2019 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship

The 2019 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship – Fueled by Petron was the fourth season of the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. It began at the Sepang International Circuit on 5 April and ended at the same venue on 15 December.[1][2][3]

2019 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship
Previous: 2018 Next: 2020

Drivers

The following drivers competed in the series. All cars were run by Malaysian team Meritus GP. All drivers used the Mygale–Renault M14-F4 chassis.

No. Driver Rounds Status Category
1 Folky Wongsechareon 3 G R
Nik Iruwan 7 G
3 Lucca Allen All
4 Emil Skärås 1 G R
5 Josh Smith 1–4, 7
6 Ryo Komikado 2 G
7 Yuma Shoji 7 G
Sami Megouetounif 10 G R
8 Malthe Jakobsen 1–3
9 Sneha Sharma 2–8, 10 L
10 Arya Singh 2 G
12 Shrien Naidoo 1 G R
13 Muizz Musyaffa All
14 Wahyu Hashim 10 G R
16 Ivana Cetinich 10 G L
17 Abdullah Beshara 1 G
Yash Aradhya 3–6
19 Amer Harris 2, 7, 9-10 R
20 Talal Beshara 1 G
22 Alister Yoong 1–7
23 Luis Leeds 1
Ivan Peklin 10 G R
24 Sohil Shah 8 G
26 Hadrien David 1, 7 R
27 Omar Aswat 9 G
33 Muhammad Ibrahim 5, 7 R
34 Shihab Al Habsi 2–7, 10
36 Mira Erda 2, 5–6 L
42 Luke Thompson 1, 7, 9
46 Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya[4] 1–2 L
57 Frederico Peters 7–10 R
58 Elias Seppänen All R
62 Max Hart 10 G
64 Ali Akabi[note 1] 1–2, 4 R
77 Ananthorn Tangniannatchai 4 G R
78 Nicolás Pino 8 G R
92 Ricky Capo 10 G
96 John Dizon 8 G
99 Isyraf Danish 9 G
Source:[5]
Icon Status / Category
G Guest drivers ineligible for Drivers' Championship
L Lady
R Rookie

Calendar

The ten-event, forty-race calendar was released on 2 April 2019.[1][2] On 9 October 2019 the series announced it was replacing the final 2 rounds at Clark International Speedway with 2 rounds at Sepang International Circuit.[3]

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver Supporting
1 R1 Sepang International Circuit 6 April Emil Skärås[note 2] Hadrien David Hadrien David Malaysia Championship Series
Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia
F3 Asian Championship
TCR Asia Series
R2 Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya Alister Yoong Emil Skärås
R3 7 April Hadrien David Hadrien David Hadrien David
R4 Hadrien David Hadrien David Hadrien David
2 R1 Sepang International Circuit 20 April Josh Smith Josh Smith Lucca Allen Malaysia Championship Series
R2 Shihab Al Habsi Lucca Allen Elias Seppänen
R3 21 April Sneha Sharma Lucca Allen Lucca Allen
R4 Josh Smith Josh Smith Josh Smith
3 R1 Chang International Circuit 10 May Lucca Allen Muizz Musyaffa Shihab Al Habsi Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia
F3 Asian Championship
R2 11 May Sneha Sharma Lucca Allen Lucca Allen
R3 Folky Wongsechareon[note 3] Elias Seppänen Shihab Al Habsi
R4 12 May Lucca Allen Muizz Musyaffa Lucca Allen
4 R1 Chang International Circuit 14 June Shihab Al Habsi Shihab Al Habsi Lucca Allen RAAT Thailand Endurance Championship Int'l
R2 15 June Ananthorn Tangniannatchai[note 4] Josh Smith Josh Smith
R3 Yash Aradhya Josh Smith Shihab Al Habsi
R4 Lucca Allen Shihab Al Habsi Lucca Allen
5 R1 Madras Motor Race Track 14 July Elias Seppänen Alister Yoong Elias Seppänen
R2 Mira Erda Alister Yoong Alister Yoong
R3 Sneha Sharma Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen
R4 Elias Seppänen Lucca Allen Elias Seppänen
6 R1 Madras Motor Race Track 20 July Lucca Allen Lucca Allen Shihab Al Habsi
R2 Lucca Allen Lucca Allen Elias Seppänen
R3 21 July Sneha Sharma Elias Seppänen Lucca Allen
R4 Lucca Allen Shihab Al Habsi Lucca Allen
7 R1 Sepang International Circuit 24 August Hadrien David Hadrien David Hadrien David Malaysia Championship Series
R2 Sneha Sharma Muizz Musyaffa Hadrien David
R3 25 August Sneha Sharma Hadrien David Hadrien David
R4 Hadrien David Josh Smith Josh Smith
8 R1 Sepang International Circuit 28 September Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen Malaysia Championship Series
R2 John Dizon[note 5] Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen
R3 29 September Sneha Sharma Elias Seppänen Muizz Musyaffa[note 6]
R4 Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen
9 R1 Sepang International Circuit 23 November Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen Lucca Allen Sepang 1000 km
Audi R8 LMS Cup
R2 24 November Sneha Sharma Lucca Allen Lucca Allen
R3 Omar Aswat[note 7] Lucca Allen Lucca Allen
R4 Elias Seppänen Lucca Allen Elias Seppänen
10 R1 Sepang International Circuit 13 December Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen Elias Seppänen World Touring Car Cup
FIM Endurance World Championship
F3 Asian Championship
R2 15 December Ivana Cetinich[note 8] Elias Seppänen Lucca Allen
R3 Muizz Musyaffa Muizz Musyaffa Muizz Musyaffa
R4 Elias Seppänen Sami Megouetounif Elias Seppänen

Championship standings

Points were awarded as follows.

Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th  PP FL
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 3 1

Drivers' standings

Only the 32 best results counted towards the championship.

Pos Driver SEP1 SEP2 BUR1 BUR2 MAD1 MAD2 SEP3 SEP4 SEP5 SEP6 Pts
1 Lucca Allen 2 2 3 2 1 5 1 3 5 1 3 1 1 Ret 9 1 3 6 4 2 7 5 1 1 4 3 Ret 3 3 2 Ret 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 4 5 640
2 Elias Seppänen 4 3 5 3 3 1 4 2 4 3 2 2 4 3 3 3 1 5 1 1 2 1 4 3 3 5 4 4 1 1 DSQ 1 2 2 3 1 1 3 Ret 1 639
3 Muizz Musyaffa Ret 4 6 9 4 8 6 7 2 7 4 5 8 2 4 7 6 4 5 5 4 4 3 5 5 2 2 6 2 3 1 3 3 3 6 3 5 12 1 4 446
4 Shihab Al-Habsi Ret 3 5 Ret 1 5 1 3 3 5 1 6 4 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 6 6 3 5 3 5 12† 6 396
5 Josh Smith 6 6 4 4 2 4 2 1 6 2 6 4 2 1 2 2 2 4 6 1 316
6 Alister Yoong 5 8 Ret 8 Ret 2 13 5 7 6 5 9 6 7 6 4 5 1 3 4 3 2 5 6 234
7 Hadrien David 1 7 1 1 DNS 1 1 1 2 195
8 Sneha Sharma 10 14 11 12 10 8 10 8 10 8 Ret 9† 8 8 Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 7 11 10 Ret 11 7 8 5 7 8 7 7 6 10 11 11† 10 191
9 Frederico Peters 9 7 5 7 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 DNS 7 4 5 3 172
10 Yash Aradhya DNS 9 4 9 6 7 9 5 5 2 3 7 7 5 6 6 4 144
11 Amer Harris 6 9 7 8 6 5 5 5 8 8 6 8 98
12 Malthe Jakobsen 3 10 2 Ret 5 7 Ret 4 3 Ret 7 Ret 89
13 Ali Akabi 9 9 12 7 9 6 8 6 5 6 8 Ret 78
14 Luke Thompson DNS 8 9 Ret 10 4 6 2 4 62
15 Muhammad Ibrahim 7 7 6 6 10 Ret 8 9 40
16 Mira Erda 12 13 12 10 9 Ret 8 8 6 Ret 7 8 35
17 Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya 10 11 9 10 7 11 9 11 31
Luis Leeds DNS
Guest drivers ineligible to score points
Emil Skärås 8 1 7 6 DNS
Sami Megouetounif 9 2 2 2
Sohil Shah 5 5 2 Ret
Max Hart 12 8 3 7
Arya Singh 11 10 3 9
John Dizon 8 7 4 6
Ricky Capo 4 6 8 9
Ananthorn Tangniannatchai 9 4 7 8
Shrien Naidoo 7 5 8 5 DNS
Nicolás Pino 6 6 Ret 5
Ivan Peklin 6 7 7 Ret
Yuma Shoji 7 8 7 8
Omar Aswat 7 8 8 7
Folky Wongsechareon 8 9 8 7
Ryo Komikado 8 12 10 Ret
Ivana Cetinich 13 9 9 11
Abdullah Beshara 11 12 10 Ret DNS
Wahyu Hashim 11 Ret 10 Ret
Talal Beshara 12 13 11 11 DNS
Nik Iruwan DNS
Isyraf Danish DNS
Pos Driver SEP1 SEP2 BUR1 BUR2 MAD1 MAD2 SEP3 SEP4 SEP5 SEP6 Pts

Footnotes
  1. Ali Akabi is an Iraqi-Jordanian dual national competing under a Jordanian license. The FIA did not recognise the Iraqi ASN (Iraq Club for Cars and Motorcycles) at the time (having only done so since 2021), despite Akabi appearing as Iraqi on the series entry list.
  2. Emil Skärås claimed the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest qualified eligible driver – Hadrien David.
  3. Folky Wongsechareon started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.
  4. Ananthorn Tangniannatchai started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Muizz Musyaffa.
  5. John Dizon started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.
  6. Elias Seppänen crossed the finish line first but was disqualified for exceeding track limits and causing a collision with Lucca Allen.[6] He also set the fastest lap, however, the bonus points has not been reallocated.
  7. Omar Aswat started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.
  8. Ivana Cetinich started from the pole position as a guest driver. The 3 bonus points has been given to the highest starting eligible driver – Sneha Sharma.

References
  1. "2019 Calendar". Formula 4 South East Asia. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  2. "Press Release: F4 SEA Championship to flag-off world-record season on 5 April". 2 April 2019.
  3. "F4 coming back to Malaysia for 2 more events!". F4 South East Asia Championship Facebook. 9 October 2019.
  4. https://astanatimes.com/2019/04/kazakhstans-only-professional-female-f4-driver-to-put-pedal-to-the-metal-in-sea-championship/
  5. "Results". Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  6. Harris-Gardiner, Rachel (2019-09-29). "F4 round-up: Elias Seppanen dominates at Sepang, Zijian He wins twice at Shanghai". Formula Scout. Archived from the original on 2019-08-30. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
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