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Hitech GP has completed its 2026 GB3 line-up with the signings of Deagen Fairclough and Yuhao Fu.

Fairclough is returning to GB3 after coming third in last year’s standings and scoring a maiden victory at the Monza finale.

The 19-year-old started his car racing career driving tin-tops in Junior Saloons and BRSCC Fiesta Junior before earning a move into single-seaters by winning a ROKiT-backed Racing Star Formula 4 Esports competition.

He finished third as a rookie in British F4 in 2023 with JHR Developments, and a switch to Hitech for his sophomore season yielded a dominant title success with a record-breaking 14 wins. 

Fairclough was the recipient of the 2024 Silverstone Autosport BRDC Award, and tested an Aston Martin Formula 1 car last year as part of his prize.

“I’m really happy to be staying with Hitech for another season in GB3,” he said. “Last year taught me a lot, and I feel like we’ve built a strong base together. I’m excited to keep working with the team and to go into 2026 ready to fight for strong results.”

“Deagen made strong progress throughout his first GB3 season, and his commitment and work ethic stood out,” added Hitech’s GB3 team manager Phil Blow.  “Having continuity for a second year is a big positive, and we believe that with his experience base, he’s well positioned to take another step forward in 2026.”

Fu is stepping up to GB3 after two seasons competing in F4.

The 16-year-old made his first single-seater starts in the UAE4 and F4 South East Asia in 2023. The following year he came fourth in Chinese F4, taking two victories, and was 19th in British F4 with Virtuosi Racing.

In 2025 he took 15th in the F4 Middle East championship and was 25th in British F4 following a switch to Xcel Motorsport.

“I’m really excited to be joining Hitech for this GB3 campaign,” said Fu. “After gaining so much experience across different series, I’m looking forward to working with the team and pushing for strong results in 2026.”

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Race Performance Motorsport has named Miguel Costa and Giovanni Maschio in its Formula Regional European Championship and Middle East line-ups for 2026.

Costa, 16, steps up to FRegional with one year of single-seater experience under his belt. The Brazilian spent 2025 racing for Campos Racing in Spanish Formula 4, and started on a high by coming eighth in the Winter Championship with one podium.

In the main championship, he was only 14th in the points table and his best result was a fourth place. Costa graduated from karting, where he was 11th in the CIK-FIA World championship and 14th in CIK-FIA European championship on OK karts.

“I’m proud and excited to be joining R-P-M for the next stage of my career,” he said. “I strongly believe that, together, we can grow and achieve great things.

“With a new year comes a new phase for everyone: the highly traditional and competitive FREC and FRME championships, a new car, new tyres, and a fresh baseline from which to start. We’re fully focused on tackling the 2026 season and aiming for a lot of success.”

Maschio will be embarking on his fourth seasons in FREC and FRME, and has already spent two years with R-P-M in the former. In his 36 FRME races he has had one top-10 finish, while in FREC he already has 60 starts to his name and only scored three times. He came 17th in the 2025 standings with six points.

“Super happy to start a new challenge with the team, with the new car it is going to be really challenging,” said the 19-year-old Italian. “I know already the team very well, so I’m sure we will achieve good results this year.”

The pair will be team-mates to Jan Przyrowski, who was 2025 Spanish F4 Winter Championship runner-up.

Van Amersfoort Racing has announced Yuhao Fu as part of its FRME line-up. The 17-year-old has been racing in F4 since 2023, with mixed results.

He won twice en route to fourth in the Chinese F4 standings as a part-timer in 2024, but only made the top 10 once in a full British F4 campaign that year and was points-free in F4 United Arab Emirates. In 2025 he raced for Xcel Motorsport, coming 15th in F4 Middle East and 25th in British F4.

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British Formula 4 teams have been in action this month for testing at Oulton Park and Donington Park.

The days at Oulton Park, which Rodin Motorsport helped book and ran on the Island layout, featured nine drivers.

James Piszcyk (Rodin) was fastest on the first morning, setting a 1m20.769s to lead Henry Joslyn (Fortec Motorsports) by 0.113 seconds. Tommy Harfield (Chris Dittmann Racing) was third fastest, 0.395s behind.

Joslyn lowered the pace to 1m20.124s in the afternoon, and Piszcyk improved but was 0.227s off the new benchmark laptime. Harfield was third again, just 0.336s off.

Piszcyk returned to the top the next morning with a 1m20.184s, pipping Martin Molnar (Virtuosi Racing) by 0.093s and Joslyn by 0.103s. All but two drivers improved in the afternoon, and Molnar posted a 1m19.926s late on to go 0.121s ahead of Joslyn. Piszcyk and August Raber (Argenti Motorsport) were also within 0.4s of the pace.

Joslyn, 15, is moving to British F4 after two seasons in entry-level sportscar series Ginetta Junior. He won four times en route to fourth in the 2024 standings.

In 2022 he was IAME Euro Series runner-up, fourth in the British Kartmasters Grand Prix and seventh in the IAME Warriors Final for X30 Junior karts, and was 15th in the FIA Karting Academy Trophy.

Raber has switched over from Xcel Motorsport for his sophomore British F4 season, having come 21st last year with a best finish of fifth an injury-interrupted campaign. He was eighth in F4 Middle East earlier this year, and won a race there.

Joining Xcel is Yuhao Fu. The 16-year-old was 18th last season with Virtuosi, and fourth on home soil in Chinese F4 where he claimed two victories. He was 15th in F4 Middle East, which concluded two weeks ago.

Harfield, also 16, was part of CDR’s driver development programme in 2024 while racing in the BRSCC Fiesta Junior championship. His time in touring cars was interrupted by a hand injury, but did include two wins.

The entry list grew to 16 drivers for British F4’s official pre-season test day on Donington’s National layout, and in the morning Raber set a 1m04.879s to edge Rodin’s Ella Lloyd to top spot by 0.059s. Piszcyk was a further 0.086s back, and also within 0.2s of Raber were Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior Ethan Jeff-Hall (Argenti), Joslyn and Molnar.

Laptimes were considerably slower in the afternoon, as a 1m10.925s was enough to put Argenti’s Henry Mercier on top. He was fastest by 0.201s over Molnar and by 0.421s over Raber.

Also confirmed as joining the 2025 grid before that test were Xavier Avramides (Hitech GP) and Adam Al Azhari (Rodin).

Avramides, 16, comes from Australia. He finished 23rd in the USA SuperNationals for X30 Jr karts, then on OK karts was 10th in WSK’s Euro Series and 14th in its Super Master Series.

Al Azhari, younger brother of 2024 Spanish F4 runner-up Keanu, came 24th in Spanish F4 last year as a part-timer and 12th in the UAE’s Formula Trophy. More recently he was 10th in F4 Middle East.

Test results

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Kaishun Liu and Pedersen topped the two qualifying sessions to take pole for races one and three respectively.

In Q1, Liu set a 1m39.333s to lead Fu by 0.447 seconds. Pedersen was a further 0.037s behind, and Ethan Ho set 13 laps in his efforts to go fourth fastest.

Q2 was slightly faster, as a 1m39.331s lap earned Pedersen pole. Fu was 0.105s slower than him in second, Liu was 0.384s off in third and Fukang Jiang qualified fourth.

Liu quickly lost out to Fu and Pedersen at the start of race one, with Ho also getting past. Liu reclaimed a spot on lap four, and Pedersen made his way into Fu’s mirrors but was unable to attack him despite many laps following his every move.

Liu had shaken off Ho by lap seven, but they were back together on lap 10 when the safety car appeared due to Patrick Tsang and Kaiwen Yang crashing.

There were six laps to go when racing resumed, and there was a three-wide fight for fourth which Ho emerged on top of until later in the restart lap when Jiang got past. Pedersen was in Fu’s mirrors again without attacking the winner, and Liu almost kept with them. Yi Wang was sixth.

Jun Fei had reversed-grid pole for race two, but by turn two was already behind Jing Zefeng and Zhanbin Jia. He was unable to profit from Jia going off, and the top two then began battling.

Liu ended lap one with a risky move that put him into fourth ahead of Ho, he picked off Jia on lap two then took the lead into turn one on lap three. Zefeng and Jia continued to battle until a three-car crash at turn one caused a safety car period, moments after Pedersen got between them.

The field was released on lap seven and Pedersen attempted to pass Zefeng into turn one. Zefeng kept him at bay until the Swede pulled off a switchback move at turn 10, while Jia went off.

Liu escaped up the road, and Zefeng lost several more places. The race’s second half involved Pedersen reducing Liu’s lead from three seconds to one. Ho finished way ahead of Fu, and Jia had a big gap to a lengthy scrap for sixth which Wang prevailed in.

There was minimal overtaking in race three, as Pedersen converted pole into his fourth win. Liu passed Fu for second, Jiang held fourth and Wang edged ahead of Ho for fifth. Pedersen and Liu went into the finale split by 25 points, with Liu able to become champion on victory countback. The pair shared row five of the reversed grid, and Yang was on pole.

Zefeng led into turn one, and Pedersen and Liu were seventh and ninth before the safety car was called. Venom’s Yuzhe Wang pressured Zefeng for the lead on the restart, and lap five began with a three-wide lead move. Wang took the lead ahead of Fu, then the safety car returned. Liu and Pedersen were now fifth and sixth.

Liu overtook two cars at turn one on the next restart as Fu grabbed the lead, and when Liu tried to clear Jiang on the next lap he went off but it was inconsequential. Fu romped away, and Jiang resisted Liu until a diving penultimate lap pass. Juang did fight back, but to no avail, and Pedersen was crowned by finishing right behind in fourth.

Results round-up
Race 1 (17 laps)
1 Yuhao Fu Black Blade Racing 33m21.770s
2 Oscar Pedersen Venom Motorsport +0.787s
3 Kaishun Liu Black Blade Racing +1.469s
4 Fukang Jiang Blackjack Racing +7.548s
5 Ethan Ho Team KRC +7.953s
6 Yi Wang Champ Motorsport +9.212s
7 Jun Zhang Black Blade GP +13.415s
8 Zhanbin Jia Team KRC +21.346s
9 Jing Zefeng AdamCar Motorsport +23.651s
10 Jun Fei Geeke ACM Racing +24.185s
Pole: Liu, 1m39.333s
Fastest lap: Fu, 1m39.920s

Race 2 (17 laps)
1 Liu 33m02.188s
2 Pedersen +1.065s
3 Ho +5.730s
4 Fu +12.313s
5 Jia +16.561s
6 Yi Wang +25.431s
7 Zhang +27.965s
8 Zefeng +28.880s
9 Yuzhe Wang Venom Motorsport +29.211s
10 Fei +30.271s
FL: Pedersen, 1m39.832s

Race 3 (17 laps)
1 Pedersen 32m55.975s
2 Liu +2.025s
3 Fu +2.413s
4 Jiang +3.216s
5 Yi Wang +4.268s
6 Ho +4.621s
7 Zhang +6.669s
8 Yuzhe Wang +7.732s
9 Zefeng +9.800s
10 Kaiwen Yang Asia Racing Team +10.110s
P: Pedersen, 1m39.331s
FL: Pedersen, 1m39.844s

Race 4 (17 laps)
1 Fu 33m03.844s
2 Liu +7.391s
3 Jiang +8.006s
4 Pedersen +8.797s
5 Yuzhe Wang +14.877s
6 Yang +20.469s
7 Zefeng +23.138s
8 Patrick Tsang Champ Motorsport +24.315s
9 Zhang +28.261s
10 Jia +30.273s
FL: Fu, 1m39.678s

Championship standings
1 Pedersen 320   2 Liu 301   3 Jiang 237   4 Fu 131   5 Yuzhe Wang 92   6 Jia 85   7 Alex Sawer 84   8 Xizheng Huang 69   9 Ho 69   10 Yi Wang 68

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Photo: Virtuosi Racing

Virtuosi Racing has signed Yuhao Fu and Martin Molnar for the 2024 British Formula 4 season.

Both have been testing with the team since last October, and Fu went on to do two F4 South East Asia rounds with Pinnacle Motorsport before the end of the year and had a sixth place as his best result.

The 15-year-old Chinese racer then remained with that team for the 2024 F4 United Arab Emirates season, and 19th was his best result.

“I am very happy to be joining such a good team as Virtuosi Racing. I hope to perform well with the team and get a good result in the new British F4 season,” said Fu.

Molnar won the South Garda Winter Cup and was WSK Champions Cup runner-up on OK karts last year and was a finalist in the Richard Mille Young Talent Academy shootout.

In 2022 the Hungarian was Trofeo delle Industrie runner-up, eighth in the CIK-FIA World championship and 21st in the European championship for OK Junior karts.

“Last August, I had the opportunity to attend a race weekend at Donington Park, and I immediately fell in love with the championship,” revealed the 15-year-old.

“I’m really looking forward to showing what we’re capable of with Virtuosi. A new era is beginning in my career, which could not have happened without my parents and our partners.”

Molnar is coached by Tamas Pal Kiss, a fellow Hungarian who starred in European Rallycross and in junior single-seaters won races in Auto GP, GP3 and Formula Renault UK.

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