A brand new second technology of FIA F4 machines, fitted with the halo cockpit safety machine, will come on stream for 2022 and British governing physique Motorsport UK determined that it could evaluation many different features of the sequence to coincide with the adoption of the brand new automobile.
It has put out tenders for chassis, engine and tyre suppliers however has additionally determined to take over the organisation of the championship.
Since its inception, British F4 has been promoted by RacingLine – which additionally managed F4’s British Formulation Ford predecessor.
However RacingLine could have no involvement from subsequent 12 months and neither will the sequence’ key backer, Ford.
The producer’s funding in UK single-seaters stretches again to 1967 when its Kent engine was used to energy a brand new championship masterminded by Manufacturers Hatch supremo John Webb.
Ford continued to assist the sequence throughout eras the place the vehicles have been powered by its Zetec, Duratec and EcoBoost motors, and has remained the title accomplice of British F4 because it started in 2015.
Motorsport UK has determined to undertake a contemporary method to single-seaters in Britain and has drafted in ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok to play a key function in shaping this.
It says it has a “daring imaginative and prescient for elevating the sequence” throughout its subsequent three years as organiser and, in addition to showing at British Touring Automobile Championship conferences, is assessing holding rounds at different “key occasions”.
Motorsport UK CEO Hugh Chambers advised Autosport earlier this 12 months: “I feel British F4 has been profitable – it is produced some superb racing and superstars like Lando Norris [the series’ inaugural champion in 2015].
“Has it accomplished the job? Sure, it has been actually good. However I feel the world of F4 and the FIA’s single-seater pathway has advanced and we’d like to verify the UK stays utterly related.
“The technology two [car] has been the catalyst for us to evaluation the championship – it is the suitable time.”
In an announcement, RacingLine mentioned: “Having operated because the organiser/promoter of the British F4 Championship since its inception seven years in the past, RacingLine and its workforce of passionate people remorse that Motorsport UK’s introduced takeover of the organisation of the British F4 Championship has been concluded with out the chance for a public tender course of to cowl this function.
“The top of this season will subsequently mark the tip of RacingLine’s 17-year operation of British F4 (and British Formulation Ford earlier than that).
“The RacingLine workforce wish to thank British F4’s companions – the groups, sponsors, drivers and suppliers, every of whom have been integral to the event of British F4 into the highly-regarded championship it’s as we speak, and need them good luck for a profitable second technology of British F4 below Motorsport UK’s organisation.”