The 2016 French F4 Championship season was the 24th season of the series for 1600cc

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machinery, and the sixth season to run under the guise of the

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. The series began on 1 April at Le Castellet and ended on 6 November at

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, after six rounds and twenty-four races.

Driver lineup

Driver Changes

Graduating from French F4

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, son of former F1 driver

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, was signed by the

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and promoted to GP3 with Trident. * Sacha Fenestraz and Gabriel Aubrey were promoted to the Formula Renault 2.0 championship with

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. * Simo Laaksonen will compete in Germany's

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after running French F4 and SMP F4 campaigns in 2015. * Alternatively Nerses Isaakyan, Nikita Troitskiy and Aleksey Korneev will move to Formula Renault 2.0 for 2016 after partial French F4 seasons. * Axel Matus returned to his home country to participate in the inaugural NACAM F4 championship. * Louis Gachot, son of former F1 driver

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, switched to

for 2016.

Race calendar and results

A six-round calendar was published in December 2015. This was however revised in January 2016, with now four races per round being held, as opposed to the triple-header rounds that were run on previous years. Race format * Race 1 grid will be set by second fastest qualifying lap. * Race 2 will be an inversion of the top 10 from race 1. * Race 3 grid will be set by fastest qualifying lap. * Race 4 will be set by the finishing order of race 3.

Championship standings

;Points system Points are awarded as follows:

French F4 Championship

References

External links

The official website of the French F4 Championship
{{Formula Renault years F4 Championship French F4