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Home Featured Ugo de Wilde wins season-opening French F4 race at Nogaro

Ugo de Wilde wins season-opening French F4 race at Nogaro

by Bethonie Waring
French F4

Photo: FFSA Academy

Ugo de Wilde claimed a lights to flag victory in the first race of the 2018 French Formula 4 championship.

After a strong start, de Wilde came under pressure from Adam Eteki in the closing stages of the race, but managed a small gap to take the chequered flag 0.309s ahead of the Frenchman.

Caio Collet completed the podium after passing Theo Pourchaire in the opening laps. He immediately closed the gap to Eteki but couldn?t find a way past.

Top Junior championship driver Pourchaire finished fourth, ahead of Belgian federation-backed Ulysse de Pauw and Pierre-Louis Chovet.

It was a relatively clean race, with the only incident coming when Stuart White and Theo Nouet came together just three laps before the end of the race. The pair had been battling at the back end of the top 10, but the contact took them both out of the points. White was able to continue, but Nouet was left stranded at the side of the track.

Arthur Leclerc, Mateo Herrero and Esteban and O?Neill Muth rounded out the top 10.

The Muth brothers will therefore start from the front of the reversed grid for race two.

Race results
Pos Driver Time/Gap
1 Ugo de Wilde 14 laps in 21:44.296
2 Adam Eteki +0.309
3 Caio Collet +0.895
4 Theo Pourchaire +3.101
5 Ulysse De Pauw +15.448
6 Pierre-Louis Chovet +15.974
7 Arthur Leclerc +16.326
8 Mateo Herrero +18.328
9 Esteban Muth +25.483
10 O’Neill Muth +29.935
11 Stuart White +35.469
12 Shihab Al Habsi +42.647
13 Reshad De Gerus +44.390
14 Sacha Lehmann +47.169
15 Gavin Aimable +47.354
16 Baptiste Moulin +1:29.244
17 Romain Boeckler +1:33.278
18 Baptiste Berthelot +1 lap
19 Theo Nouet +2 laps