Starting in the 2016–17 season, the all new

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UAE Championship was launched by the

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, and its national affiliate the Automobile & Touring Club of the United Arab Emirates (ATCUAE), who acted as the championship's promoter. Currently, the series is governed by the Emirates Motorsport Organisation (EMSO) and promoted by AUH Motorsports.

History

In 2013, the FIA Single seat commission announced their intention to introduce a new category of single seat racing in order to bridge the gap between karting and Formula 3. Throughout the following two years, the ATCUAE has worked to develop a Formula 4 championship for the UAE, which will be the first in the Middle East and North African region. One of the first steps taken was to appoint Dubai based AUH Motorsports to manage the championship, based on their experience and expertise in having run the regional

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series for several years. In February 2016, the championship was launched in spectacular fashion in front of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, with the public unveiling of the car undertaken by HH Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development and Chairman of the General Authority for Youth and Sports Welfare, and

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, President of the ATCUAE. Following the launch in February 2016, the car was given its first test around the Dubai Autodrome, driven by Dubai-born

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driver Ed Jones.

Format

The inaugural 2016–17 championship featured eighteen races over six weekends, four of which were held at the

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in Abu Dhabi, with the remaining two at the

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. As of 2021, the championship features twenty races over five rounds. The race weekends consist of two qualifying sessions determining grids for Race 1 and 3. Starting grids of Race 2 are set by the second fastest lap during Qualifying 1 and grids of Race 4 are with the top eight drivers having their positions reversed from Race 3 results.

Car

The championship features

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designed and built cars. The cars are constructed out of carbon fibre and feature a monocoque chassis. From 2016–17 season to

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the series used F4-T014 model and 1.4 turbo

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engine. The same combination of the chassis and the engine was used in the

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and

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. In the 2022 season, the series is set to be the host for the global debut of the new second-generation Tatuus F4 race car. The car called F4 T-421 will be a complete rework of

car according to the 2nd Generation technical regulations, with the most significant being the introduction of the halo system.

Champions

Drivers

Teams

Rookie

Circuits

* Bold denotes a circuit used in the

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season. * ''Italic'' denotes a future circuit will be used in the

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season.

Notes

References

External links

Official website

ATCUAE website

AUH Motorsport Website

Emirates Motorsports Organization website
{{FIA Global Pathway Formula racing series Motorsport in the United Arab Emirates One-make series Motorsport competitions in the United Arab Emirates