Photo: Nordic 4
Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen took two wins and the title in the final Nordic 4 round at Jyllandsringen.
In the week of the event, the Formula 4 championship announced it would stengthen its ties with the Formula Renault 1.6-based Formula Nordic for 2025.
The Danish and Swedish motorsport federations, and the two respective competitions, have agreed that in addition to sharing grids next year they will make a combined Nordic Championship Formula (NCF) classification taking into account all Nordic 4 and FNordic events.
Since there are already four instances of shared grids, it means F4 drivers only need to do further FNordic rounds in Sweden (in the to-be-determined calendar) for a full NCF campaign. Those two events would only earn them NCF points, since they would not be Nordic 4 rounds.
STEP Motorsport driver Jakobsen was fastest by 0.662 seconds in practice for the finale over Team FSP’s Louis Leveau, who then dominated qualifying. He set a 1m15.762s to take pole by 1.134s over Formula 5 driver Mads Hoe, with Jakobsen 1.319s off the pace in third.
Jakoben leapt from third to first on the opening lap of race one, and stayed at the front for the rest of the race to clinch the title. Leveau held second until lap nine, when an incident sent him down to eighth and then into retirement.
Magnus Pedersen, who started 17th, was the driver who inherited second placem and Hoe held off FSP’s Marius Kristiansen for third. STEP’s Gustaw Wisniewski recovered from a drive-through penalty to finish fourth, and Enzo Hallman was the top FNordic driver in seventh. Just 1.5s but two places behind was Daniel Varverud, enough for him to win the FNordic title.
Hallman and his rival Peder Saltvedt started on the front row for the reversed-grid race two, with Wisniewski and team-mate Sebastian Bach on row two. Unsurprisingly the two F4 drivers leapt past the FR1.6 duo and Wisniewski took his maiden win. Hallman sunk to eighth, but still took home maximum FNordic points.
Jakobsen finished fourth, which helped put him on pole for race three based on the combined finishing positions from earlier in the day. He converted it into a dominant win, his 12th of the season, with F5 champion (and overall FNordic runner-up) Hoe a distant third after Pedersen lost out on a podium finish to a 10s penalty for colliding with another driver.
Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics, FR1.6 entrants in bold]
Race 1 (12 laps)
1 Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen STEP Motorsport 16m18.504s
2 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +6.450s
3 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +13.460s
4 Marius Kristansen Team FSP +13.608s
5 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport +13.752s
6 Gustaw Wisniewski STEP Motorsport +15.333s
7 Enzo Hallman +17.092s
8 Peder Saltvedt Saltvedt Racing +18.535s
9 Daniel Varverud +18.853s
10 Carl Pramming RaceCraft Driver Academy +19.442s
Pole: Louis Leveau, 1m15.762s
Fastest lap: Jakobsen, 1m08.150s
Race 2 (14 laps)
1 Wisniewski 16m13.184s
2 Bach +3.960s
3 Kristiansen +4.090s
4 Jakobsen +6.583s
5 Pedersen +8.499s
6 Hoe +14.164s
7 Laerke Ronn Sorensen STEP Motorsport +21.984s
8 Hallman +22.948s
9 Albin Stureson +24.179s
10 Saltvedt +28.258s
FL: Kristiansen, 1m07.942s
Race 3 (15 laps)
1 Jakobsen 17m16.166s
2 Kristansen +9.653s
3 Hoe +15.570s
4 Bach +16.885s
5 Pedersen +20.701s
6 Saltvedt +26.391s
7 Sorensen +29.331s
8 Sebastian Schou STEP Motorsport +30.444s
9 Hallman +34.035s
10 Leveau Team FSP +34.887s
FL: Jakobsen, 1m07.666s
Nordic 4 standings
1 Jakobsen 399 2 Hoe 321 3 Pedersen 288 4 Bach 263 5 Kristiansen 230 6 Leveau 145 7 Sorensen 130 8 Wisniewski 110 9 Larsen 67 10 Danielsson 45
FNordic standings
1 Varverud 298 2 Hallman 264 3 Saltvedt 225 4 Hafstrom 198 5 Stureson 182 6 Andreas Aichhorn 91 7 Molander 74 8 Joannis Matentzoglou 38 9 Birk August Larsen 26 10 Philip Engbaek 14