Photo: All Road Management
Ean Eyckmans has won the seventh running of the Richard Mille Young Talent Academy shootout, earning himself a paid-for seat in Spanish Formula 4 for 2025.
Six drivers contested the two-day shootout at Jerez, which was organised by the Nicolas Todt-led All Road Management firm. Todt is also the assistant director of the Birel ART team Eyckmans races for in karting.
Italian driver training firm Formula Medicine conducting physical and psychological tests (split into ‘athletic’ and ‘mental’ sessions’) on the finalists on Sunday before the they took to track in F4 cars run by MP Motorsport on Monday. Eyckmans will race for MP when he steps up from karting to F4.
Eyckmans has spent the last three years racing on OK karts. As a rookie he came third in the WSK Super Master Series, 10th in Champions of the Future, 13th in the CIK-FIA World championship and WSK Final Cup, and 23rd in the European championship.
Last year he was runner-up in the South Garda Winter Cup, sixth in the WSK Final Cup, 11th in the European championship, 15th in the World championship and 19th in CotF. He also drove on X30 Senior karts, coming second in IAME’s Warriors Final, sixth in its Winter Cup and seventh in its Euro Series.
Although 2024 started well with sixth place in the WSK Champions Cup and the WSK SMS title, Eyckmans only came 14th in the WSK Euro Series, 23rd in the European championship, 27th in CotF and he failed to make the final of the World championship.
Eycmans’ father is one-time IndyCar racer Wim, who runs the Eyckmans GP karting team.