In the context of the GT Tour, the ASA trainee drivers will join battle again on the very tricky Val de Vienne circuit just before the summer break. There will be 25 cars on the grid for this event, and for the remainder of the season, as Mexican Patricio O’Ward and Max Defourny from Belgium have joined the field of youngsters who are fighting for the title in their single-seaters. Former FFSA kart ace Dorian Boccolacci, the current leader of the championship with 92 points since the last round in Pau, will have to fend off tough rivals who are all hoping to move up the current hierarchy. Anglo-Swiss Félix Hirsiger and Lasse Sorensen from Denmark are set on doing their utmost to knock the young Frenchman off his perch!
At the Val de Vienne event the Auto Sport Academy is delighted to welcome two new recruits to enrich the field, which now counts 25 budding champions. Patricio O’Ward from Mexico and Belgian Max Defourny have entered for the French F4 Championship and have come to take on the talented drivers already on the grid. They will have their work cut out to match the pace of the top 5 led by Dorian Boccolacci, who has already clinched three top-3 finishes including two victories in a superb display in the streets of Pau, followed by Anglo-Swiss Félix Hirsiger, back for the second year, with 79 points who in turn is under threat from Lasse Sorensen from Denmark. They fill the first three places. In fourth place is Australian Joseph Mawson, who scored two wins on the Le Mans Bugatti circuit, a tough competitor who is determined to get back into the winner’s circle this weekend after a scoreless Pau. The highly-motivated Amaury Richard back for the second year rounds out the top 5. He is the only one not to have scored a top-3 finish so he will be determined to rectify this in the Val de Vienne round.
Russian Denis Bulatov, winner of race 2 in Pau, Erwan Julé, Bryan Elpitiya, Valentin Moineault and Paul Hokfelt Jr from Switzerland tying with Finn Simo Laaksonen, second in race 2 in Pau, complete the top 10 and are all hoping to add the maximum haul of points to their tally. French chargers Valentin Hasse-Clot, Tom Soubiron, Anouck Abadie, the only woman driver in the field, and Hugo Sugnot Darniche, famous rally driver Bernard Darniche’s grandson, will fight tooth and nail to prevent the leader from opening up a big gap at the halfway mark of the season. The numerous foreign drivers in the field are determined to score good results led by Swiss David Droux, who is just outside the top 10 and who set the fastest lap in race 2 in the Pau Grand Prix, Vladimir Atoev from Russia, Swede Reuben Kressner, Finn Niclas Nylund, Joao Carvalho from Portugal, Swiss-Albanian Gjergj Haxhiu, Axel Matus from Mexico and Colombian Juan Manuel Jimenez Silva. All the drivers who have not yet scored points in the first two rounds will try to break their duck on the Val de Vienne circuit!
The French F4 Championship has attracted trainee drivers from 12 different nationalities confirming its impact on the international scene!
Reminder
There are 3 races on the programme with a single qualifying session of between 25 and 30 minutes. The line-up for the first race will be established according the second-fastest time of each driver in the qualifying session. The classification of race 1 will decide the grid positions for race 2 with the first ten in race 1 starting in reverse order. The other drivers will start in the finishing order. The grid line-up for race 3 will be established according to the fastest time of each driver in qualifying.
Info Auto Sport Academy / © Photo DPPI