Kean Nakamura-Berta new Italian F4 champion

Kean Nakamura-Berta, who remained in the lead of the championship before the final round at Misano, confirmed his dominance this season by winning the Italian F4 title this weekend of October 10-12. At the end of the five races at the event, the Japanese driver climbed onto four podiums, notably taking victory at the final round of the year, as a symbol.

With 342 points, the Japanese-Slovakian rider surpassed Brazilian Gabriel Gomez and American Sebastian Wheldon, both of whom scored 267 and 256 points this year. In this case, the champion had managed to get his season off to a flying start. Nakamura-Berta, who racked up five wins between Misano and Vallelunga, never wavered, tallying nine wins and seventeen podium finishes at the end of the 2025 season.

Nakamura-Berta's final with a flourish

By winning the very last race of the season at the Misano circuit, where the season had started in early May, Kean Nakamura-Berta has, in a way, managed to come full circle. Capable of making the decisive overtake in the final corners of this final event, the Japanese driver took first place on the final lap of the season, giving even more prestige to the scenario of this end of the adventure.

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In this way, he succeeds the British Freddie Slater. As a reminder, the latter had broken the historic points record (383), himself previously set by Kimi Antonelli a few years earlier. Now, the very recent champion of F4 Italy 2025 will be expected in a month, in Macau, on the occasion of the F4 World Cup bringing together all the champions of the different championships at this level throughout the world. In addition, a future in Formula Regional will most certainly be on the cards with a view to the start of the 2026 season.