2019 Italian F4 Championship

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The 2019 Italian F4 Championship Powered by Abarth was the sixth season of the Italian F4 Championship. Norwegian driver Dennis Hauger dominated the championship, winning twelve out of the 21 races, helping his team Van Amersfoort Racing to become teams' champions. The rookie championship was won by Mercedes junior Paul Aron, who won two races in the overall championship. Hauger's closest challenger Gianluca Petecof won four races, and Roman Staněk, Joshua Dürksen and Giorgio Carrara won one race each.

Teams and Drivers[]

Team No. Driver Class Rounds
Germany BWT Mücke Motorsport[1] 2 Germany Nico Göhler[2] R 3–4
25 Finland William Alatalo[3] All
26 Paraguay Joshua Dürksen[3] R All
99 Italy Erwin Zanotti[3] R All
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing[1] 4 Germany Niklas Krütten[4] 1–4
6 Israel Ido Cohen[5] All
8 Germany Lucas Alecco Roy[2] All
61 Germany Sebastian Estner[6] 5
62 Norway Dennis Hauger[7] All
Italy Prema Powerteam[1] 5 Brazil Gianluca Petecof[8] All
7 Estonia Paul Aron[9] R All
10 Denmark Oliver Rasmussen[10] All
11 Venezuela Alessandro Famularo[11] All
Italy BVM Racing[1] 12 Romania Filip Ugran[12] R All
31 Italy Pietro Delli Guanti[12] R 2–4
Italy Marzio Moretti[13] 6
Italy Bhai Tech Racing[1] 14 Italy Nicola Marinangeli[14] R All
22 Italy Umberto Laganella[15] 1–6
33 Finland Jesse Salmenautio[16] 7
57 Russia Michael Belov[17] All
Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 16 Argentina Giorgio Carrara[18] 1–4
Austria Stefan Fürtbauer[19] R 7
17 United Kingdom Jonny Edgar[20] R All
18 Italy Emidio Pesce[21] R All
21 Switzerland Axel Gnos[22] R All
Italy DRZ Benelli[1] 20 Russia Ivan Berets[23] All
33 Finland Jesse Salmenautio[24] 1–6
45 Guatemala Ian Rodríguez[19] 7
France R-ace GP[25] 23 Switzerland Grégoire Saucy[26] 1, 3–4
24 Hungary László Tóth[26] 1, 3–4
Slovenia AS Motorsport 28 Germany Sebastian Freymuth[27] R All
Italy Cram Motorsport[1] 29 Venezuela Emilio Cipriani[28] All
38 Brazil José Muggiati[19] R 7
55 Israel Roee Meyuhas[29] R All
84 Italy Francesco Simonazzi[30] R 1–5
94 Sweden Daniel Vebster[31] R All
Italy Antonelli Motorsport[1] 36 Italy Lorenzo Ferrari[32] R 1–3, 5–7
77 Italy Andrea Rosso[32] R 1–3, 5
Portugal DR Formula by RP Motorsport 68 Mexico Santiago Ramos[33] R 5–7
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Racing by Prema 78 United Arab Emirates Hamda Al Qubaisi[34] W 4, 7
88 United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi[2] W All
Italy DF Corse by Corbetta[1] 81 Italy Fabio Venditti[35] 1–3
Germany US Racing[36][1] 97 Czech Republic Roman Staněk R 1, 3–7
Icon Class
R Rookie Trophy
W Woman Trophy

Race calendar and results[]

The calendar was revealed on 1 December 2018.[37][38] Adria International Raceway and Circuit Paul Ricard were replaced in the series schedule by circuits in Hungary and Austria, Hungaroring and Red Bull Ring respectively. The cancelled race from Misano World Circuit was rescheduled to run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Round 5 as a fourth race.[39] Hungaroring round supporting Euroformula Open and Red Bull Ring round supporting International GT Open. Misano World Circuit other all rounds supporting Formula Regional European Championship

Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Secondary Class winner
1 R1 Italy ACI Vallelunga Circuit 4 May Brazil Gianluca Petecof Venezuela Emilio Cipriani Brazil Gianluca Petecof Italy Prema Powerteam R: Czech Republic Roman Staněk
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R2 5 May Czech Republic Roman Staněk Israel Ido Cohen Paraguay [N 1] Germany BWT Mücke Motorsport R: Paraguay
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R3 Germany Lucas Alecco Roy[N 2] Brazil Gianluca Petecof Brazil Gianluca Petecof Italy Prema Powerteam R: Paraguay
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
2 R1 Italy Misano World Circuit 18 May Brazil Gianluca Petecof Finland William Alatalo Brazil Gianluca Petecof Italy Prema Powerteam R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R2 19 May Estonia Paul Aron Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Israel Roee Meyuhas
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R3 Denmark Oliver Rasmussen The race was cancelled due to heavy rain
3 R1 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród 6 July Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: no finishers
R2 7 July Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R3 Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Brazil Gianluca Petecof Italy Prema Powerteam R: Paraguay
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
4 R1 Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 13 July Czech Republic Roman Staněk Argentina Giorgio Carrara Estonia Paul Aron Italy Prema Powerteam R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R2 14 July Germany Niklas Krütten Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: United Kingdom Jonny Edgar
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R3 Czech Republic Roman Staněk Brazil Gianluca Petecof Argentina Giorgio Carrara Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
5 R1 Italy Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari 31 August Czech Republic Roman Staněk United Kingdom Jonny Edgar Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: United Kingdom Jonny Edgar
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R2 Czech Republic Roman Staněk Czech Republic Roman Staněk Czech Republic Roman Staněk Germany US Racing R: Czech Republic Roman Staněk
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R3 1 September Czech Republic Roman Staněk Russia Michael Belov Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Czech Republic Roman Staněk
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R4 Denmark Oliver Rasmussen Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
6 R1 Italy Mugello Circuit 5 October Norway Dennis Hauger United Kingdom Jonny Edgar Estonia Paul Aron Italy Prema Powerteam R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R2 Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Czech Republic Roman Staněk
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
R3 6 October Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi
7 R1 Italy Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 19 October Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Paraguay
W: United Arab Emirates Hamda Al Qubaisi
R2 20 October United Kingdom Jonny Edgar Finland William Alatalo Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Estonia Paul Aron
W: United Arab Emirates Hamda Al Qubaisi
R3 United Kingdom Jonny Edgar Denmark Oliver Rasmussen Norway Dennis Hauger Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing R: Czech Republic Roman Staněk
W: United Arab Emirates Hamda Al Qubaisi

Championship standings[]

Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points were awarded for pole position or fastest lap. Only the best sixteen results were counted towards the championship.[40]

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

Drivers' standings[]

Pos Driver VLL
Italy
MIS
Italy
HUN
Hungary
RBR
Austria
IMO
Italy
MUG
Italy
MNZ
Italy
Pts
R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
1 Norway Dennis Hauger 21 10 11 2 1 C 1 1 2 5 1 2 1 3 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 369
2 Brazil Gianluca Petecof 1 5 1 1 3 C 2 4 1 11 9 4 Ret 2 14 3 23 6 4 10 5 Ret 233
3 Estonia Paul Aron 5 12 Ret 4 Ret C 3 3 26 1 23 3 4 6 4 2 1 4 2 8 3 5 226
4 Russia Michael Belov 2 3 28 9 7 C 7 2 18 Ret 11 10 3 4 2 5 5 9 5 2 2 Ret 179
5 Czech Republic Roman Staněk 4 4 6 19 7 Ret Ret 12 5 25 1 3 DNS 7 2 7 26 6 2 144
6 Israel Ido Cohen Ret 2 12 8 5 C 6 11 3 7 6 30 5 7 6 Ret 6 3 11 7 9 6 132
7 Denmark Oliver Rasmussen 6 14 7 5 4 C 30 6 6 10 Ret 11 Ret 8 11 4 4 10 6 3 7 3 126
8 Paraguay Joshua Dürksen Ret 1 3 11 8 C 5 9 4 3 Ret 8 12 17 16 19 24 5 3 5 22 Ret 122
9 Finland William Alatalo 8 6 Ret 6 9 C 4 13 5 4 5 6 6 Ret Ret 14 9 7 8 4 4 22 118
10 United Kingdom Jonny Edgar 7 19 Ret 19 10 C 21 5 7 9 7 14 2 5 5 9 3 8 10 Ret 8 9 97
11 Germany Niklas Krütten 27 8 30 3 2 C Ret 8 10 2 2 27 78
12 Venezuela Alessandro Famularo 3 Ret 21 7 24 C 20 Ret 9 6 10 7 Ret 9 8 8 8 16 12 9 13 24 54
13 Argentina Giorgio Carrara 11 15 8 15 19 C 8 15 11 19 8 1 37
14 Germany Lucas Alecco Roy Ret 16 2 14 20 C 9 Ret 12 12 13 28 10 23 23 Ret Ret Ret 17 6 12 7 35
15 Switzerland Grégoire Saucy 20 Ret 5 31 14 14 8 4 9 28
16 Russia Ivan Berets Ret Ret 4 18 Ret C 10 23 13 Ret 15 21 7 11 10 6 22 15 15 15 17 12 28
17 Italy Lorenzo Ferrari 14 9 10 29 15 C Ret DNS DNS 17 14 9 23 2 13 9 13 11 Ret 25
18 Finland Jesse Salmenautio 10 20 29 20 26 C 11 12 25 15 3 16 14 16 15 12 12 18 18 11 20 8 20
19 Italy Umberto Laganella 23 7 14 12 11 C Ret 10 8 14 Ret 15 Ret 10 7 Ret Ret DNS DNS 18
20 Israel Roee Meyuhas 22 21 23 10 6 C 29 16 15 16 Ret 22 16 19 18 7 16 14 24 18 16 11 15
21 Guatemala Ian Rodríguez 16 10 4 13
22 Italy Francesco Simonazzi 13 Ret 15 13 14 C 17 30 22 WD WD WD 8 12 27 13 4
23 Switzerland Axel Gnos 9 22 16 24 22 C 23 25 DNS 18 16 13 22 13 20 10 10 11 27 19 Ret 13 4
24 Germany Sebastian Estner 9 Ret 13 DNS 2
25 Italy Andrea Rosso 18 Ret 9 25 23 C 22 31 Ret 19 24 Ret 16 2
26 Romania Filip Ugran 26 18 18 16 27 C 24 18 17 27 18 18 13 26 17 11 Ret 21 22 12 18 10 1
27 Sweden Daniel Vebster 12 11 13 17 12 C 12 17 20 13 21 12 11 15 12 24 14 17 23 17 14 DNS 0
28 Italy Marzio Moretti 15 12 14 0
29 Italy Nicola Marinangeli 16 13 27 22 29 C 14 Ret 19 24 24 Ret 15 27 21 17 Ret 25 13 14 27 20 0
30 Venezuela Emilio Cipriani 25 23 20 21 13 C 13 27 Ret 25 Ret 31 24 18 25 21 18 20 25 22 19 23 0
31 United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi 19 27 22 26 17 C Ret 21 29 22 17 23 18 25 26 15 13 26 16 28 28 Ret 0
32 Italy Emidio Pesce 15 26 19 27 25 C 28 22 16 26 Ret 25 20 20 22 18 17 19 21 21 25 14 0
33 Germany Nico Göhler 16 19 23 21 14 24 0
34 Italy Erwin Zanotti 24 Ret 24 30 28 C 25 24 27 20 Ret 29 21 21 19 20 21 22 19 20 15 15 0
35 Italy Pietro Delli Guanti 28 21 C 15 20 24 17 19 17 0
36 Germany Sebastian Freymuth 17 17 17 23 16 C 26 28 21 23 20 20 23 Ret 24 22 19 24 20 Ret 21 16 0
37 Austria Stefan Fürtbauer 23 24 17 0
38 Hungary László Tóth Ret 24 25 18 26 28 Ret Ret 19 0
39 Brazil José Muggiati 27 23 18 0
40 Italy Fabio Venditti Ret 25 26 Ret 18 C 27 29 30 0
41 Mexico Santiago Ramos Ret 22 28 DNS 20 23 26 24 29 19 0
42 United Arab Emirates Hamda Al Qubaisi 28 22 26 25 26 21 0
Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts
VLL
Italy
MIS
Italy
HUN
Hungary
RBR
Austria
IMO
Italy
MUG
Italy
MNZ
Italy
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd 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

Secondary Classes' standings[]

Pos Driver VLL
Italy
MIS
Italy
HUN
Hungary
RBR
Austria
IMO
Italy
MUG
Italy
MNZ
Italy
Pts
R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
Rookies' championship
1 Estonia Paul Aron 2 5 Ret 1 Ret C 1 1 12 1 9 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 348
2 Czech Republic Roman Staněk 1 2 2 8 3 Ret Ret 2 2 15 1 1 4 1 3 13 2 1 261
3 United Kingdom Jonny Edgar 3 9 Ret 7 3 C 9 2 2 3 1 6 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 Ret 3 3 254
4 Paraguay Joshua Dürksen Ret 1 1 3 2 C 2 4 1 2 Ret 3 5 8 6 10 12 3 2 1 10 Ret 252
5 Sweden Daniel Vebster 5 4 5 6 4 C 3 6 8 4 7 4 4 7 5 14 6 8 11 6 5 DNS 159
6 Israel Roee Meyuhas 12 10 11 2 1 C 16 5 3 5 Ret 10 8 9 8 2 7 7 12 7 7 5 142
7 Italy Lorenzo Ferrari 7 3 4 14 6 C Ret DNS DNS 9 6 4 13 2 6 4 4 4 Ret 125
8 Switzerland Axel Gnos 4 11 7 10 9 C 11 12 DNS 7 4 5 13 5 10 4 5 5 14 8 Ret 6 104
9 Romania Filip Ugran 14 8 9 5 12 C 12 7 5 13 5 8 6 14 7 5 Ret 10 10 3 8 4 103
10 Italy Francesco Simonazzi 6 Ret 6 4 5 C 7 14 9 WD WD WD 3 4 14 6 81
11 Italy Nicola Marinangeli 9 6 13 8 14 C 4 Ret 6 11 10 Ret 7 15 11 8 Ret 14 6 5 14 13 63
12 Germany Sebastian Freymuth 10 7 8 9 7 C 14 13 8 10 7 9 14 Ret 13 12 9 13 8 Ret 9 9 42
13 Italy Pietro Delli Guanti 13 8 C 5 9 11 6 6 7 38
14 Italy Emidio Pesce 8 12 10 12 11 C 15 10 4 12 Ret 12 11 10 12 9 8 9 9 10 13 7 36
15 Germany Nico Göhler 6 8 10 9 3 11 30
16 Italy Erwin Zanotti 13 Ret 12 15 13 C 13 11 13 8 Ret 13 12 11 9 11 11 11 7 9 6 8 26
17 Italy Andrea Rosso 11 Ret 3 11 10 C 10 15 Ret 10 13 Ret 7 24
18 Austria Stefan Fürtbauer 11 12 10 1
19 Mexico Santiago Ramos Ret 12 15 10 12 13 12 15 12 1
20 Brazil José Muggiati 14 11 11 0
Women's championship
1 United Arab Emirates Amna Al Qubaisi 1 1 1 1 1 C Ret 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 Ret 400
2 United Arab Emirates Hamda Al Qubaisi 2 2 2 1 1 1 129
Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts
VLL
Italy
MIS
Italy
HUN
Hungary
RBR
Austria
IMO
Italy
MUG
Italy
MNZ
Italy

Teams' championship[]

Pos Team Points
1 Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 576
2 Italy Prema Powerteam 548
3 Germany BWT Mücke Motorsport 234
4 Italy Bhai Tech Racing 199
5 Germany US Racing 144
6 Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 136
7 Italy DRZ Benelli 56
8 France R-ace GP 28
9 Italy Antonelli Motorsport 26
10 Italy Cram Motorsport 19
11 Italy BVM Racing 1

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Roman Staněk won the race but was penalised for overtaking under the safety car.
  2. ^ Niklas Krütten set the fastest time but was excluded for qualifying infringement.

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