# 2016 French F4 Championship

The 2016 French F4 Championship season was the 24th season of the series for 1600cc Formula Renault machinery, and the sixth season to run under the guise of the French F4 Championship. The series began on 1 April at Le Castellet and ended on 6 November at Montmeló, after six rounds and twenty-four races.

## Driver lineup

| No. | Driver | Class | Rounds |
| 1 | Marvin Klein | I | All |
| 2 | Hugo Chevalier | J | All |
| 3 | Casper Røes Andersen | J | All |
| 4 | Javier Cobián | I | All |
| 5 | Pierre-Alexandre Jean | J | All |
| 6 | Kami Moreira-Laliberté | G | 2 |
| 6 | Victor Martins | J G | 5 |
| 6 | Adrien Renaudin | I | 6 |
| 7 | Alex Karkosik | J | All |
| 8 | José Sierra | I | 2–6 |
| 11 | Tristan Charpentier | J | All |
| 12 | Enzo Samon | J | 1–4 |
| 13 | Aaron di Comberti | J | 1 |
| 16 | Gilles Magnus | I | All |
| 20 | Yifei Ye | J | All |
| 21 | Jean-Baptiste Mela | I | All |
| 24 | Pierre-Paul Baradat | I | 1, 3–4, 6 |
| 27 | Théo Coicaud | I | All |
| 51 | Michael Benyahia | J | All |
| 87 | Arthur Rougier | I | All |
| Icon | Status |
| I | Drivers that compete for the International Championship |
| J | Drivers that compete for the Junior Championship |
| G | Guest drivers that are ineligible to score points |

## Driver Changes
### Graduating from French F4

* Giuliano Alesi, son of former F1 driver Jean Alesi, was signed by the Ferrari Driver Academy and promoted to GP3 with Trident.
* Sacha Fenestraz and Gabriel Aubrey were promoted to the Formula Renault 2.0 championship with Tech 1 Racing.
* Simo Laaksonen will compete in Germany's ADAC F4 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 Bertrand Gachot, switched to ADAC F4 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.
| Round | Round | Circuit | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Junior Winner | International Winner |
| 1 | R1 | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | 2 April | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Javier Cobián |
| 1 | R2 | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | 2 April | | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Jean-Baptiste Mela |
| 1 | R3 | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | 3 April | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Théo Coicaud |
| 1 | R4 | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | 3 April | | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Javier Cobián |
| 2 | R1 | Circuit de Pau, Pau | 14 May | Yifei Ye | Javier Cobián | Javier Cobián | Michael Benyahia | Javier Cobián |
| 2 | R2 | Circuit de Pau, Pau | 14 May | | Hugo Chevalier | Théo Coicaud | Pierre-Alexandre Jean | Théo Coicaud |
| 2 | R3 | Circuit de Pau, Pau | 15 May | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Gilles Magnus |
| 2 | R4 | Circuit de Pau, Pau | 15 May | | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Gilles Magnus |
| 3 | R1 | Circuit de Lédenon, Lédenon | 4 June | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Gilles Magnus |
| 3 | R2 | Circuit de Lédenon, Lédenon | 4 June | | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Gilles Magnus |
| 3 | R3 | Circuit de Lédenon, Lédenon | 5 June | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Jean-Baptiste Mela |
| 3 | R4 | Circuit de Lédenon, Lédenon | 5 June | | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Gilles Magnus |
| 4 | R1 | Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours | 9 July | | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Javier Cobián |
| 4 | R2 | Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours | 9 July | | Javier Cobián | Pierre-Alexandre Jean | Pierre-Alexandre Jean | Gilles Magnus |
| 4 | R3 | Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours | 10 July | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Javier Cobián |
| 4 | R4 | Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours | 10 July | | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Gilles Magnus |
| 5 | R1 | Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans | 10 September | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Yifei Ye | Gilles Magnus |
| 5 | R2 | Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans | 10 September | | Tristan Charpentier | Marvin Klein | Casper Røes Andersen | Marvin Klein |
| 5 | R3 | Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans | 11 September | Yifei Ye | Gilles Magnus | Gilles Magnus | Tristan Charpentier | Gilles Magnus |
| 5 | R4 | Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans | 11 September | | Casper Røes Andersen | Tristan Charpentier | Tristan Charpentier | Gilles Magnus |
| 6 | R1 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló | 5 November | Javier Cobián | Arthur Rougier | Javier Cobián | Hugo Chevalier | Javier Cobián |
| 6 | R2 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló | 6 November | | Yifei Ye | Michael Benyahia | Michael Benyahia | Jean-Baptiste Mela |
| 6 | R3 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló | 6 November | Javier Cobián | Arthur Rougier | Arthur Rougier | Tristan Charpentier | Arthur Rougier |
* ↑ Pierre-Alexandre Jean originally scored pole, but he was issued a 5-place grid penalty after race 2.

## Championship standings
### Points system

Points are 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 | 1 | 1 |

### French F4 Championship

| Pos | Driver | LEC | LEC | LEC | LEC | PAU | PAU | PAU | PAU | LÉD | LÉD | LÉD | LÉD | MAG | MAG | MAG | MAG | LMS | LMS | LMS | LMS | CAT | CAT | CAT | Points |
| 1 | Yifei Ye | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | Ret | 11 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 420 |
| 2 | Gilles Magnus | 16 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | | | | 278 |
| 3 | Michael Benyahia | 3 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 2 | Ret | Ret | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 218 |
| 4 | Javier Cobián | 4 | 13 | Ret | 4 | 1 | Ret | Ret | 9 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 211 |
| 5 | Tristan Charpentier | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 8 | Ret | 5 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 204 |
| 6 | Hugo Chevalier | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 10 | Ret | | 6 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 188 |
| 7 | Théo Coicaud | 7 | Ret | 5 | 16 | Ret | 1 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 6 | Ret | 5 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 173 |
| 8 | Pierre-Alexandre Jean | 10 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | Ret | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | Ret | 12 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 162 |
| 9 | Jean-Baptiste Mela | 9 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 10 | Ret | 9 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 10 | EX | 7 | 3 | 7 | 129 |
| 10 | Arthur Rougier | 11 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 6 | Ret | Ret | 3 | 15 | 1 | 119 |
| 11 | Casper Røes Andersen | 6 | Ret | 12 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 93 |
| 12 | Marvin Klein | 12 | 8 | 10 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 12 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 55 |
| 13 | José Sierra | | | | | 11 | Ret | 14 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 40 |
| 14 | Enzo Samon | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 8 | Ret | 7 | Ret | DNS | 10 | Ret | DNS | DNS | DNS | | | | | | | | 35 |
| 15 | Alex Karkosik | 13 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 29 |
| 16 | Pierre-Paul Baradat | 14 | 11 | 14 | 12 | | | | | 13 | 13 | Ret | 14 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 13 | | | | | 14 | 10 | 12 | 1 |
| 17 | Aaron di Comberti | 15 | 12 | 15 | 13 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| 18 | Adrien Renaudin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 11 | 11 | 13 | 0 |
| Guest drivers ineligible for championship points ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| | Kami Moreira-Laliberté | | | | | 9 | Ret | 6 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| | Victor Martins | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | 10 | 3 | 3 | | | | 0 |
| Pos | Driver | LEC | LEC | LEC | LEC | PAU | PAU | PAU | PAU | LÉD | LÉD | LÉD | LÉD | MAG | MAG | MAG | MAG | LMS | LMS | LMS | LMS | CAT | CAT | CAT | Points |
| Colour | Result |
| Gold | Winner |
| Silver | Second place |
| Bronze | Third place |
| Green | Points finish |
| Blue | Non-points finish |
| Blue | Non-classified finish (NC) |
| Purple | Retired (Ret) |
| Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) |
| Red | Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) |
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) |
| White | Did not start (DNS) |
| White | Withdrew (WD) |
| White | Race cancelled (C) |
| Blank | Did not practice (DNP) |
| Blank | Did not arrive (DNA) |
| Blank | Excluded (EX) |