2020 Formula 4 UAE Championship

2020 Formula 4 UAE Championship

Drivers' Champion: Francesco Pizzi
Rookies' Champion: Francesco Pizzi
Teams' Champion: Xcel Motorsport

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Parent series:
F3 Asian Championship

The 2020 Formula 4 UAE Championship was the fourth season of the Formula 4 UAE Championship, a motor racing series for the United Arab Emirates regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations, and organised and promoted by the Automobile & Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) and AUH Motorsports.

It began with a non-championship round on 28 November 2019 at the Yas Marina Circuit and finished on 7 March 2020. ^[1]

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Drivers	Class	Rounds
BWT Mücke Motorsport	2	Nico Göhler [2]		TR, All
	3	Erwin Zanotti [3]		2
	4	Josef Knopp [4]	R	3–5
	21	Artem Lobanenko [5]		5
	23	Erick Zúñiga [3]	R	All
Xcel Motorsport	4	Rodrigo Almeida [6] [note 1]	R	TR
	6	Zdeněk Chovanec [3] [note 2]	R	All
	7	Lorenzo Fluxá [7]	R	All
	8	Mehrbod Shameli [8]	R	TR, 1–4
	11	Dexter Patterson [3]	R	1
	13	Tijmen van der Helm [8]		TR
	14	Nicola Marinangeli [9]		TR, All
	23	Ivan Peklin [10]	R	TR
	27	Alex Connor [11]		TR
	51	Francesco Pizzi [12]	R	All
Dream Racing	9	Logan Hannah [13]		TR
	10	Abdulrahman Al Bloushi	R	All
Dragon Racing	18	Reema Juffali [14]		TR, All
	99	Manaf Hijjawi [8]	R	TR
3Y Technology/ Brand Racing	44	Isack Hadjar [4]		3, 5
	52	Constantin Reisch [15]	R	TR, 1–2, 4
Abu Dhabi Racing	77	Hamda Al Qubaisi [16]		TR
	88			All
		Amna Al Qubaisi [16]		TR

Race calendar

The schedule consisted of 20 races over 5 rounds. Prior to start of the season a non-championship Trophy Round was held in support of the 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. All rounds were held in the United Arab Emirates. ^[17]

The series was run as a winter series per FIA regulations, allowing drivers to participate in the UAE Championship and a European F4 series, both earning points towards an FIA Super Licence, as the end of this season was before the primary European F4 series were to begin their 2020 seasons. However, the championship would not award Super Licence points as not enough drivers were entered in the final round of the championship to meet the required threshold.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Supporting
2019
TR	R1	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi (Grand Prix Circuit)	30 November	Amna Al Qubaisi	Nicola Marinangeli	Amna Al Qubaisi	Abu Dhabi Racing	Formula One
	R2		1 December		Tijmen van der Helm	Alex Connor	Xcel Motorsport
2020
1	R1	Dubai Autodrome, Dubai (Grand Prix Circuit)	9 January	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Francesco Pizzi	Francesco Pizzi	Xcel Motorsport	Dubai 24 Hour F3 Asian Championship
	R2				Lorenzo Fluxá	Francesco Pizzi	Xcel Motorsport
	R3		10 January	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Francesco Pizzi	Francesco Pizzi	Xcel Motorsport
	R4			Race cancelled due to heavy rain
2	R1	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi (Grand Prix Circuit)	17 January	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Francesco Pizzi	Xcel Motorsport	F3 Asian Championship
	R2		18 January		Hamda Al Qubaisi	Erick Zúñiga [note 3]	BWT Mücke Motorsport
	R3			Hamda Al Qubaisi	Francesco Pizzi	Francesco Pizzi	Xcel Motorsport
	R4				Hamda Al Qubaisi	Nico Göhler	BWT Mücke Motorsport
3	R1	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi (North Circuit)	14 February	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Nico Göhler	BWT Mücke Motorsport	Yas Racing Series
	R2		15 February		Nicola Marinangeli	Nicola Marinangeli	Xcel Motorsport
	R3			Hamda Al Qubaisi	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Abu Dhabi Racing
	R4				Nico Göhler	Francesco Pizzi	Xcel Motorsport
4	R1	Dubai Autodrome, Dubai (International Circuit)	21 February	Francesco Pizzi	Lorenzo Fluxá	Lorenzo Fluxá	Xcel Motorsport	UAE National Race Days
	R2				Francesco Pizzi	Francesco Pizzi	Xcel Motorsport
	R3		22 February	Francesco Pizzi	Francesco Pizzi	Francesco Pizzi	Xcel Motorsport
	R4				Josef Knopp	Nico Göhler	BWT Mücke Motorsport
5	R1	Dubai Autodrome, Dubai (Grand Prix Circuit)	6 March	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Abu Dhabi Racing	UAE National Race Days
	R2		7 March		Artem Lobanenko	Nico Göhler	BWT Mücke Motorsport
	R3			Francesco Pizzi	Lorenzo Fluxá	Lorenzo Fluxá	Xcel Motorsport
	R4				Artem Lobanenko	Hamda Al Qubaisi	Abu Dhabi Racing

Championship standings

Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver YMC TR DUB1 YMC1 YMC2 DUB2 DUB3 Pts R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R4 1 Francesco Pizzi R 1 1 1 C 1 4 1 11† Ret 5 2 1 4 1 1 6 4 5 2 Ret 300 2 Lorenzo Fluxá R 2 5 3 C 4 DSQ 7 3 3 4 3 4 1 4 2 5 2 2 1 2 274 3 Nico Göhler 6 4 5 8 4 C 3 2 4 1 1 6 4 3 2 Ret 4 1 3 1 3 8 270 4 Hamda Al Qubaisi 5 11 6 2 Ret C 7 10 2 2 2 2 1 10† 3 3 3 2 1 7 6 1 258 5 Nicola Marinangeli 2 Ret 3 3 2 C 2 5 3 Ret 4 1 Ret 2 5 2 9 3 10 Ret 5 Ret 202 6 Erick Zúñiga R 8 7 8 C 6 1 10 5 6 3 6 9† 9 6 8 4 8 8 7 4 143 7 Zdeněk Chovanec R 7 6 Ret C 5 3 5 4 5 7 7 Ret 10 8 6 Ret 11 10 10 3 113 8 Reema Juffali 12 6 9 Ret 5 C 8 6 9 6 8 8 8 Ret 8 5 7 Ret 9 9 8 7 80 9 Josef Knopp R 10 Ret 9 6 6 Ret 5 8 6 4 9 5 65 10 Mehrbod Shameli R 9 8 10 9 7 C 9 7 8 7 9 9 10 7 7 7 10 7 57 11 Isack Hadjar 7 Ret 5 5 5 6 4 Ret 56 12 Dexter Patterson R 4 4 6 C 32 13 Artem Lobanenko 7 3 11 6 29 14 Erwin Zanotti Ret 8 6 10 13 15 Constantin Reisch R 10 10 DNS 10 9 C Ret 9 11 8 11 9 11 Ret 11 16 Abdulrahman Al Bloushi R 11 11 DNS C 10 Ret 12 9 11 10 11 8 12 10 12 9 DNS DNS DNS DNS 11 Trophy Round-only drivers Alex Connor 3 1 Amna Al Qubaisi 1 Ret Manaf Hijjawi R 4 2 Tijmen van der Helm 11† 3 Rodrigo Almeida R 7 5 Ivan Peklin R DNS 7 Logan Hannah 8 9 Pos Driver YMC TR R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R4 Pts DUB1 YMC1 YMC2 DUB2 DUB3

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — Did not finish, but classified

Teams' championship

Ahead of each event, the teams nominate two drivers that accumulate teams' points.

Pos	Team	Points
1	Xcel Motorsport	595
2	BWT Mücke Motorsport	413
3	Abu Dhabi Racing	258
4	Dragon Racing	80
5	3Y Technology/Brand Racing	67
6	Dream Racing	11

Notes

1. Almeida is a driver from Mozambique racing under a Portuguese licence.
2. Chovanec is a Czech-Venezuelan-Portuguese driver racing under a Portuguese licence.
3. Francesco Pizzi originally won the race, but received a 10-second time penalty for exceeding track limits.

References

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External links

• F4 UAE Homepage