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22 FORMULA 4 A star-studded European panorama featuring Arthur Leclerc It has been another phenomenal year for the Tatuus T014 cars running in many Formula 4 championships around Europe. The Italian manufacturer was a key contributor at the beginning of the category in 2014. The Italian championship, where it all began, saw Red Bull junior driver Dennis Hauger prevail. The Norweigian scored a total of 12 wins, a true record, and also helped his team to secure its respective title. The top-3 of the sea- son was rounded out by Ferrari Driver Academy Gianluca Petecof and Paul Aron, both running for Prema Powerteam. Hauger went close to a sensational double title in the German-based ADAC F4, a feature that no other driver managed to achieve so far. In Germany, he was beaten by Sauber Junior Team by Charouz driver Theo Pourchaire by just 7 points. The final part of the season was exciting and also featured Arthur Leclerc, the younger sibling of Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc. The Monegasque won race 1 in the highly-anticipated round at Hockenheim, in the same weekend of the F1 Grand Prix. Argentinian Franco Colapinto, a protégé of Fernando Alonso, took home the best-ever season of the Spanish series featuring high quality and car counts. Fielded buy Drivex, he became unbeatable on the long-distance compared to his closest followers. On the other hand, Glenn van Berlo beat Killian Mayer for the runner-up spot at the last gasp. The Woman Driver trophy went to Belen Garcia, who got the nod on her colleagues Nerea Martì and Irina Sidorkova. Born as a spin-off from the previous F4 NEZ championship for Northern Europe, the SMP F4 championship went underway in Russia and maintai- ned the same quality technical package, in addition to a centralized car management. Pavel Bulantsev put his experience to fruition and scored five wins en-route to the title in front of Artem Lobanenko and Aleksey Nosov.