2019 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship

The 2019 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship – Fueled by Petron was the fourth season of the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. It began at the Sepang International Circuit on 5 April and ended at the same venue on 15 December.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Drivers edit

The following drivers competed in the series. All cars were run by Malaysian team Meritus GP. All drivers used the Mygale M14-F4 chassis.

No.	Driver	Rounds	Status	Category
1	Folky Wongsechareon	3	G	R
1	Nik Iruwan	7	G
3	Lucca Allen	All
4	Emil Skärås	1	G	R
5	Josh Smith	1–4, 7
6	Ryo Komikado	2	G
7	Yuma Shoji	7	G
7	Sami Meguetounif	10	G	R
8	Malthe Jakobsen	1–3
9	Sneha Sharma	2–10		L
10	Arya Singh	2	G
12	Shrien Naidoo	1	G	R
13	Muizz Musyaffa	All
14	Wahyu Hashim	10	G	R
16	Ivana Cetinich	10	G	L
17	Abdullah Beshara	1	G
17	Yash Aradhya	3–6
19	Amer Harris	2, 7, 9-10		R
20	Talal Beshara	1	G
22	Alister Yoong	1–7
23	Luis Leeds	1
23	Ivan Peklin	10	G	R
24	Sohil Shah	8	G
26	Hadrien David	1, 7		R
27	Omar Aswat	9	G
33	Muhammad Ibrahim	5, 7		R
34	Shihab Al Habsi	2–7, 10
36	Mira Erda	2, 5–6		L
42	Luke Thompson	1, 7, 9
46	Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya^[4]	1–2		L
57	Frederico Peters	7–10		R
58	Elias Seppänen	All		R
62	Max Hart	10	G
64	Ali Akabi^{[note 1]}	1–2, 4		R
77	Ananthorn Tangniannatchai	4	G	R
78	Nico Pino	8	G	R
92	Ricky Capo	10	G
96	John Dizon	8	G
99	Isyraf Danish	9	G
Source:^[5]

Icon	Status / Category
G	Guest drivers ineligible for Drivers' Championship
L	Lady
R	Rookie

Calendar edit

The ten-event, forty-race calendar was released on 2 April 2019.^[1]^[2] On 9 October 2019 the series announced it was replacing the final 2 rounds at Clark International Speedway with 2 rounds at Sepang International Circuit.^[3]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Supporting
1	R1	Sepang International Circuit	6 April	Emil Skärås^{[note 2]}	Hadrien David	Hadrien David	Malaysia Championship Series Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia F3 Asian Championship TCR Asia Series
	R2		6 April	Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya	Alister Yoong	Emil Skärås
	R3		7 April	Hadrien David	Hadrien David	Hadrien David
	R4		7 April	Hadrien David	Hadrien David	Hadrien David
2	R1	Sepang International Circuit	20 April	Josh Smith	Josh Smith	Lucca Allen	Malaysia Championship Series
	R2		20 April	Shihab Al Habsi	Lucca Allen	Elias Seppänen
	R3		21 April	Sneha Sharma	Lucca Allen	Lucca Allen
	R4		21 April	Josh Smith	Josh Smith	Josh Smith
3	R1	Chang International Circuit	10 May	Lucca Allen	Muizz Musyaffa	Shihab Al Habsi	Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia F3 Asian Championship
	R2		11 May	Sneha Sharma	Lucca Allen	Lucca Allen
	R3		11 May	Folky Wongsechareon^{[note 3]}	Elias Seppänen	Shihab Al Habsi
	R4		12 May	Lucca Allen	Muizz Musyaffa	Lucca Allen
4	R1	Chang International Circuit	14 June	Shihab Al Habsi	Shihab Al Habsi	Lucca Allen	RAAT Thailand Endurance Championship Int'l
	R2		15 June	Ananthorn Tangniannatchai^{[note 4]}	Josh Smith	Josh Smith
	R3			Yash Aradhya	Josh Smith	Shihab Al Habsi
	R4			Lucca Allen	Shihab Al Habsi	Lucca Allen
5	R1	Madras Motor Race Track	14 July	Elias Seppänen	Alister Yoong	Elias Seppänen	Main event
	R2			Mira Erda	Alister Yoong	Alister Yoong
	R3			Sneha Sharma	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen
	R4			Elias Seppänen	Lucca Allen	Elias Seppänen
6	R1	Madras Motor Race Track	20 July	Lucca Allen	Lucca Allen	Shihab Al Habsi	Main event
	R2		20 July	Lucca Allen	Lucca Allen	Elias Seppänen
	R3		21 July	Sneha Sharma	Elias Seppänen	Lucca Allen
	R4		21 July	Lucca Allen	Shihab Al Habsi	Lucca Allen
7	R1	Sepang International Circuit	24 August	Hadrien David	Hadrien David	Hadrien David	Malaysia Championship Series
	R2		24 August	Sneha Sharma	Muizz Musyaffa	Hadrien David
	R3		25 August	Sneha Sharma	Hadrien David	Hadrien David
	R4		25 August	Hadrien David	Josh Smith	Josh Smith
8	R1	Sepang International Circuit	28 September	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen	Malaysia Championship Series
	R2		28 September	John Dizon^{[note 5]}	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen
	R3		29 September	Sneha Sharma	Elias Seppänen	Muizz Musyaffa^{[note 6]}
	R4		29 September	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen
9	R1	Sepang International Circuit	23 November	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen	Lucca Allen	Sepang 1000 km Audi R8 LMS Cup
	R2		24 November	Sneha Sharma	Lucca Allen	Lucca Allen
	R3			Omar Aswat^{[note 7]}	Lucca Allen	Lucca Allen
	R4			Elias Seppänen	Lucca Allen	Elias Seppänen
10	R1	Sepang International Circuit	13 December	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen	Elias Seppänen	World Touring Car Cup FIM Endurance World Championship F3 Asian Championship
	R2		15 December	Ivana Cetinich^{[note 8]}	Elias Seppänen	Lucca Allen
	R3			Muizz Musyaffa	Muizz Musyaffa	Muizz Musyaffa
	R4			Elias Seppänen	Sami Meguetounif	Elias Seppänen

Championship standings edit

The best 32 results out of 40 races counted towards the championship. Points were awarded as follows.

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

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Drivers' standings edit

Pos	Driver	SEP1				SEP2				BUR1				BUR2				MAD1				MAD2				SEP3				SEP4				SEP5				SEP6				Pts
Pos	Driver	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
1	Lucca Allen	2	2	3	2	1	5	1	3	5	1	3	1	1	Ret	9	1	3	6	4	2	7	5	1	1	4	3	Ret	3	3	2	Ret	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	4	5	640
2	Elias Seppänen	4	3	5	3	3	1	4	2	4	3	2	2	4	3	3	3	1	5	1	1	2	1	4	3	3	5	4	4	1	1	DSQ	1	2	2	3	1	1	3	Ret	1	639
3	Muizz Musyaffa	Ret	4	6	9	4	8	6	7	2	7	4	5	8	2	4	7	6	4	5	5	4	4	3	5	5	2	2	6	2	3	1	3	3	3	6	3	5	12	1	4	446
4	Shihab Al-Habsi					Ret	3	5	Ret	1	5	1	3	3	5	1	6	4	2	2	3	1	3	2	2	6	6	3	5									3	5	12†	6	396
5	Josh Smith	6	6	4	4	2	4	2	1	6	2	6	4	2	1	2	2									2	4	6	1													316
6	Alister Yoong	5	8	Ret	8	Ret	2	13	5	7	6	5	9	6	7	6	4	5	1	3	4	3	2	5	6																	234
7	Hadrien David	1	7	1	1	DNS																				1	1	1	2													195
8	Sneha Sharma					10	14	11	12	10	8	10	8	10	8	Ret	9†	8	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	7	11	10	Ret	11	7	8	5	7	8	7	7	6	10	11	11†	10	191
9	Frederico Peters																									9	7	5	7	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	DNS	7	4	5	3	172
10	Yash Aradhya					DNS				9	4	9	6	7	9	5	5	2	3	7	7	5	6	6	4																	144
11	Amer Harris					6	9	7	8																									6	5	5	5	8	8	6	8	98
12	Malthe Jakobsen	3	10	2	Ret	5	7	Ret	4	3	Ret	7	Ret																													89
13	Ali Akabi	9	9	12	7	9	6	8	6					5	6	8	Ret																									78
14	Luke Thompson	DNS																								8	9	Ret	10					4	6	2	4					62
15	Muhammad Ibrahim																	7	7	6	6					10	Ret	8	9													40
16	Mira Erda					12	13	12	10									9	Ret	8	8	6	Ret	7	8																	35
17	Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya	10	11	9	10	7	11	9	11																																	31
	Luis Leeds	DNS
Guest drivers ineligible to score points
	Emil Skärås	8	1	7	6	DNS
	Sami Meguetounif																																					9	2	2	2
	Sohil Shah																													5	5	2	Ret
	Max Hart																																					12	8	3	7
	Arya Singh					11	10	3	9
	John Dizon																													8	7	4	6
	Ricky Capo																																					4	6	8	9
	Ananthorn Tangniannatchai													9	4	7	8
	Shrien Naidoo	7	5	8	5	DNS
	Nico Pino																													6	6	Ret	5
	Ivan Peklin																																					6	7	7	Ret
	Yuma Shoji																									7	8	7	8
	Omar Aswat																																	7	8	8	7
	Folky Wongsechareon									8	9	8	7
	Ryo Komikado					8	12	10	Ret
	Ivana Cetinich																																					13	9	9	11
	Abdullah Beshara	11	12	10	Ret	DNS
	Wahyu Hashim																																					11	Ret	10	Ret
	Talal Beshara	12	13	11	11	DNS
	Nik Iruwan																									DNS
	Isyraf Danish																																	DNS
Pos	Driver	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
Pos	Driver	SEP1				SEP2				BUR1				BUR2				MAD1				MAD2				SEP3				SEP4				SEP5				SEP6				Pts

Footnotes edit

^ Ali Akabi is an Iraqi driver competing under a Jordanian license. The FIA did not recognise the Iraqi ASN (Iraq Club for Cars and Motorcycles) at the time (having only done so since 2021), despite Akabi appearing as Iraqi on the series entry list.
^ Emil Skärås claimed the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest qualified eligible driver – Hadrien David.
^ Folky Wongsechareon started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.
^ Ananthorn Tangniannatchai started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Muizz Musyaffa.
^ John Dizon started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.
^ Elias Seppänen crossed the finish line first but was disqualified for exceeding track limits and causing a collision with Lucca Allen.^[6] He also set the fastest lap, however, the bonus points has not been reallocated.
^ Omar Aswat started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.
^ Ivana Cetinich started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.

References edit

^ ^a ^b "2019 Calendar". Formula 4 South East Asia. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Press Release: F4 SEA Championship to flag-off world-record season on 5 April". Facebook. 2 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b "F4 coming back to Malaysia for 2 more events!". F4 South East Asia Championship Facebook. 9 October 2019.
^ "Kazakhstan's only professional female F4 driver to put pedal to the metal in SEA Championship". 17 April 2019.
^ "Results". Retrieved 2020-10-06.
^ Harris-Gardiner, Rachel (2019-09-29). "F4 round-up: Elias Seppanen dominates at Sepang, Zijian He wins twice at Shanghai". Formula Scout. Archived from the original on 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2020-10-06.

External links edit

Official website

[5] Ali Akabi is an Iraqi driver competing under a Jordanian license. The FIA did not recognise the Iraqi ASN (Iraq Club for Cars and Motorcycles) at the time (having only done so since 2021), despite Akabi appearing as Iraqi on the series entry list.

[7] Emil Skärås claimed the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest qualified eligible driver – Hadrien David.

[8] Folky Wongsechareon started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.

[9] Ananthorn Tangniannatchai started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Muizz Musyaffa.

[10] John Dizon started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.

[12] Elias Seppänen crossed the finish line first but was disqualified for exceeding track limits and causing a collision with Lucca Allen.^[6] He also set the fastest lap, however, the bonus points has not been reallocated.

[13] Omar Aswat started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.

[14] Ivana Cetinich started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.

[Calendar-1] "2019 Calendar". Formula 4 South East Asia. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[Calendar2-2] "Press Release: F4 SEA Championship to flag-off world-record season on 5 April". Facebook. 2 April 2019.

[Sepang-3] "F4 coming back to Malaysia for 2 more events!". F4 South East Asia Championship Facebook. 9 October 2019.

[4] "Kazakhstan's only professional female F4 driver to put pedal to the metal in SEA Championship". 17 April 2019.

[6] "Results". Retrieved 2020-10-06.

[11] Harris-Gardiner, Rachel (2019-09-29). "F4 round-up: Elias Seppanen dominates at Sepang, Zijian He wins twice at Shanghai". Formula Scout. Archived from the original on 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2020-10-06.

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