It’s been a month packed with action for the Sauber Academy, with testing, racing, simulator work and training. As March unfolded, four of our five young drivers officially kicked off their respective 2024 campaigns between Europe, the Middle East, and Japan.

The RMC Winter Cup has officially kicked off at the KartCenter Campillos, marking the opening of the Rotax European season with a lineup of 192 drivers from over 30 nations.

Carlos Sainz has been diagnosed with appendicitis and will require surgery. As from FP3 and for the rest of this weekend, he will be replaced by reserve Ferrari driver Oliver Bearman. Oliver will therefore take no further part in this round of the F2 Championship.

PREMA Racing announces that Ollie Bearman will continue to race with the team in the 2024 FIA Formula 2 Championship.

The most race wins, the most pole positions, the most fastest laps. Oliver Bearman (16, Great Britain) was the dominant force in the 2022 ADAC Formula 4 season. In a thrilling finale, the young Brit in the Van Amersfoort car emerged triumphant against his closest rival, Tim Tramnitz (17, Hamburg). The next step in his career is predestined, as Bearman recently became a member of the Ferrari Driving Academy.

The time has come for a summary of the record season of WSK Promotion in Karting Series and in the Italian F4 Championship Powered by Abarth.

PREMA Racing announces the team's line-up for the upcoming collective FIA Formula 3 Championship test session, which will take place next week at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia.
 

It will be Lorenzo Patrese who will start from pole position on the Monza track. The son of the six time Formula One Grand Prix winner Riccardo, fighting for the rookie championship, sets the fastest lap on the circuit which, in 1984, saw his father Riccardo stand on the third step of the podium in the Italian Formula 1 Grand Prix with Alfa Romeo. For Lorenzo Patrese, Monza marks the first pole position of his career and in the three races of the last round of the season he will have the advantage of starting at the front of the grid.

Victor Bernier won Saturday’s ADAC Formula 4 race at the Hockenehimring to claim his first victory of the season. 

When ADAC Formula 4 returns to Hockenheim, it heralds the business end of the season. Championship leader Oliver Bearman (16, Great Britain, Van Amersfoort Racing) is looking to take the next step towards securing the title at the penultimate race weekend of the season. However, the chasing pack, led by Tim Tramnitz (16, Hamburg, US Racing), has its sights set on reeling in the British driver.

The Swiss Van Amersfoort Racing driver takes his first win of the season ahead of the Prema Powerteam duo.

The Paraguayan took his first victory in front of Dufek and Montoya.

Three pole positions for the Swiss Van Amersfoort racing driver, who, at the Mugello Circuit, surprised everyone with a phenomenal performance.

The first wins of the season for US Racing driver Tim Tramnitz (16) and Nikita Bedrin (15, Van Amersfoort Racing) from Russia took centre stage in ADAC Formula 4 on Sunday at the Hockenheimring.

Oliver Bearman from the Van Amersfoort Racing team won the opening ADAC Formula 4 race at the Hockenheimring.

The German, driving for US Racing, won in front of Fornaroli and Bearman. Among the rookies, it was the first victory for Francesco Braschi, sixth in the overall standings.

The Englishman driving for Van Amersfoort Racing wins for the eighth time this season and extends his lead in the standings. On the podium Tramnitz and Montoya. Antonelli wins on debut among the rookies.

Second trespassing of the season for the l’Italian F.4 Championship Powered by Abarth Certified by FIA which, after having opened the season on the Paul Ricard track and having touched the circuits of Misano, Vallelunga and Imola, arrives in the mountains of Stryra for the fifth round of the season on the Red Bull Ring circuit.

Ayrton Simmons enjoyed a stunning return to GB3 Championship form at Silverstone today (Saturday), as the Chris Dittmann Racing driver enjoyed his best qualifying since the Brands Hatch season opener, and then stormed to a third win of the season in race one. 
 

Van Amersfoort driver Oliver Bearman claims a lights-to-flag victory in Sunday’s first race. Kirill Smal wins race three at CM.com Circuit Zandvoort.

Two races, two victories: Van Amersfoort driver Oliver Bearman wins again in the first of Sunday’s races at CM.com Circuit Zandvoort

Van Amersfoort driver Oliver Bearman takes a lights-to-flag victory. Sebastian Montoya and Tim Tramnitz complete the podium.

The “young wild ones” lived up to their name in the third and final ADAC Formula 4 race in Austria. In an eventful race with a host of overtaking manoeuvres, retirements and safety car phases, Luke Browning (US Racing) eventually benefitted from a penalty handed to Sebastian Montoya (Prema Powerteam) to claim his first victory in ADAC Formula 4. Montoya was first across the finish line, but ultimately had to settle for seventh place after receiving a time penalty for an early start.

Two races, two wins – Oliver Bearman has enjoyed the perfect start to the ADAC Formula 4 season-opener so far. The Brit claimed commanding victories in both races on Saturday.

Carlin duo Zak O’Sullivan and Christian Mansell were the winners of two frantic BRDC British F3 races on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit today (Sunday).  O’Sullivan triumphed in this morning’s race two, taking advantage of lap one drama to claim his first victory in BRDC British F3 ahead of Fortec’s Ollie Bearman and Hitech GP’s Reece Ushijima.

Chris Dittmann Racing’s Ayrton Simmons had a near-perfect start to the 2021 BRDC British F3 Championship, claiming a double pole in qualifying and converting his grid position to victory in the first race of the year. Simmons finished just over a second clear of debutants Ollie Bearman (Fortec) and Zak O’Sullivan (Carlin) in this afternoon’s season opener to take an early championship lead following lights to flag victory.

Fortec Motorsports has confirmed that British rising star Oliver Bearman will complete its three-car entry for the 2021 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship. Bearman will compete in selected rounds of the UK’s premier single-seater series with the Daventry-based team, alongside his existing commitments in the German and Italian Formula 4 Championships.
 

After the victory of the Russian from Prema Powerteam in race 1, the German by US Racing impose himself twice on the track of Le Castellet.

Record numbers for the eighth edition of the Italian F.4. 37 single-seater will be deployed at the start of Paul Ricard race, 12 the teams involved and 18 the nationalities represented from 4 different continents

The starters in the ADAC Formula 4 have completed some very intensive test days as they prepare for the upcoming season. The fastest driver during testing was Oliver Bearman (15, Great Britain, Van Amersfoort Racing), who finished top in two of the six sessions.