JHR’s Leo Robinson victorious in British F4’s rescheduled race

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Leo Robinson won the second British Fomula 4 race on Brands Hatch’s Grand Prix layout, which was a re-running of the race due to take place at Silverstone last month.

He led home Hitech GP’s Reza Seewooruthun and Rodin Motorsport’s Alex Ninovic, who started eighth and sealed second in the standings by making the podium.

The reversed-grid race at Silverstone began with a start-line incident involving series newcomer Thomas Bearman stalling from pole, then red flags. Worsening weather meant no restart or rescheduling for later in the day, and it was later decided to fit it into the bill at Brands Hatch.

Bearman once again started from pole with Seewooruthun alongside him, and struggled to get away from the line.

The Hitech driver had dropped down to ninth by the end of the first lap, and successfully avoiding him as they launched off the line was Robinson. He was starting right behind him and after navigating past his car he also overtook Seewooruthun for the lead.

Seewooruthun stayed with Robinson for most of the race, but the leader gradually built up a gap and the pair were separated by 1.452 seonds at the chequered flag.

Ninovic also got a storming start, jumping from eighth to fifth before finding a way past Martin Molnar to pick up fourth. His next target was Jack Sherwood. Ninovic set the fastest lap in an effort to close in on in, but would not get close enough to challenge before the chequered flag.

However, Sherwood received a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits and that promoted Ninovic to the podium while he got demoted to sixth behind rookie classification winner Martin Molnar and Deagen Fairclough, who started 10th.

James Higgins was too far back to make up a position due to Sherwood’s penalty, finishing seventh. Rowan Campbell-Pilling took eighth, ahead of Bearman and Alex Berg.

Race results (13 laps)