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Prema has announced its line-up for this year’s Macau Grand Prix, which features a two-time winner of the event.

The 2025 edition will be the second to run for Formula Regional cars, and award the FIA FRegional World Cup. It takes place on November 13-16, the same weekend as the Eurocup-3 season finale.

Driving Prema’s three cars in Macau will be Rashid Al Dhaheri, Charles Leong and Freddie Slater.

Al Dhaheri came sixth in FRegional Middle East this year and is currently seventh in the FRegional European Championship, both in Prema-run cars and with Slater as his team-mate. He was FRME runner-up and leads FREC.

In 2024, Al Dhaheri was disqualified from the Macau GP but was third in the supporting Formula 4 race the year before. Slater was ninth in that F4 race, and was classified 13th in last year’s grand prix.

Leong has been busy racing in Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia in recent years, and has contested the Macau GP five times in his career. The local talent’s first two entries into the race were during its Formula 3 era, then he starred when it switched to being a race for F4 cars.

He took pole, won the qualification race and the main race in both 2020 and ’21, then in 2022 qualified third, gained one place in the qualification race and finished on the grand prix podium in third.

R-ace GP ran Ugo Ugochukwu to victory in the inaugural FRegional World Cup, and the French team will be attempting to defend its victory with Enzo Deligny, Matteo De Palo and Jin Nakamura.

Deligny and De Palo are currently fighting Slater for the FREC title, and came fifth and 19th respectively in FRME. Nakamura was 10th in FRME and sits 10th in the FREC standings with one round to go.

At last year’s Macau GP, Deligny finished fourth, Nakamura retired and De Palo was disqualified.

Another winning team on the grid is TOM’S, which will field an all-Japanese line-up of Yuki Sano and Tokiya Suzuki.

Sano is currently second in his home country’s F3-level Super Formula Lights championship, and Suzuki sits second in the FRegional Japanese Championship standings with one round remaining.

Pinnacle Motorsport and Sainteloc Racing will also only be entering two cars each rather than three.

Mari Boya and Theophile Nael, who came third and eighth respectively in the FIA F3 Championship this year, will drive for Pinnacle. Nael was disqualified on his Macau GP debut in 2024, while Boya finished seventh after coming fourth in 2023.

Sainteloc has two Macau debutants: James Egozi and Egozi Tangavelou.

Egozi began 2025 by coming third in the Eurocup-3 winter series, and is currently seventh in the main championship. He could drop out of the top 10 in the standings by missing the final round to race in Macau.

Tangavelou was fourth in Eurocup-3 last year, and claimed a podium in its non-championship event. His 2025 has been split between part-time campaigns in USF Pro 2000 and then Eurocup-3.

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There are four late additions to the entry list for this weekend’s Formula Regional European Championship round at the Hungaroring.

The first of those is Zachary David at CL Motorsport, although it is only confirmation of his presence on track that has come late since he signed to race with CL Motorsport last year but then did not appear on the grid in any of the first three rounds.

So far in 2025 the 17-year-old has instead racing one step up the single-seater ladder in Japan’s Super Formula Lights series. Halfway through the season he sits fifth in the standings with one podium, and in 2024 he came fourth in FRegional Middle East and 14th in FREC with R-ace GP.

Also returning to FREC are Javier Sagrera and Maya Weug, with the PHM Racing-supported Akcel GP team and Sainteloc Racing respectively.

Sagrera began 2025 in the FIA Formula 3 Championship with AIX Racing, but only did two rounds. The 21-year-old Spaniard did two FREC rounds with MP Motorsport in 2023, then was runner-up in the FRegional-based Eurocup-3 championship with the team last year. He lost the title in controversial circumstances settled post-season.

Weug has previously driven for KIC Motorsport in FREC, coming 17th in the 2023 standings then making a 2024 cameo. Her focus since then has been in Formula 4 where she races in the all-female F1 Academy series. She came third last year, and sits third in the 2025 title race too.

The fourth addition to the grid is Enzo Richer, who will join G4 Racing’s line-up. The 19-year-old started off in French F4, racing part-time in 2021 coming 17th in the points table the next year then improving to eighth in the standings in 2023.

He became a FRegional champion last year by racing in the Ultimate Cup Series’ Formula Cup, and also stepped up to F3-level machinery for a cameo in his home Euroformula round at Paul Ricard.

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Sainteloc Racing’s Garrett Berry was quickest in Eurocup-3’s pre-event test at Algarve.

Seven of the 29 drivers skipped the first two sessions on Tuesday, and at the top of session one was Palou Motorsport’s James Egozi. He set a 1m40.596s to edge Jesse Carrasquedo Jr by 0.077 seconds and Kacper Sztuka by 0.172s.

Enzo Tarnvanichkul and Ernesto Rivera made it four Campos Racing drivers in the top five, both within 0.36s of the pace.

Sztuka improved to 1m40.633s to top session two, denying Rivera by 0.001s. Berry and Drivex School’s Oscar Wurz were next up, 0.24s back.

Tarnvanichkul lowered the pace to 1m40.292s in a fully attended session three. Carrasquedo was second fastest, setting a 1m40.554s, and Berry was 0.491s behind in third. MP Motorsport’s Maciej Gladysz set a 1m40.812s mid-session to sit fourth.

It was far quieter for session four, with 19 drivers setting laps. A 1m40.913s put Berry on top, 0.4s ahead of Campos’s Jules Caranta and Drivex’s Cristian Cantu. Wurz trailed by 0.452s in fourth, and team-mate Preston Lambert was fifth.

Berry continued to lead the way on Wednesday morning, and late on in session five posted a 1m39.862s benchmark. Egozi was 0.087s off in second, and Rivera also broke the 1m40s barrier in third. There was a 0.155s gap to Sztuka in fourth, and Carrasquedo, Tarnvanichkul and Caranta also beat Tuesday’s pace. A second covered the top 19.

Egozi pipped Rivera by 0.005s and Sztuka by 0.04s in session six, setting a 1m40.105s to top the timesheet. It was similarly close between fourth and sixth, as Gladysz was 0.001s ahead of Carrasquedo and 0.032s faster than Berry.

Although he was significantly slower in session seven, and only did eight laps, Egozi was quickest again. A 1m40.935s put him on top by 0.154s over Caranta, and Tarnvanichkul was 0.186s behind in third. Seven drivers skipped the session.

Testing concluded with another quiet period and a slower pace. Mattia Colnaghi set a 1m40.797s to lead team-mate Gladysz by 0.443s, but little over 0.1s split Gladysz from other team-mate Alexander Abkhazava in sixth. Andres Cardenas (MP), Tarnvanichkul and Valerio Rinicella (MP) were between them.

Drivex will have two new drivers this weekend, as Cantu replaces Wiktor Dobrzanski and Edu Robinson joins.

Cantu was 2023 NACAM Formula 4 runner-up, came 30th in Spanish F4 last year and began 2025 with outings in Eurocup-3’s winter series. Robinson steps up from F4 after coming 16th in E4 last year and picking up Formula Winter Series podiums.

At MP, Kai Daryanani replaces Juan Cota. Daryanani won in Australian F4, GB4 and Formula Trophy United Arab Emirates while in F4, and this year has raced in Eurocup-3’s winter series, Formula Regional Middle East and GB3.

Sainteloc meanwhile has reunited with Theodor Jensen, who drove for them in Spanish F4 and F4 UAE and was one of Eurocup-3’s top rookies in 2024. He was 14th in the standings, then became Asian Le Mans Series LMP3 class champion and currently leads the European LMS’s LMP3 class.

Test results

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MP Motorsport’s Rene Lammers was fastest in practice at Motorland Aragon for Spanish Formula 4’s season opener, which has attracted a 36-car field.

The half-hour session featured plenty of action, and TC Racing’s Santino Panetta was quickest after the first five minutes.

Campos Racing’s Noah Monteiro lowered the pace to 2m03.573s after eight minutes, then MP’s Hudson Shwartz set a 2m02.358s a minute later. At the 10-minute mark he was down to fifth, as Campos’s Thomas Strauven and Matus Ryba lapped in the 2m01s and Sacha Van’t Pad Bosch (Tecnicar Motorsport) and Jan Przyrowski (Campos) also beat him.

Przyrowski was first to to lap sub-2m01s, then was immediately beaten by a 2m00.625s from Strauven. Lammers was briefly third, then Campos’s Miguel Costa and Monteiro occupied the position.

TC’s Alfio Spina and Shwartz were next to break into 2m00s territory, and approaching practice’s halfway point Monteiro lowered the pace to 1m59.776s. Strauven and Przyrowski improved to 2m00.519s and 2m00.629s in third, before Schwartz beat both with a 2m00.458s.

Strauven returned to the top by setting a 1m59.533s, and Costa also beat Monteiro by 0.045 seconds.

There was more change with 12 minutes to go, as Przyrowski briefly usurped Strauven before he responded with a 1m59.262s lap.

Van’t Pad Bosch, team-mate Andrej Petrovic and Shwartz demoted Costa to sixth with just under 11 minutes remaining, and there was a surprise name leading the way entering the final 10 minutes as Campos’s Vivek Kanthan shot to the top with a 1m59.097s.

Lammers rose up the order to second with nine minutes to go, posting a 1m59.154s, but Strauven almost instantly bettered him by 0.027s. At this point, 0.841s covered the top 15.

Przyrowski laid down a new benchmark two-and-a-half minutes later, a 1m58.828s putting him 0.209s clear of the improving Kanthan. Petrovic and Costa both set sub-1m59.1s laps to be third and fourth with five minutes to go, and shortly after the session’s fastest lap arrived: a 1m58.656s from Lammers.

Sector four was the only one he was quickest in, while Przyrowski was fastest through the first and third but ended the session in eighth. Few drivers improved late on, although Monlau Motorsport’s Francisco Monarca did jump to ninth at the chequered flag.

Technical issues led to Jean-Paul Karras, Edu Robinson, Christopher Feghali, Alex Powell and Santiago Baztarrica being black flagged, with Robinson getting a stop-go penalty before getting black flagged again. Six other drivers went on to be black flagged, including Lammers.

In the days leading up to the season opener, Tecnicar announced a four-car line-up completed by Wiktor Dobrzanski and Nacho Tunon. They came 22nd and 25th in the 2025 Spanish F4 Winter Championship, while Van’t Pad Bosch was 20th.

Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior and 2025 F4 Middle East runner-up Powell is driving for Sainteloc Racing, but it has not been confirmed if he will race beyond round one, while Drivex School’s six-car Aragon line-up has been completed by Artem Severiukhin who came 10th in Iberia’s Formula Winter Series.

Free practice results

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Sainteloc Racing has announced Nikita Bedrin will be part of its Formula Regional European Championship line-up this year.

It will mark the 19-year-old’s first full attack at the championship, having done two rounds in 2023 and then seven in 2024.

His first outing was with Monolite Racing, and resulted in a ninth and a fifth place, then he joined Van Amersfoort Racing for the season finale and came away with a podium. His 2024 campaign with MP Motorsport featured seven points finishes and Bedrin coming 16th in the standings.

Bedrin has had greater success in FRegional Middle East, first with PHM Racing and then with Sainteloc. In 2023 he drove for the former, and came eighth in the championship after converting two poles into two wins. When he joined Sainteloc for the last two FRME rounds of 2025, Bedrin showed suprerior tyre management skills to claim a victory and two third places at Losail and a runner-up finish at Yas Marina Circuit that helped lift him to 11th in the standings despite missing three rounds.

That experience of tyre saving was built from two seasons at the next level in the FIA Formula 3 Championship. Bedrin may have only come 18th and 19th in those campaigns, but still picked up strong results. As a rookie with Jenzer Motorsport he stood on the podium twice, and with AIX Racing claimed a maiden feature race victory at the Hungaroring.

In FREC, Bedrin will be team-mate to Spanish Formula 4 graduate Tim Gerhards and FREC sophomore Yaroslav Veselaho.

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Sainteloc Racing’s Nikita Bedrin ended a two-year wait for his third Formula Regional Middle East victory in the first race at Losail.

Points leader Evan Giltaire started on pole, but the ART Grand Prix was beaten off the line on a wet track by R-ace GP’s Ugo Ugochukwu. At turn one, Mumbai Falcons’ Rashid Al Dhaheri went around the outside of Giltaire and got the move done and Giltaire found himself under pressure from title rival Freddie Slater.

The battles in the top 10 were neutralised on lap three as the safety car came was summoned due to PHM Racing’s Everett Stack crashing out. Evans GP’s Matteo De Palo also picked up race-ending damage.

Racing resumed on lap six, and Giltaire looked to the outside of Al Dhaheri at turn one but had no luck. Slater then had a got at him later in the lap, but the Mumbai Falcons driver rode over the back of Giltaire’s car and it sent him off.

Remarkably both seemingly escaped without damage, with Kanato Le passing his team-mate Giltaire as Slater dropped to 12th once he rejoined the track.

Le was attacking Al Dhaheri on lap seven, and on the next lap Al Dhaheri defended sternly at turn one. It helped Ugochukwu break 2.4 seconds clear the front, and that gap grew to 3.1s once Giltaire got involved too.

Al Dhaheri defended down the pit straight on lap nine, held off two overtake attempts from Le then got a small gap when the ART GP pair both went off.

Giltaire returned to third, and on lap 11 he swept around the outside of Al Dhaheri for second. Ugochukwu had 4.5s in hand, but that soon going to decrease.

There was a train of cars behind Le consisting of R-ace’s Enzo Deligny, ART GP’s Taito Kato, Bedrin, R-ace’s Jin Nakamura and Pinnacle Motorsport’s Ernesto Rivera.

After a four-wide battle at turn one on lap 12, Bedrin was in fourth ahead of Deligny, Nakamura and Le, and just a few corners later he was ahead of Al Dhaheri who was suddenly struggling for pace. Tyre management appeared to be the issue, as Nakamura cleared Al Dhaheri too.

Bedrin then hunted down the top two, passinh Giltaire into turn one on lap 14 and flying past Ugochukwu after going side-by-side with him later in the lap. He ended up winning by 5.535s, and Ugochukwu just held off champion-elect Giltaire.

Kato and Deligny had gone either side of Al Dhaheri at turn one on lap 13 and both cleared him, with Deligny taking fifth on the outside. Slater came home 12th, scoring just one point.

Race results (15 laps)

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FIA Formula 3 Championship race-winner Nikita Bedrin and Matteo De Palo have joined the Formula Regional Middle East grid at Yas Marina Circuit this weekend.

Bedrin [pictured top winning in F3] has signed with Sainteloc Racing for the last two rounds of the season and will looking to follow up on his past success in the Middle East.

Across three years in Formula 4 United Arab Emirates, but only one complete campaign, Bedrin picked up five wins and came fourth in the 2022 standings with PHM Racing. The next year he drove for the team in FRME and won twice en route to seventh in the standings.

Last year he combined F4 UAE with PHM, FIA F3 with the linked AIX Racing team and FRegional Europe with MP Motorsport, and it did not quite go to plan.

Although he won races in F4, he never finished higher than sixth in FRegional and his F3 win was one of just five points scores in his sophomore season. He came 19th in the standings, one position lower than in 2023 when he picked up two podiums with Jenzer Motorsport.

De Palo is driving for Evans GP this weekend, and will race for Trident in FRegional Europe later this year. He came 17th in that championship last year – with a best finish of fourth – and was fifth in Spanish F4 the year before that.

The pair were on track in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, as two pre-event test sessions took place. Bedrin topped the first, setting a 1m52.309s to lead Mumbai Falcons’ Freddie Slater by 0.392 seconds.

ART Grand Prix duo Kanato Le and Evan Giltaire were just 0.004s and 0.013s slower than Slater, and R-ace GP’s Akshay Bohra was 0.547s off the pace in fifth. His team-mates Enzo Deligny and Ugo Ugochukwu were the only other drivers within a second of Bedrin.

Every driver improved in session two, and Ugochukwu lowered the pace to 1m50.081s. Bedrin was second fastest, 0.38s behind, and Deligny was 0.704s back in third. Evans GP’s Aaron Cameron and Giltaire were 0.89s and 0.919s off the pace respectively in fourth and fifth, and De Palo was sixth.

Free practice followed on Friday morning, and points leader Giltaire returned to being the benchmark man. He set a 1m49.538s on his fifth lap of eight, putting him 0.124s ahead of Mumbai Falcons’ Rashid Al Dhaheri. Slater was a further 0.031s behind, then Le and Kato completed a top covered by 0.434s and consisting of drivers whose pace peaked on their fifth lap of the day.

Bohra was also within half a second of Giltaire, with just a quarter of a second between himself and Deligny in 15th. De Palo and Bedrin were seventh and 14th, both racking up 13 laps and setting their personal bests very late on.

Results round-up
Pre-event testing
1 Ugo Ugochukwu R-ace GP 1m50.081s
2 Nikita Bedrin Sainteloc Racing +0.380s
3 Enzo Deligny R-ace GP +0.704s
4 Aaron Cameron Evans GP +0.890s
5 Evan Giltaire ART Grand Prix +0.919s
6 Matteo De Palo Evans GP +1.034s
7 Kanato Le ART Grand Prix +1.111s
8 Akshay Bohra R-ace GP +1.386s
9 Taito Kato ART Grand Prix +1.487s
10 Ruiqi Liu Origine Motorsport +1.536s

Free practice
1 Giltaire 1m49.538s
2 Rashid Al Dhaheri Mumbai Falcons +0.124s
3 Freddie Slater Mumbai Falcons +0.165s
4 Le +0.298s
5 Kato +0.434s
6 Bohra +0.488s
7 De Palo +0.520s
8 Brando Badoer PHM Racing +0.525s
9 Hiyu Yamakoshi Pinnacle Motorsport +0.528s
10 Liu +0.569s

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Spanish Formula 4 has announced its cars will start using “advanced sustainable fuel” this season.

French company ETS Racing Fuels will supply it, and its mix will contain “25% advanced sustainable components” this year. Over the course of four seasons it plans to introduce cleaner mixes, until the field is using a ‘100% sustainable’ fuel in 2028.

Quality controls will be introduced to ensure no team gains a performance advantage through the fuel.

There have been many drivers over the last week announced as entering Spanish F4’s 2025 season. MP Motorsport is close to revealing its line-up in full, having named Niklas Schaufler and Hudson Schwartz as signings.

Red Bull junior Schaufler recently turned 15, and made his single-seater debut with MP in Spanish F4’s Winter Championship season opener.

On OK Junior karts the Austrian won the 2023 Italian championship and South Garda Winter Cup, and last year won WSK’s Champions Cup and Super Master Series, was Champions of the Future runner-up and sixth in the CIK-FIA European championship. Schwartz is a third-year single-seater racer who has already come eighth in USF Juniors and USF2000.

Drivex School has signed Kaiden Higgins and Stepan Suslov. Australian junior karting graduate Higgins was seventh in the 2024 Rotax Max Challenge International Trophy, and Suslov comes across from sportscars. He moved from karts to the Iberian Supercars championship last year, driving an Aston Martin Vantage GT4. In the overall standings he was 22nd, and fourth in the classification for Bronze-graded drivers. He began testing in F4 last November.

Monlau Motorsport has three drivers signed: Lorenzo Campos, Alexander Jacoby and Francisco Monarca.

Angolan racer Campos made his F4 debut at the 2024 Motorsport Games, then contested a Spanish F4 round at Jerez. In 2023 he came third in the WSK CC on an X30 Junior kart, and was 16th in the FIA Karting Academy Trophy.

Jacoby was 40th in Spanish F4 and made a Brazilian F4 cameo in 2024, and Monarca steps up from Argentina’s karting scene.

Sainteloc Racing has also put together a three-car line-up, consisting of Christian Garduno and the Karras twins Jean Paul and Philippe Armand. Garduno is a Mexican karter with F4 test experience, and the Karrases are marginally more experienced. They cameoed in F4 Central European Zone last year, and Philippe Armand represented Greece in the Motorsport Games’ F4 event. The pair spent their karting careers in France.

Tecnicar Motorsport’s first signing is Saudi Arabian F4 runner-up and F4 CEZ race-winner Andrej Petrovic, Rodin Motorsport has added South Korea’s Kyuho Lee – winner of the 2024 FIA World Cup for OK-N karts and currently 17th in F4 Middle East – to its line-up and Argentinian junior karting champion Santino Panetta has joined TC Racing.

Many of the drivers entered last weekend’s Spanish F4 WC opener at Jerez. Schaufler and Schwartz are seventh and eighth in the standings, and further back are Petrovic (11th), Jacoby (18th), Lee (22nd), Philippe Armand Karras (23rd), Suslov (27th), Jean Paul Karras (28th), Monarca (29th), Panetta (30th), Garduno (32nd) and Campos (33rd).

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Sainteloc Racing’s Theophile Nael was fastest in Formula Regional Middle East practice at Dubai Autodrome, where he had a new team-mate.

The car previously driven by Lorenzo Castillo is being piloted by Jakob Bergmeister this weekend. The 19-year-old German came fourth in Euroformula last year as a part-timer, taking one win.

Evans GP has added a third car for Alex Sawer, the Vietnamese youngster who had a points-free FRegional Europe campaign in 2024 but was seventh in Chinese Formula 4 after winning twice across his two outings, and Pinnacle Motorsport has made two changes.

Replacing Jesse Carrasquedo Jr and Giovanni Maschio at the team are Yuanpu Cui and Hiyu Yamakoshi. Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior Cui steps up from F4, where he has won in the British and Chinese championships, while Yamakoshi was third in Italian F4 last season with two victories.

The most high-profile addition to the grid is James Hedley, who has replaced Jaden Pariat at Akcel GP by PHM Racing.

Hedley came fifth in British F4 two seasons in a row, racking up eight wins, then has spent nearly three full seasons in GB3. He came 17th in his rookie campaign, won twice en route to sixth in the 2023 standings then drove for three different teams and dropped to 15th in the points table last year. Between rounds he made cameos in Eurocup-3 and the FIA Formula 3 Championship.

Mumbai Falcons’ Freddie Slater was comfortably fastest in the first test session, with a 0.345-second gap to team-mate Rashid Al Dhaheri in second place. Seven drivers got within a second of his 1m54.668s benchmark, and just 0.036s split ART Grand Prix’s points leader Evan Giltaire and Nael in third and fourth.

Laptimes were far slower in session two, and after failing to set a representative laptime earlier in the day a 1m56.342s put R-ace GP’s Ugo Ugochukwu on top of the timesheet. Pinnacle’s Ernesto Rivera was 0.195s slower than him in second, then there was a gap of 0.871s to R-ace’s Enzo Deligny in third.

Cui was the only other driver within a second of Ugochukwu, but the top four did not factor near the top in the test’s overall classification. Ugochukwu jumped up from 27th to 12th, while Rivera and Cui were each demoted a spot to 13th and 14th.

After the top two, the next best driver to improve their pace was Bergmeister. He was a second slower than Ugochukwu in fifth, and climbed one spot in the overall order to 18th.

The half-hour practice session took place in the afternoon, and with a rubbered in track the pace got faster again.

Nael was marginally slower than in testing, but his 1m55.134s lap still was enough to lead the way. Slater was second with a 1m55.327s, and Ugochukwu improved to 1m55.344s in third.

Giltaire was 0.4s off the top in fourth, then next up were Al Dhaheri and Rivera. Cui was the best newcomer in 12th, and Sawer continued his pace struggles from testing as he was nearly seven seconds slower than Nael and became the only driver not to set a sub-two minute lap during the day.

Results round-up
Pre-event testing
1 Freddie Slater Mumbai Falcons 1m54.668s
2 Rashid Al Dhaheri Mumbai Falcons +0.345s
3 Evan Giltaire ART Grand Prix +0.407s
4 Theophile Nael Sainteloc Racing +0.443s
5 Taito Kato ART Grand Prix +0.646s
6 Kanato Le ART Grand Prix +0.669s
7 Enzo Deligny R-ace GP +0.807s
8 Jin Nakamura R-ace GP +0.882s
9 Akshay Bohra R-ace GP +1.286s
10 Brando Badoer PHM Racing +1.324s

Free practice
1 Nael 1m55.134s
2 Slater +0.193s
3 Ugo Ugochukwu R-ace GP +0.210s
4 Giltaire +0.402s
5 Al Dhaheri +0.536s
6 Ernesto Rivera Pinnacle Motorsport +0.581s
7 Kato +0.608s
8 Nakamura +0.711s
9 Deligny +0.808s
10 Le +0.867s

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The 2025 Eurocup-3 grid is continuing to grow, with teams securing drivers before the inaugural Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship campaign begins.

Jerez hosts the opening round this weekend, with an entry list expected later this week. Many teams have not confirmed whether their drivers signed for the main championship will also be competing in the winter equivalent.

A new entry to the Eurocup-3 paddock is Swedish-licensed but Spanish-based team Allay Racing. It will field brothers Emil and Linus Hellberg, who did the last three rounds of the 2024 season as guest drivers. Linus’s best finish was 14th, and Emil’s was 15th. The 49-year-old Emil was Italian Sports Prototype champion in 2023, and raced against his brother there.

Drivex School has added Juan Cota, Preston Lambert and Lenny Ried to its Eurocup-3 line-up.

Cota, 17, won the Motorsport Games Formula 4 gold medal for Spain last year and was fourth in Spanish F4 with four wins. Three of those came at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit, the same location as his Motorsport Games success. The F4 sophomore also claimed a Formula Winter Series victory.

Lambert, also 17, came fourth in F4 Western in 2023 then raced part-time in Spain last year. He picked up a best finish of 14th from 16 races in F4, and 15th from his Eurocup-3 cameo.

Ried is stepping up the single-seater ladder after one year in F4 in which he had a best finish of 12th in Spanish F4 and 17th in FWinter Series.

Palou Motorsport, launched by three-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou, run by his father Ramon and partnered with top IndyCar team Chip Ganassi Racing through its driver development programme, has named four drivers so far for 2025.

Luciano Morano stays with the team after a points-free 2024 campaign, Isaac Barashi joins after coming 20th with Global Racing Service last season, Alceu Feldmann Neto makes the bold choice to race in the series after being a part-timer in Brazilian F4 in 2024 and Adam Hideg steps up after coming 17th in Spanish F4 and 20th in FWinter Series as a rookie.

Barashi, Hideg and Morano are anticipated to race in the Eurocup-3 SWC to warm up for their main campaign.

In the Sainteloc Racing garage this year will be Garrett Berry and Lorenzo Castillo. Berry was 21st last season driving for Palou, and Castillo – currently racing in Formula Regional Middle East – is another driver moving up after a points-free year in Spanish F4.

Although not confirmed by the team, Jesse Carrasquedo Jr will be driving for Campos Racing in the Eurocup-3 SWC opener. The Mexican was a winner in Eurocup-3 last year and despite missing several rounds was eighth in the standings, and currently he is eighth in FRME.

Another Eurocup-3 SWC-only entry, for now, is Cristian Cantu at GRS. He was sixth in NACAM F4 back in 2022, championship runner-up a year later and a points-free 30th in Spanish F4 last season.

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