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Round four of the Brazilian Formula 4 season took place last weekend at Goiania with three races and three different winners: Alvaro Cho, Ethan Nobels and Arthur Pavie.
On Friday, Pavie secured pole position for races one and three. After a tight fight, he set a 1m23.969s, just 0.029 seconds faster than points leader Matheus Comparatto, to take race three pole. For the first race, the grid is formed from drivers’ second-best laptimes and the order was the same, with Pavie on pole by 0.042s over Comparatto.
Hed led the first eight laps of the race before an error dropped him to last. With that, victory instead went to TMG Racing’s Cho for the third time this season. Bassani Racing’s Comparatto finished second, followed by TMG’s Rafaela Ferreira.
Pepe Souza had reversed-grid pole for race two but lost the lead to Cavaleiro Spots driver Nobels before even reaching turn one. Nobels opened up a comfortable gap up front to win, with Cho in second and Ciro Sobral in third.
The last race took place on Sunday morning. And poleman Arthur Pavie led from start to finish, despite being under a lot of pressure from team-mate Cho. He defended well to claim his maiden victory and become the seventh different winner this year, and behind Cho was Comparatto. That led to the gap between the two title rivals reducing to 30 points at the season’s halfway point, with Nobels a further 26 points back.
Round five will take place at Autodromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 4-6. It will be the championship’s first ever international round.
Results round-up
Race 1 (22 laps)
1 Alvaro Cho TMG Racing 32m42.341s
2 Matheus Comparatto Bassani Racing +2.142s
3 Rafaela Ferreira TMG Racing +5.300s
4 Lucca Zucchini Cavaleiro Sports +5.836s
5 Gino Trappa Bassani Racing +7.238s
6 Ciro Sobral TMG Racing +9.460s
7 Ethan Nobels Cavaleiro Sports +15.757s
8 Joao Pedro Souza Cavaleiro Sports +18.822s
9 Alceu Feldmann Neto Bassani Racing +1m17.336s
10 Cecilia Rabelo Bassani Racing + 1 lap
Pole: Pavie, 1:23.980s
Fastest lap: Cho, 1:24.176s
Race 2 (15 laps)
1 Nobels 21m25.353s
2 Cho +0.377s
3 Sobral +2.367s
4 Trappa +3.796s
5 Comparatto +3.949s
6 Guilherme Favarete TMG Racing +6.331s
7 Arthur Pavie TMG Racing +8.300s
8 Ferreira +13.321s
9 Rabelo +20.561s
10 Feldmann Neto +21.007s
FL: Pavie, 1:24.617s
Race 3 (23 laps)
1 Pavie 32m37.304s
2 Cho +1.642s
3 Comparatto +1.952s
4 Zucchini +6.725s
5 Ferreira +9.833s
6 Sobral +10.416s
7 Favarete +11.518s
8 Rogerio Grotta Cavaleiro Sports +12.941s
9 Trappa +19.736s
10 Nobels +19.960s
P: Pavie, 1m23.969s
FL: Grotta, 1m24.150s
Championship standings
1 Comparatto 175 2 Cho 145 3 Nobels 119 4 Ferreira 109 5 Trappa 95 6 Sobral 82 7 Zucchini 74 8 Pavie 71 9 Grotta 61 10 Favarete 44