2017 F4 British Championship

Jamie Caroline pictured at the Knockhill round. With ten victories, Caroline won the championship by 65.5 points ahead of his closest rival, Oscar Piastri.

The 2017 F4 British Championship was a multi-event, Formula 4 open-wheel single seater motor racing championship held across United Kingdom. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Formula 4 cars that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. This, the third season, following on from the British Formula Ford Championship, was the third year that the cars conformed to the FIA's Formula 4 regulations.[1] Part of the TOCA tour, it formed part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece.

The season commenced on 1 April at Brands Hatch – on the circuit's Indy configuration – and concluded on 1 October at the same venue, using the Grand Prix circuit, after thirty races held at ten meetings, all in the support of the 2017 British Touring Car Championship.[2] The championship featured Ford F4 Challenge Cup for the first time for the drivers with low budgets.[3][4] The Challenge Cup Required competitors to enter 7 of the weekends of the championship, which had to include the rounds at Knockhill Racing Circuit and the finale at Brands Hatch.[5]

The season was marred by an incident involving Billy Monger, who had both his lower legs amputated after crashing into Patrik Pasma during the third race at the Donington Park round.[6]

  1. ^ "FORMULA FORD ECOBOOST ADOPTS FIA FORMULA 4 REGULATIONS FOR 2015". British Formula Ford. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-09-08. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  2. ^ "F4 – 2017 BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR ANNOUNCED". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  3. ^ Jackson, Connor (7 December 2016). "UP TO £27,000 PRIZE MONEY AVAILABLE FOR F4 CHALLENGE CUP ENTRANT". The Checkered Flag. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  4. ^ "British F4 Introduces Challenge Cup for 2017 to Decrease Costs". 30 September 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  5. ^ "British F4 Introduces Challenge Cup for 2017 to Decrease Costs". 30 September 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Formula 4: British driver Billy Monger has legs amputated". BBC News. 19 April 2017.