2014 BRDC Formula 4 Championship

The 2014 BRDC Formula 4 Championship was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across England. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers competing in 2 litre Duratec single seat race cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2014 season was the second BRDC Formula 4 Championship organized by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision company, with support from the British Racing Drivers' Club in the United Kingdom, and dedicated championship highlights shown on ITV4 the weekend after each round, in a prime time slot. The season began at Silverstone on 26 April and ended on 26 October at Snetterton, after 8 triple header events amassing to 24 races.

2014 BRDC Formula 4 Championship
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Heading into the final round of the championship, six drivers were in mathematical contention to win the championship. Lanan Racing team-mates Arjun Maini and George Russell led the standings, with Maini 21 points clear of Russell. HHC Motorsport duo Sennan Fielding and Raoul Hyman were split by five points for third and fourth places, with Struan Moore (Lanan Racing) and Will Palmer (HHC Motorsport) requiring results to go in their favour, despite being in the running.[1] Russell took pole position for the opening race,[2] but Fielding was the highest placed at the end, in third place; Russell cut Maini's lead slightly with a seventh, while Palmer and Moore could no longer win the title due to their results.[3] Maini took pole for the second race, due to his eighth place and the regulations for the partially reversed grid order stipulating such. Maini led from the start, before Hyman and Russell passed him early in the race. Maini fell to fifth as he made an error later in the race, dropping him behind Fielding and Moore. Hyman held the lead until the end which meant that four drivers could still win the title in the final race.[4]

Maini held a 13-point lead over Russell, with Fielding 5 points further adrift, and Hyman the outsider, 25 points adrift of Maini. Russell started from pole position, with Hyman, Fielding and Maini behind.[5] Hyman made the best start to take the lead from Russell at the start, but Russell regained the lead the following lap, and ultimately went on to win the race; a season-high fifth victory. With Maini down in fifth place, it enabled Russell to clinch the title by just three points.[6] With the championship, he received a prize test with the Arden Motorsport GP3 team at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi at the end of the season, as well as a £25,000 cash prize.[7] Behind Maini, Hyman's second place finish allowed him to jump Fielding for third place in the championship, by a single point. All three drivers won four races over the course of the season, including a hat-trick for Fielding at Silverstone, a first for the series. Other drivers to win races were Moore at Oulton Park, Palmer won twice at the first Snetterton meeting, as well as single victories for Diego Menchaca (Snetterton), and Brands Hatch victories for Gustavo Lima, Gaetano di Mauro and Chris Middlehurst.

Teams and drivers
2014 Entry List[8]
Team No. Driver Rounds
Douglas Motorsport 2 Charlie Eastwood[9] All
26 Rodrigo Fonseca[10] All
68 Diego Menchaca[11] All
HHC Motorsport 3 Will Palmer[12] All
4 Sennan Fielding[13] All
7 Raoul Hyman[14] All
Hillspeed 5 Gustavo Lima[15] 1–6
12 Alfredo Zabalza[16] 1–2, 4–8
72 Rahul Raj Mayer[8] All
Lanan Racing 8 George Russell[17] All
9 Struan Moore[18] All
36 Arjun Maini[19] All
Chris Dittmann Racing 10 Tom Jackson[20] 1–6
11 Tom Bale[21] 4–8
17 Piers Hickin[22] 8
Mark Godwin Racing 13 Michael Claessens[23] All
16 Chris Middlehurst[24] 1–6
43 David Wagner[25] 1–3
Petroball Racing 21 Gaetano di Mauro[26] All
61 Dan Roeper[27] 1–3
Sean Walkinshaw Racing
SWR – Caterham F1[28]
 22 Álex Palou[29] 5
23 Jordan Albert[30] All
27 Nicolas Beer[31] 1–4
41 Diego Borrelli[32] All
Meridian Racing[33] 35 Connor Jupp[33] 5–8
42 Jai Nijjar[33] 5–7
Enigma Motorsport 51 Falco Wauer[34] 1–2

Race calendar and results

The first Brands Hatch race weekend was held in support of the Blancpain Sprint Series. Later in the season, at the first Snetterton meeting and the second Brands Hatch meeting, the series formed part of the support package to British GT Championship rounds.

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver Winning Team
1 R1 Silverstone Circuit
(Grand Prix, Northamptonshire)		 26 April Raoul Hyman Sennan Fielding Raoul Hyman HHC Motorsport
R2 27 April Will Palmer George Russell Lanan Racing
R3 George Russell George Russell Lanan Racing
2 R4 Brands Hatch
(Grand Prix Circuit, Kent)		 17 May Raoul Hyman Arjun Maini Raoul Hyman HHC Motorsport
R5 18 May Sennan Fielding Gustavo Lima Hillspeed
R6 Sennan Fielding George Russell Lanan Racing
3 R7 Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
(300 Circuit, Norfolk)		 21 June George Russell Will Palmer Will Palmer HHC Motorsport
R8 22 June Arjun Maini Arjun Maini Lanan Racing
R9 Arjun Maini Will Palmer HHC Motorsport
4 R10 Oulton Park
(International Circuit, Cheshire)		 18 July George Russell Struan Moore George Russell Lanan Racing
R11 19 July Arjun Maini Arjun Maini Lanan Racing
R12 Chris Middlehurst Struan Moore Lanan Racing
5 R13 Silverstone Circuit
(Grand Prix, Northamptonshire)		 16 August Sennan Fielding Sennan Fielding Sennan Fielding HHC Motorsport
R14 17 August Will Palmer Sennan Fielding HHC Motorsport
R15 Raoul Hyman Sennan Fielding HHC Motorsport
6 R16 Brands Hatch
(Grand Prix Circuit, Kent)		 30 August Gaetano di Mauro Arjun Maini Gaetano di Mauro Petroball Racing
R17 31 August Arjun Maini Chris Middlehurst Mark Godwin Racing
R18 George Russell Arjun Maini Lanan Racing
7 R19 Donington Park
(Grand Prix Circuit, Leicestershire)		 20 September Sennan Fielding George Russell Sennan Fielding HHC Motorsport
R20 21 September Raoul Hyman Raoul Hyman HHC Motorsport
R21 Sennan Fielding Arjun Maini Lanan Racing
8 R22 Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
(300 Circuit, Norfolk)		 25 October George Russell George Russell Diego Menchaca Douglas Motorsport
R23 26 October George Russell Raoul Hyman HHC Motorsport
R24 Raoul Hyman George Russell Lanan Racing

Championship standings
Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top 20 classified finishers in all races.

Races Position, points per race
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Races 1 & 3 35 29 24 21 19 17 15 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Race 2 25 22 20 18 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Drivers' championship
Pos. Driver SIL BRH SNE OUL SIL BRH DON SNE Points
1 George Russell 5 1 1 4 3 1 3 3 6 1 6 Ret 5 6 6 10 3 5 2 6 Ret 7 2 1 483
2 Arjun Maini 8 11 2 2 4 4 8 1 4 7 1 Ret 3 8 4 3 2 1 4 4 1 8 5 5 480
3 Raoul Hyman 1 4 10 1 10 3 2 13 3 2 2 Ret 6 7 2 4 4 12 7 1 Ret 6 1 2 465
4 Sennan Fielding 3 10 DSQ 5 5 2 4 NC 2 5 17 4 1 1 1 6 9 4 1 7 9 3 3 4 464
5 Struan Moore Ret 3 5 6 7 Ret 9 6 7 4 4 1 2 Ret 3 2 6 3 3 5 10 5 4 6 412
6 Will Palmer 7 6 6 3 6 8 1 5 1 6 3 3 Ret 3 7 8 7 Ret 5 2 Ret Ret 17 18 356
7 Diego Menchaca 2 8 3 Ret 8 11 7 2 8 10 9 Ret 7 DSQ 10 16 11 13 6 3 2 1 18 9 327
8 Gaetano di Mauro 12 Ret 12 11 16 9 14 9 5 12 11 6 11 2 9 1 Ret 2 10 9 DNS 4 6 7 301
9 Chris Middlehurst Ret 7 4 7 2 5 10 Ret 15 3 5 2 10 DSQ 8 7 1 9 253
10 Charlie Eastwood 18 Ret 7 14 13 10 15 14 9 18 12 Ret 12 11 Ret 12 Ret 8 8 10 4 2 8 3 233
11 Jordan Albert 13 13 13 DNS 18 6 18 8 16 15 13 7 14 14 13 5 5 7 9 11 3 Ret 15 13 226
12 Rahul Raj Mayer 9 14 11 10 11 14 11 7 12 16 10 Ret 8 9 11 11 Ret 11 Ret 12 6 10 7 10 223
13 Rodrigo Fonseca 11 16 8 9 9 12 13 DSQ 14 20 14 Ret 15 4 12 Ret 16 6 11 8 5 Ret 11 12 200
14 Gustavo Lima 6 5 9 8 1 18 6 4 10 9 7 Ret 13 Ret 14 9 12 Ret 194
15 Tom Jackson Ret 12 19 12 19 16 16 11 13 8 Ret 5 Ret 5 15 13 8 10 136
16 Diego Borrelli 14 Ret 17 16 12 7 17 15 Ret 19 Ret 8 16 10 21 14 Ret 14 13 18 13 Ret 14 14 128
17 Alfredo Zabalza Ret Ret 16 15 15 DNS 13 Ret Ret 9 15 18 15 10 16 12 14 8 11 10 15 124
18 Michael Claessens 17 17 18 Ret 20 DNS Ret 12 18 14 15 9 18 16 19 19 Ret 19 16 15 14 12 16 16 100
19 Connor Jupp Ret 12 17 17 13 17 14 13 7 9 9 11 93
20 Nicolas Beer 4 2 Ret Ret 21 DNS 5 Ret 19 11 8 Ret 87
21 Tom Bale 17 16 Ret 17 18 16 18 14 15 15 17 11 Ret 13 17 69
22 David Wagner 10 9 15 13 Ret 13 12 Ret 11 64
23 Álex Palou 4 13 5 48
24 Dan Roeper 16 15 14 DNS 17 17 Ret 10 17 41
25 Jai Nijjar 19 17 20 20 15 18 17 16 12 35
26 Piers Hickin Ret 12 8 22
27 Falco Wauer 15 Ret 20 Ret 14 15 20
Pos. Driver SIL BRH SNE OUL SIL BRH DON SNE Points
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

Jack Cavill Pole Position Cup

The Jack Cavill Pole Position Cup was awarded to the driver who started from pole position most often throughout the season. Champion George Russell won the trophy, on a tie-break with Arjun Maini, as Russell took more pole positions from qualifying sessions.[35]

Pos. Driver Poles
1 George Russell 5
2 Arjun Maini 5
3 Sennan Fielding 4
4 Raoul Hyman 2
Will Palmer 2
6 Gaetano di Mauro 1
Charlie Eastwood 1
Tom Jackson 1
Gustavo Lima 1
Rahul Raj Mayer 1
Struan Moore 1

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