The final round of the 2015 Duo BRDC Formula 4 Championship takes place this weekend (26/27 September) on the Indy Circuit at Brands Hatch, where a fierce fight for second place will be concluded. Will Palmer claimed the title last time out at Donington Park with his ninth and 10th victories of the year, and Palmer, along with all the other drivers on the BRDC F4 grid, will be looking to end the year on a high.

HHC Motorsport’s Palmer carries an unassailable 119-point lead in the standings to Kent and will be hoping to add to his tally of wins before the chequered flag falls to end the 24th race of the season. His team-mate Harri Newey claimed his maiden BRDC F4 success at Donington Park with a lights-to-flag victory in the first race of the weekend, with further strong finishes in races two and three moving him up to second in the championship order.

Chris Dittmann Racing’s Tom Jackson, who headed to Leicestershire second only to Palmer in the standings, dropped to third following a challenging weekend at Donington. With two victories in 2015, Jackson sits just nine points behind Newey however and will be looking to overturn that advantage to claim the runner-up spot in the 2015 Duo BRDC Formula 4 Championship.

Meanwhile Ecurie Ecosse Young Driver Ciaran Haggerty lies fourth in the standings following a trio of top-five finishes on the 2.5-mile Grand Prix Circuit at Donington Park. That moved him ahead of Lanan Racing’s Rodrigo Fonseca, who sits 12 points behind the Scot in fifth.

Sean Walkinshaw Racing’s Jordan Albert and Fonseca’s team-mate Chris Mealin, both two-time winners this year, are sixth and eighth respectively with rookie Jack Bartholomew sandwiched in between the pair in seventh. Bartholomew, who hails from Lewes, took his best finish of the year last time out as he finished second in race two of the weekend at Donington.

Further back, 16-year-old Omar Ismail holds ninth whilst a titanic scrap for the final place in the top-10 continues involving Jack Lang, Ameya Vaidyanathan, Akhil Rabindra and Zubair Hoque. Indian racer Vaidyanathan stepped on to the podium twice at Donington to close within three points of Lang in 10th, with Rabindra and Hoque a further four and five points adrift respectively.

A packed field will take to the 1.2-mile Indy Circuit for the final trio of races of the year, with qualifying getting underway at 11:05 on the Saturday with the first race of the weekend taking place the same day at 15:55. Race two begins at 11:20 on the Sunday with the final encounter of 2015 starting at 15:40. The two-day meeting will also mark the final appearance of the Ralph Firman-designed BRDC F4 car, which has served the series for the last three years, before it is replaced by the new, more-powerful Tatuus-Cosworth car from the 2015 Autumn Trophy onwards.

The meeting marks the second visit of the year to Brands Hatch for the Duo BRDC Formula 4 Championship, as the series took to the Grand Prix Circuit in August. Champion Palmer secured two victories with Jordan Albert claiming his second victory of the year with success in the reverse-grid race two, as both Tom Jackson and Ciaran Haggerty stepped on to the podium twice over the course of the weekend.

Live timing and text updates will be available throughout the weekend on the official Formula 4 website, with the regular one-hour long highlights programme available on ITV4 and BT Sport a week following the race meeting.

2015 Duo BRDC Formula 4 Championship standings after race 21 of 24

1. Will Palmer, HHC Motorsport, 507 points2. Harri Newey, HHC Motorsport, 388 points3. Tom Jackson, Chris Dittmann Racing, 379 points4. Ciaran Haggerty, Ecurie Ecosse/GBR, 356 points5. Rodrigo Fonseca, Lanan Racing, 344 points6. Jordan Albert, Sean Walkinshaw Racing, 307 points7. Jack Bartholomew, Lanan Racing, 293 points8. Chris Mealin, Lanan Racing, 280 points9. Omar Ismail, Chris Dittmann Racing, 258 points10. Jack Lang, Lang Sport/Gorse Motors, 190 points11. Ameya Vaidyanathan, Hillspeed, 187 points12. Akhil Rabindra, Douglas Motorsport, 183 points13. Zubair Hoque, Sean Walkinshaw Racing, 182 points14. Sisa Ngebulana, HHC Motorsport, 171 points15. Faisal Al Zubair, Hillspeed, 160 points16. Fernando Urrutia, Douglas Motorsport, 154 points17. Michael O'Brien, Chris Dittmann Racing, 150 points18. James Reveler, 23 Racing, 126 points19. Sebastian Lanzetti, Hillspeed, 89 points20. Hernan Fallas, Hillspeed, 84 points21. Joe Stables, JR Racing, 49 points22. Paul Sieljes, Chris Dittmann Racing, 34 points23. Marc Gonzalez, Sean Walkinshaw Racing, 13 points