Feeder Series weekend review, results and standings: 17-19 July 2026

Formula 1 and IndyCar returned this weekend with several of their support series in tow – but, naturally, there was other junior single-seater racing on offer as well. Feeder Series reviews this weekend’s racing in FRegional Europe, Euroformula Open, E4, AU4 and the Kyojo Cup.

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Just about any form of sport that wasn’t football took a backseat to the World Cup finals on Sunday night – so much so that the Fox broadcast of the event contributed to the delay in proceedings that led IndyCar’s oval race to be postponed to Monday.

Neither Spain nor Argentina held any junior single-seater events this weekend, nor did their representatives win any of the 18 races we covered. Instead, much of the activity took place in France, Japan and Australia – three nations that had been eliminated earlier in the tournament but whose racing circuits provided entertainment aplenty to make up for it.

FR Europe, Euroformula Open and E4 were all present at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet for a total of eight races under sunny summer skies. Warm weather also greeted the 20 competitors in the all-female Kyojo Cup, which held its second of five rounds at Fuji, while AU4’s third round at The Bend took the battle between its main title contenders up another notch.

Of course, F2, F3 and Indy NXT also raced this weekend, the first two supporting F1’s Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps and the last IndyCar’s rain-hit Nashville oval race. Reports from those three championships will feature on our website later today and tomorrow as well as in the upcoming episode of Race Recap.

1. FRegional Europe: Title fight twists again as Nakamura-Berta claims advantage in France
2. Euroformula Open: Disaster race three for Yeh shrinks title lead for the first time all season
3. E4: R-ace dominate home round as rookie Craigie wins two of three races 
4. AU4: Marold takes tight Gen2 title lead as Gotch sweeps Gen1
5. Kyojo Cup: Saito takes decisive championship lead with final race win

FRegional Europe: Title fight twists again as Nakamura-Berta claims advantage in France

The FRegional Europe title race has effectively narrowed to four drivers, with a 34-point swing giving Kean Nakamura-Berta the lead heading into the summer break.

Leading practice one and two respectively, Nakamura-Berta and Sebastian Wheldon each topped their qualifying groups on Saturday, Nakamura-Berta securing his fifth pole of the season by just 0.008 seconds over Wheldon. 

After an extra formation lap, Wheldon got the superior start to race one to snatch the lead, leading Nakamura-Berta and Abkhazava. . 

Olivieri and Rashid Al Dhaheri were fourth and fifth but collided at Turn 1 on lap two, giving the Mercedes junior front wing damage. The Emirati buckled as Gabriel Gomez passed him and drifted out wide heading onto the Mistral straight before pitting at the end of the lap.

Nakamura-Berta soon moved for the lead at Turn 1. Bailing across the runoff, Wheldon dropped himself into Abkhazava’s clutches. 

A transfer of second place ensued with Abkhazava readying to challenge the lead, seemingly jeopardising Wheldon’s podium position. Those fears were realised when Olivieri hurtled down the inside at Signes on lap eight. The Italian seemed to have all the pace, glancing down Abkhazava’s inside the following lap.

Aggressive manoeuvres from Abkhazava halted Olivieri’s progress. Three laps before the finish, however, both MPs lost position on the Mistral straight, meaning Olivieri claimed second and Wheldon dropped to fifth behind Gomez as Nakamura-Berta held on for his third win of the season.

Qualifying two saw Wheldon top the first group ahead of a resurgent Reno Francot. In the second group, however, Olivieri stunned to take his second pole of the season despite pitting for a broken front wing right before his best lap.

Sadly for the Italian, a three-place grid drop for the race awaited him because a mechanic was working on the car before it had been parked correctly prior to qualifying.

This meant MP Motorsport locked out the front row, with Wheldon starting from pole alongside Abkhazava.

Abkhazava got away best, leading his teammate into Turn 1. The field remained in relative formation for the first lap until a safety car deployment.

Having been noted for a possible start infringement, Abkhazava allowed Wheldon back into the lead at the restart, which preceded a near collision between Abkhazava and Francot the lap afterwards. 

That precipitated an actual collision at Signes, where they bumped wheels and went side-by-side until they reached Bendor, when Francot claimed second before Abkhazava forced his way back through into Turn 1. 

Both entered the Mistral with Olivieri close behind, the Italian eventually taking third and slotting behind Abkhazava. The next lap, a bad run onto the Mistral for Francot saw Nakamura-Berta pass for fourth and Gomez throw a move for fifth at Signes. Francot, desperate to maintain his title challenge, bounced across the kerb on exit and spun across the runoff at Beausset.

The next lap, Olivieri flew down Abkhazava’s inside for second, Abkhazava holding the throttle and bouncing into the air over the kerb.

Ultimately, Wheldon took his first win since Zandvoort, leading Olivieri by 6.142s. Abkhazava received a five-second penalty for his start infringement and dropped to fifth, moving Nakamura-Berta and Gomez up a position each.

That left Nakamura-Berta in the championship lead on 172 points, with Wheldon and Al Dhaheri tied on 159 and Olivieri sat on 152.

R-ace GP still lead the teams’ standings on 366 points ahead of MP Motorsport on 288 and Prema on 252.

Report by Archie Harper

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1, Group A	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 1:57.824	Alexander Abkhazava, +0.005s	Emanuele Olivieri, +0.088s
Qualifying 1, Group B	Sebastian Wheldon, 1:57.832	Rashid Al Dhaheri, +0.022s	Gabriel Gomez, +0.066s
Race 1 (15 laps)	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 30:44.655	Emanuele Olivieri, +4.359s	Alexander Abkhazava, +5.445s
Qualifying 2, Group B	Sebastian Wheldon, 1:57.429	Reno Francot, +0.171s	Zhenrui Chi, +0.275s
Qualifying 2, Group A	Emanuele Olivieri, 1:57.350	Alexander Abkhazava, +0.317s	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +0.330s
Race 2 (15 laps)	Sebastian Wheldon, 33:25.912	Emanuele Olivieri, +6.142s	Kean Nakamura-Berta, +8.332s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Kean Nakamura-Berta, 172	R-ace GP, 366	Emanuele Olivieri, 152
P2	Rashid Al Dhaheri, 159	MP Motorsport, 288	Gabriel Gomez, 48
P3	Sebastian Wheldon, 159	Prema Racing, 252	Alexandre Munoz, 37
P4	Emanuele Olivieri, 152	Rodin Motorsport, 141	Marcus Sæter, 27
P5	Reno Francot, 90	CL Motorsport, 99	Tomass Štolcermanis, 21
P6	Alexander Abkhazava, 69	Trident, 51	Kyuho Lee, 0
P7	Alex Ninovic, 63	ART Grand Prix, 43	Rahim Alibhai, 0
P8	Zhenrui Chi, 61	G4 Racing, 42
P9	Salim Hanna, 59	Van Amersfoort Racing, 37
P10	Yuki Sano, 55	RPM, 36

Read the previous round’s report here.

Euroformula Open: Disaster race three for Yeh shrinks title lead for the first time all season

For the first time this season, Enzo Yeh leaves a weekend with his Euroformula Open championship lead diminished.

The woes began in qualifying, when he was only fourth, half a second off pole position. That accolade went to Jesse Carrasquedo Jr, who led a trio of Mexicans with Javier Herrera and Diego de la Torre in second and third.

Only Carrasquedo held position off the start in race one as Yeh swept into second ahead of De la Torre and Herrera. A safety car cooled the action following a collision involving Gino Trappa, Jan Koller and Lorenzo Castillo.

The restart on lap three saw Stack rip third from Herrera at Turn 1. A pair of subsequent switchbacks left Herrera off worse, sending the Mexican wide and behind De la Torre to fifth place.

Unshaken throughout, Carrasquedo strolled to a third race win this year ahead of Yeh, with Stack completing the podium.

With more than 13 cars in the field, the usual top-six reversal for races two and three became a reversal of eight. Fiorentino got away well from reverse pole in race two as his teammate Trappa dropped from second to sixth by the end of lap one. Fighting over second between Wiktor Dobrzański and Herrera gave Fiorentino a nearly 1.5-second gap heading into lap two.

Herrera soon began to drop towards De la Torre and Stack. As that battle simmered, Yeh fired past the struggling Trappa for sixth at Signes, the pair bumping wheels dangerously through the curve.

The standoff for third finally boiled over on lap 10 as an ambitious move for De la Torre saw him clip the back of Herrera’s car, though both initially appeared to escape damage.

Exhales at Motopark then turned into gasps as smoke rose from the front of De la Torre’s car on the start-finish straight – the front wing broken and rubbing against his front-right tyre.

Seeing his title rivals behind him, De la Torre stubbornly refused to pit. With smoke billowing from his car, he was passed at the start of lap 12 by Stack – the black and orange flag shortly signalling enough was enough.

Though Dobrzański turned up the heat, Fiorentino took Drivex’s first victory in the series since 2019, with Herrera rounding off the podium.

Race three saw Koller retain the lead from reverse pole and Alessandro Famularo launch poorly from second. The Venezuelan allowed Stack and Feldmann Neto through into podium positions before cutting across Dobrzański to end his race at Turn 3 and bring out the safety car.

On the restart lap, Stack made a successful pass for the lead and quickly pulled a gap.

The next lap, with pressure having built up, Yeh made a move for third at Signes. The decision proved disastrous, with Yeh banging wheels with the Brazilian and flying off onto the runoff, where it became apparent he had suffered a puncture.

Trappa searched for third place at the end of lap seven, and both he and Carrasquedo got past on lap eight – just as Feldmann Neto received a five-second time penalty for jumping the start.

Carrasquedo suddenly spun at Signes on lap 12, leading to his retirement. A lap later, Trappa passed Koller for second and De la Torre took fourth.

As the race ended by time one lap later, Stack claimed his second win of the season ahead of Trappa and Koller, who each took their first Euroformula Open podiums.

Yeh finished only 10th, his championship lead shrunk to 60 points. He has 271 points, Stack 211 and De la Torre 193.

Report by Archie Harper

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Jesse Carrasquedo, 1:53.541	Javier Herrera, +0.154s	Diego de la Torre, +0.408s
Race 1 (15 laps)	Jesse Carrasquedo, 30:44.311	Enzo Yeh, +2.058s	Everett Stack, +2.151s
Race 2 (15 laps)	Filippo Fiorentino, 29:00.747	Wiktor Dobrzański, +0.887s	Javier Herrera, +5.029s
Race 3 (14 laps)	Everett Stack, 30:06.129	Gino Trappa, +4.125s	Jan Koller, +7.237s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Enzo Yeh, 271	Team Motopark, 214	Javier Herrera, 116
P2	Everett Stack, 211	BVM Racing, 143	Wiktor Dobrzański, 95
P3	Diego de la Torre, 193	Drivex, 64	Lorenzo Castillo, 66
P4	Jesse Carrasquedo, 171	Neri Autosport, 38	Jan Koller, 41
P5	Javier Herrera, 155		Aaron Ferrazzano, 40
P6	Alessandro Famularo, 138		Gino Trappa, 38
P7	Wiktor Dobrzański, 100		Filippo Fiorentino, 31
P8	Gino Trappa, 56		Ricardo Baptista, 20
P9	Lorenzo Castillo, 51		Celo Hahn, 11
P10	Filippo Fiorentino, 46		Alceu Feldmann Neto, 4

Read the previous round’s report here.

E4: R-ace dominate home round as rookie Craigie wins two of three races 

The second E4 round at Circuit Paul Ricard saw R-ace GP dominate the weekend against all odds. Mercedes junior Kenzo Craigie won the second and third races, while teammate Andy Consani supported him with two second-place finishes in races one and three both.

Craigie started from pole but lost out in the opening sector to Alp Aksoy, who took the lead and eventually won race one from second place. He was followed by Consani, who passed Craigie later on the opening lap and eventually took his first podium from third position on the grid after Oleksandr Bondarev received a three-position grid drop. 

Soon after the Sainte-Beaume corner, Ella Häkkinen and Knud Nielsen collided, bringing out the first safety car of the race. The race restarted at the end of lap five, but a lap later, Bondarev hit Edu Robinson at Signes and both spun, falling to the rear. The Ukrainian driver went on to finish 27th while Robinson finished 31st. Kingsley Zheng and Roman Kamyab retired from the race at the same time after colliding. 

Luka Sammalisto and Craigie fought for the last podium position until the end, but the Finn was overtaken brilliantly by the Mercedes junior down the inside at Turn 3 on lap nine and could never respond. 

After the race, Bondarev and Robinson received two-place grid drops for race two. Nielsen was also deemed solely responsible for his crash with Häkkinen, receiving a 10-place grid drop for race two.

Craigie went on to win race two from pole. Aksoy managed to overtake Consani for second place as the lights went out, with the Frenchman dropping another position to Sammalisto during the last lap. The Finn therefore took the last step of the podium in what was a quiet race out front, with the battle for fifth between Robinson, Ary Bansal, Christian Costoya and Ludovico Busso producing the most action. 

Häkkinen initially started 24th but couldn’t launch her car off the grid, dropping to last place. She managed to climb back to 27th with a commendable drive, taking the top step in the women’s class ahead of Ginevra Panzeri.

The final race saw Craigie winning for the second time from pole, successfully defending against teammate Consani at the start. Costoya initially finished third before receiving a five-second time penalty after the race, which dropped him to sixth as Bansal inherited third.

The first safety car was brought out after lap one when Philippe-Armand Karras, Nielsen and Al Sulaiti were involved in a three-car crash. Karras and Nielsen retired with terminal damage, with the former earning a 10-place grid drop for his next race for causing the incident.

After the restart, there was a more serious incident involving Al Sulaiti and Oscar Repetto. The Monégasque-licensed driver spun out and got collected by Al Sulaiti. Both retired, and Repetto spent some time with the medical car following the incident. The PHM Racing driver earned a four-place grid drop for that incident and an additional 10 for a separate collision with Nielsen.

The race restarted once again on the penultimate lap and ran until Bernardo Bernoldi collided with Häkkinen at Signes corner. Both retired from the race, which ended under the safety car, and Bernoldi earned a six-place grid drop for his next race. 

Report by Julien Thoinet

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Kenzo Craigie, 2:06.377	Alp Aksoy, +0.259s	Oleksandr Bondarev, +0.272s
Qualifying 2	Kenzo Craigie, 2:06.305	Andy Consani, +0.092s	Alp Aksoy, +0.254s
Race 1 (13 laps)	Alp Aksoy, 32:31.355	Andy Consani, +1.220s	Kenzo Craigie, +2.924s
Race 2 (16 laps)	Kenzo Craigie, 34:10.979	Alp Aksoy, +6.130s	Luka Sammalisto, +7.273s
Race 3 (12 laps)	Kenzo Craigie, 37:43.464	Andy Consani, +0.525s	Ary Bansal, +3.324s

Standings	Drivers	Teams	Rookies
P1	Kenzo Craigie, 138	US Racing, 268	Kenzo Craigie, 168
P2	Luka Sammalisto, 124	Prema Racing, 245	Alp Aksoy, 152
P3	Alp Aksoy, 112	R-ace GP, 224	Christian Costoya, 134
P4	Andy Consani, 82	Van Amersfoort Racing, 45	Florentin Hattemer, 80
P5	Oleksandr Savinkov, 78	Trident, 18	Roman Kamyab, 73
P6	Oleksandr Bondarev, 78	AKM Motorsport, 6	Augustus Toniolo, 67
P7	Christian Costoya, 75	Real Racing, 6	Dominik Šimek, 66
P8	Ary Bansal, 73	Jenzer Motorsport, 3	Oscar Repetto, 58
P9	Noah Killion, 66	PHM Racing, 2	Iacopo Martinese, 53
P10	Edu Robinson, 64	PA Racing, 0	Georgiy Zasov, 52

Read the previous round’s report here.

AU4: Marold takes tight Gen2 title lead as Gotch sweeps Gen1

Jensen Marold and Marco Manson continued their scintillating battle for the AU4 Gen2 crown at The Bend, Marold taking two wins to Manson’s one to lead by 10 points.

Marold took a lights-to-flag victory in race one ahead of a hard-charging Manson. The New Zealander started third on the grid but overtook compatriot William Beck early in the race after the latter stalled briefly. 

Angus Baills made up two places on the opening lap from ninth, overtaking Lana Flack and Xavier Babbage-Hockey before looking down the inside of Luca Cosolo to no avail, while Gen1’s Koby Wilson pushed past Jackson Culver and Lewis Gotch. 

Rugby Mangan, last on the grid and riddled with issues all weekend, beached his car early on but soon rejoined. 

After a stable few laps, both Gotch and Culver passed Wilson on lap seven to regain 10th and 11th respectively – trading places the next lap – while Babbage-Hockey hunted Flack but failed to get the move done. Cosolo took fifth from Brock Burton on lap 10 while on the next lap, Gotch passed Culver. Flack and Babbage-Hockey traded places for the remainder of the race, with the AGI driver winning out to take home seventh.

Marold crossed the line first ahead of Manson and Beck.

In race two, Marold took first from Manson into the opening corner and immediately stretched away from his competitor. Beck, third on the grid, dropped to fourth behind De’argo Stewart as Babbage-Hockey passed Baills and Cosolo to take fifth.

On lap four, Mangan hit the wall, prompting a stoppage during which Martin Dudley pitted to change his front wing.

Manson got the lead after the restart, ceding position only once to Marold before snatching it back again. Beck and Flack made contact three laps from the end, puncturing the former’s tyre and sending him down the order, after which he retired from the race. Despite a loose front wing, Manson managed to keep Marold behind him and cross the line first, with Stewart finishing third.

Race three yielded a clean getaway for Marold, who eked out a 1.7-second gap over the first three laps. Stewart overtook Beck into the first corner, but the New Zealand driver took back his third place on lap three. Wilson, Gotch, and Culver fought for the Gen1 lead, narrowly avoiding an incident as Culver locked up into Turn 4 and then went off a few corners later. 

The leaders, with a seven-second gap over Beck, came into Du and Mangan’s traffic. Ahead of them, Gen1’s Culver and Wilson fought for second, letting Salvino close up to the pair. An off from Wilson promoted Salvino to the podium places, while despite the traffic, Marold extended his lead to nearly 4.5s and went on to win and pull out a 10-point lead in Gen2 over Manson. The New Zealander  finished second ahead of Beck, while Gotch took his third win from three races in Gen1 to snatch the class lead by five points over Wilson.

Report by Anabelle Bremner

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying 1	Jensen Marold, 1:17.517	William Beck, +0.125s	Marco Manson, +0.386s
Qualifying 2	Jensen Marold, 1:17.409	Marco Manson, +0.198s	William Beck, +0.387s
Race 1 (18 laps)	Jensen Marold, 26:37.701	Marco Manson, +3.155s	William Beck, +3.779s
Race 2 (14 laps)	Marco Manson, 26:41.646	Jensen Marold, +0.389s	De’argo Stewart, +0.876s
Race 3 (18 laps)	Jensen Marold, 26:48.684	Marco Manson, +4.422s	William Beck, +10.447s

Standings	Gen 2 Drivers	Gen 1 Drivers
P1	Jensen Marold, 197	Lewis Gotch, 182
P2	Marco Manson, 187	Koby Wilson, 177
P3	William Beck, 87	Jackson Culver, 165
P4	Luca Cosolo, 81	Martin Dudley, 92
P5	De’argo Stewart, 80	Rugby Mangan, 69
P6	Angus Baills, 69	Rixon Salvino, 42
P7	Lana Flack, 60	Matteo Kazaglis, 30
P8	Brock Burton, 55
P9	Xavier Babbage-Hockey, 52
P10	Borys Łyżeń, 25

Kyojo Cup: Saito takes decisive championship lead with final race win

Aimi Saito leapfrogged both Riona Tomishita and Joanne Ciconte to lead the Kyojo Cup championship by eight points after finishing second and first in the two races at the second round at Fuji.

Saito put in a 1:52.477 in a tight qualifying session, snatching pole by 0.021s from Miki Onaga, with Ai Miura rounding out the top three.

A poor start from Saito opened the door for Miura to take the lead, while Tomishita passed Onaga for third place. Rio Shimono, ninth on the grid, made up four places by the end of lap one. On lap four, Saito attempted a pass on Miura into the first corner, but Miura countered to take the lead back on the exit. Tomishita overtook Saito on lap five while a hungry Onaga closed in on the pair, passing Saito a lap later. 

Having broken away from the battling pack, Tomishita hunted down Miura, but she collided with the race leader at Turn 1 on the penultimate lap while attempting to overtake. The former spun, relegating her to thirteenth, but the latter was able to maintain her lead as Kelsey Pinkowski also spun towards the back of the pack. 

Having repassed Onaga on lap seven, Saito attempted to fight Miura for first place to no avail – Miura crossed the line five tenths ahead of her, with Kokoro Sato making a last-lap pass on Onaga to round out the podium.

In the final race, Miura held the lead in the opening stages, Saito and Sato fighting for second place into the first corner behind her. The sprint winner cleared Sato as Onaga and Shimono squabbled over fourth, Onaga taking the place on lap three. 

The next lap saw Miura challenged by Saito and Sato, the latter two trading places across laps four and five. Saito won out to hold second as her competitor fell into the clutches of Onaga. Shimono, in the midst of hunting Sato, fell to sixth behind Joanne Ciconte. 

Miura’s defensive efforts could not hold back the charging Saito, and on lap eight the TOM’S driver took the lead at the first corner. Behind them, Onaga, attempting to overtake Miura, clipped a kerb out of Dunlop and briefly went airborne. 

Just outside the podium positions, Shimono and Ciconte came together at Turn 1, sending the reigning champion spinning towards Rami Sasaki, who then clipped Shimono’s rear. The collision ended both Sasaki’s and Shimono’s races and promoted Tomishita and Paige Raddatz to fifth and sixth respectively.

The safety car neutralised the race until its end, with Saito maintaining her lead to take her first win of the season ahead of Miura and Onaga – this the latter’s maiden podium. Sato followed, ahead of Ciconte, Tomishita, and a surprise Raddatz, taking home her first championship points. 

Miura then received a five-second penalty for forcing another car off the track, demoting her from second to thirteenth and giving Sato her third podium in four races. 

Report by Anabelle Bremner

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Aimi Saito, 1:52.477	Miki Onaga, +0.021s	Ai Miura, +0.066s
Sprint race (10 laps)	Ai Miura, 17:48.535	Aimi Saito, +0.529s	Kokoro Sato, +1.992s
Final race (15 laps)	Aimi Saito, 30:33.289	Miki Onaga, +0.800s	Kokoro Sato, +1.232s

Standings	Drivers
P1	Aimi Saito, 47
P2	Riona Tomishita, 39
P3	Joanne Ciconte, 36
P4	Miki Onaga, 35
P5	Kokoro Sato, 28
P6	Ai Miura, 19
P7	Rio Shimono, 11
P8	Hana Burton, 9
P9	Paige Raddatz, 5
P10	Sara Matsui, 5

Read the previous round’s report here.

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