The first round of the 2025 British F4 Esports Championship saw Henry Moore take an early lead, thanks to a win and a fourth place.
The British F4 Esports Championship returns for 2025, boasting a grid stacked with Formula 1-affiliated sim racing teams.
Alpine, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Red Bull and Williams are all represented on the grid, but 2024 Drivers’ champion Graham Carroll is not, being listed as a reserve for 2025.
2024 Teams’ champion Guild Esports is also absent from the grid, having folded earlier this year. However, the squad’s top drivers, Remy Gilbert and Henry Moore, now form Team Benik and are likely the early-season favourites as a result.
It was Moore who claimed the first pole position of the season at Donington Park’s Grand Prix layout, with the teenager no doubt eager to improve on his second-place championship finish in 2024. Surprisingly sat alongside him was Pablo Espes of Williams Sim Racing, with Leo Brown and Dani Moreno third and fourth, respectively.
Moore made a rapid getaway, but was quickly followed by Drive Lounge Racing’s Brown. The pair made an immediate breakaway from the pack, with a four-way battle developing for the final podium slot.
Espes had Gilbert, Will Reford and Moreno for company, but by the final couple of tours, Espes had built up enough of a gap to clear the cars behind, as Reford, Moreno and Gilbert finished fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.
Up front, Brown shadowed Moore all the way to the line, but it was the Team Benik driver who prevailed by just a tenth of a second to take the first race of the season.
Matt Caruana, perhaps one of the quickest single-seater drivers in iRacing right now, finished seventh and would be one to watch for the reversed grid race.
TC Esports’ Agustin Torlaschi drew pole position for Race 2, but had Caruana for company on the front row, as Race 1 winner Moore started down in eighth.
Torlaschi made the better start, but ran slightly too deep at Redgate, allowing Caruana to switch back and lead into the Old Hairpin on lap one. Gilbert displaced Torlaschi into third, while further back, Reford was fired off at McLeans by Brown, elevating Moore into sixth before lap two.
The first seven cars settled into a slipstreaming train for the majority of the race, but with three laps left, Moore eased ahead of Brown into fifth before slicing past Torlaschi for fourth on the next lap.
Shoma Shintani, the runner-up in the 2024 UK FF1600 Esports Cup, made impressive progress up to sixth, pressuring Torlaschi for fifth, but couldn’t quite maintain the consistent pace of the top five in the closing stages.
On the penultimate lap, Cauruana was under intense pressure from both Moreno and Gilbert for the win, with the latter lightly body-checking Moreno on the exit of the Melbourne Hairpin to reassert his grip on second position.
Caruana was unflappable on the final lap, however, holding off Gilbert to take the victory, with TC Esports’ Moreno still in close proximity in third.
Moore eased home in fourth to retain the championship lead, with Torlaschi rounding off an impressive debut for TC Esports with fifth, and second-place in the Teams’ standings.
Written by Ross McGregor on Traxion.gg
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