Nine F4 Championships have been claimed by drivers who are stepping up to test their skills in the 2024 FIA FR World Cup
The FIA FR World Cup is the ultimate test for junior racers, and this year’s event from 14-17 November is bringing some of the brightest talents from the FIA’s single-seater pyramid together on the world stage for the first time.
National Formula 4 Championships – Certified by FIA, have become the established first step into car racing since they were first introduced ten years ago, and now every up-and-coming driver has cut their teeth in this ideal educational format.
Many F4 champions have already made their way to the FIA Formula One World Championship – Lando Norris (British F4), Yuki Tsunoda (Japanese F4), Lance Stroll (Italian F4), and the incoming talents for 2025 Kimi Antonelli (Italian F4, ADAC F4) and Ollie Bearman (Italian F4, ADAC F4), have all carved out the path from F4 to the highest level.
It’s little surprise, then, that there are no fewer than nine Formula 4 titles shared between seven of the drivers coming to this year’s FIA FR World Cup grid are former F4 champions themselves.
As befitting the concept of nationally-run, FIA-certified Formula 4 championships, the roster of graduating F4 racers is suitably international. From the plethora of competitions running in Europe, Théophile Nael comes to Macau as 2023 F4 Spanish champion, while Evan Giltaire won the French F4 championship in the same year.
Heading East, we find F4 UAE Champion James Wharton, F4 Indian Champion Cooper Webster, F4 Chinese Champion Tiago Rodrigues and F4 Japanese Champion Rikuto Kobayashi all bringing their winning experience to Macau’s city streets, while Noel Leon is representing the Americas for the FIA FR World Cup as a champion of both F4 NACAM and the F4 US Championship.
You can see how all the former F4 champions get on at this most famous of races on the FIA’s YouTube channel over the Macau Grand Prix weekend.
Source : Fia
