The 2016 French F4 Championship season was the 24th season of the series for 1600cc Formula Renault machinery, and the sixth season to run under the guise of the French F4 Championship. The series began on 1 April at Le Castellet and ended on 6 November at Montmeló, after six rounds and twenty-four races.
Driver lineup
Driver Class Rounds 1 Marvin Klein All 2 Hugo Chevalier All 3 All 4 Javier Cobián All 5 Pierre-Alexandre Jean All 6 Kami Moreira-Laliberté 2 Victor Martins 5 Adrien Renaudin 6 7 Alex Karkosik All 8 José Sierra 2–6 11 Tristan Charpentier All 12 Enzo Samon 1–4 13 Aaron di Comberti 1 16 Gilles Magnus All 20 Yifei Ye All 21 Jean-Baptiste Mela All 24 Pierre-Paul Baradat 1, 3–4, 6 27 Théo Coicaud All 51 Michael Benyahia All 87 Arthur Rougier All Icon Status Drivers that compete for the International Championship Drivers that compete for the Junior Championship Guest drivers that are ineligible to score points
Driver Changes
Graduating from French F4 Giuliano Alesi, son of former F1 driver Jean Alesi, was signed by the Ferrari Driver Academy and promoted to GP3 with Trident. Sacha Fenestraz and Gabriel Aubrey were promoted to the Formula Renault 2.0 championship with Tech 1 Racing. Simo Laaksonen will compete in Germany's ADAC F4 after running French F4 and SMP F4 campaigns in 2015. Alternatively Nerses Isaakyan, Nikita Troitskiy and Aleksey Korneev will move to Formula Renault 2.0 for 2016 after partial French F4 seasons. Axel Matus returned to his home country to participate in the inaugural NACAM F4 championship. Louis Gachot, son of former F1 driver Bertrand Gachot, switched to ADAC F4 for 2016.
Race calendar and results
A six-round calendar was published in December 2015. This was however revised in January 2016, with now four races per round being held, as opposed to the triple-header rounds that were run on previous years.
Race format Race 1 grid will be set by second fastest qualifying lap. Race 2 will be an inversion of the top 10 from race 1. Race 3 grid will be set by fastest qualifying lap. Race 4 will be set by the finishing order of race 3. Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver 1 R1 Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 2 April Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Javier Cobián R2 Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Jean-Baptiste Mela R3 3 April Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Théo Coicaud R4 Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Javier Cobián 2 R1 Circuit de Pau, Pau 14 May Yifei Ye Javier Cobián Javier Cobián Michael Benyahia Javier Cobián R2 Hugo Chevalier Théo Coicaud Pierre-Alexandre Jean Théo Coicaud R3 15 May Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Gilles Magnus R4 Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Gilles Magnus 3 R1 Circuit de Lédenon, Lédenon 4 June Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Gilles Magnus R2 Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Gilles Magnus R3 5 June Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Jean-Baptiste Mela R4 Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Gilles Magnus 4 R1 Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours 9 July Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Javier Cobián R2 Javier Cobián Pierre-Alexandre Jean Pierre-Alexandre Jean Gilles Magnus R3 10 July Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Javier Cobián R4 Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Gilles Magnus 5 R1 Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans 10 September Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Yifei Ye Gilles Magnus R2 Tristan Charpentier Marvin Klein Casper Røes Andersen Marvin Klein R3 11 September Yifei Ye Gilles Magnus Gilles Magnus Tristan Charpentier Gilles Magnus R4 Casper Røes Andersen Tristan Charpentier Tristan Charpentier Gilles Magnus 6 R1 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 5 November Javier Cobián Arthur Rougier Javier Cobián Hugo Chevalier Javier Cobián R2 6 November Yifei Ye Michael Benyahia Michael Benyahia Jean-Baptiste Mela R3 Javier Cobián Arthur Rougier Arthur Rougier Tristan Charpentier Arthur Rougier
Championship standings
Points system
Points are awarded as follows:
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 1 1
French F4 Championship
Pos Driver LEC PAU LÉD MAG LMS CAT Points 1 Yifei Ye 1 1 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 1 15 Ret 11 4 12 15 420 2 Gilles Magnus 16 6 6 7 5 2 2 3 2 4 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 8 1 2 278 3 Michael Benyahia 3 3 11 15 2 Ret Ret 12 5 2 5 4 4 11 4 4 7 3 6 5 8 1 5 218 4 Javier Cobián 4 13 Ret 4 1 Ret Ret 9 6 9 7 15 2 3 2 3 10 7 7 8 1 6 2 211 5 Tristan Charpentier 5 9 3 3 8 Ret 5 7 9 3 14 7 13 9 7 7 3 4 2 1 5 5 4 204 6 Hugo Chevalier 2 2 2 2 6 8 10 Ret 6 9 5 8 5 5 5 15 11 8 6 2 4 14 188 7 Théo Coicaud 7 Ret 5 16 Ret 1 7 4 14 7 6 Ret 5 6 14 8 5 5 4 4 15 7 3 173 8 Pierre-Alexandre Jean 10 10 4 5 4 3 3 5 12 Ret 4 2 7 1 15 15 14 14 Ret 12 6 14 9 162 9 Jean-Baptiste Mela 9 4 9 8 10 Ret 9 10 3 8 2 8 6 4 6 9 11 12 10 EX 7 3 7 129 10 Arthur Rougier 11 7 8 6 7 6 4 6 8 10 13 11 11 8 13 12 8 6 Ret Ret 3 15 1 119 11 6 Ret 12 10 12 5 13 14 16 12 12 9 12 12 10 6 9 2 5 7 10 2 10 93 12 Marvin Klein 12 8 10 14 Ret Ret 12 8 15 11 10 13 9 14 9 10 6 1 11 13 13 9 11 55 13 José Sierra 11 Ret 14 11 11 5 8 6 15 15 12 13 12 9 9 10 12 8 8 40 14 Enzo Samon 8 5 7 9 Ret Ret 8 Ret 7 Ret DNS 10 Ret DNS DNS DNS 35 15 Alex Karkosik 13 14 13 11 13 7 11 13 10 14 11 12 10 10 8 11 13 13 12 9 9 13 6 29 16 Pierre-Paul Baradat 14 11 14 12 13 13 Ret 14 14 13 11 13 14 10 12 1 17 Aaron di Comberti 15 12 15 13 0 18 Adrien Renaudin 11 11 13 0 Guest drivers ineligible for championship points Kami Moreira-Laliberté 9 Ret 6 2 0 Victor Martins 4 10 3 3 0 Pos Driver LEC PAU LÉD MAG LMS CAT PointsBold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap
References
External links The official website of the French F4 Championship