BRITISH F4 TO KEEP GP TRACKS IN ’25
Junior championship’s bosses set to continue with Silverstone GP and overseas rounds in ’25 despite their absence from provisional calendar
British Formula 4 bosses still intend to add Silverstone GP and an overseas round to its 2025 schedule even though they were absent from its provisional calendar unveiled last week.
The junior single-seater contest primarily races on the British Touring
Car Championship package, but – to also give drivers Formula 1 track experience – a round on the Silverstone GP layout was added in 2023 and British F4’s first overseas round, at Zandvoort, is in July.
Colin Clark – commercial director of British F4 organiser Motorsport UK – told Motorsport News: “We’ll be developing the calendar over the summer with a view on replicating again the overseas visit as well as we’re very much hoping that we can secure a date on the Silverstone GP track.
“We really want to give our racers the historic technical tracks of the UK as well as giving them some of the bigger GP tracks.
“[Zandvoort for 2024 wasn’t] finalised until about November last year. There’s a certain order to these matters. [BTCC] gets sorted out after F1, and then all the other slots in the calendar become available. So the usual horse trading begins.”
When asked if Zandvoort is number-one
choice for 2025’s overseas venue,
Clark added: “We’re actually limited by the FIA as to where we can potentially go. Typically it’s got to be a country with a land border with the domestic championship. However, we don’t have a land border obviously. But Zandvoort certainly [there was] a big smile on the faces of our drivers when they were testing out there.”