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
Images by AR Media Solutions
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
Guild Academy’s Henry Moore once again impressed in the third round of the 2024 British F4 Esports Championship from Snetterton, extending his championship lead over Scuderia Ferrari HP Esports Team’s Graham Carroll, taking his first win in the process.
Carroll and Moore were in a three-way fight at the top of the table with Mensah Racing Driven By Us’ Matt Caruana, who would unfortunately be absent from Round 4 at Oulton Park, despite showing impressive early-season form.
While Oulton’s International layout would prove to be a stern challenge for Moore and Carroll, thanks to inclement weather and an unfavourable reverse grid draw for Race 2, but it showcased their talents perfectly, with the pair emerging from the chaos as the championship’s two main protagonists.
Race 1
Moore navigated the foggy qualifying session for Round 4 best of all, taking his second consecutive pole position. Championship nemesis Carroll would line up alongside the rookie for Race 1, just over a tenth-of-a-second behind.
G2 Esports’ Isaac Price was an impressive third, while 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship driver Joseph Loake was a surprise fourth, driving for the Formula 1-affiliated Aston Martin Aramco Esports Team.
The race got underway with Moore heading Carroll, while further back an incident at the Shell Oils hairpin eliminated the unfortunate Giuseppe Lo Faro of AZZ Tech Racing by Grid Finder.
With neither Carroll nor Moore willing to risk their heavy points-scoring positions, the battle for first was a cagey affair, with Carroll’s attempts at overtaking tempered by his reluctance to lose track position to the chasing pack.
With Price falling back, Loake took up the mantle as Carroll’s foremost threat, eventually slotting into second position after Carroll lost momentum after a failed pass on Moore.
Although Loake reeled in the leader, he couldn’t find a way through the assured youngster’s defences and had to settle for second. Carroll consolidated in third, losing more ground to Moore in the championship as a result.
Race 2
The reversed grid draw saw Moore starting from 14th on the grid, which, around the tight confines of the Cheshire circuit, would give Race 2 an element of randomness notwithstanding the heavy rainfall now moving over Little Budworth. Composure would be key here and Moore had already shown plenty of it.
G2 Esports’ Joni Katlia started cleanly from pole position, with Remy Gilbert almost immediately coming to strife on the exit of Turn 1, running wide onto the grass. The Guild driver completed an awful opening lap by spinning at Hislop’s after a clumsy-looking move. Carroll made the most progress of the frontrunners on the first tour, climbing from 12th to eighth.
Further back in 13th, Moore was making tentative progress, which was more than could be said of Loake. The Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver had jumped up to 11th place on the opening lap but undid all his hard work with a high-speed spin at Island Bend, rejoining in 20th.
Up front, Katila was making the most of his unobscured vision to hold the lead, with Guild’s Leo Brown acting as lead chaser, eager to regain his early season form.
Williams Esports’ Beckham Jacir had just made a bold outside overtaking move on Mensah Racing Driven By Us’ Ronnie Smith for third position with five minutes gone, before mysteriously heading for pitlane.
Turning Point
This allowed Carroll’s Ferrari team-mate Gergo Baldi into fourth – but not for long. The Hungarian was tapped into a high-speed spin at Old Hall by a combination of Will Murdoch and Will Chadwick, the pair not helped by the treacherously wet surface.
Chadwick later accepted blame for the incident, having locked up under braking after being squeezed to the outside of the track by Murdoch. The ensuing damage eliminated Baldi and Murdoch from points-scoring contention, with Chadwick able to continue behind Smith.
However, Carroll was now hot on his heels, eager to capitalise on Moore’s midfield placing. It would be Chadwick making moves, though, as he slotted past Smith at the Shell Oils hairpin before pouncing on Brown’s mistake at Old Hall to go second.
Chadwick’s progression continued, as with around five minutes to go he slotted through into first position after Katila made a mistake at Lodge. In his eagerness to make a move on Katila, Brown looped it at Druids, promoting both Smith and Carroll up one position.
Brown spun again, allowing Moore to climb just behind Carroll in the standings, albeit with a five-second deficit. Sensing a chance to eat into Moore’s championship lead, Carroll launched a superb move around the outside of Katila at Cascades, with both cars squirming across the soaking wet asphalt.
The Scotsman emerged ahead on the run to Island Bend, but with only one lap left, there wasn’t enough time to reel in the front two.
Chadwick took the win on the road, with Smith coming home a fine second in his first-ever British F4 Esports event. Carroll was third, with Kitala and Moore finishing fourth and fifth respectively.
However, a post-race penalty for Chadwick elevated Smith to the top step of the podium, with Carroll also benefiting with some extra points. Chadwick still kept his podium finish, albeit after a 5s penalty.
Even though we’re only at the halfway point in the championship, the British Championship laurels appear to be heading in the direction of Henry Moore or Graham Carroll. And with both drivers showing unflappable consistency thus far, the fight is too close to call.
Tune in to the next round from Silverstone’s Grand Prix circuit on the 30th of October
Photos courtesy of – RS Sim Photography
Written by Ross McGregor for Traxion.gg
The first round of the 2024 British F4 Esports Championship saw Ferrari Esports’ Graham Carroll claim the championship lead after victory in Race 2.
The British F4 Esports Championship grid has a new look for 2024, with several Formula 1-affiliated teams set to battle it out for top honours across eight double-headers. Although the competition will be fierce, one thing is guaranteed: there will be a new champion.
Luke McKeown of Stormforce Racing ART claimed back-to-back drivers’ titles but has not returned to claim a hat-trick, opening up the championship fight for the likes of Graham Carroll, Gergo Baldi, Remy Gilbert and Matt Caruana.
F1 Esports teams from Ferrari, Williams, Alpine and Aston Martin add an extra touch of intrigue for 2024, but as Round 1 from Brands Hatch Indy proved, they wouldn’t have it all their own way.
Race 1
The first qualifying session of the season saw Guild Racing’s Remy Gilbert snatch pole position, with the top six separated by just one-tenth of a second.
Gilbert, who won the second race at Brands last season, was joined on the front row by Mensah Racing Driven By Us’ Matt Caruana, who was looking for a redemption arc after controversially exiting last year’s series after Round 4.
Gilbert and Caruana made equally good starts and were line astern on the first lap, with Guild’s Leo Brown following in third and a gaggle of FIA F4 cars directly behind.
The top six broke away from the main pack as Caruana and Brown passed Gilbert and into first and second place respectively, with UK FF1600 Esports Cup graduate Henry Moore making it three Guild drivers in the top four with five minutes to go.
Ferrari’s Carroll crashed the Guild party, however, by launching a robust overtake on Moore for fourth, just as Brown made his move on Caruana for the lead. Gilbert swiftly followed his team-mate through into second position, with Carroll pressuring for third. The positions remained status quo until the chequered flag.
AzzTech Racing by Grid Finder’s Ryan Micallef would gain the reversed grid pole position for Race 2, as race winner Brown lined up ninth.
Race 2
Micallef held off the advances of William Chadwick on the first lap but would be tapped off at Clearways on lap 3 after slight contact, effectively ending his points-scoring chances.
At the following corner, Ferrari’s Gergo Baldi drifted into Loake’s Aston Martin-backed car, sending the 2023 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year across the gravel and down into seventh position.
The stramash elevated Chadwick into first with Moore and Carroll just behind, while Gilbert had worked his way up to fourth. As Moore failed in a move for the lead, Carroll pounced for second, followed by a quickfire move on Chadwick for first at Paddock Hill Bend.
The top four eased away from the pack and were nose-to-tail heading into the final laps, with the Guild pair of Gilbert and Moore battling hard. This gave Chadwick a pressure-free final lap but he couldn’t do enough to usurp Carroll, with the Scotsman holding on for victory.
Gilbert would claim the final podium slot and, as a result, claim joint second place in the championship alongside team-mate Brown. Both trail Ferrari’s Carrol by two points heading into Round 2 at Zandvoort on the 2nd of October.
Original article written by Ross McGregor for Traxion.gg
Photos courtesy of Rhys Caryl