Bemböle is a small karting circuit in Espoo, Finland. It is also the track where Keke Rosberg, Mika Häkkinen, Mika Salo and Kimi Räikkönen took their first laps in motorsport. In 2017, a seven-year-old kid called Alfons did the same — and stayed on the track for three hours straight on his first day.

Nine years later, that same kid is racing the Spanish F4 Championship. The road in between is worth telling.

The early seasons were small — local races at Bemböle, the Uusimaa County Cup, a used Dino chassis, a father acting as mechanic. In 2018, age 8, Alfons won the County Cup and finished second in the National Champions Race in Finland.

Then came the harder years. From 2019 to 2021, racing in IAME Micro and Mini60, Alfons competed against teams running multiple engines and full engineering crews — while the family ran a single rented engine and an old chassis. The results came anyway: P6, then P5 overall in the Iame Mini60 Finnish series.

2022 changed the level. Rookie year in OKJ, P4 in the Finnish Championship, and a wildcard to the IAME International Final in Le Mans — Alfons’s first race outside Finland. 2023 brought the international jump: Champions of the Future, FIA European Championship, and a P3 in qualifying in the first ever international race weekend. The same year, he won silver in the Finnish OKJ Championship.

In 2024 and 2025, the categories got harder. IAME X30 Senior, KZ2 in Lonato and Franciacorta, the WSK Final Cup. P14 overall in WSK against full factory teams. P2 in the Finnish OK Senior.

Then November 2025: a two-day F4 test in Valencia. Times faster than the race pace. And a decision.

Single-seaters. GRS Team. Spanish F4. Here we are.