Formula 4: Victory for Jenzer team at Imola 🎥
BUT ONLY ROOKIE POINTS FOR FERATI At the second round of Formula 4 in Italy, Filip Ugran gave the team from Lyss a race win. Jasin Ferati narrowly missed out on his first championship points. The highlights of race 1 in Imola show the winning drive of Filip Ugran in the Jenzer-Abarth and the starting crash of Axel Gnos. With 24 unified Tatuus-Abarth [...]
The highlights of race 1 in Imola show the winning drive of Filip Ugran in the Jenzer-Abarth and the starting crash of Axel Gnos.
With 24 uniform Tatuus-Abarth, the Italian Formula 4 Championship underlined its high level in Imola. So it was all the nicer that Jenzer Motorsport, with Filip Ugran, provided one of the three race winners from three different teams at the second championship round in 2020.
First win of the season in Italy
The Romanian decided the first race in his favor from fourth position on the grid and gave the team from Lyss its first win of the season in Italy one week after its two direct hits in the Spanish Formula 4.
He finished the second in sixth place and in the third Ugran retired after an unfortunate accident involving his teammate Jasin Ferati.
Points in the rookie ranking
For the man from Winterthur, the first points were within reach. Instead, in addition to frustration and disappointment, he only had the gratifying certainty that he could keep up with the top group if everything went right.
So eleventh place in the first 30-minute sprint remains his best result in Italian Formula 4 so far, earning the 17-year-old newcomer four more points in the rookie standings after the two points at Misano.
Jasin Ferati: "At the beginning of the weekend, things didn't look as rosy as we'd hoped with set-up problems. After I was 12th fastest in the first qualifying session, I was moved back four places for overtaking under yellow flags in a situation where I couldn't help it. I only missed out on the points by finishing 11th because the gap was already too big and there were no retirements at the front despite many fights."
Stupid run
In the second race on Sunday morning on a wet track, a spin threw him back to P18. There was no sign of a restrained driving style from the hotspurs in the third race with three safety car phases and seven retirements.
From 12th on the grid, Ferati advanced to ninth place in the first two laps, first coming into contact with a competitor and then suffering a violent collision with his teammate.
Filip Ugran: "We were three abreast in the first corner. There was just one too many and this led to a normal racing accident."
Optimism for the rest of the season
The Swiss didn't want to hear anything about recriminations either, and after the bad luck he also took home positive things.
Jasin Ferati: "I got faster and faster in different conditions and kept up with the best in terms of speed. That puts me in a positive frame of mind for the next races at the Red Bull Ring. I now know that I can make it into the top 10 under my own steam. The improvement compared to the start of the season in Misano is obvious."
Five winners in six races
In six rounds so far, there have been five different winners from four teams. With one win each, Italians Francesco Pizzi (85 points), Gabriele Mini (83) and Filip Ugran (78) lead the standings, followed by Andrea Rosso (70), who has won twice, and Briton Jonny Edgar (58).
Axel Gnos from Switzerland, who competes for G4 Racing, scored his first two points in ninth place in the third race. Unlike rookie Jasin Ferati, he already has a 2019 F4 season and the Toyota Castrol Racing Series in New Zealand last winter behind him.
