It's race week for these feeder series!
🇵🇹 Euroformula Open (Portimão)
🇬🇧 GB3 (Silverstone)
🇬🇧 GB4 (Silverstone)
🇬🇧 British F4 (Donington)
🇩🇰 Nordic 4 (Padborg)
🇭🇺 F4 CEZ (Balaton)
🇦🇺 AFO (Winton)
🇺🇸 Indy NXT (Barber)
🇺🇸 USF Juniors (Barber)
What will you be watching? 🤔
NEWS | 🇮🇪 Adam Fitzgerald is 'in stable condition' after a heavy collision at Spa which cost the life of Dilano van't Hoff. He has 'plenty of broken bones', according to his team RPM.
He's expected to make a full recovery.
NEWS | 🇮🇳 Jehan Daruvala is now eligible for the FIA Super Licence after completing 130 laps of Silverstone with the 2021's McLaren MCL35M earlier this week.
MP Motorsport driver Dilano van’t Hoff has sadly passed away after an accident at Spa, FRECA confirms.
Van’t Hoff was 18 years old.
Everyone at Feeder Series sends their condolences to his family, friends, the team and everyone at the track.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇦🇺 Oscar Piastri joins Alpine in 2023! The 21-year-old is the 2021 Formula 2 champion and Alpine's current reserve driver. He replaces Fernando Alonso who moves to Aston Martin.*
* What the whole feeder series community is hoping for 🤞
EXCLUSIVE NEWS | 🇮🇳 Mahaveer Raghunathan tested a McLaren F1 car at Portimao, the driver told Feeder Series! He drove the car on Tuesday on Thursday for a distance of 750km.
In 2021 he had his first F1 test with Alfa Romeo. In 2019 he drove for MP in F2.
#F1
#McLaren
NEWS | 🇨🇦 Megan Gilkes has announced that this weekend's F1 Academy final at Austin will be the last professional race of her career.
The 22-year-old, who is 13th in the standings, has secured a full-time engineering job with F1 team Aston Martin.
#F1Academy
BREAKING NEWS | 🇷🇺 The racing contract of Russian driver Artem Severiukhin has been terminated by his team Ward Racing.
Severiukhin allegedly showed a Nazi salute on the podium of the FIA Karting European Championship.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇵🇭 Bianca Bustamante will join Prema this weekend in Spa-Francorchamps for Italian F4!
The 18-year-old, who will run in car 51, currently races with the team in F1 Academy where she took her maiden win.
#ItalianF4
Former British F4 driver Joel Pearson lost his battle with cancer yesterday evening. He was 19 years old.
The news was announced by R Racing, which fielded Pearson in Ginettas in 2019 and 2020.
We send our condolences to Pearson's family and friends.
BREAKING NEWS | 🇮🇹 Luca Corberi, the karting driver that attacked a rival on and off the track, has been banned for 15 years by the FIA. The incident happened last year in the FIA KZ Karting World Championship at Lonato. "He is fully and completely guilty."
🇮🇹 ANDREA KIMI ANTONELLI IS THE 2023 FRECA CHAMPION!
The 17-year-old Mercedes junior took five wins and six further podium finishes to secure the title with two races to go.
#FRECA
BREAKING NEWS | 🇮🇹 Prema Racing will join IndyCar in 2025!
The Italian team currently competes in various junior single-seater championships including F2, F3, F1 Academy, FRECA, and Italian F4. They will enter two cars full-time.
#IndyCar
F1 Feeder Series will not wait until the FIA comes with a decision wether to race or not in Russia.
We will not cover the Formula 2 round at Sochi, period.
There is no place for war in motorsport.
#WeStandWithUkraine
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇹🇷 Cem Bolukbasi joins Charouz in Formula 2! The 23-year-old has a history in sim racing and finished 5th in Euroformula Open in 2021, winning 2 races.
#F2
📸 Cem Bolukbasi
NEWS | 🇯🇵 Miki Koyama is the 2022 Formula Regional Japan Champion!
After winning a 7th time today at Fuji, the 24-year-old driver becomes the first female driver winning a mixed-gender FIA-certified single-seater feeder series.
#FRJapan
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇵🇭 Bianca Bustamante joins Black Arts Racing for the F4 Macau Grand Prix!
The 18-year-old McLaren development driver finished 7th in this years F1 Academy.
#MacauGP
🇮🇹 ANDREA KIMI ANTONELLI IS YOUR 2023 FORMULA REGIONAL MIDDLE EAST CHAMPION! 👏👏
The Mercedes junior, racing for Mumbai Falcons, took three wins, three poles and three more podiums en route to his third single-seater championship, which he won with a race to spare.
#FRMEC
NEWS | 🇫🇷 Doriane Pin inherits today's F4 UAE race win!
The original winner Kean Nakamura-Berta has received a five-seconds penalty for a false start, and has been demoted to P5.
This is Doriane Pin's second single-seaters win, after the one in F4 SEA back in December.
#F4UAE
Dear
@f1academy
,
We love that you're helping women in junior single seaters, aiding their progress towards becoming professional racing drivers.
That said, approximately two days before the start we still don't know if it will even be broadcasted.
Let us know,
Feeder Series
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇳🇿 Liam Lawson is the new Test and Reserve driver of Red Bull Racing and of the Scuderia AlphaTauri.
The 20-year-old driver is currently 10th in the F2 standings.
📸 Red Bull Content Pool
ANDREA KIMI ANTONELLI IS THE 2022 ITALIAN F4 CHAMPION 👏👏
The 16-year old Mercedes junior secured the title today in Mugello. This is his second championship title of the year after winning ADAC F4 last weekend.
#ItalianF4
NEWS | 🇪🇪 Paul Aron and Mercedes have officially parted ways. The Estonian joined the F1 squad's junior team in July 2019.
The 19-year-old competed in FIA F3 this year, where he finished third in the standings with one win. He also participated in the F2 season finale.
#F2
#F3
NEWS | 🇮🇹 MP Motorsport has withdrawn from this weekend's FRECA round at Mugello.
"We keep on racing, for Dilano, like he would have wanted. But before doing so, we choose to be with Dilano, his family and friends during the next days and during his funeral service."
📸 MP
NEWS | 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Partyshev has announced his retirement from racing, due to "the unfortunate events involving [his] dear friend Dilano Van't Hoff."
The 17-year-old was engaged in FRECA with KIC Motorsport. He had already missed last weekend at Mugello.
#FRECA
NEWS | In the upcoming F1 2020 game, players can add Anthoine Hubert to their F1 line-up in the 'My Team' mode. Players can choose from a list of drivers from the 2019 F2 season, also including Juan Manuel Correa. Beautiful gesture. ❤️🙏 (via
@racefansdotnet
)
NEWS | 🇧🇷 Aston Martin confirms that they will run Felipe Drugovich at the Bahrain Grand Prix if Lance Stroll is still unable to race!
The 22-year-old is the 2022 Formula 2 Champion.
#F1
#F2
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇦🇷 Franco Colapinto will move to F2 with MP in 2024! He will also replace Jehan Daruvala during the season finale in Abu Dhabi.
The 20-year-old Williams junior driver competed in FIA F3 this year, where he finished fourth.
#F2
NEWS | 🇯🇵 Miki Koyama becomes the first female driver ever to lead a mixed-gender FIA-certified single-seater feeder series.
The 24-year-old clinched two wins at Okayama this weekend and is now leading the Formula Regional Japanese Championship.
NEWS | Adam Fitzgerald has commented on the passing of Dilano van 't Hoff. The Irish driver was involved in the accident at Spa and has 'broken several bones'. He is expected to make a full recovery.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇷 Gabriel Bortoleto joins Virtuosi Racing for the 2024 Formula 2 season!
The 19-year old McLaren junior competed in FIA F3 this year, where he won the championship with two victories.
#F2
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸 Juan Manuel Correa joins VAR in Abu Dhabi for the final round of the F2 championship! He replaces David Beckmann.
It's his first F2 race since Spa 2019 where he was severely injured and where Anthoine Hubert lost his life.
#AH19
🇫🇷❤️🙏
NEWS | 🇩🇰 Frederik Vesti will officially move on from the feeder series. "I'm extremely happy to have had this year with PREMA, my final year as a junior driver. Let's see what the future holds."
#F2
NEWS | 🇬🇧 Oliver Bearman has been announced as a reserve driver for Scuderia Ferrari!
The 18-year-old Ferrari Driver Academy driver will be racing in F2 with Prema Racing for his second season. He finished 6th in the standings in 2023.
#F2
RUMOUR | 🇩🇪 Mick Schumacher will sign a one-year deal with Alfa Romeo on Friday, according to Spanish sources. It's also expected that Kimi Raikkonen will be his team mate in 2021. Schumacher makes his Free Practice debut this weekend at the Eifel GP.
📸 Formula Motorsport Ltd
🇵🇱 KACPER SZTUKA IS THE 2023 ITALIAN F4 CHAMPION!
The 17-year-old took eight wins, including six in a row, to claim the title in the penultimate race of the season.
#ItalianF4
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇮🇹 Andrea Kimi Antonelli joins PREMA for the 2024 FIA Formula 2 season!
The 17-year-old Mercedes Junior Team driver took the championship in FRECA and FRMEC this year.
#F2
🚨 BREAKING: Helmut Marko on Dennis Hauger:
“He will drive for us in Formula 2 in 2022 and there is only one step to make after that. It does require him to continue to improve very much in the same way that he has this season. He is not there yet.”
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇧 Zane Maloney joins the Red Bull Junior Team for 2023. He will also be one of the F1 Red Bull Reserve drivers.
The 19-year-old driver from Bridgetown is this year's FIA F3 runner-up, and made his F2 debut at the final round at Abu Dhabi last month.
#F2
NEWS | 🇦🇷 Franco Colapinto will take part in F1's end-of-season Young Driver Test in Abu Dhabi for Williams!
The 20-year-old, a member of the team's academy, will get his first taste of an F1 car. He finished fourth in FIA F3 this year and will make his F2 debut this month.
#F1
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | Juju Noda will join Danish F4 in 2020! The 13-year old Japanese driver will turn 14 in February so she will be old enough by then. Rumours are she might also join French F4, where the minimum age limit is also 14.
#F4
NEWS | 🇦🇺 Christian Mansell, who has type 1 diabetes, has been given a technical exemption on medical grounds for Bahrain. He is 'permitted to participate (...) with a mobile phone fitted in the car'.
#F3
#BahrainGP
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇳🇿 Marcus Armstrong joins MP Motorsport for the Macau GP, according to the latest entry list!
The 23-year-old is this year's IndyCar Rookie of the Year, and has collected four F2 wins between 2020 and 2022 after finishing runner-up of FIA F3.
#MacauGP
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇵🇾 Joshua Duerksen joins PHM Racing in FIA F2 in 2024!
The 20-year-old competed in FRECA this year, where he ended the season in 19th with one podium finish. He also drove for the team in the FIA F3 post-season tests.
#F2
Lawless on debut 🔥
After winning today's Super Formula race at Fuji, Liam Lawson now adds to his tally of wins on debut.
🏆 EFO
🏆 TRS
🏆 F3 Asia
🏆 F2
🏆 DTM
🏆 Super Formula
Is a win in F1 on the cards for him in the future?
A ten second penalty? I'll just destroy the field. Arthur Leclerc wins the first race at Mugello! Amazing skill in the wet. Give this guy a FIA F3 seat asap.
#FormulaRegional
#FREC
NEWS | 🇧🇪 Nathalie Maillet, director of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, was found dead at her home in Luxembourg. Unconfirmed reports say she was killed by a relative.
Today marks what would have been Dilano van 't Hoff's 19th birthday.
He is truly missed by the FRECA paddock and many in the racing world.
Dilano, we zullen je nooit vergeten.
Feeder Series would like to send our thoughts to his family and friends today 🧡
#RacingForDilano
NEWS | 🚨 The FIA is launching an 'immediate investigation' into the 'unacceptable' conduct of Artem Severiukhin. The karting driver allegedly gave a Nazi salute on the podium of the European Karting Championship round at Portimao.
The Russian is racing under an Italian licence.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
This is the 2022 Red Bull Junior Team
🇳🇴 Dennis Hauger
🇳🇿 Liam Lawson
🇪🇪 Jüri Vips
🇮🇳 Jehan Daruvala
🇺🇸 Jak Crawford
🇯🇵 Ayumu Iwasa
🇬🇧 Jonny Edgar
🇯🇵 Yuto Nomura
🇫🇷 Isack Hadjar
Supported/Athlete
🇬🇧 Arvid Lindblad
🇲🇽 Noel Leon
🇯🇵 Souto Arao
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇪🇸 Aston Martin sign Fernando Alonso! The 19-year-old finished 4th in Formula 3000 behind Mark Webber, but ahead of Justin Wilson. He scored one victory.
NEWS | 🇫🇷 Theo Pourchaire will drive a Formula 1 car for the very first time this week, testing the 2022 Pirelli tires with Alfa Romeo.
Jehan Daruvala will also test for the F1 team at the Hungaroring.
(via
@autohebdo
)
NEWS | 🇺🇸 Jak Crawford has confirmed he will be in F2 in 2023! The team hasn't been revealed yet.
"I will be racing in F2 next year, but it will not be officially announced for several months. In fact, my seat fit for the official F2 Abu Dhabi test is this week."
NEWS | 🇮🇪 Adam Fitzgerald has given an update about his recovery after his accident with Dilano van 't Hoff at Spa.
RPM driver Fitzgerald is "still in hospital allowing [his] back to recover" and "waiting to find out if [he] needs surgery on his broken elbow".
#FRECA
NEWS | 🇦🇷 Franco Colapinto is planning to make his Formula 2 debut in the final round at Yas Marina!
The 20-year-old, who finished fourth in FIA F3, announced his move in a press conference yesterday, but did not specify his team. He is also securing budget for 2024.
#F2