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Artem Severiukhin to make F4 race debut with Jenzer in FWinter Series

by Ida Wood

Photo: FIA Karting / KSP Reportages

Jenzer Motorsport has announced a four-car line-up for the upcoming Formula Winter Series in Iberia.

The Swiss team has signed Enea Frey, Bart Harrison, Alba Hurup Larsen and Artem Severeiukhin, a quartet with a range of experience.

Frey’s father raced for Jenzer in Formula Ford in the 1990s, and he joined the team for his single-seater debut last year afyer coming 14th in the CIK-FIA World championship for OK karts and ninth in the WSK Final Cup and 10th in the WSK Euro Series for OK Junior karts in 2023.

In his rookie year of single-seater racing he came 25th in FWinter Series, then was 15th in Formula 4 Central European Zone, 16th in Italian F4 and 17th in E4 (nee Euro 4). The 16-year-old’s best results, two fourth places, came in his F4 CEZ cameo.

Harrison, 17, is also a single-seater sophomore who has already worked with Jenzer as he drove for the team in the 2024 Italian F4 finale. He kicked off his year by coming 42nd in FWinter Series with Rodin Motorsport, then joined Chris Dittmann Racing in British F4 and came 20th in the standings with three sixth places his best results.

Larsen is using FWinter Series to prepare for her F1 Academy season with MP Motorsport. The 16-year-old won the senior final of the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission’s Ferrari Driver Academy-affiliated Girls on Track Rising Stars programme in 2023, then came 18th in Indian F4 last year after contesting the first two rounds. She will miss one of FWinter Series’ four rounds.

The oldest but least experience driver in Jenzer’s line-up is the 18-year-old Severiukhin.

The Russian’s career hit a high and then a low in swift succession in April 2022 as he won the opening round of the CIK-FIA European championship for OK karts at Algarve but then made an alleged Nazi salute on the podium and was promptly disqualified from the event and was dropped by the Ward Racing team.

He returned to action nine months later on KZ2 shifter karts, coming seventh in the WSK Champions Cup, 14th in the European championship and 21st in the WSK Final Cup in 2023, then third in Champions of the Future, fourth in the FIA Karting World Cup, ninth in WSK SMS and 14th in WSK CC in 2024. Just over a year ago he also topped an Italian F4 test.