Lammers cruises to victory in Spanish F4 race three at Valencia

Photo: MP Motorsport

Spanish Formula 4’s penultimate round of 2025 at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit concluded on Sunday with a victory for Rene Lammers.

The grid for race three was set by the event’s second qualifying session in the morning, and G4 Racing’s Karras brothers were the surprise early pacesetters.

MP Motorsport’s Niklas Schaufler set the first sub-1m35s lap, but was only ahead for eight seconds before Tecnicar Motorsport’s Andrej Petrovic posted a 1m34.694s.

TC Racing’s Alfio Spina beat that by 0.03 seconds just five seconds later, but Petrovic responded on his next lap with a 1m34.34s.

Ean Eyckmans was the next driver to top the times, a 1m34.203s briefly putting him ahead before MP team-mate Reno Francot went fastest by 0.095s.

His benchmark stood for a minute, then Schaufler broke into the 1m33s. Francot managed the same next time by, and went 0.01s quicker than Schaufler.

Their team-mate Lammers then came to the fore, posting a 1m33.906s to topple Francot by 0.026s then improving to 1m33.818s.

But that still was not enough for pole, and late on Campos Racing’s Thomas Strauven set a 1m33.787s to make it three out of three for the weekend.

His team-mate Jan Przyrowski went third fastest with his final lap, 0.14s off pole, and Petrovic improved to be sixth behind Francot and Schaufler. Eyckmans, team-mate Hudson Schwartz and Campos’s Noah Monteiro were also within 0.3s of Strauven’s pace, with a second covering the top 29 in the 35-car field. Spina had all of his laptimes deleted.

Pole position was on the outside, and the drivers on the inside made the better starts in the race. Lammers got alongside Strauven, and Francot drew level with Przyrowski. Both made passes into turn one, but Przyrowski reclaimed third around the outside at turn two and tried passing Strauven there too. However that then let Francot get ahead of him again.

Lammers began pulling away on lap three, growing his lead to 1.2s, and he was two seconds clear after nine laps. In the race’s second half he steadily pulled further, and led home champion Strauven by 4.238s.

Przyrowski kept Francot’s mirrors filled, but was never close enough to think about passing despite finishing just 0.181s behind him.

Schaufler dropped behind Petrovic, Eyckmans and Schwartz on lap one, and Rodin Motorsport’s finished ninth after making two opening lap moves and then overtaking Campos’s Noah Monteiro on lap five. He went down his inside at turn one, and they were wheel-to-wheel until turn two where Tye got ahead.

There was more overtaking outside of the top 25, while Drivex School’s Christopher Feghali took the fastest lap in 31st place after a lap two pitstop. His team-mate Kaiden Higgins had to pit several times, and other team-mate Stepan Suslov ended his race there, while Monlau Motorsport’s Alexander Jacoby stopped on track on lap three and finished 32nd.

Race results (20 laps)