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Cram Motorsport has announced Simon Rechenmacher and Wiktor Stalmach as its first two signings in German Formula 4, the new-for-2027 championship.
The Italian team has competed in its national F4 championship since its 2014 creation (bar the 2015 and 2023 seasons), and expanded into Spanish F4 in 2022.
E4 was added to its F4 programmes in 2023, then the Formula Winter Series in 2024, and this year it had a presence in five F4 paddocks as it also entered cars in F4 Central European Zone.
Rechenmacher comes from Cram’s F4 CEZ line-up, in which he starred as a single-seater rookie after several years in shifter karting.
The German made the podium in his second race, then did so six more times including his maiden victory at Slovakia Ring. Those results put him fifth in the standings, and by scoring in the sole E4 round he contested he was 26th in the points table there.
His new team-mate Stalmach is only 14 years old, and the Pole graduates from karting but for the last 13 months has also been accumulating test mileage in F4 (primarily in privately organised tests), sportscar and Rally2-class rally cars.
He was racing in the CIK-FIA World Championship for OK karts last weekend, failing to make it through to the final after being 66th in the intermediate classification, and he was 54th in the European championship. In the Champions of the Future series he was 59th, two places lower in WSK’s Super Master Series but sits 26th in its Final Cup after round one.