James Piszcyk ends British F4 season with sixth win

Photo: Jakob Ebrey Photography

James Piszcyk won the final race of the British Formula 4 season around Brands Hatch’s Grand Prix layout as Rodin Motorsport secured the teams’ title.

Piszcyk led lights-to-flag and finished 0.562 seconds ahead of Rodin team-mate Adam Al Azhari. The win was his sixth of the season, more than anybody else this year.

There was little movement at the front of the field for much of the race. Piszcyk held onto the lead from Al Azhari and Ethan Jeff-Hall. The top three broke away slightly from the rest of the pack, with champion Fionn McLaughlin in fourth.

In the race’s second half, McLaughlin put pressure on Jeff-Hall, trying to find a way past and allowing top two to escape down the road.

Al Azhari kept in touch with Piszcyk, but the leader offered no opportunities to overtake and Al Azhari had to settle for second.

Jeff-Hall held off McLaughlin to complete the podium, despite the Hitech GP driver seeming to have better pace at the end of the race.

The closest battle for much of the race was between Dries Van Langendonck and Martin Molnar.

Rodin’s Van Langendonck got a good start to move past Virtuosi Racing’s Molnar and Xcel Motorsport’s Theo Palmer to fifth.

As Palmer slipped further back, Molnar stayed close to the McLaren junior ahead. He tried getting alongside Van Langendonck late on, but could not get his nose ahead and slotted back in behind. They were split by 0.388s at the finish.

Chase Fernandez ended the finale in seventh place, ahead of August Raber, Tommy Harfield and Thomas Bearman.

Race results (18 laps)