Just two weeks after the previous round at Vallelunga, the single-seaters return to the circuit from Friday September 23 to Sunday September 25
Rome 22/09/2016 – Just two events remain in the 2016 Italian F4 Championship powered by Abarth: the first of which, starting tomorrow, will be disputed at the Enzo and Dino Ferrari Autodromo of Imola. It is a return to the circuit that hosted the third round of the series on 27 – 29 May this year (where Marcos Siebert, Mick Schumacher and Juan Correa took the wins). The historic and challenging circuit could give an indication as to who may ultimately win this year’s Driver’s Championship, along with the Team and Rookie titles. The Women’s Trophy meanwhile, has already been secured by Fabienne Wohlwend..
- The regulations provide that three races over the weekend contribute to championships on offer: outright, the Rookie Trophy, Women’s Trophy and the Team’s Trophy. Leading the outright championship is the Argentine Marcos Siebert ahead of the German Mick Schumacher, the Mexican Raul Guzman, the Estonian Juri Vips and the American Juan Correa. In the Rookie Trophy, Juri Vips leads after he overtook the Italian Simone Cunati (who is now second), third is Juan Correa, fourth the Indian Kush Maini and fifth another Italian in Lorenzo Colombo.
The classification of the Team’s Championship sees Prema Power Team with a commanding lead over Jenzer Motorsport followed by
Kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport, DR Formula and RB Racing. The complete pointscore can be found on the official website acisportitalia.it/F4/classifica/2016. All information about the weekend at Imola can be found after the races finish at the address: http://issuu.com/wskpromotion/docs/imola_issu/1 - Taking place at Imola, a new driver will enter the Italian F.4 Championship powered by Abarth: Ahmad Al Muhanadi
(n°81), from Qatar, for Cram Motorsport. - Race 1 and Race 2 will be over a duration of 28 minutes + 1 lap while Race 3 will be over 18 minutes + 1 lap.
- The race programme for the weekend is as following: Friday at 9:10 and 13:05 drivers and teams will get the chance to negotiate the circuit in free practice. At 17:05 and 17:30 the grid order for Race 1 and Race 2 will be decided with qualifying sessions of 15 minutes duration. Race 1 takes place on Saturday at 13:25, Races 2 and 3 on Sunday at 9:30 and 16:30 respectively.
- The races will be broadcast on Sportitalia (saturday at 18:15 Race 1, Live Race 2 and Race 3; Channel 60 and Sky Channel 224) and on national networks. MotorsTV will broadcast into more than 40 countries around the world the 24 minute programme including all the action from the weekend, in the weeks following. Further information is available on the MotorsTV website.