Photo: ACI Sport
Italian Formula 4 champion Kean Nakamura-Berta snatched the final victory of the 2025 season from Gabriel Gomez on the very last lap.
The fifth race to be held this weekend at Misano was the rescheduled race two from the Imola round, which had to be suspended after a startline pile-up.
It would use the same grid order as that race at Imola, with Gomez starting from pole position and able to quickly make a gap of over a second as fellow front row starter Sasha Bondarev held off his Prema team-mate Nakamura-Berta through the opening corners.
Nakamura-Berta did manage to dive to the inside of Bondarev at Turn 8 to take second place, and begin to close the gap to Gomez.
Gomez’s lead stood at just 0.6 seconds in the middle of the race when the safety car was deployed after Francesco Coppola and Nathanael Berreby tangled.
At the restart, Nakamura-Berta attempted a repeat move into Turn 8 on Gomez, but the US Racing driver was able to hold on around the outside.
Nakamura-Berta had several more attempts over the final 10 minutes until the final lap, when he got a run on Gomez onto the back straight and managed to pull alongside with two wheels on the grass to secure the place, and with it his ninth win of the season.
Second place for Gomez was still enough for him to take second place in the championship from Sebastian Wheldon.
Wheldon had won all three of the races he had contested so far this weekend, putting him one point in front of Gomez in the standings, but had to start this final race from ninth as a carryover from a difficult visit to Imola.
He struggled to make progress early on, even being demoted to 10th at one stage. He did then manage to climb to sixth, and battled Emanuele Olivieri for fifth, only to be repassed by Salim Hanna before the end and finish seventh.
Williams junior Bondarev meanwhile hung on to finish third, taking just his second podium finish of the season, with team-mate Newman Chi in fourth.
Race results (16 laps)
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kean Nakamura-Berta | Prema Racing | 27m19.125s |
| 2 | Gabriel Gomez | US Racing | +0.324s |
| 3 | Sasha Bondarev | Prema Racing | +0.813s |
| 4 | Newman Chi | Prema Racing | +1.174s |
| 5 | Emanuele Olivieri | R-ace GP | +1.549s |
| 6 | Salim Hanna | Prema Racing | +2.133s |
| 7 | Sebastian Wheldon | Prema Racing | +2.243s |
| 8 | Maximilian Popov | Van Amersfoort Racing | +2.866s |
| 9 | Reno Francot | PHM Racing | +3.065s |
| 10 | Artem Severiukhin | Jenzer Motorsport | +3.769s |
| 11 | Alex Powell | R-ace GP | +6.904s |
| 12 | Bart Harrison | Jenzer Motorsport | +7.294s |
| 13 | Alexander Ruta | Van Amersfoort Racing | +7.887s |
| 14 | Oleksandr Savinkov | R-ace GP | +12.440s |
| 15 | David Walther | Maffi Racing | +15.343s |
| 16 | Bader Al Sulaiti | Jenzer Motorsport | +16.720s |
| 17 | David Cosma-Cristofor | PHM Racing | +17.159s |
| 18 | Phil Colin Strenge | AS Motorsport | +17.212s |
| 19 | Guy Albag | R-ace GP | +18.013s |
| 20 | Emily Cotty | R-ace GP | +18.441s |
| 21 | Payton Westcott | Van Amersfoort Racing | +18.614s |
| 22 | Dante Vinci | Van Amersfoort Racing | +19.263s |
| 23 | Luka Sammalisto | US Racing | +20.432s |
| 24 | Marcus Saeter | Van Amersfoort Racing | +20.546s |
| 25 | Andrija Kostic | US Racing | +21.311s |
| 26 | Kornelia Olkucka | Maffi Racing | +26.269s |
| 27 | Teo Schropp | Jenzer Motorsport | +26.928s |
| 28 | Elia Weiss | Cram Motorsport | +36.909s |
| 29 | Kirill Kutskov | Maffi Racing | +1 lap |
| 30 | Kabir Anurag | US Racing | +1 lap |
| 31 | Andrea Dupe | Prema Racing | +3 laps |
| Ret | Nathanael Berreby | Maffi Racing | |
| Ret | Francesco Coppola | Technorace Competition | |
| Fastest lap: Kutskov, 1m36.437s
Championship standings |
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