2021 French F4 Championship

The 2021 French F4 Championship was the 11th season to run under the guise of the French F4 Championship and the fourth under the FIA Formula 4 regulations. The championship used Mygale M14-F4 chassis. The series began on 3 April at Circuit Paul Armagnac and ended on 24 October at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.^[1]

Driver lineup edit

No.	Driver	Class	Rounds
5	Macéo Capietto		All
6	Paul Trojani	G	4
6	Luciano Morano	G	6–7
7	Dario Cabanelas	J	All
8	Romain Andriolo	G	5–6
9	Esteban Masson		All
10	Alessandro Giusti	J	All
11	Pierre-Alexandre Provost	J	All
14	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak	G	3
14	Louis Pelet	G	6
16	Paul Jerome	G	6
17	Noah Andy		All
22	Daniël Ligier		All
30	Gaël Julien		All
35	Adam Szydłowski		1–2
36	Enzo Géraci	J	All
46	Elliott Vayron	G	3, 5–7
46	Pablo Sarrazin	G	4
51	Angélina Favario		All
53	Vignesh Kadarabad		1–2
57	Aiden Neate	J	1–2
66	Enzo Richer	G	3, 5–7
68	Hugh Barter		All
74	Enzo Peugeot	G	7
77	Thanapongpan Sutumno		1
77	Thanapongpan Sutumno	G	6
79	Owen Tangavelou		All
Sources:^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Icon	Status
J	Drivers that compete for the Junior Championship
G	Guest drivers ineligible for Drivers' Championship

Race calendar edit

On 27 November 2020 French Federation of Automobile Sport announced a seven-round calendar with the round supporting provisionally 2021 French Grand Prix. On 20 January 2021, FFSA Academy announced another round at Magny-Cours in October instead as the idea was dropped.^[1] The round at Circuit de Lédenon was postponed from 27 to 29 August to 10–12 September due to the clash of FFSA GT Championship, the main event, with 2021 GT World Challenge Europe.^[8]^[9]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Junior Winner
1	R1	Circuit Paul Armagnac, Nogaro	4 April	Esteban Masson	Esteban Masson	Esteban Masson	Aiden Neate
	R2		4 April		Macéo Capietto	Thanapongpan Sutumno	Alessandro Giusti
	R3		5 April	Esteban Masson	Macéo Capietto	Hugh Barter	Aiden Neate
2	R1	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours	8 May	Esteban Masson	Esteban Masson	Macéo Capietto	Dario Cabanelas
	R2		8 May		Esteban Masson	Esteban Masson	Dario Cabanelas
	R3		9 May	Esteban Masson	Hugh Barter	Esteban Masson	Alessandro Giusti
3	R1	Hungaroring, Mogyoród	10 July	Esteban Masson	Esteban Masson	Esteban Masson	Dario Cabanelas
	R2		10 July		Elliott Vayron	Alessandro Giusti	Alessandro Giusti
	R3		11 July	Macéo Capietto	Macéo Capietto	Macéo Capietto	Dario Cabanelas
4	R1	Circuit de Lédenon, Lédenon	11 September	Macéo Capietto	Macéo Capietto	Macéo Capietto	Alessandro Giusti
	R2		11 September		Esteban Masson	Pierre-Alexandre Provost	Pierre-Alexandre Provost
	R3		12 September	Gaël Julien	Gaël Julien	Gaël Julien	Alessandro Giusti
5	R1	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza	25 September	Macéo Capietto	Macéo Capietto	Elliott Vayron	Enzo Géraci
	R2		26 September		Elliott Vayron	Elliott Vayron	Alessandro Giusti
	R3		26 September	Alessandro Giusti	Cancelled due to bad weather conditions
6	R1	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	2 October	Esteban Masson	Macéo Capietto	Macéo Capietto	Alessandro Giusti
	R2		2 October		Owen Tangavelou	Elliott Vayron	Dario Cabanelas
	R3		3 October	Esteban Masson	Alessandro Giusti	Esteban Masson	Alessandro Giusti
7	R1	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours	23 October	Esteban Masson	Hugh Barter	Esteban Masson	Alessandro Giusti
	R2		24 October		Owen Tangavelou	Alessandro Giusti	Alessandro Giusti
	R3		24 October	Esteban Masson	Hugh Barter	Hugh Barter	Alessandro Giusti

Championship standings edit

Each driver's lowest scoring meeting was omitted from their final point tally. To have points dropped from a round, the driver must have competed in all three races.

Points were awarded as follows:

Races	Position										Bonus
Races	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	PP	FL
Races 1 & 3	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	1	1
Race 2	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1			–	1

Drivers' standings – FFSA Academy edit

Pos	Driver	NOG			MAG1			HUN			LÉD			MNZ			LEC			MAG2			Pts
1	Esteban Masson	1	6	3	4	1	1	1	Ret	2	2	6	5	Ret	4	C	2	18	1	1	Ret	13†	236
2	Hugh Barter	4	7	1	2	3	2	8	7	7	4	4	3	Ret	6	C	4	6	3	2	5	1	213
3	Macéo Capietto	DNS	8	2	1	13	3	2	8	1	1	7	2	2	2	C	1	5	4	DSQ^[a]			203
4	Daniël Ligier	3	5	Ret	3	4	5	5	2	15	3	3	6	3	3	C	3	3	5	DSQ	Ret	3	172
5	Owen Tangavelou	2	11	Ret	Ret	10	4	4	5	4	6	5	4	4	5	C	7	2	7	5	8	5	160
6	Alessandro Giusti	8	2	8	6	8	6	9	1	9	7	Ret	7	11	7	C	5	9	2	3	1	2	147
7	Gaël Julien	7	3	5	7	6	Ret	7	3	5	5	13	1	5	8	C	6	7	Ret	4	3	Ret	141
8	Dario Cabanelas	6	9	6	5	5	7	6	10	6	8	11	8	Ret	11	C	8	4	9	6	9	7	93
9	Enzo Géraci	11	13	11	8	7	14	10	6	12	9	2	9	6	Ret	C	Ret	10	8	8	7	6	65
10	Noah Andy	9	16†	10	9	2	8	13	12	10	12	10	11	9	Ret	C	Ret	8	6	7	Ret	10	51
11	Pierre-Alexandre Provost	12	10	14†	10	12	10	11	11	11	10	1	12	8	9	C	Ret	11	16	9	2	8	50
12	Aiden Neate	5	4	4	Ret	9	12																30
13	Angélina Favario	13†	14	13	13	11	13	14	13	14	14	12	14	10	12	C	16	17	14	10	11	Ret	9
14	Adam Szydłowski	Ret	12	9	12	Ret	9																2
15	Thanapongpan Sutumno^[b]	10	1	7													10	12	12				0
16	Vignesh Kadarabad	14†	15	12	11	14	11																0
Guest drivers ineligible to score points
	Elliott Vayron							12	9	8				1	1	C	9	1	17	11	4	4
	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak							3	4	3
	Enzo Peugeot																			12	6	9
	Enzo Richer							15	14	13				7	Ret	C	12	19†	13	Ret	10	12
	Pablo Sarrazin										11	8	10
	Paul Trojani										13	9	13
	Romain Andriolo													12†	10	C	11	13	15
	Louis Pelet																13	14	10
	Luciano Morano																14	16	11	Ret	Ret	11
	Paul Jerome																15	15	Ret

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	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
† — Did not finish but classified

Drivers' standings – FIA Formula 4 edit

Pos	Driver	NOG			MAG1			HUN			LÉD			MNZ			LEC			MAG2			Pts
1	Esteban Masson	1	4	3	4	1	1	1	Ret	2	2	4	5	Ret	3	C	2	8	1	1	Ret	5†	233
2	Hugh Barter	4	5	1	2	3	2	6	4	5	4	2	3	Ret	5	C	4	4	2	2	2	1	227
3	Macéo Capietto	DNS	6	2	1	8	3	2	5	1	1	5	2	1	1	C	1	3	3	DSQ^[a]			210
4	Daniël Ligier	3	3	Ret	3	4	5	4	1	8	3	1	6	2	2	C	3	2	4	DSQ	Ret	2	189
5	Owen Tangavelou	2	7	Ret	Ret	6	4	3	3	3	6	3	4	3	4	C	6	1	6	4	3	3	181
6	Gaël Julien	5	2	4	5	5	Ret	5	2	4	5	8	1	4	6	C	5	5	Ret	3	1	Ret	167
7	Noah Andy	6	11†	7	6	2	6	7	6	6	7	6	7	5	Ret	C	Ret	6	5	5	Ret	4	108
8	Angélina Favario	8†	9	9	9	7	9	8	7	7	8	7	8	6	7	C	7	7	7	6	4	Ret	68
9	Adam Szydłowski	Ret	8	6	8	Ret	7																10
10	Vignesh Kadarabad	9†	10	8	7	9	8																10
11	Thanapongpan Sutumno	7	1	5																			0

Juniors' standings edit

Pos	Driver	NOG			MAG1			HUN			LÉD			MNZ			LEC			MAG2			Pts
1	Alessandro Giusti	3	1	3	2	3	1	2	1	2	1	Ret	1	3	1	C	1	2	1	1	1	1	311
2	Dario Cabanelas	2	3	2	1	1	2	1	3	1	2	3	2	Ret	3	C	2	1	3	2	4	3	268
3	Enzo Géraci	4	5	4	3	2	5	3	2	4	3	2	3	1	Ret	C	Ret	3	2	3	3	2	216
4	Pierre-Alexandre Provost	5	4	5†	4	5	3	4	4	3	4	1	4	2	2	C	Ret	4	4	4	2	4	201
5	Aiden Neate	1	2	1	5†	4	4																62

Notes edit

^ ^a ^b Disqualified from the round for causing a collision in Race 3.
^ Sutumno was ineligible to score points at Le Castellet as he competed as a guest driver.

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Calendar of the 2021 French F4 Championship". FFSAAcademy. 20 January 2021.
^ "F4 Academy: The Easter Cup at Nogaro launches the 2021 season". FFSA Academy. 23 March 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
^ "F4 Academy: Hungarian summer stopover in Budapest". FFSA Academy. 5 July 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09.
^ "F4 Academy: A highly anticipated second half of the season". FFSA Academy. 6 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-06.
^ "F4 Academy: Discovering the temple of speed". FFSA Academy. 22 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-10-27.
^ "F4 Academy: A strong field and excitement expected at Paul Ricard". FFSA Academy. 27 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-27.
^ "F4 Academy: A tightly contested final at Magny-Cours". FFSA Academy. 18 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-10-18.
^ Watkins, Gary (23 March 2021). "GTWCE Sprint Cup event at Brands Hatch moved to August". Autosport. Archived from the original on 2021-07-20.
^ "Le meeting de Lédenon change de date". Endurance Info (in French). 28 May 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-20.

External links edit

Official website of the FFSA Academy

[CapiettoDSQ-10] Disqualified from the round for causing a collision in Race 3.

[11] Sutumno was ineligible to score points at Le Castellet as he competed as a guest driver.

[:0-1] "Calendar of the 2021 French F4 Championship". FFSAAcademy. 20 January 2021.

[2] "F4 Academy: The Easter Cup at Nogaro launches the 2021 season". FFSA Academy. 23 March 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2 April 2021.

[3] "F4 Academy: Hungarian summer stopover in Budapest". FFSA Academy. 5 July 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09.

[4] "F4 Academy: A highly anticipated second half of the season". FFSA Academy. 6 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-06.

[5] "F4 Academy: Discovering the temple of speed". FFSA Academy. 22 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-10-27.

[6] "F4 Academy: A strong field and excitement expected at Paul Ricard". FFSA Academy. 27 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-27.

[7] "F4 Academy: A tightly contested final at Magny-Cours". FFSA Academy. 18 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-10-18.

[8] Watkins, Gary (23 March 2021). "GTWCE Sprint Cup event at Brands Hatch moved to August". Autosport. Archived from the original on 2021-07-20.

[9] "Le meeting de Lédenon change de date". Endurance Info (in French). 28 May 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-20.

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