The official ADAC Formula 4 two-day test marked the beginning of the 2017 season, taking place in Oschersleben. Nine teams will be competing this year, taking the chance for a first outing of their driver line-ups for the series’ third season.
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US Racing enters a total of four cars in the ADAC Formula 4 Championship. A few weeks ago we had Nicklas Nielsen and Fabio Scherer announced, and now the team has announced Julian Hanses and Kim-Luis Schramm in the final two cars. 19 year-old Schramm will be doing his fourth season in the series. He finished fifth in the Championship with US Racing in 2016. With that result he is the highest ranked driver still in the series in 2017. So it will be interesting to see if he can…
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Two more drivers are ready for the ADAC Formula 4 Championship in Germany. Richard Wagner will be driving for Lechner Racing. The 17 year-old driver from Bavaria was part of the Lechner Racing School already back in 2014 and has since then been working towards the debut in race cars. That will happen in 2017. He has spend a lot of hours in the simulator and in the gym, so he will be prepared for the season. Belgium Charles Weerts is a debutant in race cars, too. The 15 year-old…
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Mücke Motorsport is busy with the announcements. Last week they already announced one ADAC F4 driver, and this week two more names are added. Oliver Söderström and Lirim Zendeli will be driving the pink BWT sponsored Tatuus manufactured Formula 4 cars powered by an Abarth engine. Now the team has three of their four drivers for the ADAC Formula 4 Championship signed. Both drivers will be doing their second season for Mücke Motorsport. German Lirim Zendeli at 17 years of age, finished 12th in the overall championship and 5th in…
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Neuhauser Racing enters ADAC Formula 4 2017 with two brand new drivers. Andreas Estner and Michael Waldherr replace the 2016 driver Nicklas Nielsen and Felipe Drugovich, who have moved on to Motopark and VAR respectively. The team from Zell Am Ziller in Austria is a well known face in the paddock. They have been part of the German single-seater series since back in 2008, where it was just Formula ADAC. They were the last team to win the Drivers Championship under that name, with Dane Mikkel Jensen in 2014. In…
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Sophia Flörsch has been announced as the first driver at BWT Mücke Motorsport in ADAC Formula 4 2017. The 16 year-old racing driver had a mixed debut season in Formula 4 in 2016, where she participated for Team Motopark. She’d led a race, but often she was unlucky in the midfield where there often were contact with other drivers. She impressed everybody in 2015, when she gave the all boys a lesson in the hard Ginetta Junior Championship in Great Britain. She had overall wins and was 2nd in the…
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BWT Mücke Motorsport will enter ADAC GT Masters 2017 with three cars. They will also drive in ADAC Formula 4, Italian Formula 4, and FIA Formula 3 European Championship, though it is yet to be announced how many cars they’ll come with. After 12 seasons in DTM, we will see Mücke Motorsport in a different part of the sport, after DTM teams cut back on the numbers of cars. So GT racing it is this year. The team will enter a Mercedes-AMG GT3 and two Audi R8 LMS cars. The…
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Kami Laliberte will be doing his third season at Van Amersfoort Racing in ADAC Formula 4, as it was announced by the team today. The 17 year-old Canadian is aiming to improve on his overall 9th position in the standings from 2016, which was his first full season in the series. At the penultimate round at Zandvoort he claimed his first win, beating the rest of the field. Throughout this winter he has done Castrol Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand, where he managed a 10th place in the Championship.…
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Prema Powerteam has three drivers ready for ADAC Formula 4 2017. Juri Vips and Juan Manuel Correa will be doing their second season, while Marcus Armstrong is new man on the team. New Zealander Armstrong is 16 years old and born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is a part of the Ferrari Driver Academy for young talents. In 2016 he went from the karting sport and tried racing Formula Ford, Formula Renault and British Formula 3. He finished fourth in the Toyota Racing Series, where he took three victories and…
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The ADAC Formula 4 starting grid is slowly getting filled up with drivers. Now Nicklas Nielsen, Fabio Scherer, and Jonathan Aberdein have been announced. The first two are going for US Racing while Aberdein will ride with Team Motopark. The 18 year old South African Aberdein will do his 2nd season with the team, where he finished 6th in the Rookie championship and 14th in the overall championship. 10 times during the season he finished in Top 10 and at the Zandvoort weekend he even managed an impressive second place.…
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Van Amersfoort Racing has the two first drivers in place for the ADAC Formula 4 Championship 2017. Felipe Drugovich and Louis Gachot will both do their 2nd season in the German Formula 4 Championship, but it will be their first for the VAR team. Felipe Drugovich is a 16 year old Brazillian, who showed promising speed during this debut season. He finished 4th in the Rookie championship and won several races in the Rookie ranking. In 2016 he drove for Neuhauser Racing, so with the change to the VAR team,…
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ADAC Formula 4 has another bumper field when the season starts at the end of April. 28 out of 35 places are already reserved, and the series are sure that the rest will be filled before the season starts. The number is a significant drop compared to last season, with more than 40 entries already at this point. Throughout the 2016 we have seen a field of around 35-40 cars, and since some of the tracks are limited to maximum 35 starters, the series has decided to put that limit…
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After two seasons in ADAC Formula 4 with kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport (ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.), Mike David Ortmann now moves on to ADAC GT Masters.
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Racing24-7.net met with 2016 US Racing driver Jannes Fittje at Essen Motor Show, where the young German talked about his passion for the sport. He also revealed that he is currently working on his future in Formula 3.
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ADAC Motorsport are ready with their GT Masters and F4 calendars for 2017. The calendar will have a very familiar look to the 2016 calendar with the exact same venues, just a bit of shuffling. On 6 of the 7 weekends we will have all three series racing together. Only the Zandvoort race will be stand-alone for GT Masters, whereas Formula 4 have two weekends racing at Oschersleben. The Zandvoort date is a date clash with FIA WEC at the Nürburgring on the same weekend, which might cause some problems…
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Australian Joey Mawson is ADAC Formula 4 Champion 2016. The Van Amersfoort Racing driver took the title in the first race of the weekend, where he took a commanding win. Throughout the season he’s been in a battle with Mick Schumacher, but has lead the championship ever since the first race of the year. He followed up with another win Saturday afternoon in race 2, while Sunday’s race ended pointless after being taken off by a competitor. Mawson also competed in ADAC Formula 4 in 2015 where he finished P3…
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I sat down with a tall Swiss talent from Lucerne for an interview. Looking into a set of honest brown eyes, he started to talk to me about his current season in the German ADAC Formula 4 series. Moritz Mueller-Crepon is not only working towards his dream of becoming a professional racing driver, but is also living his passion through the medium that is motorsport.
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It was everything but an easy weekend in ADAC Formula 4, when they had the season opener at Oschersleben. 37 drivers were ready, but with a weekend with changing weather conditions, the field was already reduced to 36 after practice, when one of the cars had too much accident damage, but thankfully the driver was unharmed. In the qualifying the field was split into 2 groups, where top 11 from each group were directly qualified for the races. The rest had to go through a qualifying race, where the 13…
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ADAC Formula 4 is ready for a season with up to 46 drivers. The previous announcements before Christmas from the organizers sounded like over 50 cars were going to participate, but perhaps some drivers or teams have got a bit nervous and moved to other series instead. It’s a bit unclear at the moment. 46 cars were announced with still a few seats TBA at the moment. There were official test sessions going on this week in Oschersleben, where the opening Round will be held as well next weekend. Mick…
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The German ADAC Formula 4 series will get a huge field in 2016 The series started in 2015 and already in the first season, they had a very big field and will get even bigger in season 2. More than 50 drivers have, according to the series, entered for this season, and the organisation has therefore announced to split the field in two. The exact details haven’t been announced yet, but it’s certain that the fastest in qualifying will go straight to the 3 races where a maximum of 44…
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