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Several teams have revised their line-ups for the second round of the E4 season this weekend at Mugello.
AKM Motorsport has expanded to five cars with the addition of Javier Herrera and Tomass Stolcermanis.
Herrera has just concluded his Formula 4 Central European Zone campaign with Jenzer Motorsport, in which he came third in the standings with three wins. The rookie has also done two Italian F4 rounds and an Formula Winter Series event with Jenzer.
Stolcermanis has raced for Prema exclusively in his single-seater career, which started with a 2023 F4 South East Asia cameo. Last year he came 18th in F4 United Arab Emirates as a part-timer then fifth in E4 and ninth in Italian F4.
He began 2025 with his maiden car racing victory en route to fourth in the F4 Middle East standings, and despite missing three rounds sits 10th in Italian F4’s standings.
US Racing has grown from four to six cars, adding Ludovico Busso and Arjen Kraeling. Busso did round one with Viola Formula Racing and has been racing in Italian F4 with that team, while Kraeling has recently been racing in British F4.
R-ace GP has added a fifth driver to its line-up: Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior Andy Consani. The single-seater rookie is currently 11th in French F4, having claimed pole on debut but only one podium so far.
Returning to E4 is Cram Motorsport, which has done one round in each of the last two seasons. Its drivers are Italian karting graduate Oscar Repetto and its F4 regular Elia Weiss.
Despite being a car racing rookie, Weiss was called up to test in Formula E earlier this year. His racing experience so far consists of two FWinter Series rounds and five Italian F4 rounds, and he has scored no points.
Making its series debut is AS Motorsport, and is doing so with the all-female line-up of Aurelia Nobels and Mathilda Paatz.
Nobels came 12th in the all-female F1 Academy championship last year and sits 14th in the 2025 standings. Paatz came 20th in French F4 as a rookie in 2024 and was eighth in F4 CEZ this year.
Consani was first to the top in free practice one on Friday morning, and traded first place with team-mates Alex Powell, Alexander Savinkov and Emily Cotty.
Stolcermanis broke R-ace GP’s hold with a 1m52.527s, but Consani and then Powell lowered the pace. Prema’s Sebastian Wheldon was next to lead the way by breaking into the 1m51s, and Stolcermanis responded with a 1m50.864s.
That benchmark stood for 18 minutes before Prema’s Kean Nakamura Berta set an unbeatable 1m50.663s. PHM Racing’s Reno Francot ended FP1 third fastest, 0.282 seconds behind and 0.01s ahead of US’s Kabir Anurag, with Busso and Wheldon completing the top six. A second covered the top 22.
Anurag, team-mate Gabriel Gomez and Van Amersfoort Racing’s Maximilian Popov disputed first place in FP2 until Nakamura once again came to the fore. This time he set a 1m49.155s, putting him 0.324s ahead. Wheldon was 0.396s behind in third, with Powell and US’s Andrija Kostic the only others within 0.5s of him.
Points leader Gomez ended practice in 14th, 0.984s off the pace.