Category: ADAC Formula 4

When the ADAC Formula 4 and Italian Formula 4 seasons start in about two months’ time, there will be a brand new team on the starting grid. The now former Sauber Formula 1 team boss Monisha Kaltenborn has started the new team KDC Racing together with Emily Di Comberti. The team will be based in Montmelo, in the industrial park right next to Circuit de Catalunya. That will give the team the perfect opportunities to test with the young talents ahead of their debut and develop them during the season.…

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ADAC Formula 4 has a big turnaround regarding drivers, like it should be in a rookie category. The next batch for the 2018 season is slowly coming together. 18 year-old Joey Alders from the Netherlands has signed for Van Amersfoort Racing. Alders won the Rotax DD2 Championship in his home country in 2017, and already did his first tests for VAR back in December. He proved his pace from the very first moment. He will do plenty of real-life testing around various circuits in Europe prior to the season start,…

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There is a new generation Fittipaldi on the starting grid, when the ADAC Formula 4 2018 kicks off in April. 16 year-old Enzo Fittipaldi has signed a contract with the Prema Powerteam for both the ADAC F4 and the Italian F4 series. Enzo had a guest start in the ADAC F4 at the Nürburgring 2017, and the proved that he could run inside top-10 – in fact he secured a spot on the podium! His regular commitment last year was a full season in the Italian F4 Championship. He has…

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The German ADAC Formula 4 Series are ready with their 2018 calendar. As tradition dictates, the season will start in Oschersleben in April, while the season finishes off at Hockenheim. The series wants to visit all the permanent German tracks, but that means that they can stick to being support series for ADAC GT Masters only. The ADAC GT Masters have chosen not to run at Lausitzring in 2018, so the single-seater series had to do something else. The second round of next year’s ADAC Formula 4 Championship will be…

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Niklas Krütten will enter the ADAC Formula 4 Championship with BWT Mücke Motorsport. The 15 year-old driver will make the jump from karting to single seaters in the upcoming season, where he will add races to the German season by competing in the Italian and the UAE Championships too. The young German has been karting since he was 8 years old, and in 2012 he had his first highlight by finishing third in the West German ADAC Kart Cup. Since then he has been a Top-5 runner in the CIK…

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Everybody knowing only a slight bit about motorsport will know the name Schumacher. Most people will still be thinking about the multiple Formula 1 World Champion Michael, while others think about his son Mick, who has driven ADAC Formula 4 and currently competes in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship. Maybe some are thinking about Ralf Schumacher – the brother of Michael. And it’s that part of the family, that we will be concentrating on in this article. When Ralf ended his DTM career for Mercedes following the 2012 season,…

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After two red flags in the first two ADAC Formula 4 races this weekend, it was thankfully an undramatic finish to the weekend. Marcus Armstrong started the race from Pole Position ahead of Julian Hanses and Enzo Fittipaldi, while Dane Frederik Vesti started fourth. The starting grid for Race 3 was set by the finishing positions in Race 1, where top-10 was reversed, while P11 and backwards would keep their positions. That meant Juri Vips in P6 had a great advantage over his closest rival, Felipe Drugovich, who would only…

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Felipe Drugovich started Race 2 in ADAC Formula 4 from Pole Position, ahead of yesterday’s winner Lirim Zendeli and yesterday’s big surprise, Andreas Estner. The start ran quite smoothly and Drugovich quickly got a big gap to Lirim Zendeli and the Championship leader Juri Vips, who had overtaken Andreas Estner for third. After the roll yesterday, we didn’t have Nicklas Nielsen on the track today. The car was too damaged for the team to be able to repair for today’s races. That effectively sent him out of the battle for…

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It was a shortened and dramatic ADAC Formula 4 race, when Round 13 was held at the Nürburgring. Lirim Zendeli was the quickest in the qualifying, ahead of the second placed guy in the Championship, Felipe Drugovich. Jonathan Aberdein was third fastest, while Kim Luis Schramm started fourth. Andreas Estner delivered a surprise with fifth fastest time, right ahead of Championship leader Juri Vips. Markus Armstrong had a terrible qualifying and only managed 13th fastest lap. So there was a potential to lose connection with top 2 in the Championship, but…

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It turned out to be a very expensive weekend for Sophia Flörsch, when the fourth round of ADAC Formula 4 was held at Oschersleben. The 16 year-old racing driver has had some quite turbulent 15 months, after she entered the ADAC Formula 4 one and a half years ago. In 2015 as only 14 years old, she raced in the British Ginetta Junior Cup, where she was leading the Rookie Championship and had taken two overall victories. It was a big surprise for many, when she announced that she would…

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Due to a light moist track after morning rain, race control decided to give the drivers two formation laps and reduce the race time from 30 to 27 minutes. The Oschersleben track however was so dry, with only a few damp patches outside the racing line, so everybody was starting on slicks. The starting grid from race 3 is decided by the race result from race 1, where top 10 is reversed, while the rest start in their finishing positions. That meant that Michael Waldherr had Pole Position, ahead of…

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Felipe Drugovich started race two in Oschersleben from Pole Position, ahead of Marcus Armstrong and Fabio Scherer. Drugovich got a fantastic start, and instantly had a big gap to the drivers chasing him. Laurin Heinrich had a wild ride through the grass in turn 3 on lap one, before Tom Beckhäuser had an even wilder spin on lap two. Both could, however, continue without hitting anything. Halfway through the race we saw Kami Laliberte off the track, and once again dropped out of top 10, just like he did in…

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Kami Laliberte had taken Pole Position but stalled when the lights went out, and only managed to get going after losing a lot of positions. Fortunately nobody hit him, even though he was completely standstill. That made Marcus Armstrong take over the lead, ahead of Jonathan Aberdein and Felipe Drugovich. Even though they had a close race on track, they finished in that way. Julian Hanses started from P2 but had a bad start too, and fell far back in the rankings on the first lap. Juan Manuel Correa dropped…

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There was a good mix of different faces on the podiums, when the third race weekend for ADAC Formula 4 was held at Austrian Red Bull Ring. Championship leader Juri Vips defended his lead all through the weekend, but it wasn’t a walk-in-the-park for him. Marcus Armstrong had qualified for Pole Position in both race 1 and 2. He led from start to finish in race 1, where Michael Waldherr finished second and Dane Nicklas Nielsen fought his way from eighth to third finishing position. The race was already red-flagged…

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US Racing and Van Amersfoort Racing were the two dominant teams when the second race weekend of the year was held at Lausitzring for ADAC Formula 4. The two teams took 7 out of 9 podium places this weekend, but it wasn’t only one driver who ran away with everything. US Racing started the weekend by qualifying 1-2-3-4 for race 1. Kim Luis Schramm was the guy in Pole Position, followed by Nicklas Nielsen and Fabio Scherer. The Team quickly got other things to think about, when the scrutineers found…

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Mücke Motorsport’s Lirim Zendeli tog sejren i det 3. og sidste løb i weekenden i Oschersleben. Det blev afgjort kort efter starten på løbet.

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Hørning-born Nicklas Nielsen sovereign won the second race of the day, celebrating his first triumph in ADAC F4.

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With 13 degrees, a cold Oschersleben was the first venue to start the 2017 ADAC Formula 4 season. After the first 30 minutes of race action, the flags of Estonia, Denmark and South Africa could be seen as the decor for the podium background.

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After two successful years of the junior category, there is still a strong interest which has attracted Heinrich Motorsport to field the number 26 race car in ADAC Formula 4 this year.

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As reigning rookie champion, Nicklas Nielsen was officially handed his prize: a turbocharged Abarth engine for his race car.

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