2025 F4 British Championship

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The 2025 ROKiT F4 British Championship will be a multi-event, Formula 4 open-wheel single seater motor racing championship held across United Kingdom. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Formula 4 cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. This, the eleventh season, following on from the British Formula Ford Championship, will be the eleventh year that the cars conform to the FIA's Formula 4 regulations. Part of the TOCA tour, it forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece.

The season commences on 26 April at Donington Park, utilising the National circuit, and concludes on 5 October at Brands Hatch, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after thirty races to be held at ten meetings, eight of them in the support of the 2025 British Touring Car Championship.

Teams and drivers

TeamNo.DriversClassRounds
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Hitech Pulse-Eight TBA Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Thomas Bearman [1] RTBC
TBA Flag of Ireland.svg Fionn McLaughlin [2] RTBC
TBA Flag of Algeria.svg Leo Robinson [3] TBC
Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Xcel MotorsportTBA Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Theo Palmer [4] RTBC
IconClass
RRookie

Race calendar

All but one round will be held in the United Kingdom. Initially, as of 1 May 2024, all rounds were scheduled to support the British Touring Car Championship. [5] The revision published on 8 October contained the replacement of the rounds at the Brands Hatch (the Indy Circuit layout) and the Croft Circuit by the Grand Prix layout at the Silverstone Circuit and the Circuit Zandvoort. [6]

RoundCircuitDate
1R1 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Donington Park
(National Circuit, Leicestershire)
26–27 April
R2
R3
2R4 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Silverstone Circuit
(Grand Prix Circuit, Northamptonshire)
2–3 May
R5
R6
3R7 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
(300 Circuit, Norfolk)
24–25 May
R8
R9
4R10 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Thruxton Circuit
(Hampshire)
7–8 June
R11
R12
5R13 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Oulton Park
(Island Circuit, Cheshire)
21–22 June
R14
R15
6R16 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Circuit Zandvoort
(Zandvoort)
26–27 July
R17
R18
7R19 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Knockhill Racing Circuit
(Fife)
16–17 August
R20
R21
8R22 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Donington Park
(Grand Prix Circuit, Leicestershire)
30–31 August
R23
R24
9R25 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Silverstone Circuit
(National Circuit, Northamptonshire)
20–21 September
R26
R27
10R28 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Brands Hatch
(Grand Prix Circuit, Kent)
4–5 October
R29
R30

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