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Elite Motorsport, Fox Motorsport and Hillspeed have added to their 2026 GB4 line-ups.
Belgium-based Venezuelan racer Emmilio Valentino Del Grosso has been signed by Elite, and the 16-year-old steps up to GB4 from entry-level sportscar series Ginetta Junior where he also raced for the team. He came 18th in the standings there last year as a car racing rookie, with a best finish of seventh.
Ginetta Junior runner-up Fred Green is also moving across from Elite’s sportscar squad to its GB4 counterpart, and the USF Juniors-experienced Matan Achituv is another of the team’s drivers for 2026.
Jasser Iskander and Enzo Rujugiro, both 15, will be joining Fox for their single-seater racing debuts. Iskander is the reigning champion of IAME Series Saudi Arabia’s X30 Junior class, a feat he achieved in his second year of karting. He did tests in GB4 cars later in 2025, and is aiming for podiums from his rookie campaign in the championship.
Rujugiro put his focus into car tests through 2025, but did not sample a GB4 chassis until this week when he first worked on track with Fox at Snetterton. The South African had raced in junior karting from the end of 2022 through to 2024, with 13th in the 2022 LeCont Trophy (in the OK Junior class) being his best result on the international scence. He also came 21st in the 2024 WSK Champions Cup in the OK-N Junior class.
Hillspeed has brought in American duo Demitri Nolan and Connor Willis. The 21-year-old Nolan came 10th in the Ligier Junior Formula Championship on home soil two years ago as a single-seater rookie, then switched from first to second-generation Formula 4 chassis in 2025 by racing in United States F4. He came sixth with two podiums, but was last of the full-timers in a depleted field.
Willis knows the tracks visited by GB4 well, having spent the last two years racing in United Formula Ford. In 2024 he was 14th in the standings, and made the final of Formula Ford 1600’s illustrious Walter Hayes Trophy event at Silverstone.
He improved to seventh in United FFord’s points table last year, and at the FFord Festival made the podium in his heat and was ninth in the final. Recovery drives were required at the WHT, where Willis won the last chance race and charged from 29th to 10th in the final.
Hillspeed has done a propert winter testing programme with Willis to prepare him for the switch from FFord to slicks-and-wings cars.