How good was Dilano van ’t Hoff, the 18-year-old Dutch talent who tragically lost his life in a Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine crash at Spa last Saturday?
In 2021, it seemed that he was a huge talent. Fifteen wins from 41 Formula 4 starts in his rookie season of car racing indicated that here was a big name for the future. He blitzed the Spanish championship (current FIA F3 runner-up Pepe Marti was a distant third) with MP Motorsport. And even before that, he’d been robbed of the UAE title by a single point when a late safety car during a race in the season finale in Dubai eradicated the gap he’d established to neutralise a false-start penalty.
