ESPORTS NEWS
British F4 and FF1600 Esports Cup are back!
The British F4 Esports Championship returned for 2025 last month, boasting a grid stacked with Formula 1-affiliated sim racing teams – including Alpine, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Red Bull and Williams.
2024 Teams’ champion Guild Esports is absent from the grid; however former drivers Remy Gilbert and Henry Moore have formed Team Benik and the early-season favourites.
Round 1 took place at Donington Park, on the Grand Prix circuit, and it was Moore who claimed the first pole position of the season. Sat alongside him was Pablo Espes of Williams Sim Racing, with Leo Brown and Dani Moreno third and fourth. Moore made a rapid getaway, followed by Brown, and they made an immediate breakaway from the pack, with a four-way battle between Espes, Gilbert, Will Reford and Moreno in their wake. Espes eventually built up a gap and took third place. Up front, Brown chased Moore all the way to the finish line, but Moore held the lead to the end.
In Race 2 it was TC Esports’ Agustin Torlaschi who started on pole position, but had Matt Caruana for company on the front row, while Henry Moore started down in eighth. Torlaschi made the better start, but ran too deep at Redgate, allowing Caruana to switch back and take lead into the Old Hairpin before the end of lap one. Remy Gilbert displaced Torlaschi into third, while further back, Will Reford came together with Brown at McLeans, elevating Moore into sixth by lap two.
With three laps to go, Moore passed Brown for fifth place, before taking Torlaschi for fourth on the next lap. Shoma Shintani, the runner-up in the 2024 UK FF1600 Esports Cup, made impressive progress up to sixth. On the penultimate lap, Caruana was under intense pressure from both Moreno and Gilbert for the win, but held off Gilbert to take the victory, with TC Esports’ Moreno in third. Moore came home fourth to retain the championship lead, with Torlaschi rounding off an impressive debut for TC Esports, the team owned by Thibaut Courtois, the Real Madrid Goalkeeper, in fifth.
Round Two of the 2025 Championship moved to Thruxton, where Henry Moore and Matt Caruana continued their rivalry in qualifying with Caruana shading Moore by 17 thousandths of a second to line up third on the grid. Dani Moreno took pole with Leo Brown to make up the front row.
As Race 1 began, Moreno held off Brown – but both were passed by Caruana before the end of the opening lap. Caruana was dropped back to fifth place after an issue, while Moreno re-took the lead, this time from Moore. Remy Gilbert was in third and Brown in fourth. With around four minutes to go, the leading group began battling for the lead, allowing Caruana to join the fight. Moore jumped ahead, as Caruana did the over-under on Gilbert, and Moreno switched with Moore heading onto the final lap – but the on the run to the chequered flag, both Moore and Moreno were hit with slowdown penalties. Moore had to slow more, gifting the win to Moreno, as Gilbert snatched second place.
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Revolution- October 2025