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The 2026 British Formula 4 grid is beginning to take shape, with multiple teams signing drivers for next season.
Hitech GP has just announced that it will field Red Bull junior Scott Lindblom, who is currently contesting his debut single-seater campaign in Saudi Arabian F4 where Hitech operates all the cars. He sits third in the standings with one win.
“Joining Hitech for British F4 is an exciting first step in my single-seater career,” said the 15-year-old Swede.
“I’m looking forward to learning the car and the UK circuits, and I’m ready to work hard, adapt fast, and aim for strong results from the first race.”
Lindblom already has experience of several of them, having come fourth in entry-level sportscar series Ginetta Junior this year. In 2024 he primarily raced in the OK kart class, winning WSK’s Euro Series and coming eighth in Champions of the Future.
His year started by coming 11th in WSK’s Super Master Series for OK Junior karts, and in that category he was previously third in the World championship, fourth in WSK’s Euro Series and 15th in the CIK-FIA European championship.
“Scott arrives with one of the most impressive karting resumés of his generation,” said Hitech’s British F4 team manager Dominic Stott. “His selection for the Red Bull Junior Team underlines his capability and we are looking forward to helping him develop into one of the leading contenders in 2026.”
Fortec Motorsports has announced American-Australian driver Ethan Carney will join its line-up after two seasons racing in Ginetta Junior.
The 15-year-old, who started karting aged 12, came 17th in Ginetta Junior and also contested its Winter Series as a rookie in 2024. This year he came 11th in the main championship.
Chris Dittmann Racing has gone to touring cars for its first signing, bringing in 17-year-old Daniella Sutton.
She won the inaugural BRSCC Fiesta Junior Scholarship in 2024, setting her up for a two-year spell in the BRSCC’s Formula Ford Fiesta Junior Championship. In her sophomore campaign she was a regular frontrunner. Sutton has juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Virtuosi Racing already has two drivers for next season: Joseph Smith and Jarrett Clark.
Smith was fourth in the 2024 Ginetta Junior Winter Series and 10th in the main championship this year after doing a half-season. The 16-year-old then stepped up to British F4 with Hitech, contesting the last four rounds and coming 29th in the standings.
This year British-Australian driver Clark was eighth in Ginetta Junior and fourth in its winter series, where he won a race last weekend. During his years racing OK Junior class karts preceding that, he came 12th in CotF, 19th in WSK’s Euro Series and 25th in its Champions Cup, and 26th in the CIK-FIA World championship.