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[statman]

Don't think there was a topic, can't find it. But since it's (partly) underway, might be useful to start one.

 

FIA Formula 4 championships:

 

Italian Formula 4

Japanese Formula 4

British Formula 4

ADAC Formula 4 (German)

China Formula 4

SMP Formula 4 (Nordic/Northern)

NACAM Formula 4 (Mexico)

Spanish Formula 4

U.S. Formula 4

South East Asian Formula 4

United Arab Emirates Formula 4

Danish Formula 4

French Formula 4

Argentine Formula 4

Brazil Formula 4

 

 

To begin, big news from Danish F4:

 

14 year old female driver Juju Noda (daughter of Hideki) debuts in this class and...... immediately wins the first race:

 

FScout:

 

Japanese racing prodigy Juju Noda won her first Danish Formula 4 race from pole at Jyllandsringen, marking the first single-seater race in Europe since lockdown.

The 14-year-old daughter of former Formula 1 driver Hideki Noda was beaten in qualifying by Team FSP’s Conrad Laursen, but the karting graduate had set his best lap under yellow flag conditions and therefore had the lap taken away.

This put Noda on pole, and she made a confident start to her first European race. On lap three Laursen started to draw back in, and they fought for the lead through lap four of 15.

Noda responded to the pressure by claiming the fastest lap back, and she stretched out a lead of 2.6 seconds as the race entered its second half.

https://formulascout...ndsringen/63330

 

[statman]

Race 2 reversed grid, Noda takes 3rd for a podium

 

Standings:

 

1 Noda 40 points

2 Ogaard 35

3 Laursen 30

4 Wulf 26

5 Mads Hoe 25

[HistoryFan]

Very nice, but the problem is that this series isn't that much competitive.

[Ali623]

Very nice, but the problem is that this series isn't that much competitive.

 

It's the most competitive she can enter at the moment, I believe she's too young for any other F4 series.

[Risil]

Thank you for explaining what Hideki Noda's daughter is doing in Denmark! You can only beat who's put in front of you anyway.

[JBJ]

She has been disqualified from the second race for a tyre issue.
Stewards excluded her from the results for “using unregistered tyres”

[noikeee]

Sounds like she's genuinely promising, but it's such an early stage of career (14 years old!! we're literally talking about children here), with dubious field in front of her, that she could either turn out to be the new Max Verstappen and the best openwheel female driver ever... Or fail to adapt to GP2 and finish 20th.

Let's remember that name and see where she is again in some 3 or 4 years time. Would be brilliant if she turns out good, just imagine that, F1 has never had a true top female driver, never had a true top Asian driver, and she's the daughter of a random 90s backmarker just to make this story even more interesting.

[statman]

US Formula 4 is starting this weekend at Mid-Ohio.

 

Race 1 already finished. I think you can watch it on facebook, not sure.

[ANF]

US Formula 4 is starting this weekend at Mid-Ohio.
 
Race 1 already finished. I think you can watch it on facebook, not sure.

There's a Vimeo livestream at https://fanracing.live/

Apparently, it will also show the Formula Regional Americas races.

[ANF]

US Formula 4 is starting this weekend at Mid-Ohio.
 
Race 1 already finished. I think you can watch it on facebook, not sure.

Quick summary of race 1: The track was wet and the rain came down. The 30-minute race was shortened to 15 minutes (I don't know why). Several cars went off on the opening lap. The safety car came out. The race finished behind the safety car.

[statman]

forgot to mention that Spanish F4 has started last weekend.

 

18 entrants for the 1st weekend, including an Iranian driver and a female driver (two top 10s).

 

But the big winner was Dutch rookie and karting graduate Kas Haverkort, taking all 3 wins.

[HistoryFan]

Lena Bühler did well.

[ANF]

Spanish F4 wasn't livestreamed, was it? Last year it was on the Real Federación Española de Automovilismo Youtube channel, but all I could find now was live timing.

And the second round of US Formula 4 was held at VIR.

[William Hunt]

Watch out for Marijn Kremers (from the Netherlands) in British F4 this year. 
 

Kremers won the KZ karting world championship last year and it's unusual for a KZ driver to go to single seater cars (they usually stay in karting and make a living from it there, normally they jump from OK Junior to OK and then to Formula 4) hence why he's already 22 and only making his debut now. 
But watch out for him: I expect him to blitz the oposition and storm to the title.

Edited by William Hunt, 23 July 2020 - 01:46.

[William Hunt]

this is some serious bad news for the British F4 championship and for Kremers as well off course, the imho most talented driver of that championship backing out...it shows the sad state junior single seater racing is in. One would want the most talented drivers in single seaters and to succeed in climbing that ladder, unfortunately money rules and even winning a karting world championship is not enough to just enter Formula 4, the FIA really needs to adress these huge costs, it's not serious anymore...

https://formulascout...th-carlin/65244

Edited by William Hunt, 30 July 2020 - 15:12.

[ANF]

More bad news: There are only 11 cars on the ADAC F4 grid this weekend. And 22 in Italian F4, which has had about 30 the last couple of years.

[William Hunt]

More bad news: There are only 11 cars on the ADAC F4 grid this weekend. And 22 in Italian F4, which has had about 30 the last couple of years.

 

If there are really only 11 cars in ADAC F4 that is disaster because it would mean no Super Licence points for any of the drivers competing in it.
I think the FIA should make an exceptions on those rules this year because of corona.

[ezequiel]

I guess some teams/drivers that were confirmed to do both adac and italian championships have had to choose with the new calendars

[A.Fant]

More bad news: There are only 11 cars on the ADAC F4 grid this weekend. And 22 in Italian F4, which has had about 30 the last couple of years.

11 cars!? I thought ADAC had worked it's way up to become the premier F4 championship, that is a terrifyingly low number.

[ANF]

I guess some teams/drivers that were confirmed to do both adac and italian championships have had to choose with the new calendars

Good point. There are 18 drivers on the Wikipedia list https://en.wikipedia...ams_and_drivers
The four Prema drivers are at Misano this weekend, and also Van Amersfoort's Francesco Pizzi.

[William Hunt]

yes but the result is no Superlicence Points this year for ADAC Formula 4 races because if any race has less than 12 entrants they lose all Super Licence Points for that championship.... unless the FIA is willing to make a corona exception for them, breaking their own rules

[William Hunt]

Live timing Qualy (now on) ADAC Formel 4, Oschersleben

[statman]

British F4 underway for the 2nd weekend running, at Brands Hatch

 

Christian Mansell (no relation) winning and female driver Abbi Pulling taking a podium.

 

Top 10 Standings so far:

 

1 Zak O’Sullivan 77

2 Luke Browning 66

3 Roberto Faria 55

4 Alex Connor 54

5 Christian Mansell 49

6 Casper Stevenson 44

7 James Hedley 37

8 Abbi Pulling 35

9 Rafael Villagomez 25

10 Roman Bilinski 22

[ANF]

15 cars compete in ADAC F4 at the Nürburgring this weekend.
Gabriele Minì and Jonny Edgar have topped the two qualifying sessions.
Two races today, at 11:00 and 16:00 CEST, and one tomorrow at 10:30.
Streamed and archived at https://www.youtube.com/adac