2016 F4 seasons silly-season

[Formulahistory]

ADAC F4 HTP Junior: Carrie Schreiner, Jannes Fittje, Louis Gachot
Motopark: Michael Waldherr (?), Marek Böckmann (?), David Kolkmann (?), Jason Kremer (?)
Van Amersfoort: Kami Laliberte (?), Jeanneau Esmeijer (?), Lucas Mauron (?)
Mücke: Mike Ortmann (?), Benjamin Mazapis (?), Benjamin Bailly (?), Alain Valente (?)
Neuhauser: Kim-Luis Schramm (?), Nikolaj Rogivue (?)
Jenzer: Job van Uitert, Fabio Scherer, Moritz Müller-Crepon (?)
Scheider: Johann Hanses, Mauro Auricchio, Kenneth Gulbrandsen
Piro: Toni Wolf (?), Cedric Piro (?)
Race Performance: Giorgio Maggi (?), Marylin Niederhauser (?)
Provily: ?
Lechner: Thomas Preinig (?), Max Hofer (?)
Engstler: Luca Engstler (?), Michelle Halder (?)

[Formulahistory]

Italian F4
Prema Power: Giuliano Raucci (?), Mick Schumacher (?)
Mücke: Mike Ortmann (?)
Jenzer: Marcos Siebert, Job van Uitert, Lucas Mauron (?)
RB: Diego Bertonelli (?), Ye Yifei (?), Julia Pankiewicz (?)
Isreal: Bar Baruch (?)
Antonelli: João Vieiro (?), Kikko Galbiati (?), Federico Malvestiti (?)
Vincenzo Sospiri: Simone Cunati (?), Takuro Shinohara (?)
Torino: Alex Peroni (?)
Malta: Kevin Kanayet (?), Raúl Gúzman (?)
Termano: Riccardo Ponzio (?)
DieGi: Riccardo Pollastri (?)

[Racing Harz]

Originally Posted by Formulahistory

ADAC F4 HTP Junior: Carrie Schreiner, Jannes Fittje, Louis Gachot
Motopark: Michael Waldherr (?), Marek Böckmann (?), David Kolkmann (?), Jason Kremer (?)
Van Amersfoort: Kami Laliberte (?), Jeanneau Esmeijer (?), Lucas Mauron (?)
Mücke: Mike Ortmann (?), Benjamin Mazapis (?), Benjamin Bailly (?), Alain Valente (?)
Neuhauser: Kim-Luis Schramm (?), Nikolaj Rogivue (?)
Jenzer: Job van Uitert, Fabio Scherer, Moritz Müller-Crepon (?)
Scheider: Johann Hanses, Mauro Auricchio, Kenneth Gulbrandsen
Piro: Toni Wolf (?), Cedric Piro (?)
Race Performance: Giorgio Maggi (?), Marylin Niederhauser (?)
Provily: ?
Lechner: Thomas Preinig (?), Max Hofer (?)
Engstler: Luca Engstler (?), Michelle Halder (?)

LOL what a moronism list... the ADAC Formula 4 have over 50 cars entered for 2016.
http://www.adac-motorsport.de/adac-f...tations-222965
And why should Mücke sign Bailly? He is 25 and only drive the 2. Oschersleben Round 2015 as a test for RS Competition.

[Formulahistory]

MSA Formula
Carlin: James Pull, Devlin DeFrancesco, Colton Herta (?)
TRS Arden: Rafa Martins, Luis Leeds, Jack Martin, Ayrton Simmons
JHR: Sennan Fielding (?), Jack Butel (?)
Double-R: Sandy Mitchell (?), Enaan Ahmed (?)
Fortec: Alex Quinn, James Pull (?)
SWB: Jack Butel (?)
Joe Tandy: Daniel Baybutt (?), Ameya Vaidyanathan (?)
MBM: Toby Sowery (?)
Richardson: Luise Richardson (?), Greg Holloway (?)
Falcon: Darius Karbaley (?)

[Formulahistory]

BRDC F4
HHC: Sisa Ngebulana, Omar Ismail, Chris Mealin (?)
Chris Dittmann: Tom Jackson (?), Zubair Hoque (?)
Lanan: Akhil Rahindra, Rodrigo Fonseca (?), Jack Bartholomew (?)
Graham Brunton: Ciaran Haggerty (?)
Sean Walkinshaw: Eugene Denyssen, Jordan Albert (?)
Lang: Jack Lang (?)
Hillspeed: Faisal Al Zubair (?), Hernán Fallas (?)
Douglas: Fernando Urrutia, Michael O'Brien (?)
23 Racing: James Reveler (?)
JR: Joe Stables (?)
Carlin: Lando Norris, Ameya Raghunathan
Double-R: Mattheus Leist, Enzo Bortoleto, Aleksanteri Huovinen

[Formulahistory]

Colton Herta confirmed at Carlin for BRDC F4:

HHC: Sisa Ngebulana, Omar Ismail, Chris Mealin (?)
Chris Dittmann: Tom Jackson (?), Zubair Hoque (?)
Lanan: Akhil Rahindra, Rodrigo Fonseca (?), Jack Bartholomew (?)
Graham Brunton: Ciaran Haggerty (?)
Sean Walkinshaw: Eugene Denyssen, Jordan Albert (?)
Lang: Jack Lang (?)
Hillspeed: Hernán Fallas (?)
Douglas: Fernando Urrutia, Michael O'Brien (?)
23 Racing: James Reveler (?)
JR: Joe Stables (?)
Carlin: Ameya Ragunathan, Lando Norris, Colton Herta
Double-R: Mattheus Leist, Enzo Bortoleto, Aleksanteri Huovinen
Fortec: Faisal Al Zubair (?)

[Racing Harz]

Juri Vips with Prema in the ADAC Formula 4.
http://www.paddockscout.com/prema-si...campaign/32883

[Formulahistory]

Sato stays at VSR in Italian F4:

Italian F4
Prema Power: Jüri Vips, Giuliano Raucci (?), Mick Schumacher (?)
Mücke: Mike Ortmann (?)
Jenzer: Marcos Siebert, Job van Uitert, Lucas Mauron (?)
RB: Diego Bertonelli (?), Ye Yifei (?), Julia Pankiewicz (?)
Isreal: Bar Baruch (?)
Antonelli: João Vieiro (?), Kikko Galbiati (?), Federico Malvestiti (?)
VSR: Marino Sato, Simone Cunati (?), Takuro Shinohara (?)
Torino: Alex Peroni (?)
Malta: Kevin Kanayet (?), Raúl Gúzman (?)
Termano: Riccardo Ponzio (?)
DieGi: Riccardo Pollastri (?)


And we have Quinlan Lall with Chris Dittmann in BRDC F4



BRDC F4
HHC: Sisa Ngebulana, Omar Ismail, Chris Mealin (?)
Chris Dittmann: Quinlan Lall, Tom Jackson (?), Zubair Hoque (?)
Lanan: Akhil Rahindra, Rodrigo Fonseca (?), Jack Bartholomew (?)
Graham Brunton: Ciaran Haggerty (?)
Sean Walkinshaw: Eugene Denyssen, Jordan Albert (?)
Lang: Jack Lang (?)
Hillspeed: Hernán Fallas (?)
Douglas: Fernando Urrutia, Michael O'Brien (?)
23 Racing: James Reveler (?)
JR: Joe Stables (?)
Carlin: Ameya Ragunathan, Lando Norris, Colton Herta
Double-R: Mattheus Leist, Enzo Bortoleto, Aleksanteri Huovinen
Fortec: Faisal Al Zubair (?)

And with Vips confirmed at ADAC F4 it's this in Germany:
ADAC F4
HTP Junior: Carrie Schreiner, Jannes Fittje, Louis Gachot
Motopark: Michael Waldherr (?), Marek Böckmann (?), David Kolkmann (?), Sophia Flörsch (?)
Van Amersfoort: Kami Laliberte (?), Jeanneau Esmeijer (?), Lucas Mauron (?), Jason Kremer (?)
Mücke: Mike Ortmann (?), Benjamin Mazapis (?), Alain Valente (?), ?
Neuhauser: Kim-Luis Schramm (?), Nikolaj Rogivue (?)
Prema Power: Jüri Vips, Mick Schumacher (?)
Jenzer: Job van Uitert, Fabio Scherer, Moritz Müller-Crepon (?)
Scheider: Johann Hanses, Mauro Auricchio, Kenneth Gulbrandsen
Piro: Toni Wolf (?), Cedric Piro (?)
Race Performance: Giorgio Maggi (?), Marylin Niederhauser (?)
Provily: ?
Lechner: Thomas Preinig (?), Max Hofer (?)
Engstler: Luca Engstler (?), Michelle Halder (?)

[Formulahistory]

Jack Butel confirmed at JHR in MSA Formula:

MSA Formula
Carlin: James Pull, Devlin DeFrancesco, Jamie Caroline (?)
TRS Arden: Rafa Martins, Luis Leeds, Jack Martin, Ayrton Simmons
JHR: Jack Butel, Sennan Fielding (?), Dan Zelos (?)
Double-R: Sandy Mitchell (?), Enaan Ahmed (?)
Fortec: Alex Quinn, James Pull (?)
SWB: Jack Butel (?)
Joe Tandy: Daniel Baybutt (?)
MBM: Toby Sowery (?)
Richardson: Luise Richardson (?), Greg Holloway (?)
Falcon: Darius Karbaley (?)

[gomick]

Some young karting fella from Queensland is the 1st signing in the Australian Series, though you wont here much news about this series until about the last week or 2 before it starts - hopefully they get more than the 10/11 cars they had in 2015...

[Formulahistory]

Jaden Conwright to VSR and Sebastian Fernandez to RB Racing (also some ADAC F4 appearances are planed) for Italian F4:

Italian F4
Prema Power: Jüri Vips, Giuliano Raucci (?), Mick Schumacher (?)
Mücke: Mike Ortmann (?)
Jenzer: Marcos Siebert, Job van Uitert, Lucas Mauron (?)
RB: Sebastian Fernandez, Diego Bertonelli (?), Ye Yifei (?), Julia Pankiewicz (?)
Isreal: Bar Baruch (?)
Antonelli: João Vieiro (?), Kikko Galbiati (?), Federico Malvestiti (?)
VSR: Marino Sato, Jaden Conwright, Simone Cunati (?), Takuro Shinohara (?)
Torino: Alex Peroni (?)
Malta: Kevin Kanayet (?), Raúl Gúzman (?)
Termano: Riccardo Ponzio (?)
DieGi: Riccardo Pollastri (?)

[pericu]

Team BhaiTech has entered in italian f4, according to italiaracing.

SMP F4+Dutch F4
Alexander Vartanyan, Juho Valtanen, Tuomas Tujula, Denis Mavlanov

Spanish F4
It will be open to the teams. Initially it should be like SMP f4, so all cars are operated by the same team (Koiranen) but they dropped the idea, maybe because they couldn't get enough drivers for himself. It is expected that some spanish teams+some outside the country will join the series with his drivers. Last year the series tried to start but they failed (the owners were others, but not Koiranen), we will see this year.

[Formulahistory]

do you know what Spanish teams are going to join the series? Or could join the series?

I think it's a championship which is not really needed and I think there will be a very small grid.

[pericu]

Originally Posted by Formulahistory

do you know what Spanish teams are going to join the series? Or could join the series?

I think it's a championship which is not really needed and I think there will be a very small grid.

I have no idea. Last year the series were organized initially by Drivex, so maybe they can be interested. Also Campos was interested to join in. Maybe could be interested Emilio de Villota, but I think they will be busy with the renamed team Teo Martin which will participate in euroformula and formula v8.
I haven't heard anything about AVF, Pons or another small teams (doing single-seaters or not).

At the end it's all about drivers. If there are drivers interested to join in there will be teams ready to enter. But in Spain we don't have drivers with the enough budget, that's the problem.

I trust with Koiranen but the situation is not clear. I think there will be drivers from SMP F4 who will do both championships. I'm not sure if there will be teams of italian and adac f4 interested to join in.

[10TENTHS]

Spain is all about MotoGP right now. I can't find any drivers linked to Spanish F4, and the Italian series already exists as a cheap F4 option.

[pericu]

Originally Posted by 10TENTHS

Spain is all about MotoGP right now. I can't find any drivers linked to Spanish F4, and the Italian series already exists as a cheap F4 option.

We have a lot of drivers here, but they are struggling with the budget since karting. Only a few ones can go to italy to race in the WSK or another races in europe like CIK-FIA.
There is Marta Garcia who is looking to move to f4, but she always said she wants to do italian+adac, but it was before f4 spanish re-launched, so I'm sure she is looking for the best option.

I don't know how much cost the italian f4, I guess about 150.000. Certainly, if spanish f4 wants success, it has to be cheaper than any other.

Surprisingly, we have the first driver confirmed for the spanish f4: Kush Maini, who is Arjun's brother. He will do also the smp f4, as I suggested before as an option for many potential drivers. In the news he doesn't say anything about with which team he will race in the spanish series.

http://www.motorsport.com/formula4/n...n-2016-668945/

SMP F4+Dutch F4
Alexander Vartanyan, Juho Valtanen, Tuomas Tujula, Denis Mavlanov, Kush Maini

Spanish F4
Kush Maini

[jodi]

Originally Posted by Formulahistory

Jack Butel confirmed at JHR in MSA Formula:

MSA Formula
Carlin: James Pull, Devlin DeFrancesco, Jamie Caroline (?)
TRS Arden: Rafa Martins, Luis Leeds, Jack Martin, Ayrton Simmons
JHR: Jack Butel, Sennan Fielding (?), Dan Zelos (?)
Double-R: Sandy Mitchell (?), Enaan Ahmed (?)
Fortec: Alex Quinn, James Pull (?)
SWB: Jack Butel (?)
Joe Tandy: Daniel Baybutt (?)
MBM: Toby Sowery (?)
Richardson: Luise Richardson (?), Greg Holloway (?)
Falcon: Darius Karbaley (?)

Ross Martin has joined Fortec

[Formulahistory]

Originally Posted by pericu

We have a lot of drivers here, but they are struggling with the budget since karting. Only a few ones can go to italy to race in the WSK or another races in europe like CIK-FIA.
There is Marta Garcia who is looking to move to f4, but she always said she wants to do italian+adac, but it was before f4 spanish re-launched, so I'm sure she is looking for the best option.

I don't know how much cost the italian f4, I guess about 150.000. Certainly, if spanish f4 wants success, it has to be cheaper than any other.

Surprisingly, we have the first driver confirmed for the spanish f4: Kush Maini, who is Arjun's brother. He will do also the smp f4, as I suggested before as an option for many potential drivers. In the news he doesn't say anything about with which team he will race in the spanish series.

http://www.motorsport.com/formula4/n...n-2016-668945/

SMP F4+Dutch F4
Alexander Vartanyan, Juho Valtanen, Tuomas Tujula, Denis Mavlanov, Kush Maini

Spanish F4
Kush Maini

Here Maini talked about Spanish F4 as a one-make-series:

http://www.paddockscout.com/kush-mai...anish-f4/33006

[Formulahistory]

Manuel Maldonado, cousin of Pastor, for Cram for Italian F4 and Jeremy Wahome from Kenya for Chris Dittmann in BRDC F4:

Italian F4
Prema Power: Jüri Vips, Giuliano Raucci (?), Mick Schumacher (?)
Mücke: Mike Ortmann (?)
Jenzer: Marcos Siebert, Job van Uitert, Lucas Mauron (?)
RB: Sebastian Fernandez, Diego Bertonelli (?), Ye Yifei (?), Julia Pankiewicz (?)
Isreal: Bar Baruch (?)
Antonelli: João Vieiro (?), Kikko Galbiati (?), Federico Malvestiti (?)
VSR: Marino Sato, Jaden Conwright, Simone Cunati (?), Takuro Shinohara (?)
Torino: Alex Peroni (?)
Malta: Kevin Kanayet (?), Raúl Gúzman (?)
Termano: Riccardo Ponzio (?)
DieGi: Riccardo Pollastri (?)
BaiTech: Andrea Baiguera (?)
Cram: Manuel Maldonado



BRDC F4
HHC: Sisa Ngebulana, Omar Ismail, Chris Mealin (?)
Chris Dittmann: Quinlan Lall, Jeremy Wahome, Tom Jackson (?)
Lanan: Akhil Rahindra, Rodrigo Fonseca (?), Jack Bartholomew (?)
Graham Brunton: Ciaran Haggerty (?), Zubai Hoque (?)
Sean Walkinshaw: Eugene Denyssen, Jordan Albert (?)
Lang: Jack Lang (?)
Hillspeed: Hernán Fallas (?)
Douglas: Fernando Urrutia, Michael O'Brien (?)
23 Racing: James Reveler (?)
JR: Joe Stables (?)
Carlin: Ameya Ragunathan, Lando Norris, Colton Herta
Double-R: Mattheus Leist, Enzo Bortoleto, Aleksanteri Huovinen
Fortec: Faisal Al Zubair (?)

[kurski]

If Henri Kauppi has the financial side in order, he mayde participate in this year SMP F4

[Formulahistory]

Max Fawtrell confirmed at Carlin for MSA Formula:

MSA Formula
Carlin: James Pull, Devlin DeFrancesco, Max Fawtrell, Jamie Caroline (?)
TRS Arden: Rafa Martins, Luis Leeds, Jack Martin, Ayrton Simmons
JHR: Jack Butel, Sennan Fielding (?), Dan Zelos (?)
Double-R: Sandy Mitchell (?), Enaan Ahmed (?)
Fortec: Alex Quinn, Ross Martin, James Pull (?)
SWB: Jack Butel (?)
Joe Tandy: Daniel Baybutt (?)
MBM: Toby Sowery (?)
Richardson: Luise Richardson (?), Greg Holloway (?)
Falcon: Darius Karbaley (?)

[andrewc]

BRDC F4: Krishnaraaj Mahadik from India signs for CDR, completing their line up. Tom Jackson was seen testing a Ligier LMP3 car at Paul Ricard last week.

[pericu]

ACI Sport Italia announces 40 (still it could reach 45) cars and 22 teams registered for the italian f4 championship. I have to say, most of them I've never heard anything about them before. That's a big boom, and we will see the same massive grid in adac f4. That means about 90 cars between both series, with maybe 10-15 drivers doing the dual season.

In adac f4 there will be qualifyings races, and maybe in italian f4 also. I wonder if it could be more useful for everybody if some of these drivers/teams would go to spanish f4, where it's open to teams and they will use the same car with hankook, but not pirelli.

Italian F4
Antonelli Motorsport: João Vieiro (?), Kikko Galbiati (?), Federico Malvestiti (?)
Aragon Racing
AS Motorsport
Audi Sport Italia: Giacomo Altoè (?)
Bhaitech Engineering: Andrea Baiguera (?)
Cram Motorsport: Manuel Maldonado
Diegi Motorsport: Riccardo Pollastri (?)
DR Formula
DRZ Benelli ASD
Foco Racing Team Srl
GSK Grand Prix
Israel F4: Bar Baruch (?)
Jenzer Motorsport: Marcos Siebert, Job van Uitert, Lucas Mauron (?)
Kfzteile24 Mucke Motorsport: Mike Ortmann (?)
Kiteviola Motorsport
Lechner Racing Gmbh
Prema Power Team: Jüri Vips, Giuliano Raucci (?), Mick Schumacher (?)
RB Racing: Sebastian Fernandez, Diego Bertonelli (?), Ye Yifei (?), Julia Pankiewicz (?)
Teramo Racing Team: Riccardo Ponzio (?)
Torino Squadra Corse: Alex Peroni (?)
Vincenzo Sospiri Racing Srl: Marino Sato, Jaden Conwright, Simone Cunati (?), Takuro Shinohara (?)
Van Amersfoort Racing BV

[Formulahistory]

Audi Sports Italia sounds very interesting. Any details about this entry?

Which of the new teams are completely new and which were involved in racing in other categories before`?

[NaBUru38]

It's great to see so many drivers. But where will they end in two years? FIA killed all F3 championships but their own.