FORTEC RETURNS TO BRITISH F4
Champion team is back for final two rounds of 2022 with Flack and Higgins driving
Fortec Motorsports is returning to the British Formula 4 championship with James Higgins and Marcos Flack racing in 2022’s remaining rounds starting with this weekend’s Silverstone meeting.
Fortec has over 30 British F4 race wins and took Luke Browning to 2020’s drivers’title, becoming the first team to beat Carlin to the championship. The decorated junior single-seater squad also has Nikolas Taylor leading the GB4 standings and Joel Granfors fighting for GB3’s title. Fortec’s alumni include Charles Leclerc and Daniel Ricciardo.
The team last competed in British F4 last season, finishing second in the teams’standings, and was one of the teams that committed to the revamped British F4 series for 2022.
It will make its first appearance of the season this weekend with GB3 race-winner Flack from Australia, and 16-year-old Higgins who raced in Ginetta Juniors in 2020 and ’21, finishing 15th in the standings in the latter season.
Fortec team manager Oliver Dutton said: “We made no secret of our intentions to continue competing in the series last autumn. Driver development is a key philosophy of our team, so to race on the FIA single-seater ladder, with a car and a package designed to help bring drivers on, is a ‘must’ for us.
“Our approach to the last two rounds is very much with one eye on the future. For us, it’s the beginning of our 2023 programme. It’s a championship we’ve been very successful in previously, and we’re certainly not here to make up the numbers in the background.”