Team Benik’s Henry Moore continued his championship charge thanks to a win and a third place in Round 2 of the British F4 Esports Championship from Thruxton.
Henry Moore made a solid start to his 2025 British F4 Esports Championship season, taking a win and fourth-place finish in the first round at Donington Park.
The Team Benik driver was only 10 points ahead of Matt Caruana, however, as the HYMO Setups by EMM racer also tasted victory in the season opener.
The pair proved to be close in qualifying for the second round at Thruxton, too, with Caruana shading the young Englishman by 17 thousandths of a second to line up third on the grid.
Dani Moreno was on pole for TC Esports and sat alongside Drive Lounge Racing’s Leo Brown on the front row.
Moreno held off the advances of Brown through the Campbell, Cobb and Seagrave complex, but both would lose out to Caruana before the opening lap’s end.
HYMO’s William Chadwick had made good ground on lap one to sit fourth exiting Club, but, as has been the case many times in British F4, he found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, succumbing to suspension damage after contact with championship leader Moore.
Caruana dropped back to fifth place after an issue at Club, as Moreno re-took the lead, this time from Moore. Benik’s Remy Gilbert was in third as Brown followed in fourth. The top four appeared to settle into a holding pattern at this point and opened up a gap to the gaggle of cards battling for sixth.
With around four minutes to go, however, the leading group decided that the gloves were off, with their battling allowing Caruana to join the fight. Moore jumped into the lead, as Caruana did the over-under on Gilbert exiting Club.
Moreno switched with Moore heading onto the final lap, but the lead battle took a bizarre turn on the run to the flag as both drivers were hit with slow-down penalties. Moore had to slow more than Moreno, gifting the latter the win as Gilbert snatched second.
The top 11 finishers were reversed for Race 2, allowing Ryan Micallef onto Race 2 pole position – a solid effort given he started Race 1 from the rear of the field. Micallef would line up alongside Shoma Shintani, last year’s UK FF1600 Esports Cup champion, on the front row.
Micallef made a prompt escape as the lights went green, with Williams’ Shintani fending off stablemate Pablo Espes and Alpine’s Connor Jupp.
Espes – and seemingly half of the field – would later be eliminated from the race, leaving Micallef, Jupp, Shintani and Caruana to fight it out for the lead. With around 13 minutes left, Caruana enjoyed a triple slipstream run out of Church to slingshot into the lead, with Beckham Jacir, Moore and Gilbert now joining the lead group.
Moore cycled himself up to fourth, as Jacir made an aggressive move on Caruana for the lead with two laps to go. The positions were reversed quickly, but heading into Club for the penultimate time, an unfortunate collision between Jacir and Caruana launched the latter into a spin.
Micallef and Jacir headed into the chicane side-by-side on the last lap. The pair made contact, cut the final corner, and in a carbon copy of Race 1, both had to slow down to avoid being penalised.
Moore and Gilbert capitalised to cross the line 1-2 for Team Benik (after having to pull off some evasive manoeuvres to avoid collecting the slowing cars ahead), with Micallef claiming third after Jacir copped a time penalty.
It was another clumsy end to the race, but most notably, Henry Moore had once again established his championship credentials with a patient and methodical drive to another maximum point-score.
Moore now has a healthy points lead in the Drivers’ championship, as does Team Benik in the Teams’ battle, with the next round at Snetterton two weeks away.
Written by Ross McGregor for Traxion.gg
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