HOW ENGINE EQUALITY ENSURES BRITISH F4’S QUALITY
Whatever it is that decides the British Formula 4 championship, it won’t be the engines. And this is a good thing.
This is because it gets to the fundamentals of the category: it’s one that aims to identify which of its young drivers, on their first rung of the single-seater ladder, are made of the right stuff.
“Maintaining parity of performance across 20 race cars is fundamental for the job that we do,” says Wayne Mathurin, sales and workshop manager of British F4’s engine support Neil Brown Engineering, to Motorsport News. “And it cements the integrity of the championship, that it’s all about the driver and not the equipment that they’ve got or any one single team.”
And it wasn’t always this way, as Karun Chandhok, board member of British F4’s new organiser Motorsport UK, explains. “If you look at the recent history with the Ford [British F4 engines], in the early years there were discrepancies, the teams were constantly complaining about straightline speed deficits,” he notes.
“This came back
