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Rodin Motorsport has announced Ella Lloyd and James Piszcyk as its first two signings for the 2025 British Formuola 4 season.
The pair both already have experience in the championship, with Piszcyk contesting the 2023 season while Lloyd was on the grid in 2024.
Lloyd signed with Rodin last October at the same time as joining as the McLaren Driver Development Programme, since she was to spend this year driving in the all-female and F4-spec F1 Academy for the former and with the branding of the latter.
The 19-year-old from Wales actually made her single-seater racing debut with Rodin, contesting two Formula Winter Series rounds in March 2024. She then joined JHR Developments in British F4, and came 11th in the standings with four podiums.
Had she not missed a round to debut in F1 Academy with Prema in Singapore she potentially could have ended the season two places higher in the points table. Her year ended by coming 24th in the F4-spec Formula Trophy with Xcel Motorsport.
“It’s great to welcome Ella into the British F4 team this year,” said Rodin’s sporting director Benn Huntingford. “This dual programme will give her a lot of seat time and experience at this level, which will be fantastic for her development. She has shown brilliant promise so far and we are looking forward to seeing her develop this year.”
Piszcyk will be going into his fifth year of single-seater racing, and will be looking to improve on his fifth place in the 2023 British F4 standings when he drove for Hitech GP. That season he claimed two poles that he converted into wins.
Before then he had raced in Formula Ford back home in Australia, and missed out on the 2022 national title by skipping the final round to enter a British F4 test. In 2023 he also came 15th in F4 United Arab Emirates with Hitech, then was Australian F4 champion with AGI Sport last year.
After taking a maximum possible six poles and nine wins from the nine races in Australia, the 18-year-old wrapped up the title at Sepang in Malaysia with a podium and two sixth places. That ended up being the final round, with the planned trip to the UAE in November – where grids would have been shared with FTrophy – being cancelled.
“I am super excited with this opportunity to race with Rodin Motorsport and have the chance to race in the UK this season,” Piszcyk said. “I’m looking forward to developing my skills with such a strong team and can’t wait for the season to start.”
Chris Dittmann Racing has made 15-year-old English karter Charlie Edge its first signing for the 2025 British F4 season, a move which has been anticipated since last September.