Webster looking to seal maiden International title

Cooper Webster is preparing to cap off his maiden international year with an F4 title in Madras this weekend at Round 4 of the Formula 4 Indian Championship.

Racing for MP Motorsport run Chennai Turbo Riders, Webster closed off the penultimate round with an FIA F4 record margin of +20.030s.

He has taken six wins from 11 races at the Madras International Circuit in Chennai to lead the series by 44.5 points from Godspeed Kochi’s Akshay Bohra.

He’ll also share the grid with another young Aussie in Launceston’s Jack Taylor who races with the Goa Aces team, and he’ll be hunting his first podium this weekend after taking a series high fourth place in the last round.

Webster enters the final Indian F4 round with six wins in 11 races

Webster will be heading in the EUROCUP-3 Championship in 2024 with the Versa Evans GP team where he’ll be taking on Europe’s circuits for the first time after completing the GB4 Championship as vice-champion in a successful year for Josh Evans’ Evans GP team, with the Aussie run team also completing their first European sojourn by claiming third in the teams championship.

Combining with S5000 squad Versa Motorsport for 2024, the team will race at Spa, Austria’s Spielberg, Portimao, Paul Ricard, Zandvoort, before a triple Spanish stay at Aragon, Jerez, and Barcelona.

It’ll be another switch up in machinery for Webster who this year has raced the Aussie Big Bangers (S5000), the Abarth engined Tatuus F4-T014 (GB4) and the Mygale M21-F4 powered by Alpine.

Webster finished the year off with five victories in the British GB4 Championship. Image: Jakob Ebrey Photography

He’ll jump into the Tatuus F3 T-318-EC3 in 2024, (which he’s already tested in Sepang) which utilises the same chassis as in the Formula Regional European Championship, but it’s powered by an Alfa Romeo-Autotecnica engine (rather than the Alpine-Renault engine), is stripped of 25 kg and features a push-to-pass with a 25 hp boost, using Hankook tyres instead of Pirelli’s. 

The final round of the Indian F4 features three more races to close out its inaugural year this weekend, December 16-17.

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