British F4 grid grows as teams test at Oulton Park and Donington Park

Photo: Virtuosi Racing

British Formula 4 teams have been in action this month for testing at Oulton Park and Donington Park.

The days at Oulton Park, which Rodin Motorsport helped book and ran on the Island layout, featured nine drivers.

James Piszcyk (Rodin) was fastest on the first morning, setting a 1m20.769s to lead Henry Joslyn (Fortec Motorsports) by 0.113 seconds. Tommy Harfield (Chris Dittmann Racing) was third fastest, 0.395s behind.

Joslyn lowered the pace to 1m20.124s in the afternoon, and Piszcyk improved but was 0.227s off the new benchmark laptime. Harfield was third again, just 0.336s off.

Piszcyk returned to the top the next morning with a 1m20.184s, pipping Martin Molnar (Virtuosi Racing) by 0.093s and Joslyn by 0.103s. All but two drivers improved in the afternoon, and Molnar posted a 1m19.926s late on to go 0.121s ahead of Joslyn. Piszcyk and August Raber (Argenti Motorsport) were also within 0.4s of the pace.

Joslyn, 15, is moving to British F4 after two seasons in entry-level sportscar series Ginetta Junior. He won four times en route to fourth in the 2024 standings.

In 2022 he was IAME Euro Series runner-up, fourth in the British Kartmasters Grand Prix and seventh in the IAME Warriors Final for X30 Junior karts, and was 15th in the FIA Karting Academy Trophy.

Raber has switched over from Xcel Motorsport for his sophomore British F4 season, having come 21st last year with a best finish of fifth an injury-interrupted campaign. He was eighth in F4 Middle East earlier this year, and won a race there.

Joining Xcel is Yuhao Fu. The 16-year-old was 18th last season with Virtuosi, and fourth on home soil in Chinese F4 where he claimed two victories. He was 15th in F4 Middle East, which concluded two weeks ago.

Harfield, also 16, was part of CDR’s driver development programme in 2024 while racing in the BRSCC Fiesta Junior championship. His time in touring cars was interrupted by a hand injury, but did include two wins.

The entry list grew to 16 drivers for British F4’s official pre-season test day on Donington’s National layout, and in the morning Raber set a 1m04.879s to edge Rodin’s Ella Lloyd to top spot by 0.059s. Piszcyk was a further 0.086s back, and also within 0.2s of Raber were Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior Ethan Jeff-Hall (Argenti), Joslyn and Molnar.

Laptimes were considerably slower in the afternoon, as a 1m10.925s was enough to put Argenti’s Henry Mercier on top. He was fastest by 0.201s over Molnar and by 0.421s over Raber.

Also confirmed as joining the 2025 grid before that test were Xavier Avramides (Hitech GP) and Adam Al Azhari (Rodin).

Avramides, 16, comes from Australia. He finished 23rd in the USA SuperNationals for X30 Jr karts, then on OK karts was 10th in WSK’s Euro Series and 14th in its Super Master Series.

Al Azhari, younger brother of 2024 Spanish F4 runner-up Keanu, came 24th in Spanish F4 last year as a part-timer and 12th in the UAE’s Formula Trophy. More recently he was 10th in F4 Middle East.

Test results