- Difficulties in managing qualifying sessions forced the team’s drivers to make comebacks in the three scoring races.
- Alexander Jacoby, with a 14th place in Race 3, achieved the team’s best result at the French event.
- “We’ve crossed the halfway point of the season with our three drivers firmly established in the midfield. There’s still a long way to go this year, but I’m confident we’ll be able to continue growing when we return in the summer,” emphasized David Simón, Monlau Motul team manager.
- “Once again, the mechanical and engineering staff did an exceptional job. Their work will continue to be essential in the three remaining rounds of the season to support the sporting growth of our drivers,” said Jaime Serrano, CEO of Monlau Motul.
Spanish F4 crossed the halfway point of its 2025 season at Paul Ricard. This second consecutive event outside our borders consolidated the Monlau Motul drivers’ position in the midfield, while also posing interesting challenges for the second half of the championship, particularly the challenge of improving qualifying management to return to the points. Alexander Jacoby, with a 14th place in Race 3, achieved the best individual result of the entire event.
The combination of stifling heat, 33 cars on track, and the always challenging Paul Ricard layout, in this case its FIA-1 version of 5,842 meters, presented a formidable challenge for the fourth meeting of the 2025 Spanish F4 season, the second consecutive one outside our borders. Tire and track limit management were crucial, as was clear from the first qualifying session.
Following Friday’s free practice sessions, which left the three Monlau Motul drivers between 20th and 26th place, with lap paces of around 2:07, the decisive Q1 session arrived early on Saturday. In this session, the three representatives of the Spanish team struggled to find gaps clear of traffic and also to complete a lap without exceeding track limits. Alexander Jacoby was the best of the group, with a best time of 2:07.019 that lifted him to 19th place, and a nearly identical second lap that relegated him to 25th on the grid for Race 2. Lorenzo Campos, meanwhile, was 29th with a time of 2:07.689, and Francisco Monarca didn’t achieve a good lap and had to settle for 33rd place (2:08.581). The first scoring event took place at midday, with Monarca as the undisputed protagonist, who made a frantic comeback to cross the finish line in 19th. Less fortunate were his teammates Campos (28th) and Jacoby, who had to retire due to an accident on the opening lap.
Q2 kicked off, as usual, the Sunday program, with the aim of sorting out the grid for the final round of the event. In this session, once again marked by close competition, Alexander Jacoby was the fastest Monlau Motul driver (2:07.035), 20th, ahead of Monarca, 25th (2:07.345), and Campos, 28th (2:07.537).
In the second race of the weekend, Lorenzo Campos proved to be the most consistent, crossing the checkered flag in 19th place after 11 laps, ahead of Jacoby (26th) and Monarca (27th). Just two hours later, the lights went out for the final round of the weekend, which brought better news for Monlau Motul. Alexander Jacoby achieved the team’s best result of the event, 14th, while Francisco Monarca finished 18th. Lorenzo Campos, meanwhile, finished in 31st place.
David Simón, team manager of Monlau Motul Technical School, the Paul Ricard event summed up some of the team’s challenges and successes in this first half of the season: “We’ve crossed the halfway point of the year consolidated in the middle of the standings. It’s true that here we were hampered by some lap management situations in time trials and track limits, which left us too far behind on the grid, but then in the race, as we’ve seen on other occasions, the drivers demonstrated their ability to progress based on outstanding overtaking moves and good defensive moves. There’s still a long way to go in the year, and we’ll have to work hard after the summer to continue climbing positions.”
Jaime Serrano , CEO of Monlau Motul, highlighted the work done by the rest of the team’s staff: “Once again, the group of mechanics and engineers did an exceptional job in France, helping the drivers progress and improve on a very particular circuit, due to its enormous asphalt run-off areas and medium-speed corners that are very punishing on the tires and, therefore, require a lot of work with data acquisition to fine-tune the driving. This will continue to be our goal for the rest of the year: to work hard to help Lorenzo, Alexander, and Francisco grow sportingly.”
The Spanish Formula 4 Championship will now take a summer break of almost three months before returning on September 20 and 21 at the Ángel Nieto Circuit in Jerez.
2025 Spanish F4 Championship Standings:
https://f4spain.org/standings/standings-2025/
