The previous round of the British F4 Esports Championship saw Matt Caruana lose the championship lead. A disastrous Race 2 incident at Silverstone allowed the Team Benik pair of Henry Moore and Remy Gilbert to overhaul the HYMO Setups by EMM driver, despite a convincing Race 1 win.
Gilbert led the standings from Moore as the drivers headed to Knockhill for Round 6, with the leading trio once again establishing their dominance over the chasing pack. Gilbert was the man to beat in qualifying, however, as he grabbed pole position from TC Esports’ Dani Moreno by the slenderest of margins.
Moore set a lap time to seal third on the grid, just 0.017s off his teammate. In contrast, Caruana could only muster ninth, giving himself an uphill battle around the tight and twisty confines of the Fife circuit.
Race 1
Gilbert made a rapid getaway to lead into Duffus Dip, with Moreno and Moore following line astern. Moreno soon got two wheels onto the gravel exiting the chicane, however, allowing Moore to slip by into second, with Connor Muir pressuring the TC Esports driver for third.
Moreno’s teammate, Agustin Torlaschi, made a similar error on lap two and dropped out of the top 10 as a result, helping elevate the fired-up Caruana to seventh.
As the battle for third and fourth intensified, Caruana was able to capitalise on a mistake by Connor Jupp to climb to sixth, and on the following lap, he was fifth, thanks to a bold overtaking manoeuvre at McIntyre.
Caruana continued his charge by demoting Drive Lounge Racing’s Leo Brown before usurping Moreno for the final step on the podium.
Up front, Gilbert and Moore worked together to break away from the pack, but on the final lap, Moore launched an attack for the win. It wasn’t enough to deter Gilbert, however, who took his second win of the season and his second on the trot.
Caruana pulled off the drive of the race by finishing just ahead of the recovering Brown, and kept himself in touch with the championship leaders as a result.
Post-race, though, Caruana, Brown and Moreno were all given penalties, dropping them down to sixth, seventh and 10th, respectively.
Race 2
The top 13 cars were to be reversed for Race 2, giving Azz Tech Racing’s Ryan Micalleff pole position alongside Drive Lounge Racing’s Kieran Harding. The real intrigue would centre around how the championship’s leading trio would negotiate the mid-pack squabbling, however.
Micalleff held the lead over the opening two laps and was shadowed by Altitude FreeM eSports’ Archie Herron, with the unfortunate Kieran Harding pulling off immediately with technical issues.
Meantime, Caruana, Moore and Gilbert had made solid progress to seventh, ninth and 10th, respectively, and had done incredibly well to avoid the worst of the Knockhill chaos in the opening laps.
Nearing the halfway point, Micalleff had a spin at McIntyre after taking too much kerb, while Caruana continued his battling display by climbing to third. This quickly became second on the following tour, with Scorpio eSports’ Noah Osbaldeston standing between him and a record eighth British F4 Esports victory.
Sure enough, Caruana made a dive for the lead at Taylor’s hairpin, as Osbaldeston also later lost second place to Ferrari Esports’ Gergo Baldi. Behind, Moore and Gilbert had both impressively jumped up the order and were fighting it out for a slot on the podium.
Gilbert made a bold move on Moore to claim fifth at Taylor’s, with the pair aggressively duelling, conscious of the championship implications. The aggression nearly spilt over into a race-ending incident soon after, as Gilbert launched an optimistic switchback move on Leo Brown heading toward the chicane.
The pair touched, sending Gilbert over the kerbs and into the path of Moore. Somehow, everyone except Osbaldeston survived the contretemps. Brown remained ahead of Gilbert, with Moore still right on his tail.
However, Brown then ran deep into the hairpin and was wide again into Turn 1, allowing Gilbert, Moore and Moreno through, and on the final lap, Moore had to make his car as wide as possible to defend from Moreno into the final corner, allowing Gilbert to seal another podium.
Caruana took the win, less than a second ahead of Baldi. However, after a post-race penalty, Baldi was demoted to third, further extending Gilbert’s championship lead over Moore.
2025 UK FF1600 Esports Cup, Round 6
Round 5 of the UK FF1600 Esports Cup saw Crofton Woodhatch take a rare double victory, his fourth on the trot. And once again Woodhatch claimed pole position for Round 6, his fifth of the season, with Charlie Summers less than a tenth of a second behind.
Race 1
Woodhatch made a rapid start and was comfortably able to take the racing line into Duffus Dip. Predictably, it was chaos behind, with contact in the mid-pack sending cars flying off the track. Those delayed or shunted included frontrunners Sam Sanders, Teemu Myllykangas and Hayden Bramley.
Summers managed to latch onto the rear of Woodhatch’s car, but this only lasted until mid-distance when he incurred a slowdown penalty. With the gap now well over a second, Woodhatch was effectively home and hosed and duly took a fifth consecutive victory.
Behind, Summers was safe in second position, but the fight for third was far more interesting. Jonathan Smith, Matt Kendall and Jayden Sherwood had broken free from the baying pack behind and spent the final few laps nose-to-tail.
On the final lap, Sherwood led the group, and slight contact between Kendall and Smith at Clark gave him a big enough advantage to hold onto the final podium slot.
Race 2
The reversed grid draw saw Brandon Lowden start from pole position for Race 2, with Rebecca Morrell sitting alongside on the front row. Woodhatch drew ninth on the grid.
Lowden started quickly, as Morrell dropped down to fourth by Turn 1. Dylan McClements took up the chase for the lead while Woodhatch drove steadily to hold ninth. By the end of lap one, McClements had assumed the lead at Taylor’s but was now under intense pressure from Bramley.
The battling out front gave Race 1 podium finishers Sherwood, Summers and Woodhatch another chance to score big points, however, a brush with Morrell sent Woodhatch into the gravel at the exit of the chicane, dropping him outside the top 10.
However, he picked off his opponents one by one, and found himself in seventh with a few laps to go, aided in no small part by Lowden collecting Myllykangas at Duffus.
McClements had checked out in the lead, with Bramley, Sanders and Sherwood left to fight it out for second. On the final lap, Sanders held the position, leaving Bramley and Sherwood to battle for third. Despite a last corner attempt, Sherwood had to settle for fourth, as championship leader Woodhatch could only muster sixth.
Round 7 of the British F4 Esports Championship and UK FF1600 Esports Cup will take place on the 19th November at Zandvoort, with all the racing broadcast live on iRacing’s YouTube, Twitch and Facebook channels, produced by RaceSpot TV.
2025 British F4 Esports Championship, Round 6, Knockhill Race 1 results
- Remy Gilbert, Team BENIK
- Henry Moore, Team BENIK
- Agustin Torlaschi, TC Esports
- Gergo Baldi, Ferrari Esports
- Noah Osbaldeston, Scorpio eSports
2025 British F4 Esports Championship, Round 6, Knockhill Race 2 results
- Matt Caruana, HYMO Setups by EMM
- Remy Gilbert, Team BENIK
- Gergo Baldi, Ferrari Esports
- Henry Moore, Team BENIK
- Dani Moreno, TC Esports
Drivers’ standings after Round 6
- Remy Gilbert, Team BENIK, 417 points
- Henry Moore, Team BENIK, 406 points
- Matt J Caruana, HYMO Setups by EMM, 360 points
- Dani Moreno, TC Esports, 308 points
- Leo Brown, Drive Lounge Racing, 300 points
Teams’ standings after Round 6
- Team BENIK, 823 points
- TC Esports, 475 points
- HYMO Setups by EMM, 471 points
- Drive Lounge Racing, 386 points
- Ferrari Esports, 262 points
2025 British F4 Esports Championship and UK FF 1600 Esports Cup schedule
Round 1, Donington Park GP, 24th SeptemberRound 2, Thruxton, 1st OctoberRound 3, Snetterton 300, 15th OctoberRound 4, Oulton Park International, 22nd OctoberRound 5, Silverstone GP, 29th OctoberRound 6, Knockhill, 12th November- Round 7, Zandvoort, 19th November
- Round 8, Brands Hatch GP, 26th November
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