Customise Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Home Featured Van’t Hoff wins ahead of Macia in Spanish F4’s Spa opener

Van’t Hoff wins ahead of Macia in Spanish F4’s Spa opener

by Peter Allen

Photo: F4 Spain

Dilano van’t Hoff took victory in the first race of the Spanish Formula 4 season at Spa-Francorchamps ahead of car racing debutant Daniel Macia.

Driving for the Praga-run Formula de Campeones squad, Macia took the lead at the start of the race ahead of MP Motorsport driver van’t Hoff as pole-sitter Alex Dunne slipped to fourth on the short run to La Source behind Campos Racing’s Pepe Marti.

Van’t Hoff challenged Macia at the end of the Kemmel Straight but both drivers ended up running deep, opening the door for Dunne – announced this morning as the first junior driver for KCMG – to retake the lead.

The safety car was deployed on lap two following two separate incidents – one in which Oliver Michl locked up and took out Noah Abramczyk at the Bus Stop chicane, the other where Guilherme Oliveira and Gil Molina collided at Les Combes.

At the restart with just over 10 minutes remaining, Macia again moved to the head of the field on the approach to Les Combes but again ran a little deep, and it was van’t Hoff who instead emerged from Malmedy with the lead.

Macia then tried to go around the outside of van’t Hoff at the following Bruxelles right-hander but found himself demoted to fourth behind Dunne and Santiago Ramos.

Driving for Jenzer Motorsport, Italian F4 regular Ramos went on to take second away from Dunne, only for Macia to charge back through into second place with three minutes left on the clock.

By this point, van’t Hoff – who won five times in his maiden single-seater campaign in the United Arab Emirates F4 series earlier this year – had opened up a margin of over a second out front, but Macia would close right up to him by the time they went through the Bus Stop chicane for the final time, with just under half a second between them at the line.

Dunne was put back to fifth place by Marti at La Source on the penultimate lap, but found himself back up in third by the time he reached Les Combes as Ramos was pushed back the other way.

While Dunne completed the podium, Macia’s team-mate Quique Bordas snatched fourth from Marti, outdragging him to the finish line. Ramos took sixth after having to fend off the second-best MP driver Georg Kelstrup, who is being coached by Belgian ex-Formula Two racer Benjamin Bailly.

Francesco Braschi came from 17th on the grid to finish eighth for Jenzer ahead of Sebastian Ogaard (Campos) and Filip Jenic (Teo Martin Motorsport).

Race results (10 laps)
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap
1 Dilano van’t Hoff MP Motorsport 28m52.029s
2 Daniel Macia Praga F4 +0.490s
3 Alex Dunne Pinnacle Motorsport +2.625s
4 Quique Bordas Praga F4 +3.627s
5 Pepe Marti Campos Racing +3.661s
6 Santiago Ramos Jenzer Motorsport +5.510s
7 Georg Kelstrup MP Motorsport +5.784s
8 Francesco Braschi Jenzer Motorsport +7.349s
9 Sebastian Ogaard Campos Racing +8.129s
10 Filip Jenic Teo Martin Motorsport +9.343s
11 Alejandro Garcia Campos Racing +9.760s
12 Suleiman Zanfari MP Motorsport +10.290s
13 Manuel Espirito Santo MP Motorsport +10.466s
14 Noah Degnbol MP Motorsport +12.750s
15 Samir Ben Jenzer Motorsport +14.063s
16 Rik Koen MP Motorsport +14.384s
17 Branden Lee Oxley Drivex +15.649s
18 Max Arkhangelskiy Drivex +16.268s
19 Vladislav Ryabov GRS +16.281s
20 Alex Partyshev Campos Racing +22.412s
21 Santiago Trisini MP Motorsport +22.562s
22 Jorge Garciarce Jenzer Motorsport +23.436s
23 Lola Lovinfosse Drivex +37.936s
24 Emely de Heus MP Motorsport +42.522s
Ret Guilherme Oliveira Drivex
Ret Gil Molina MP Motorsport
Ret Noam Abramczyk Drivex
Ret Oliver Michl Teo Martin Motorsport
Fastest lap: Macia, 2m24.003s

Championship standings
1 van’t Hoff 27   2 Macia 19   3 Dunne 17   4 Bordas 12   5 Marti 10   6 Ramos 8   7 Kelstrup 6    8 Braschi 4   9 Ogaard 2   10 Jenic 1