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Brady Golan Wins Race 1 at Barber

Anthony Autiello Returns to Victory Lane in Masters Cup

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 17, 2026) – Brady Golan earned his eighth win of the season in Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas) competition, winning Race 1 at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday evening. The 2026 Champion took advantage of a mid-race restart to capture the lead and paced the field to the checkered flag.

Notes of Interest:

Brady Golan earned his eighth win of his championship campaign. During tomorrow’s Year-End Awards Celebration, Golan will be honored and presented with a $100,000 check as part of the champion’s prize.
After leading early, Kekai Hauanio finished second in Race 1 at Barber Motorsports Park to record his ninth podium of the season.
Cooper Shipman earned his ninth podium of the season with a third-place result in Race 1.
Anthony Autiello earned his fourth win in the 2026 Masters Cup Championship season.
With Kevin Janzen finishing second and the race scoring just half points, Whitney Strickland clinched the FR Americas Masters Cup title.

Earning his first pole of the season, Kekai Hauanio (No. 29 N-E-Where Transport / Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F3) led the field to the starting lights with Brady Golan (No. 40 Toney Driver Development Ligier JS F3) to his outside. With a solid launch off the line, Hauanio took control of the race, but his pace slowed a few turns later, as yellow flags were displayed and the safety car picked up the field.

When the race went back to green, Golan had another shot at the lead, passing Hauanio as they raced through Turn 6. It seemed like Hauanio might be able to close in on Golan’s gearbox, but the Crosslink Motorsports driver wasn’t able to retake the lead and followed Golan to the checkered flag.

Crossing the finish line, it was Golan, followed by Hauanio and Cooper Shipman (No. 10 Driven Dynamix / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3).

“I got a pretty atrocious start, but then I was able to charge back up after that on the restart. So, it was a pretty solid day,” said Golan atop the podium. “I have to thank everybody on the Red 40; it's been amazing. The championship is awesome, and to still have some races left to go and be able to win more is even better. I’m really happy with those guys. Thanks to everybody at TDD, everybody at Marina, everybody at Attire, and my parents.”

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In the Masters Cup Championship, Anthony Autiello (No. 07 Hope For The Warriors / Momentum Motorsports Ligier JS F3) returned to the top step of the podium after making a late-race pass on Kevin Janzen (No. 24 US Power Group / Data Center Solutions / Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F3). Whitney Strickland (No. 21 TF Companies / Hillenburg Motorsports Ligier JS F3) was not classified on the final results after contact on the opening lap brought an early end to his day.

“The visibility was really, really tough today [after oil dry was put down on the track],” said Autiello in Victory Lane. “So, it was super hairy. I thought that I'd keep a little distance, stay safe, and I figured it was going to be a war of attrition, then Kevin [Janzen] opened the door for me. I was able to pass him on the corner going onto the main straight; it was a clean fight. So, thank you to him for a nice, clean race today.”

FR Americas will close out the season tomorrow at Barber Motorsports Park with Race 2 at 12 p.m. CT. Live timing and scoring for the race will be available on the Race Monitor app. Additional news and updates from the weekend will be posted on the series’ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Clemente Huerta Raab Scores First F4 U.S. Win with Barber Victory

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 18, 2026) – Clemente Huerta Raab scored his first win in Formula 4 United States Championship (F4 U.S.) competition, taking the Race 1 victory at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday afternoon. The win marked his first in a formula car and his first since the South American Championship in karting.

Notes of Interest:

After 10 podiums, Clemente Huerta Raab finally captured his first F4 U.S. win in his second season of competition. The victory marked the first in a single-seater racecar for the Chilean racer. Just last season he finished third in the very same round at Barber.
2026 Champion Gastón Irazú scored his 15th podium of the season. With just one ‘not classified’ finish this season, Irazú stood on the podium in every other race this year.
Tomorrow, Irazú has the chance to tie the F4 U.S. all-time win record, as he races for his 10th career win in the championship.
With a hard-fought third-place finish in Race 1 at Barber Motorsports Park, Ayden Kohut earned his first career podium.

Kicking off the season-finale weekend, Caleb Campbell (No. 68 Steele Auto Group / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) started from the pole and led the early laps. Gastón Irazú (No. 27 Elia Group / Baly / Canal 4 / Ancap / Champagne Racing Ligier JS F422) started the event in fourth, but it didn’t take long for the 2026 champion to work through the field, first overtaking Fernando Rivera (No. 16 Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F422) and then making his way around Clemente Huerta Raab (No. 17 Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422). From there, Irazú locked his focus on Campbell and passed to take the race lead on the next lap. Campbell tried to challenge, but couldn’t find a way around the Uruguayan, instead falling into the grips of his Kiwi Motorsport teammate, Huerta Raab.

Making his way around Campbell to take second, Huerta Raab then turned his focus to Irazú. Trailing for a few laps, Huerta Raab took a chance going around the inside in Turn 6 and made it stick, taking the race lead with just over five minutes left on the clock.

It was smooth sailing all the way to the finish line for the Chilean driver, and as the checkered flag waved, Huerta Raab finished first, followed by Irazú and Ayden Kohut (No. 18 The Builders Source / The Genie Company / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422). Kohut survived a race of attrition, starting fifth and steadily advancing as others ran into challenges in the all-green race.

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“It's been a long time since I won the South American Championship in karting,” said Huerta after climbing from the car. “It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the top step of the podium. It feels great. It feels like you’re on top of the world. I want to thank my team—Kiwi Motorsport, my dad, my parents, my family, my uncle came here as a surprise. It was a tough race.”

F4 U.S. is back on track tomorrow at 10:25 a.m. CT for its final race of the season. Live timing and scoring from the event will be available on Race Monitor, with additional news and updates posted on the series’ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Jack Speth Keeps Championship Hopes Alive with Ligier JFC Gen. 2 Win at Barber

Champion Beckham Jacir Continues Winning Streak in JFC Gen. 1 Class

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 17, 2026) – Jack Speth kept his championship hopes alive with a Race 1 win in the Ligier Junior Formula Championship (Ligier JFC) Gen. 2 class at Barber Motorsports Park. Completing a last-lap pass to overtake his championship rival, the Kiwi Motorsport driver moved within six points of the championship lead with one race remaining in the season.

Notes of Interest:

The fight for the Ligier JFC Gen. 2 championship will go down to the final race of the season with Jack Speth narrowing the margin to just six points, as Edward Kennedy continues to lead the standings.
Jack Speth scored his fourth win of the 2026 season with a last-lap pass at Barber Motorsports Park.
Beckham Jacir won his 12th race of the season. Already confirmed as the 2026 Ligier JFC Gen. 1 class champion, Jacir has won every race since Round 9 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in June.
Ava Hanssen tied her career-best finish with a second-place result at Barber. Hanssen is third in the championship standings ahead of tomorrow’s season finale.
Finishing third, AJ Abdullah earned his fourth podium of the season.
Both Team Championships will go down to the final race of the season, with MLT Motorsports currently leading Kiwi Motorsport by six points in the Gen. 2 class, and Champagne Racing leading Berg Racing by just seven points in the Gen. 1 class.

Starting from the pole, Beckham Jacir (No. 7 Stonica / Bell / OMP / P1DOKS / Behind the Wheel / Champagne Racing Ligier JS F4) pulled into the point position as soon as the lights went out. Behind him, third-place starter Ava Hanssen (No. 26 One Powersports / Chiropractic Center of Elkhorn / NGK / Badger Mats Ligier JS F4) pulled wheel to wheel to challenge second-place starter, Lazaro Bainotti (No. 11 Fundacion Fangio Rus seguros Cordoba deportes / Speed Factory Ligier JS F4), but Bainotti held on to the position as they raced through Turn 1. While the front three settled into position, Gen. 2 drivers Edward Kennedy (No. 30 MLT Motorsports Ligier JS F422), Jack Speth (No. 07 Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) and Ben Ramirez (No. 32 U.S. Air Force / RASE Motorsports Ligier JS F422) worked through the field, with Kennedy passing Jacir to take the race lead before the completion of the fifth lap.

Kennedy, the Gen. 2 championship leader, had opened up more than a five-second gap before a full-course caution regrouped the field. With everyone stacked up nose to stern and less than three minutes left on the clock, the two-lap dash to the finish line teed up plenty of drama before the checkered flag waved. Racing toward the white flag, Bainotti went wide exiting Turn 17, dropping a wheel off the racing surface, allowing Hanssen, AJ Abdullah (No. 21 Freedom Detox / Grid State Digital / Berg Racing Ligier JS F4) and Alexander Savage (No. 33 KymaBoats.com / Triple Aim Medical Solutions / Nature Coast Health Care / G Tech Motorsports Ligier JS F4) to drive by. In the Gen. 2 class, Kennedy led as they took the white flag, but Speth wasn’t going down without a fight. Applying pressure through Turn 1, he hit his marks for the next few turns before sending it into Turn 6 to overtake the lead.

As the checkered flag waved, Speth led Kennedy in the Gen. 2 class, while Jacir led Hanssen and Abdullah in the Gen. 1 class.

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“It was a very eventful race,” said Speth atop the podium. “I tried to put the pressure on in Turn 1, but it didn't work, so I just focused on the exit of 2 and 3 and figured I had nothing to lose going into the hairpin. So, I decided that I’d either go out with a bang or just go home—go big or go home. I sent it into the hairpin and it stuck. [The championship] is all coming down to Sunday. I have to thank my mom—she finally made it out this weekend—my dad, and the entire Kiwi Motorsport team, especially Brock and Jackson.”

“Barber Motorsports Park is a great track,” said Jacir after climbing from the car. “It's definitely one of my favorites. Compared to this morning's qualifying, the weather was a little hotter. I knew tire management was always going to be a part of the game in this race. We had a good start and took over the pace. There was a full-course yellow, so I tried to keep my tires clean during that. We didn’t get the best restart after that, either, so I had to do some defending, but we got it, though. It was a good race.”

Ligier JFC will contest its final round of the 2026 season tomorrow at 9:10 a.m. CT. Live timing and scoring will be available on the Race Monitor app, with additional news and updates posted on the series’ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Kekai Hauanio Takes Final FR Americas Pole of 2026 Season at Barber

Whitney Strickland Will Lead Masters Cup Field to Start

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 17, 2026) – In Formula Regional Americas Championship’s (FR Americas) final event of the 2026 season, Kekai Hauanio captured the pole at Barber Motorsports Park on Saturday morning. Currently ranked fourth, Hauanio (No. 29 N-E-Where Transport / Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F3) is fighting to climb into the top three and earn some of the cash prize designated for the top finishers in the championship standings.

2026 FR Americas Champion Brady Golan (No. 40 Toney Driver Development Ligier JS F3) qualified second, just 0.231 seconds off of Hauanio’s pace. In third was Cooper Shipman (No. 10 Driven Dynamix / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3).

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FR Americas had two practice sessions yesterday. Shipman led the morning practice with Evagoras Papasavvas (No. 71 Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F3) and Harbir Dass (No. 9 Northcoast Medical Group / Alpha Micron / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) rounding out the top three. In the afternoon session, Papasavvas was fastest, following by Golan and Hauanio.

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The lights go out for FR Americas Race 1 at Barber today at 4:55 p.m. CT. Live timing and scoring will be available on the Race Monitor app, with additional news and updates posted on the series’ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Caleb Campbell On Pole for F4 U.S. at Barber

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 17, 2026) – Caleb Campbell topped the qualifying speed charts at Barber Motorsports Park to secure the Formula 4 United States Championship (F4 U.S.) pole. Recording a 1:26.116 lap, Campbell (No. 68 Steele Auto Group / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) bettered his teammate Clemente Huerta Raab (No. 17 Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) by 0.042 seconds to lead the field to the green. Fernando Rivera (No. 16 Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F422) qualified third.

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F4 U.S. competitors had two practice sessions yesterday, with Champion Gastón Irazú (No. 27 Elia Group / Baly / Canal 4 / Ancap / Champagne Racing Ligier JS F422) leading the first session, followed by Huerta Raab and Campbell. Meanwhile, Huerta Raab led the afternoon session, followed by Campbell and Irazú.

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F4 U.S. will contest Race 1 of their season finale weekend today at 1:50 p.m. CT. Live timing and scoring will be available on the Race Monitor app, with additional news and updates posted on the series’ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Edward Kennedy, Beckham Jacir Secure Ligier JFC Poles at Barber

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 17, 2026) – Edward Kennedy topped the Ligier Junior Formula Championship (Ligier JFC) Gen. 2 class qualifying charts. Setting a fastest time of 1:25.891, Kennedy (No. 30 MLT Motorsports Ligier JS F422) outpaced Jack Speth (No. 07 Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) and Ben Ramirez (No. 32 U.S. Air Force / RASE Motorsports Ligier JS F422), who will round out the top three starters.

In the Ligier JFC Gen. 1 class, Beckham Jacir narrowly edged Lazaro Bainotti for the top qualifying spot. With Jacir (No. 7 Stonica / Bell / OMP / P1DOKS / Behind the Wheel / Champagne Racing Ligier JS F4) recording a 1:26.767 lap, Bainotti’s (No. 11 Fundacion Fangio Rus seguros Cordoba deportes / Speed Factory Ligier JS F4) best lap was just 0.043 seconds off the pace. Ava Hanssen (No. 26 One Powersports / Chiropractic Center of Elkhorn / NGK / Badger Mats Ligier JS F4) will lead her championship rivals AJ Abdullah (No. 21 Freedom Detox / Grid State Digital / Berg Racing Ligier JS F4) and Alexander Savage (No. 33 KymaBoats.com / Triple Aim Medical Solutions / Nature Coast Health Care / G Tech Motorsports Ligier JS F4) to the lights, completing the top five.

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With two practice sessions yesterday, Kennedy led both for the Gen. 2 class, followed by Speth and Ramirez, in that order, in each. In the Gen. 1 class, Jacir led both sessions with Hanssen in second.

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The lights go out for Ligier JFC’s first race of the weekend today at 12 p.m. CT, with live timing and scoring available on the Race Monitor app. Additional news and updates throughout the event will be posted on the series’ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.