The Formula Race Car Association (FRCA) runs a series called the Motorsport Australia AGI NSW Formula Car Championship. It competes at Wakefield Park, Sydney Motorsport Park and Philip Island circuits from February to November (with an enforced two month winter break in June and July).
The majority of the cars competing in the current championship are pre-2012 Dallara F3s but another popular mount, following the demise of the Australian National F4 series, is the Mygale F4. The latter run in their own class, but the regulators have now allowed concessions on an increase in engine boost. Your writer was then asked to come up with an upgraded wing package design in an attempt to level the playing field with the Dallaras. This has spawned a new class to be called F4X, a designation that has a familiar Australian ring to it.
Key instigator in this F4 upgrade initiative is Adam Gotch, owner and managing director of motorsport fabrication company (and series sponsor), AGI Precision. The company was founded in 2009 after Gotch returned from 11 years working in Europe, during which time he held jobs ranging from a mechanic for BMW Williams F1 to Australian team manager in A1GP. Now, the demands of directing his own company are dovetailed with running the AGI team in the FRCA series, and occasionally driving an F4.
Meanwhile, young brother and previous multiple champion, Nathan, wrapped up the championship again in 2022 in a Dallara F307.
The team also tests and runs some of the rising young drivers emerging from the national karting scene and, in 2022, Costa Toparis and Gianmarco Pradel finished first and second in the F4 class, the former taking third overall in the championship.
Clearly, the company takes its racing seriously. So, when their enquiry came through about devising a wing package to help make the modified F4s competitive with the F3 Dallaras, interest
