Henry Moore clinched the 2025 British F4 Esports Championship after his Team Benik teammate Remy Gilbert was unceremoniously punted off in the final round.
After 14 races, the destination of the 2025 British F4 Esports Championship came down to a straight fight between teammates Henry Moore and Remy Gilbert.
Moore, the runner-up in 2024, was an early favourite for top honours, but Gilbert stepped up his performances during the title run-in to put his Team Benik colleague under immense pressure.
The reversed grid race in Round 7, where Gilbert finished third while Moore could only muster 10th, allowed Gilbert the luxury of a 19-point lead heading into the eighth and final round from Brands Hatch GP.
However, in a season where the gap between the two drivers ebbed and flowed, there would be one final twist in the championship story.
Race 1
Unsurprisingly, it was the two main protagonists on the front row of the grid for Race 1, heading up the 28-strong field. Gilbert held a slight advantage over Moore, with Azz Tech Racing’s Ghiless Jeanney taking a shock third position alongside TC Esports’ Dani Moreno.
Gilbert and Moore made equally good starts, with the pair running line astern in the opening laps. Behind, Moreno was deposed by Drive Lounge Racing’s Leo Brown, with the top five drivers breaking away from Agustin Torlaschi in sixth.
However, on lap five, Moore launched his car up the inside of Gilbert at Westfield bend, with the pair running side-by-side all the way to Clark Curve. Moore was now in the lead, while Gilbert was subsequently nerfed wide at Turn 1 by Jeanney as the pack bickered behind, dropping him to fifth.
Gilbert’s fightback came immediately with a dive down the inside of Moreno at Druids. Overtaking Jeanney would prove to be more problematic, however, but with three laps to go, Gilbert bravely hung it around the outside of the Azz Tech driver at Dingle Dell. With two wheels on the grass, Gilbert claimed the final podium position, giving him a slim points advantage heading into Race 2.
Up front, Moore took the win just ahead of Brown, teeing up a one-race shootout for the Drivers’ title.
Race 2
With the top five finishers reversed for Race 2, Moore would start fifth, two positions behind Gilbert. Jeanney was on pole and would prove to play a pivotal role in the destination of the championship.
On lap two, Gilbert dived down the inside of Moreno at Paddock Hill Bend to claim second, with Moore struggling to make progress in fifth. His misery was almost compounded when Gilbert assumed the lead two laps later.
However, heading into Druids, the deposed Jeanney drove straight into the back of the champion-elect, sending him and his title hopes into the gravel. Gilbert recovered in 13th with light damage, but with Moore in fourth, he required a minor miracle to regain the lost ground.
Ironically, Moore made it past Jeanney cleanly before assuming second position after Brown ran wide at Clark Curve. Meantime, Gilbert had dropped off the back of the pack and was losing time to his teammate.
Gilbert managed to climb to 10th by the chequered flag, but it was not enough to topple Moore, who, despite some tension with Brown on the final lap, came home second to clinch the Drivers’ championship.
Moreno took the final win of the season, cementing TC Esports’ second position in the Teams’ championship.
The incident with Jeanney was a cruel way for Remy Gilbert to end his season, but this shouldn’t detract from Henry Moore’s impressive sophomore season, which saw him become the winningest driver in British F4 Esports history.
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.
RACE ONE
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.
RACE TWO
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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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.
RACE 1
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.
RACE 2
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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The final round of the 2024 British F4 Esports Championship gets underway tonight, with Graham Carroll and Henry Moore in a close battle for top honours.
The 2024 British F4 Esports Championship title fight has been an absolute cracker so far, with Guild Academy’s Henry Moore and Scuderia Ferrari HP Esports Team’s Graham Carroll engaged in a season-long fight for top honours in the Motorsport UK-sanctioned series.
2024 British F4 Esports Championship contenders Henry Moore and Graham Carroll had an event to forget at Silverstone, as the pair clashed in the reversed grid second race.
In what was quickly becoming a common theme in the 2024 British F4 Esports Championship, Guild Academy’s Henry Moore and Scuderia Ferrari HP Esports Team’s Graham Carroll racked up a glut of points during Round 4’s double-header at Oulton Park, with the title increasingly looking like it was headed in their direction.
Despite Matt Caruana’s absence from the Cheshire-based event, the Mensah Racing Driven By Us driver remained in third position in the title race, some 98 points adrift of Moore in first, and seemingly out of the reckoning.
Despite the respectful battling of Moore and Carroll thus far, Round 5 at Silverstone’s Grand Prix layout would prove to be a rambunctious affair, with the title protagonists finding themselves embroiled in a chaotic Race 2 incident that may well have big championship repercussions.
Race 1
Moore bossed qualifying for the third round on the trot, with Carroll once again sharing the front row, just over a tenth of a second behind. Joseph Loake, driving for the Aston Martin Aramco Esports Team, was a fine third, in what was something of a departure from his usual FIA Formula 3 machinery.
Moore got off the line quickly, with Carroll slotting in behind through the first sequence of turns. A huge incident further back saw Caruana rear-ended by William Chadwick after the former spun on the Woodcote kerbs.
For the latter, it was the third major incident in as many rounds, likely putting an end to both drivers’ championship challenge.
Heading towards Stowe on lap three, Carroll drafted past Moore for the lead, with Moore returning the favour on lap five. Loake was in close attendance but subsequently dropped two positions at The Loop after Pablo Espes of Willaims Esports Academy forced an opening, also allowing his Williams Esports stablemate Moreno Sirica through.
The leading pack of six were now locked in a slipstreaming battle for the lead, with Espes maneuvering his way into second as Carroll attempted to hold off the advances of Loake.
Heading onto the final lap, Espes was right on Moore’s gearbox, with the battle for the final podium slot far from finished. In fact, Sirica, Loake and Carroll began the final tour side-by-side, with Loake holding on for third. Carroll overtook Sirica for fourth, but lost ground to Moore in the championship as the young Englishman held off Espes to claim victory.
Race 2
The reversed grid draw saw 11th place Elias Raikaa claim pole position for Race 2, with few predicting the kind of chaos we were about to witness.
Raikaa cleared off out front as the pack behind engaged in some hairy two and three-wide battling. Carroll and Moore failed to make significant progress in the early reckoning, but worse was to follow at the start of lap two.
Carroll’s Ferrari team-mate Gergo Baldi found himself sandwiched into the high-speed Abbey curve, which bunched the pack up behind – including Moore and Carroll. Baldi sustained race-ending damage by clashing with Guild Esports’ Leo Brown, eventually retiring at Luffield.
The action continued through the rest of the lap, with Carroll desperately trying to keep Moore at bay with a visibly hobbled car. Chadwick pulled an outside move on the Scot heading into Club, but the pair tangled.
Guild’s Leo Brown tried to go around the outside of stablemate Moore in the aftermath but effectively pinned him against the recovering Carroll, causing the two main championship protagonists to collide, with Carroll’s car heading skyward.
It was a clumsy sequence of corners from the British F4 Esports field, and it would sadly set the tone for the incident-packed race.
Out front, Raikaa had been caught by Williams Esports Academy’s Matthijs van Erven, with the pair enjoying a two-second gap to the podium fight behind; including Loake, Williams Esports’ Alexander Spetz and Sirica, Aston Martin’s Conor Muir and Guild Esports’ Remy Gilbert.
More incidents in the midfield led to just 17 cars running at mid-distance, as van Erven encountered tyre issues and fell into the clutches of Loake, losing second place in the process. On the final lap, van Erven would clash with his WIlliams Esports stablemate Sirica, gifting Sptez the podium at the line. No doubt the team debrief was a frosty affair.
BS+ Compeition’s Raikaa would take an assured victory, with Joseph Loake claiming a double podium from Round 5.
The chaos of Silverstone sees Henry Moore extend his lead to Graham Carroll at the top of the championship, with Carroll’s Ferrari Esports team heading the Teams’ points.
Tune in to the next round from Knockhill on the 13th of November, broadcast live on iRacing’s YouTube channel.
Images courtesy of RC Sim Photography (Rhys Caryl)
Article written by Ross McGregor for Traxion.gg