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An eventful weekend at Barcelona means Euroformula has a four-way title fight with one round remaining of 2025.
The 11-car field featured two newcomers to single-seaters’ third tier: Formula Regional graduate Enzo Yeh and sportscar racer Theo Micouris. They got their first running in pre-event testing, topped by Everett Stack by just 0.07 seconds over Tymek Kucharczyk.
Two practice sessions followed and Micouris surprised by setting a 1m32.824s to take top spot by 0.195s over Kucharczyk.
Yevan David came to the fore in qualifying on Saturday, claiming pole despite not improving late on like his rivals. He pipped Kucharczyk by 0.023s, with Diego de la Torre 0.234s behind. Just 0.061s split him, Jose Garfias, Stack and Micouris.
A slow start to race one cost David two places, and Kucharczyk took the lead. Title contender Michael Shin had qualified ninth, but rose to sixth. De la Torre had to defend second place on lap two, and Shin started lap three alongside Stack.
He tried passing him on the outside but his rear-right tyre was punctured by Stack’s front wing and he spun, with both drivers having to pit.
Victory was soon assured for Kucharczyk as de la Torre got penalised five seconds for jumping the start, and Stack was penalised five seconds for the contact.
David pressured de la Torre again mid-race, and darted to his inside at turn one on lap 11 to get ahead. De la Torre went off at the final corner of lap 13 and fell behind Garfias, who did not stay third for long as a big turn one lock-up on lap 15 sent him way off and down the order.
Fernando Barrichello and Ed Pearson were now attacking de la Torre, and Pearson made a pass through the final corner. He then got ahead of de la Torre exiting turn four, and de la Torre went deep into turn five to get back past but at the cost of losing out to Barrichello. There was now a six-car train, and Yeh slid into Micouris at turn one on the last lap which put them out of podium contention. Pearson overtook de la Torre there too, but could not catch Barrichello after.
Alessandro Famularo finished sixth and started race two on Sunday on reversed-grid pole alongside Micouris. Both started very slowly and Pearson took first place.
David and Barrichello were behind him, and Barrichello pulled off an amazing double pass around the outside at turn one. Further back, Yeh and Garfias picked up damage requiring pitstops.
Pearson reclaimed the lead on the inside of turn two a lap later, and the field spread out.
David dived past Barrichello under braking into turn one on lap 13, Kucharczyk had taken fourth from Famularo there on lap five, and after early progress to sixth Shin was slow late on and lost seventh to a move by Stack completed at turn three.
Micouris and Stack were the front row starters for the reversed-grid race three, and puddle-filled sections of the track meant wet weather tyres were used and the safety car led the first two laps.
Shin pitted for slicks on lap one, and by lap four had a clear pace advantage on his warmer tyres that led to him picking off drivers. By the end of lap five he was second, but 5.4s behind Micouris.
Kucharczyk and Garfias had disputed third through lap three until Kucharczyk was sent through the turn seven gravel when trying a move. Stack was second, but ran off at the final corner so the inexperienced Micouris ended the lap with a 3.2s lead over Garfias.
Shin overtook Micouris around the outside of turn one on lap eight, while Garfias and Stack squabbled for third, Yeh and David pitted and de la Torre tried doing so too but crashed in the pit entry.
The race belonged to Shin in the second half, as he built a lead of almost 84s. Micouris retained a gap of at least two seconds to the battle for third, which Stack was eliminated from with a puncture. Garfias ended up holding off Barrichello in a photo finish, before the latter was penalised five seconds anyway.
Results round-up
Race 1 (17 laps)
1 Tymek Kucharczyk BVM Racing 26m56.446s
2 Yevan David Motopark +0.949s
3 Fernando Barrichello Motopark +9.664s
4 Ed Pearson Nielsen Racing +11.681s
5 Theo Micouris Nielsen Racing +13.784s
6 Alessandro Famularo BVM Racing +14.169s
7 Enzo Yeh BVM Racing +14.237s
8 Diego de la Torre Motopark +18.361s
9 Everett Stack Motopark +1 lap
10 Jose Garfias Motopark +1 lap
Pole: David, 1m31.990s
Fastest lap: Kucharczyk, 1m33.376s
Race 2 (17 laps)
1 Pearson 27m48.162s
2 David +2.221s
3 Barrichello +6.947s
4 Kucharczyk +7.317s
5 Famularo +9.918s
6 Stack +11.104s
7 Michael Shin Motopark +20.411s
8 Micouris +20.768s
9 de la Torre +27.474s
10 Garfias +55.974s
FL: Garfias, 1m35.349s
Race 3 (17 laps)
1 Shin 31m29.065s
2 Micouris +1m23.914s
3 Garfias +1m26.993s
4 Barrichello +1m27.081s
5 Famularo +1m30.233s
6 David +1m30.740s
7 Kucharczyk +1m36.648s
8 Pearson +1m39.588s
9 Stack +1 lap
Ret Yeh
FL: Barrichello, 1m37.962s
Championship standings
1 Kucharczyk 321 2 Shin 298 3 David 293 4 Garfias 259 5 Pearson 214 6 Barrichello 192 7 Stack 167 8 de la Torre 129 9 Famularo 46 10 Shawn Rashid 41