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British Formula 4 has announced that a day working with the Williams Formula 1 team will be one of the prizes for this year’s champion.
The day will take place at Williams’ Grove headquarters rather than trackside at an F1 event, and will include a development session on its simulator in which they will be guided by one of the engineers who works with Williams’ junior drivers.
They will also do a training session in the team gymnasium with one of the Williams Driver Academy’s coaches.
The 2026 British F4 grid has recently grown with the additions of Jaber Al Sabah at Xcel Motorsport and Haarni Sadiq at JHR Developments.
Kuwaiti racer Al Sabah made his British F4 debut with Xcel in last year’s non-championship round at Silverstone that supported F1’s British Grand Prix. He finished 22nd in both races. He has remained with the team since then for a double programme in the Middle East.
At the end of 2025 he contested two of the three rounds in the United Arab Emirates-based Formula Trophy, netting a best finish of sixth, scoring nine points and coming 17th in the standings. Over the last month he has raced in UAE4, where he went points-free.
Sadiq, 16, is also continuing an existing partnership. He was part of JHR’s British F4 line-up for three rounds in 2025, and two 16th places were his best results from his first single-seater campaign as he stepped up to cars. In the Ultimate Karting Championship’s Rotax Junior class, Sadiq came 44th last year as a part-timer.