2024 Formula 4 UAE Championship

2024 Formula 4 UAE Championship

Drivers' Champion: Freddie Slater
Rookies' Champion: Kean Nakamura-Berta
Teams' Champion: Mumbai Falcons

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Parent series:
Formula Regional Middle East Championship

The 2024 Formula 4 UAE Championship was the eighth season of the Formula 4 UAE Championship, and the last under this moniker before the change of the branding to F4 Middle East Championship from 2025 onwards. ^[1] It was a motor racing series for the United Arab Emirates, regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations and organised and promoted by the Emirates Motorsport Organization (EMSO) and Top Speed.

The regular season commenced on 12 January at the Yas Marina Circuit and concluded on 18 February at the Dubai Autodrome.

Teams and drivers

Team No. Drivers Class Rounds Xcel Motorsport 2 Noah Lisle [a] [2] TR Kaishun Liu [3] 1–2, 4–5 3 Tiago Rodrigues [4] All 5 Laura Villars [b] [2] R TR 12 Josh Irfan [2] TR 20 Tina Hausmann [5] 2 33 Georgy Zhuravskiy [N 1] [2] TR 35 Alvise Rodella [3] All 55 Dion Gowda [c] [2] TR 56 Yuanpu Cui [3] R 2–5 71 Federico Al Rifai [2] TR X GP 2 Kaishun Liu [6] 3 24 Chester Kieffer [6] R 3 Yas Heat Racing Academy [7] 3 Zack Scoular [2] R TR 23 All 11 Keanu Al Azhari [2] TR, All Hitech Pulse-Eight [7] 4 Reza Seewooruthun [8] R All 5 Sebastian Murray [9] All 6 Gabriel Stilp [3] All 7 Deagen Fairclough [3] All MP Motorsport 7 Hamda Al Qubaisi [2] TR 8 Amna Al Qubaisi [2] TR R-ace GP 8 Luka Sammalisto [10] R All 22 Enzo Deligny [d] [11] 3–5 76 Raphaël Narac [3] 1–3 77 Enzo Yeh [e] [3] R All 83 Jules Caranta [12] R 1–2, 4–5 PHM AIX Racing 9 Everett Stack [13] All 10 Nikita Bedrin [N 1] 1–3 19 Davide Larini [14] 4–5 33 Maksimilian Popov [N 1] [15] R All 70 Kamal Mrad [16] R All Prema Racing 14 Rashid Al Dhaheri [2] TR, All 27 Freddie Slater [2] TR 28 Doriane Pin [17] R 1–4 78 Tomass Štolcermanis [17] R 4–5 80 Alex Powell [2] R TR AGI Sport [7] 15 Nicolas Stati [16] R All 16 Carrie Schreiner [3] 1–2, 5 45 Jack Beeton [16] All 46 Peter Bouzinelos [16] R 1–2 Saintéloc Racing [18] 17 Maximiliano Restrepo [19] All 21 Yevan David [19] R All 40 Aurelia Nobels [19] 1–2 76 Raphaël Narac [20] 4–5 83 Jules Caranta [6] R 3 93 Matteo Quintarelli [19] All Rodin Carlin 17 Jessica Edgar [2] TR Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited [17] [21] 27 Freddie Slater [17] All 51 Kean Nakamura-Berta [f] [17] R All 55 Dion Gowda [c] [17] All 80 Alex Powell [g] [17] R All Pinnacle Motorsport 66 Hiyu Yamakoshi [22] 4 88 Kai Daryanani [h] [23] All 99 Yuhao Fu [23] R All

Icon Legend R Rookie

• R2Race Cavicel was scheduled to enter the championship, but did not appear in any rounds. ^[24]

Race calendar

The schedule consisted of 15 races over 5 rounds. Prior to start of the season, a non-championship Trophy Round was held in support of the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. ^[25] The two days preceding the Trophy Round have been scheduled as pre-season test days. ^[26]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Rookie winner	Supporting
2023
TR	R1	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi (Grand Prix Circuit)	25 November	Keanu Al Azhari	Federico Al Rifai	Keanu Al Azhari	Yas Heat Racing Academy	Alex Powell	Formula One World Championship
	R2		26 November	Keanu Al Azhari	Keanu Al Azhari	Keanu Al Azhari	Yas Heat Racing Academy	Alex Powell
2024
1	R1	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi (Corkscrew Circuit)	13 January	Keanu Al Azhari	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Formula Regional Middle East Championship Clio Cup Middle East
	R2		14 January		Freddie Slater	Nikita Bedrin	PHM AIX Racing	Jules Caranta
	R3			Keanu Al Azhari	Keanu Al Azhari	Freddie Slater	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Kean Nakamura-Berta
2	R1	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi (Grand Prix Circuit)	20 January	Alex Powell	Freddie Slater	Freddie Slater	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Alex Powell	Middle East Trophy Formula Regional Middle East Championship Gulf Radical Cup
	R2				Freddie Slater	Keanu Al Azhari	Yas Heat Racing Academy	Kean Nakamura-Berta
	R3		21 January	Keanu Al Azhari	Keanu Al Azhari	Keanu Al Azhari	Yas Heat Racing Academy	Kean Nakamura-Berta
3	R1	Dubai Autodrome, Dubai (Grand Prix Circuit)	3 February	Nikita Bedrin	Freddie Slater	Nikita Bedrin	PHM AIX Racing	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Asian Le Mans Series Formula Regional Middle East Championship
	R2				Alex Powell	Alex Powell	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Alex Powell
	R3		4 February	Nikita Bedrin	Keanu Al Azhari	Nikita Bedrin	PHM AIX Racing	Kean Nakamura-Berta
4	R1	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi (Grand Prix Circuit)	10 February	Doriane Pin	Doriane Pin	Doriane Pin [i]	Prema Racing	Doriane Pin [i]	Asian Le Mans Series Formula Regional Middle East Championship Renault Clio Cup Middle East
	R2		11 February		Keanu Al Azhari	Gabriel Stilp	Hitech Pulse-Eight	Reza Seewooruthun
	R3			Rashid Al Dhaheri	Keanu Al Azhari	Rashid Al Dhaheri	Prema Racing	Reza Seewooruthun
5	R1	Dubai Autodrome, Dubai (Grand Prix Circuit)	17 February	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Formula Regional Middle East Championship Gulf Radical Cup
	R2		18 February		Keanu Al Azhari	Enzo Deligny	R-ace GP	Tomass Štolcermanis
	R3			Kean Nakamura-Berta	Kean Nakamura-Berta	Rashid Al Dhaheri	Prema Racing	Kean Nakamura-Berta

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 YMC1 YMC2 DUB1 YMC3 DUB2 Pts R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 1 Freddie Slater 3 5 3 4 1 1 3 2 4 10 4 Ret 14 30† 5 4 3 172 2 Kean Nakamura-Berta 1 8 5 12 2 3 2 6 3 5 Ret Ret 1 9 2 168 3 Keanu Al Azhari 1 1 2 30† 2 10 1 1 5 2 2 Ret 12 3 9 5 8 164 4 Rashid Al Dhaheri 4 3 5 18 3 4 4 22 Ret 7 27 2 6 1 2 8 1 153 5 Nikita Bedrin 9 1 7 3 5 7 1 5 1 124 6 Alex Powell 7 6 4 10 14 2 6 23 10 1 8 3 7 23 3 11 DNS 105 7 Deagen Fairclough 7 2 4 13 15 4 Ret Ret 25 Ret 23 6 8 3 Ret 75 8 Enzo Deligny 11 Ret 6 4 9 2 11 1 6 73 9 Gabriel Stilp 17 9 24 6 7 5 9 24 9 7 1 4 31 Ret 19 73 10 Doriane Pin 8 20 6 5 24 6 7 13 16 1 10 8 66 11 Dion Gowda 9 7 6 Ret Ret 11 Ret Ret 3 4 11 6 26† 5 14 12 4 65 12 Jack Beeton 12 3 27 17 17 Ret 6 3 12 14 22 19 4 10 10 52 13 Matteo Quintarelli 11 5 8 7 25 13 Ret 15 Ret 8 4 20 17 14 7 42 14 Enzo Yeh 15 Ret 10 Ret Ret 10 23 9 Ret 12 3 11 6 32 5 37 15 Jules Caranta 16 7 28 Ret 13 8 17 12 7 9 8 10 7 7 9 37 16 Reza Seewooruthun 23 14 16 24 12 17 18 25 Ret 11 2 7 24 22 17 24 17 Zack Scoular 12 12 13 11 9 9 8 9 29 Ret 5 30† Ret 14 13 13 11 20 18 Tomass Štolcermanis 25 16 Ret 10 2 Ret 19 19 Sebastian Murray 18 12 18 15 14 Ret 30 14 10 10 5 21 20 25 16 12 20 Luka Sammalisto 20 22 17 Ret 26 19 20 8 17 18 13 12 12 6 15 12 21 Alvise Rodella 10 6 Ret 23 10 Ret 12 17 Ret 13 Ret 26 30 27 12 10 22 Tiago Rodrigues 19 13 15 30 Ret 15 8 11 26 22 28† 15 15 19 22 4 23 Raphaël Narac 21 Ret 12 8 16 12 13 26 20 17 15 Ret 26 26 Ret 4 24 Yuanpu Cui 28 28† 11 21 27 24 20 11 9 21 21 20 2 25 Kai Daryanani 22 16 29† 16 9 27 27 22 14 23 25 22 Ret 23 18 2 26 Yevan David 14 19 11 22 18 16 16 16 13 16 27† 13 19 15 14 0 27 Maksimilian Popov 26 17 22 14 11 14 24 20 23 28 19 25 18 16 26 0 28 Kamal Mrad 27 15 13 18 29† Ret 14 19 15 15 18 29† 25 18 13 0 29 Chester Kieffer 15 28 Ret 0 30 Davide Larini 19 20 17 16 17 28 0 31 Kaishun Liu 29 29† 20 31 23 18 22 21 22 24 Ret 16 22 20 23 0 32 Hiyu Yamakoshi 29† 17 Ret 0 33 Nicolas Stati 30 28 21 29 20 24 19 18 18 21 21 28 23 24 25 0 34 Everett Stack 31 26 Ret 25 Ret Ret 26 Ret Ret 27 29† 18 27 30 24 0 35 Peter Bouzinelos 25 21 19 20 Ret 20 0 36 Maximiliano Restrepo 24 24 Ret 27 22 Ret 25 23 19 Ret Ret 27 Ret 29 21 0 37 Yuhao Fu 33 27 26 26 19 Ret 28 Ret 21 26 24 24 29 31 27 0 38 Aurelia Nobels 32 25 25 19 Ret 26 0 39 Carrie Schreiner 28 23 23 21 21 25 28 28 Ret 0 40 Tina Hausmann Ret 27 21 0 Trophy Round-only drivers – Federico Al Rifai 2 2 – – Noah Lisle 6 4 – – Hamda Al Qubaisi 5 8 – – Josh Irfan 8 9 – – Georgy Zhuravskiy 10 10 – – Amna Al Qubaisi 11 11 – – Jessica Edgar 13 Ret – – Laura Villars Ret 13 – Pos Driver YMC TR R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts YMC1 YMC2 DUB1 YMC3 DUB2

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (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

Rookies' Championship

Pos Driver YMC TR YMC1 YMC2 DUB1 YMC3 DUB2 Pts R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 1 Kean Nakamura-Berta 1 2 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 3 Ret Ret 1 4 1 275 2 Alex Powell 1 1 2 3 7 1 2 12 3 1 4 2 3 9 2 5 DNS 197 3 Jules Caranta 7 1 14 Ret 6 3 7 5 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 163 4 Doriane Pin 3 9 2 2 10 2 2 6 7 1 5 2 157 5 Zack Scoular 2 2 4 4 3 3 3 4 15 Ret 2 15† Ret 8 7 6 4 129 6 Enzo Yeh 6 Ret 4 Ret Ret 5 12 4 Ret 6 2 5 3 14 2 111 7 Reza Seewooruthun 9 5 8 9 5 9 8 11 Ret 5 1 1 12 11 8 98 8 Yevan David 5 8 5 8 7 8 6 7 5 8 13† 7 9 7 6 88 9 Luka Sammalisto 8 11 9 Ret 11 10 10 3 8 9 7 6 6 2 7 75 10 Kamal Mrad 12 6 6 6 13† Ret 4 9 6 7 9 13† 13 9 5 66 11 Maksimilian Popov 11 7 12 5 4 7 13 10 11 14 10 11 8 8 11 44 12 Tomass Štolcermanis 12 8 Ret 5 1 Ret 39 13 Yuanpu Cui 11 12† 6 11 12 12 10 6 3 10 10 9 36 14 Nicolas Stati 13 13 11 12 9 13 9 8 9 11 11 12 11 12 10 11 15 Chester Kieffer 5 13 Ret 10 16 Peter Bouzinelos 10 10 10 7 Ret 11 9 17 Yuhao Fu 14 12 13 10 8 Ret 14 Ret 10 13 12 10 14 13 12 7 Trophy Round-only drivers – Laura Villars Ret 3 – Pos Driver YMC TR R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts YMC1 YMC2 DUB1 YMC3 DUB2

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (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 nominated two drivers that accumulated teams' points.

Pos	Team	Points
1	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	340
2	Prema Racing	238
3	Yas Heat Racing Academy	184
4	Hitech Pulse-Eight	148
5	PHM AIX Racing	124
6	R-ace GP	113
7	AGI Sport	52
8	Saintéloc Racing	48
9	Xcel Motorsport	10
10	Pinnacle Motorsport	2
11	X GP	0

Notes

1. Zhuravskiy is Russian, but he competes under a Kyrgyz licence as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Bedrin and Popov, also Russians, compete under an Italian licence for the same reason.

1. Lisle is an Australian driver competing under a British licence.
2. Villars is a French-Swiss driver competing under a French licence.
3. Gowda is an Indian driver competing under a British licence.
4. Deligny is a French driver competing under a Spanish licence.
5. Yeh is a Taiwanese driver competing under an Italian licence.
6. Nakamura-Berta is a Japanese-Slovakian driver competing under a British licence.
7. Powell is a Jamaican-American driver competing under an American licence.
8. Daryanani is an Indian driver competing under a British licence.
9. Kean Nakamura-Berta originally won the race but was given a 5-second penalty for a jump start. Pin inherited the win.

References

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External links

• Official website