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Argenti Motorsport, Chris Dittmann Racing, Rodin Motorsport and Xcel Motorsport have all been announcing driver signings for British Formula 4 recently.
Remaining with Argenti for a second season is Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior and 2024 CIK-FIA World Karting and Ginetta Junior champion Ethan Jeff-Hall.
As a single-seater rookie the 17-year-old came fifth in the 2025 British F4 standings with one victory and five other podiums. He also finished second in the first of the non-championship F1 support races at Silverstone.
CDR has also gone for continuity, retaining Tommy Harfield and Piotr Orzechowski from its 2025 line-up.
Harfield, 16, competed full-time and three wins late in the season propelled him to fourth in the standings. He had six other podium appearances (including the British Grand Prix support races) and qualified on pole twice. Polish racer Orzechowski did three rounds last year to kick off his car racing career, and his best result was a 17th place.
Rodin Motorsport will run Ethan Lennon and McLaren junior Dries Van Langendonck in British F4 this year. Both are already racing for the team in the Iberia-based Formula Winter Series, which they are one round into. Van Langendonck leads the points after claiming a win and a pole at Estoril, and Lennon is 11th in the standings with a fourth place to his name.
Lennon hails from South Africa, and the 15-year-old came 13th in entry-level sportscar series Ginetta Junior last year as a part-timer so will know several of British F4’s circuits. In his junior karting career he finished third in the Trofeo Andrea Margutti, 11th in the IAME Winter Cup, 16th in the ROK Superfinal.
Van Langendonck joined Rodin for the last three rounds of the 2025 British F4 season, taking a pole and victory in his debut weekend and coming 21st in the standings. His points-per-race average was the 11th highest in the field.
The 15-year-old Belgian was World and European champion, won the Champions of the Future and WSK Final Cup titles and was WSK Super Master Series runner-up in karting’s OK Junior class, and in the senior OK class was WSK FC and WSK SMS champion, eighth in the CIK-FIA European Championship and 17th in CotF.
Cole Hewetson, another South African, is staying at Xcel for a third year. He debuted in single-seaters with the team in the United Arab Emirates’ two-round Formula Trophy series in 2024, coming 15th, then was 18th in F4 Middle East at the start of 2025. A British F4 campaign followed in which he was 16th with one podium at the final round, then he ended the year with a FTrophy cameo.
Preparing to race in British F4 is top Indonesian karter Qarrar Firhand. The 15-year-old began testing in F4 machinery last July with AKM Motorsport, then racked up mileage with Argenti and Global Racing Service. He has confirmed he will make his F4 debut in summer, and it is expected he will do three British F4 rounds.