Lammers tops test, MP signs Red Bull junior Coronel in Spanish F4

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MP Motorsport’s Rene Lammers was quickest in Spanish Formula 4’s in-season test at Barcelona.

The teams are at the track for the rest of the week as there is another test there and then the season finale.

Lorenzo Campos and Ricardo Baptista will be racing at Barcelona but not in Spanish F4, as both step up to Eurocup-3, and are being replaced at Monlau Motorsport and Drivex School respectively. Former TC Racing driver Santiago Baztarrica takes Campos’s F4 seat, with the pair currently 23rd and 27th in the standings, while Rafaela Ferreira makes her second outing of the season with Drivex. She won in Brazilian F4 last weekend and is 12th in F1 Academy with one round remaining.

Yani Stevenheydens joined Global Racing Service’s line-up last time out at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit, but is returning to Eurocup-3 at Barcelona so the team has called up 19-year-old Pablo Riccobono, who came 16th in French F4 this year.

Rodin Motorsport will be without Kyuho Lee, currently 22nd in the standings, and MP is expanding to seven cars as it adds Rocco Coronel to its line-up. The Red Bull junior has raced in entry-level sportscar series Ginetta Junior for the last year, coming seventh in its 2024 winter series then winning the main championship in 2025.

It was super close at the top in the first test session on Wednesday, with 0.095 seconds splitting the top five. Hudson Schwartz pipped MP team-mate Ean Eyckmans by 0.018s, Campos Racing’s Thomas Strauven was 0.029s behind in third, and Niklas Schaufler was 0.001s ahead of Lammers in fourth. Half a second covered the top 14, with 0.895s between first and 20th.

Tecnicar Motorsport’s Wiktor Dobrzanski was absent as he was travelling over from Hockenheim, where he had been driving for Motopark in a private Euroformula test this week.

Lammers lowered the pace to 1m42.574s in session two, just edging Drivex’s Christopher Feghali by 0.007s and Campos’s Jan Przyrowski by 0.027s. MP’s Reno Francot and Schwartz were only 0.069s and 0.079s behind, and this time there was 0.429s between first and 20th and four other drivers within a second of the pace.

Eyckmans, Monlau’s Alexander Jacoby and Felipe Reijs were the only non-improvers in the 36-car entry list.

Session three featured red flags, and Francot led the way with a 1m43.117s prior to the stoppage. He improved to 1m42.760s with six minutes remaining, then with three minutes left Przyrowski set a 1m42.739s to take top spot by 0.006s over team-mate Noah Monteiro.

After the chequered flag, Campos’s Matus Ryba and Miguel Costa went fourth and sixth fastest, 0.045s and 0.074s off Przyrowski respectively and sandwiching Rodin’s Nathan Tye. Lammers was down in 24th, with his earlier benchmark not beaten as only Monteiro, Ryba, Rodin’s Emma Felbermayr and Jacoby set personal bests. A second covered the top 23.

Test results