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The grid is growing for Spanish Formula 4’s main and winter championships, the latter of which starts next month.
G4 Racing has announced the Karras brothers, Jean Paul and Philippe Armand, will be in its line-up for both seasons after running the pair in 2025.
They started their single-seater careers in F4 Central European Zone two years ago, with two fourth places putting Philippe Armand 16th in the standings. He then represented Greece in the Motorsport Games’ F4 event, qualifying seventh, finishing 12th in the qualification race then retiring from the main race.
Sainteloc Racing signed the brothers for the 2025 Spanish F4 Winter Championship, in which both failed to score. They continued with Sainteloc for round one of the main championship, then did the last three rounds with G4. Jean Paul was the lead brother in the standings after both finished a race in the top 10 at the last round.
TC Racing, the F4 team founded by Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois that is now active in karting too with its TC Junior Team, will run Beau Lowette in the two Spanish F4 championships.
The 16-year-old Belgian is a single-seater rookie who has raced in European karting over the last three years. He was Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals runner-up in the Rotax Junior class in 2023, and has been in senior classes since.
In Rotax Senior he was 2024 RMC Winter Cup runner-up and 13th in Belgium’s BNL Series, and on OK karts was 13th in WSK’s Euro Series, 27th in its Final Cup and 31st in the CIK-FIA European Championship.
Completing an F4 paddock switch for 2026 is Pablo Riccobono Bello, who came 16th in the centrally-run French F4 last year and will do a double Spanish F4 programme with Global Racing Service. He joined the team ahead of the main championship’s 2025 season finale.
Racing in Spanish F4, but yet to be confirmed for the winter championship grid, are Jorge Bruno and Max Radeck at Drivex School. The team now has six drivers, with at least three to be entered under the ‘DX Racing Team’ banner.
Bruno is already a race-winner in single-seaters, having spent 2025 in Formula 2 Argentina (a relaunched entry-level series for halo-shod cars previously known as Argentinian Formula Renault 2.0 and then Formula Nacional Argentina). As a part-timer he took a victory and two other podiums en route to 10th in the standings.
Radeck is from Portugal and has primarily competed in his home country’s karting scene.
Monlau Motorsport also has two drivers signed for Spanish F4 later in the year: Rahim Alibhai and Miki Blascos.
American racer Alibhai came 22nd in a part-time USF Juniors campaign last year, finishing eighth on his debut, and the 15-year-old is a member of Fernando Alonso’s A14 Management scheme.
Blascos did three Spanish F4 rounds in 2025 with Monlau and was 24th in the standings.