- Record numbers for the tenth season of the Italian F4 Championship which kicks off at Imola.
- For the second year Abarth engines will accompany the UK series at the start at Donington.
- On the Interlagos track, the second season of the Brazilian series.
The Scorpion's season starts with a triple appointment in Formula 4. At the start, on the same weekend, three international series that bring Abarth alongside the young talents of the future in Italy, UK and Brazil, while waiting for the start of the Spanish series that will start next May 7th.
The tenth season of the Italian F4 Championship will kick off at Imola with, once again, record numbers around 40 cars on track from the very first round of the season. Always at the side of the Italian series promoted by ACI Sport, Abarth engines have seen the talents who are now champions in Formula 1 take to the track in the Italian series: from Lando Norris to Zhou Guanyu via Lance Stroll. Between confirmations and new entries, the Italian Formula 4 remains the leading series on the international scene and, after the debut at Imola will continue its ten-year anniversary season on the circuits of Misano, Spa-Francorchamps, Monza, Paul Ricard, Mugello and Vallelunga.
Great expectations also for the start of the ninth season of the F4 British Championship at the Donington circuit. After Alex Dunne's victory, in the first year in which the British series was powered by the 180hp Abarth T-Jet 1.4 engine, there will be 20 drivers who will try to succeed the Irishman in the 30 races divided over 10 rounds on the tracks of Donington, Brands Hatch, Snetterton, Thruxton, Oulton Park, Silverstone, Croft, Knockhill, to return at the end of the season on the Donington and Brands Hatch circuits.
Second edition, on the other hand, for the F4 Brazilian Championship which, in 2023, will have the privilege of flanking the Formula 1 Grand Prix on 5 November in São Paulo. It is precisely the Interlagos circuit that will host the first two rounds, before the Velocittà and Goiania events in August. The season ends in November with the third round at Interlagos and the grand finale in Brasilia.
The F4 Spanish Championship will start in May at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Among the most eagerly awaited drivers in the Iberian series is Fernando Barrichello, son of former F1 driver Rubens, who proved last year in the Brazilian series that he can compete with the best. Also in 2023 the Spanish series will see more than 30 Tatuus F4 T-021 powered by the Abarth engine at the start.
Turin, April 21, 2023.
