After 14 races, the destination of the 2025 British F4 Esports Championship came down to a straight fight between teammates Henry Moore and Remy Gilbert.
Moore, the runner-up in 2024, was an early favourite for top honours, but Gilbert stepped up his performances during the title run-in to put his Team Benik colleague under immense pressure.
The reversed grid race in Round 7, where Gilbert finished third while Moore could only muster 10th, allowed Gilbert the luxury of a 19-point lead heading into the eighth and final round from Brands Hatch GP.
However, in a season where the gap between the two drivers ebbed and flowed, there would be one final twist in the championship story.
Race 1
Unsurprisingly, it was the two main protagonists on the front row of the grid for Race 1, heading up the 28-strong field. Gilbert held a slight advantage over Moore, with Azz Tech Racing’s Ghiless Jeanney taking a shock third position alongside TC Esports’ Dani Moreno.
Gilbert and Moore made equally good starts, with the pair running line astern in the opening laps. Behind, Moreno was deposed by Drive Lounge Racing’s Leo Brown, with the top five drivers breaking away from Agustin Torlaschi in sixth.
However, on lap five, Moore launched his car up the inside of Gilbert at Westfield bend, with the pair running side-by-side all the way to Clark Curve. Moore was now in the lead, while Gilbert was subsequently nerfed wide at Turn 1 by Jeanney as the pack bickered behind, dropping him to fifth.
Gilbert’s fightback came immediately with a dive down the inside of Moreno at Druids. Overtaking Jeanney would prove to be more problematic, however, but with three laps to go, Gilbert bravely hung it around the outside of the Azz Tech driver at Dingle Dell. With two wheels on the grass, Gilbert claimed the final podium position, giving him a slim points advantage heading into Race 2.
Up front, Moore took the win just ahead of Brown, teeing up a one-race shootout for the Drivers’ title.
Race 2
With the top five finishers reversed for Race 2, Moore would start fifth, two positions behind Gilbert. Jeanney was on pole and would prove to play a pivotal role in the destination of the championship.
On lap two, Gilbert dived down the inside of Moreno at Paddock Hill Bend to claim second, with Moore struggling to make progress in fifth. His misery was almost compounded when Gilbert assumed the lead two laps later.
However, heading into Druids, the deposed Jeanney drove straight into the back of the champion-elect, sending him and his title hopes into the gravel. Gilbert recovered in 13th with light damage, but with Moore in fourth, he required a minor miracle to regain the lost ground.
Ironically, Moore made it past Jeanney cleanly before assuming second position after Brown ran wide at Clark Curve. Meantime, Gilbert had dropped off the back of the pack and was losing time to his teammate.
Gilbert managed to climb to 10th by the chequered flag, but it was not enough to topple Moore, who, despite some tension with Brown on the final lap, came home second to clinch the Drivers’ championship.
Moreno took the final win of the season, cementing TC Esports’ second position in the Teams’ championship.
The incident with Jeanney was a cruel way for Remy Gilbert to end his season, but this shouldn’t detract from Henry Moore’s impressive sophomore season, which saw him become the winningest driver in British F4 Esports history.
2025 UK FF1600 Esports Cup, Round 8
With two dropped scores taken into consideration, Crofton Woodhatch was still in the proverbial driving seat to claim the UK FF1600 Esports Cup, with Hayden Bramley poised as his only realistic opponent.
Woodhatch has been the standout driver of the 2025 season, a campaign that has included a five-race winning streak and an astonishing six pole positions from seven rounds. This swiftly became seven from eight after qualifying at Brands Hatch GP, with Bramley appropriately sitting alongside him on the front row.
Race 1
Woodhatch made the best start of the front row protagonists, but he had Bramley, Sam Sanders and Dylan McClements in close company over the first lap.
On lap three, however, Bramley launched a move for the lead at Druids, before losing it almost immediately after running wide at Surtees.
In a series of untidy corners, Bramley and McClements both ran wide at Dingle Dell before Sanders did the same at Paddock Hill Bend. Once the pack had settled back down, Woodhatch led Bramley by over a second.
Out of slipstreaming range, Bramley struggled to get on terms with Woodhatch, who drove serenely to take the race win. The battle for second position was less calm, however, with Bramley and McClements now joined by Jayden Sherwood and Matt Kendall.
By the chequered flag, Bramley had lost out to both McClements and Sherwood, who finished second and third, respectively, with the championship all but decided in Woodhatch’s favour.
Race 2
However, with the top nine finishers reversed for Race 2, a freak result was still on the cards. For Bramley to win the championship, he needed to win the race and hope his rival succumbed to bad luck, something we’d already witnessed in the British F4 Esports denouement.
Mark Winter was on pole position for the final race of the season, but he quickly lost the lead to Charlie Summers before contact with Teemu Myllykangas at Dingle Dell took him out of the running.
Bramley’s championship charge soon came to an end, too, as he was collected by McClements exiting Graham Hill Bend. It was an unfortunate racing incident, however, as Bramley had checked up behind the slowing pack only to be knocked into a spin by the unsighted Irishman.
Avoiding risk, Woodhatch held station in seventh, which eventually became third thanks to some calm and considered moves (including a self-inflicted off for Myllykangas).
Meanwhile, McClements and Summers were duking it out aggressively for the win, with Summers even tapping the leader into a half-spin on the penultimate lap.
McClements recovered his composure, however, and resumed the lead. heading onto the final lap. Side by side on the run to the line, McClements squeezed Summers onto the grass in a forceful fashion, taking the win by the smallest of margins.
Crofton Woodhatch finished on the last step of the podium, securing him the 2025 UK FF1600 Esports Cup. As a result, he will be invited to join the 2026 British F4 Esports grid.
2025 British F4 Esports Championship, Round 8, Brands Hatch GP Race 1 results
- Henry Moore, Team BENIK
- Leo Brown, Drive Lounge Racing
- Remy Gilbert, Team BENIK
- Dani Moreno, TC Esports
- Ghiless Jeanney, Azz Tech Racing
2025 British F4 Esports Championship, Round 8, Brands Hatch GP Race 2 results
- Dani Moreno, TC Esports
- Henry Moore, Team BENIK
- Leo Brown, Drive Lounge Racing
- Agustin Torlaschi, TC Esports
- Ghiless Jeanney, Azz Tech Racing
Drivers’ standings after Round 8
- Henry Moore, Team BENIK, 551 points
- Remy Gilbert, Team BENIK, 534 points
- Dani Moreno, TC Esports, 411 points
- Matt J Caruana, HYMO Setups by EMM, 407 points
- Leo Brown, Drive Lounge Racing, 397 points
Teams’ standings after Round 8
- Team BENIK, 1085 points
- TC Esports, 676 points
- HYMO Setups by EMM, 598 points
- Drive Lounge Racing, 483 points
- Scuderia Ferrari HP Esports Team, 336 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 NovemberRound 7, Zandvoort, 19th NovemberRound 8, Brands Hatch GP, 26th November
Prizes
- £5,000 prize pool
- £2,500 for the winning team
- £1,500 for the second-place team
- £1,000 for the third-place team
Base Performance Simulators prize
- The top three teams receive one full day of single-seater simulator use at Base Performance Simulators alongside an engineer
2025 Wera Tools British F4 Championship Hospitality
- Winning Team receives x4 hospitality tickets to a 2025 Wera Tools British F4 Championship Round of their choice
Pole Position Award Presented by BPS
- The driver with the most pole positions in the season wins a BPS Fw-1 Steering Wheel and a BPS DDU
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