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Prema’s Freddie Slater made it three Italian Formula 4 wins out of three at Vallelunga to grow his championship lead to 38 points.
His team-mate Alex Powell started on pole, but a slow getaway meant Slater was immediately past. Van Amersfoort Racing’s Hiyu Yamakoshi attempted to make it a three-wide fight for the lead at turn seven, but that instead led to him being pressured by US Racing’s Jack Beeton.
However Beeton then had an off and fell behind team-mate Matheus Ferreira, and lap one ended with small gaps between the top five. AKM Motorsport’s Alexander Savinkov pitted with damage, and VAR’s Alvise Rodella did the same on lap two.
US’s Akshay Bohra and Gianmarco Pradel, VAR’s Gustav Jonsson and Prema duo Kean Nakamura Berta and Rashid Al Dhaheri completed the top 10 early on, with Nakamura gaining a spot on lap three.
Slater was 1.1s up the road when the safety car was called out on lap four due to VAR’s Lin Hodenius and AKM’s Emanuele Olivieri colliding and retiring in the gravel. Jenzer Motorsport’s Ethan Ischer then pulled off at the turn 12 hairpin with damage on lap six, but a restart still took place the lap after.
There was battled for fourth and sixth place after green flags waved, but the safety car had returned before the end of lap seven and the next restart did not take place until lap 11.
Yamakoshi tried passing Powell (who for the second race in a row got a black-and-white warning flag) around the outside of turn seven for second place, and that allowed Slater to create 1.17s gap before the safety car was summoned once again on the next lap due to an out-of-contol Everett Stack (PHM Racing) wiping out Kabir Anurag (US) at turn 12.
Stack was able to continue in the race, but Anurag’s car was abandoned and it led to four more laps of safety car running that took the field all the way to the chequered flag. Al Dhaheri passed Jonsson for ninth before the race was neutralised for a final time.
Race results (15 laps)
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie Slater | Prema | 34m04.568s |
| 2 | Alex Powell | Prema | +0.278s |
| 3 | Hiyu Yamakoshi | Van Amersfoort Racing | +0.508s |
| 4 | Matheus Ferreira | US Racing | +0.691s |
| 5 | Jack Beeton | US Racing | +0.893s |
| 6 | Akshay Bohra | US Racing | +1.116s |
| 7 | Gianmarco Pradel | US Racing | +1.312s |
| 8 | Kean Nakamura Berta | Prema | +1.601s |
| 9 | Rashid Al Dhaheri | Prema | +1.970s |
| 10 | Gustav Jonsson | Van Amersfoort Racing | +2.130s |
| 11 | Davide Larini | PHM Racing | +2.333s |
| 12 | Tomass Stolcermanis | Prema | +3.124s |
| 13 | Enea Frey | Jenzer Motorsport | +3.451s |
| 14 | Dion Gowda | Prema | +3.602s |
| 15 | Maximilian Popov | PHM Racing | +3.863s |
| 16 | Maxi Rehm | US Racing | +5.043s |
| 17 | Reno Francot | Jenzer Motorsport | +5.193s |
| 18 | Shimo Zhang | Jenzer Motorsport | +6.392s |
| 19 | Andrej Petrovic | PHM Racing | +7.840s |
| 20 | Enzo Yeh | R-ace GP | +8.181s |
| 21 | Andrija Kostic | Van Amesfoort Racing | +8.643s |
| 22 | Luka Sammalisto | R-ace GP | +8.789s |
| 23 | Luca Viisoreanu | Real Racing Team | +9.527s |
| 24 | Wiktor Dobrzanski | Cram Motorsport | +10.098s |
| 25 | Filippo Fiorentino | Cram Motorsport | +10.391s |
| 26 | Edu Robinson | AS Motorsport | +10.871s |
| 27 | Alvise Rodella | Van Amersfoort Racing | +11.368s |
| 28 | Kamal Mrad | PHM Racing | +12.646s |
| 29 | Alexander Savinkov | AKM Motorsport | +12.869s |
| 30 | Gabriel Holguin | Maffi Racing | +13.924s |
| 31 | Everett Stack | PHM Racing | +15.386s |
| 32 | Nathanael Berreby | Maffi Racing | +4 laps |
| 33 | Kabir Anurag | US Racing | +5 laps |
| Ret | Ethan Ischer | Jenzer Motorsport | |
| Ret | Emanuele Olivieri | AKM Motorsport | |
| Ret | Lin Hodenius | Van Amersfoort Racing | |
| Fastest lap: Slater, 1m34.978s
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