was seventh in Brazilian F4 last year, winning one race, and is currently ninth in the 2025 standings after two rounds.

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Euroformula is committed to continuing being an alternative to FIA F3 for drivers based in Europe, but there’s now another Spanish-run third-tier single-seater series on the continent seeking the same market space

The pyramid to Formula 1 can sometimes be a tricky one to draw out, since Formula 2 and Formula 3 are now the names of spec championships rather than actual formulas, and Formula 4 is actually the fifth-tier category below Formula Regional.

This is all ignoring the Road to Indy, where there are open-wheel cars going from the second down to the fifth tier and all designed to prepare drivers for IndyCar. The third and fourth tiers there aren’t really comparable to Europe’s.

The F3-level third tier currently consists of the FIA F3 Championship and Euroformula (with Japan’s Super Formula Lights series using the same cars) for contemporary machinery, then there are some series still using the last generation of F3 cars.

FRegional, and championships using FRegional-based cars, fill the fourth tier. The category is incorporated into the name of all the FIA-certified championships except for the planned AU3.

Launched as FRegional Australia but rebranded before getting underway, it cancelled its pre-season test and inaugural race event at late notice this May due to an issue with shipping cars from New Zealand. It also left it very late to cancel what would have been round two in June. Last month it should have raced at Sandown, but instead the 2025 season was called off.

The other FRegional-spec series without the name is Ultimate Cup Series’ Formula Cup, which uses the Tatuus T-318.

That car has been the design inspiration or basis of several other chassis from the Italian manufacturer, including the F3-T318 used in Eurocup-3, FRegional Oceania’s FT-60 and for the more bespoke MSV GB3-025 raced in GB3 to ensure it remains on par with European rivals.

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GB3 had previously used a heavily upgraded Tatuus design that sat between FRegional and F4 in performance, and which was upgraded again to be reused this year in the formerly F4-spec GB4. In 2026, Britain has a de facto fourth-tier single-seater championship in GB3, one that sits just below in GB4, and then the truly fifth-tier British F4.

There will be lots of car changes in FRegional next year, as both Tatuus and Ligier introduce second-generation chassis.

Eurocup-3 will not be adopting the new Tatuus T-326, since it will instead be adopting a whole new technical ruleset.

Last week it announced it will be becoming a third-tier series from 2026 onwards, and will do so by switching to the ‘new’ Dallara 326 car with power supply from TOM’S-developed 1.6-litre turbocharged Toyota units.

The ‘326’ designation belongs to a bodykit in development for the six-year-old F3-level Dallara 320 car, and which will be remarkably close in specification to the ‘324’ bodykit introduced to SF Lights last year and in Euroformula this season.

Both of those championships also exclusively run the TOM’S engines, and Eurocup-3 has hired Engiser 101 to be its tuning partner for when it introduces them. The electronics will be the same, and the similarities extend to the GT Sport-run Euroformula and Eurocup-3 both being run by Spanish promoters.

On technical aspects, the main difference next year may well be tyres. Euroformula runs on Pirellis, Eurocup-3 will use a new compound from Hankook, and SF Lights is yet to name a supplier for after its current two-year deal with Kumho.

Since its launch in 2023, Eurocup-3 has done well to establish itself against the immensely popular FRegional European Championship with teams and drivers. Now it has its sights set on Euroformula, and arguably FIA F3 too, and what has been announced already about their 2026 seasons supports that.

2026 calendars

FIA F3 will support F1 for all 10 of its rounds next year, with street races in Melbourne, Monaco and Madrid’s new circuit.

The eight-round Eurocup-3 schedule will feature five of next year’s F1 tracks, including the planned ‘Madring’. Its race weekend there will take place in August, several weeks before F1 visits and will possibly make it the first ever championship to race on it. It will also visit Silverstone, which European series rarely visit due to having to ship cars to Britain.

Euroformula and the Formula Renault Eurocup (which used FRegional cars for its last two seasons in 2019 and ’20 before its assets were inherited by the FREC paddock) last raced there in 2019, and the all-female W Series only headed there in 2021 and ’22 due to being an F1 support and all of its entries being operated by a British team.

There are four F1 tracks on Euroformula’s 2026 calendar, since it has dropped the Red Bull Ring for a first ever trip to Misano.

In addition to a calendar, Eurocup-3 has announced it will have at least nine teams on the grid next year. Its four Spanish squads (Campos Racing, Drivex School, Global Racing Service and Palou Motorsport) will continue, along with Dutch outfit MP Motorsport, and stepping up from the Spanish F4 championship under the same promoter will be two more Spanish operations: Tecnicar Motorsport and the TC Racing team founded by goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois with the assistance of ex-F1 driver Roberto Merhi.

Total newcomers to the paddock will be British teams Double R Racing and Hitech GP, and Eurocup-3 aims to complete its grid with a 10th team.

Double R raced in Euroformula from 2019 to ’21, running future F1 and IndyCar drivers, and through its sister company Fine Moments ran all of W Series’ cars. Its last race outings were the final two rounds of the 2023 British F4 season, and it has been a test-only team since then.

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Euroformula will continue with Dallara’s ‘324’ bodykit next season, and has shared pictures from the manufacturer as it produces six more of them to be ready for use later in 2025.

A new name in the GT Sport paddock, starting with next month’s round at the Red Bull Ring, is Roland Rehfeld. The long-time team manager and then sporting director of PHM Racing retained that role for its F2 and FIA F3 squads when they were purchased by AIX Investment Group last year and rebranded, but as of this week he is no longer working for the team and has moved into a team management position at Euroformula dominator Motopark.

The FIA has confirmed to Formula Scout that FREC will switch to Toyota engines next year that will be built by Autotecnica since a deal with Alpine – that included branding of the championship and its Renault engines – ends this season. Tatuus’s second-generation T-326 chassis is set to succeed the T-318 after seven seasons of use, and two following the introduction of an update kit to reduce the physical effort required to steer the car.

ACI Sport will continue to promote FREC, and the FIA will support the Italian motorsport federation by providing technical expertise and staff (such as stewards and technical delegates) while helping revise its sporting and technical regulations.

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MP Motorsport’s Rene Lammers was fastest in practice at Motorland Aragon for Spanish Formula 4’s season opener, which has attracted a 36-car field.

The half-hour session featured plenty of action, and TC Racing’s Santino Panetta was quickest after the first five minutes.

Campos Racing’s Noah Monteiro lowered the pace to 2m03.573s after eight minutes, then MP’s Hudson Shwartz set a 2m02.358s a minute later. At the 10-minute mark he was down to fifth, as Campos’s Thomas Strauven and Matus Ryba lapped in the 2m01s and Sacha Van’t Pad Bosch (Tecnicar Motorsport) and Jan Przyrowski (Campos) also beat him.

Przyrowski was first to to lap sub-2m01s, then was immediately beaten by a 2m00.625s from Strauven. Lammers was briefly third, then Campos’s Miguel Costa and Monteiro occupied the position.

TC’s Alfio Spina and Shwartz were next to break into 2m00s territory, and approaching practice’s halfway point Monteiro lowered the pace to 1m59.776s. Strauven and Przyrowski improved to 2m00.519s and 2m00.629s in third, before Schwartz beat both with a 2m00.458s.

Strauven returned to the top by setting a 1m59.533s, and Costa also beat Monteiro by 0.045 seconds.

There was more change with 12 minutes to go, as Przyrowski briefly usurped Strauven before he responded with a 1m59.262s lap.

Van’t Pad Bosch, team-mate Andrej Petrovic and Shwartz demoted Costa to sixth with just under 11 minutes remaining, and there was a surprise name leading the way entering the final 10 minutes as Campos’s Vivek Kanthan shot to the top with a 1m59.097s.

Lammers rose up the order to second with nine minutes to go, posting a 1m59.154s, but Strauven almost instantly bettered him by 0.027s. At this point, 0.841s covered the top 15.

Przyrowski laid down a new benchmark two-and-a-half minutes later, a 1m58.828s putting him 0.209s clear of the improving Kanthan. Petrovic and Costa both set sub-1m59.1s laps to be third and fourth with five minutes to go, and shortly after the session’s fastest lap arrived: a 1m58.656s from Lammers.

Sector four was the only one he was quickest in, while Przyrowski was fastest through the first and third but ended the session in eighth. Few drivers improved late on, although Monlau Motorsport’s Francisco Monarca did jump to ninth at the chequered flag.

Technical issues led to Jean-Paul Karras, Edu Robinson, Christopher Feghali, Alex Powell and Santiago Baztarrica being black flagged, with Robinson getting a stop-go penalty before getting black flagged again. Six other drivers went on to be black flagged, including Lammers.

In the days leading up to the season opener, Tecnicar announced a four-car line-up completed by Wiktor Dobrzanski and Nacho Tunon. They came 22nd and 25th in the 2025 Spanish F4 Winter Championship, while Van’t Pad Bosch was 20th.

Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior and 2025 F4 Middle East runner-up Powell is driving for Sainteloc Racing, but it has not been confirmed if he will race beyond round one, while Drivex School’s six-car Aragon line-up has been completed by Artem Severiukhin who came 10th in Iberia’s Formula Winter Series.

Free practice results

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Campos Racing’s Thomas Strauven became Spanish Formula 4 Winter champion in the final race at Navarra, won by Tecnicar Motorsport’s Andrej Petrovic.

Qualifying for the title decider took place on a damp track in the morning, with drivers heading out on wet compound tyres. The driver who mastered the conditions was MP Motorsport’s Ean Eyckmans, who went over a second faster than anyone else.

Petrovic was best of the rest, beating MP’s Rene Lammers to second place by a tiny 0.016 seconds, and Drivex School’s Christopher Feghali was the only other driver within two seconds of pole. Strauven was a massive 4.982s off the pace down in 13th, and only 24 of the 32 drivers were within the maximum qualifying time.

After results revisions and grid penalties, Strauven found himself 10th on the grid, three places ahead of title rival Jan Przyrowski.

The track was dry, but Eyckmans struggled to get off the line and Lammers led into turn one. Petrovic also got past, and Strauven got up to eighth. The title was decided mid-lap as Przyrowski was eliminated in a crash with Campos team-mate Vivek Kanthan. Tecnicar’s Nacho Tunon, Rodin Motorsport’s Kyuho Lee and Sainteloc Racing’s Philippe Armand Karras also retired.

Strauven made further progress before the safety car was summoned, and following the restart he fought Eyckmans for fourth as Rodin’s Nathan Tye established himself in third.

Lammers led the rest of the race, but got a five-second penalty for jumping the start that handed victory to Petrovic. Tye and Strauven were promoted to second and third.

MP’s Yani Stevenheydens finished fifth on the road but got a 15s penalty for track limits abuse and dropped out of the points, with Eyckmans instead completing the top five.

Race results (16 laps)

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Spanish Formula 4 has announced its cars will start using “advanced sustainable fuel” this season.

French company ETS Racing Fuels will supply it, and its mix will contain “25% advanced sustainable components” this year. Over the course of four seasons it plans to introduce cleaner mixes, until the field is using a ‘100% sustainable’ fuel in 2028.

Quality controls will be introduced to ensure no team gains a performance advantage through the fuel.

There have been many drivers over the last week announced as entering Spanish F4’s 2025 season. MP Motorsport is close to revealing its line-up in full, having named Niklas Schaufler and Hudson Schwartz as signings.

Red Bull junior Schaufler recently turned 15, and made his single-seater debut with MP in Spanish F4’s Winter Championship season opener.

On OK Junior karts the Austrian won the 2023 Italian championship and South Garda Winter Cup, and last year won WSK’s Champions Cup and Super Master Series, was Champions of the Future runner-up and sixth in the CIK-FIA European championship. Schwartz is a third-year single-seater racer who has already come eighth in USF Juniors and USF2000.

Drivex School has signed Kaiden Higgins and Stepan Suslov. Australian junior karting graduate Higgins was seventh in the 2024 Rotax Max Challenge International Trophy, and Suslov comes across from sportscars. He moved from karts to the Iberian Supercars championship last year, driving an Aston Martin Vantage GT4. In the overall standings he was 22nd, and fourth in the classification for Bronze-graded drivers. He began testing in F4 last November.

Monlau Motorsport has three drivers signed: Lorenzo Campos, Alexander Jacoby and Francisco Monarca.

Angolan racer Campos made his F4 debut at the 2024 Motorsport Games, then contested a Spanish F4 round at Jerez. In 2023 he came third in the WSK CC on an X30 Junior kart, and was 16th in the FIA Karting Academy Trophy.

Jacoby was 40th in Spanish F4 and made a Brazilian F4 cameo in 2024, and Monarca steps up from Argentina’s karting scene.

Sainteloc Racing has also put together a three-car line-up, consisting of Christian Garduno and the Karras twins Jean Paul and Philippe Armand. Garduno is a Mexican karter with F4 test experience, and the Karrases are marginally more experienced. They cameoed in F4 Central European Zone last year, and Philippe Armand represented Greece in the Motorsport Games’ F4 event. The pair spent their karting careers in France.

Tecnicar Motorsport’s first signing is Saudi Arabian F4 runner-up and F4 CEZ race-winner Andrej Petrovic, Rodin Motorsport has added South Korea’s Kyuho Lee – winner of the 2024 FIA World Cup for OK-N karts and currently 17th in F4 Middle East – to its line-up and Argentinian junior karting champion Santino Panetta has joined TC Racing.

Many of the drivers entered last weekend’s Spanish F4 WC opener at Jerez. Schaufler and Schwartz are seventh and eighth in the standings, and further back are Petrovic (11th), Jacoby (18th), Lee (22nd), Philippe Armand Karras (23rd), Suslov (27th), Jean Paul Karras (28th), Monarca (29th), Panetta (30th), Garduno (32nd) and Campos (33rd).

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Spanish Formula 4’s new winter series, dubbed the ‘Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship’, was launched at Jerez on Friday with two test sessions.

There were 33 drivers in attendance, and two more are entered into the inaugural round of the series this weekend.

In the opening two-hour session, Jan Przyrowski set a 1m43.450s to lead team-mate Thomas Strauven by 0.31 seconds. There were part of a six-strong Campos Racing line-up, alongside Miguel Costa, Vivek Kanthan, Matus Ryba and Noah Monteiro.

Strauven came seventh in Spanish F4 last year, Przyrowski came 10th in Spanish F4 last year and Ryba was 28th. Costa, Monteiro and Kanthan are all stepping up from karting, and Monteiro is following in the path of his father Tiago who raced in Formula 1.

Tecnicar Motorsport’s Andrej Petrovic was third fastest in session one, 0.028s behind Strauven and 0.031s ahead of Drivex School’s Red Bull junior Christopher Feghali.

Saudi Arabian F4 runner-up Petrovic has two team-mates: fellow F4 sophomore Wiktor Dobrzanski and Sacha Van’t Pad Bosch. He starred in a United States F4 cameo last year, and turns 15 tomorrow.

Stepan Suslov comes across from racing GT4 sportscars to partner Feghali at Drivex, along with the Spanish F4-experienced Filippo Fiorentino and Brazilian F4 race-winner Gino Trappa.

TC Racing has expanded to three cars after running two in Spanish F4 last year, and the experienced Alfio Spina leads its line-up. He was the last driver in session one to get within half a second of Przyrowski’s pace, with the top 17 split by a second.

His team-mates are Santiago Baztarrica, who used to race in Formula Nacional Argentina and karting graduate Santino Panetta.

All but 12 of the drivers improved their pace in session two, while Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America racer Courtney Crone (ART Grand Prix) and Reno Francot (MP Motorsport) were absent. Francot is currently at Dubai Autodrome competing in F4 Middle East, while it is unclear if Crone will race.

Kanthan moved to the top of the timesheet, a 1m43.139s putting him 0.214s ahead of Strauven and 0.29s clear of MP’s Rene Lammers.

Spanish F4 podium-finisher Lammers had four team-mates with him on track: Richard Mille Young Talent Academy shootout winner Ean Eyckmans, French F4 runner-up Yani Stevenheydens, USF2000 podium-finisher Hudson Schwartz and Red Bull junior Niklas Schaufler who is stepping up from karting.

Przyrowski and Spina were fourth and fifth again, ahead of Eyckmans, Petrovic, Feghali and Rodin Motorsport’s Nathan Tye. The F4 sophomore’s team-mates are Emma Felbermayr, who was due to race for the team in the rival Formula Winter Series in Iberia, and Kyuho Lee. He won the 2024 FIA World Cup for OK-N karts, and is currently 15th in F4 ME after doing the first two rounds.

Test results

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