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Campos Racing has announced the injured Ernesto Rivera will miss this weekend’s FIA Formula 3 season opener in Melbourne, with Patrick Heuzenroeder taking his place.

It is the second time that Heuzenroeder has stood in for Rivera, having done so in the pre-season test at Barcelona on February 10-12.

The 20-year-old Australian will be making his F3 debut on home soil, but already has experience of racing third-tier single-seaters having spent the last two weekends racing in Eurocup-3’s winter series with Campos. He sits 10th in the standings, with one more round to go in mid-March.

“I’m very excited to be given this opportunity to make my debut in FIA F3 at my home grand prix,” said Heuzenroeder. “It will be a steep learning curve but I am looking forward to it and can’t wait to get on track! Thank you to my supporters and family for this opportunity.”

Through the rest of this year he will also be racing for Campos, as he part of its line-up in the main Eurocup-3 championship. In 2025 he was GB3 runner-up and fourth in Formula Regional Oceania, winning a race in both.

Rivera was racing in the latter series a month ago when he had a crash at Highlands Motorsport Park. It led to him missing the season’s final two races with back pain, and has ruled him out of action since once he was diagnosed with a vertebra injury.

The 17-year-old Mexican came 11th in the FRegional Oceania standings with two podiums and a pole, and raced for Campos last year in Eurocup-3 when it still used FRegional-based chassis. He was fourth in the championship with three wins, four other podiums and two poles. Rivera has been a Red Bull junior since September 2024.

Written by Jacob Awcock and Ida Wood

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Campos Racing’s Noah Monteiro extended his Spanish Formula 4 Winter Championship lead on Sunday at Jarama with pole and a victory.

Qualifying took place in the morning, and MP Motorsport’s Rocco Coronel was first to top the timesheet. G4 Racing’s Philippe Armand Karras brought the laptime to beat down to a more representative pace, before Coronel reclaimed first place with a 1m32.138s. However he would not improve on that, and in the last four minutes dropped down to 12th.

Ty Fisher was first to beat him, by 0.019 seconds, then Campos team-mate Vivek Kanthan went quickest by 0.047s. Monteiro was just behind and outpaced him by 0.057s, then both improved on their next laps.

Kanthan crossed the line in 1m31.844s, and a second later Monteiro posted a 1m31.646s. Andrej Petrovic was third fastest, 0.382s off pole and 0.009s ahead of Tecnicar Motorsport team-mate Nacho Tunon. MP’s Kasper Schormans was 0.401s behind in fifth, denying Campos’s Daniel Kelleher by 0.006s and Drivex School’s Nathan Tye by 0.01s. Fisher ended up eighth, 0.455s back, and MP’s Reno Francot was ninth fastest. Under 0.9s covered the top 24.

Four of the drivers in the top 24 were eliminated on lap one of the weekend’s third race, in a five-car incident that led to a lengthy red flag period. Before racing was stopped, Tunon had fallen to 17th and Francot had passed Fisher to be seventh.

The safety car led the field for two laps before the field was free to race again on lap four of 18, and there was action straight away. Tye got alongside Kelleher through the first two turns, and although he looked to have taken fifth they were later side-by-side once more and contact sent Kelleher spinning.

Monteiro had a quiet race thereon, setting the fastest lap but otherwise controlling his pace until the safety car returned on lap 11 due to two drivers outside of the top 10 colliding. Only two laps remained once green flags returned, and Monteiro locked up twice but held on to win by a second.

Tye passed Schormans on lap 10, but was far behind Petrovic until the second safety car period. When racing resumed, Kanthan defended from Petrovic who in turn was defending against Tye.

Coronel took sixth on lap nine, after Fisher had lunged past Francot at turn two but left room on the inside for Coronel to overtake both. Francot got past Fisher again and almost Coronel too before racing was interrupted, then on the final lap an incident led to Fisher crashing out and Coronel finishing 21st with a damaged car.

Campos’s Jacob Micallef profited from the chaos to steal sixth, ahead of Francot and Tecnicar’s Aleix Pinera.

Race results (18 laps)

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Noah Monteiro and Boris Lyzen won the first two Spanish Formula 4 Winter Championship races at Jarama.

There was several moments of major drama that interrupted race one, which Campos Racing’s Monteiro was triumphant in. He started on pole ahead of team-mate Vivek Kanthan, MP Motorsport’s Rocco Coronel, Campos’s Ty Fisher and Drivex School’s Nathan Tye.

Kanthan looked to Monteiro’s outside at turn two on the opening lap, but lost out to Coronel a few corners later and was sent off slightly. Tye overtook Fisher, and MP’s Kasper Schormans passed Tecnicar Motorsport’s Andrej Petrovic for ninth before the safety car was called.

MP’s Louis Cochet, TC Racing’s Maria Germano Neto and Monlau Motorsport’s Miki Blascos had all got beached in the gravel at turn two, and the clean-up operation meant racing did not resume until lap 10. During the interruption, the safety car appeared to shed its own debris which Coronel drove over.

On the restart, Tye ploughed into Kanthan’s rear under braking for turn two and sent him spinning. He caught Coronel’s rear-right wheel, and both went off into the gravel but were able to rejoin at the back of the field. Monteiro was left with a sizeable lead over Fisher, and continued pulling away until the race was ended by red flags just as lap 15 began.

Tye overtook Fisher on lap 11, but a 10s penalty meant Fisher reclaimed second and Tye finished 15th. That also cost Tye the points lead to Monteiro.

TC Racing’s Beau Lowette was third, and fourth place was disputed by Tecnicar’s Nacho Tunon and Schormans until a huge crash that ended the race. Tunon was classified fourth when the results were taken from the last completed lap, while a five-second penalty demoted Schormans to 12th. Campos’s Daniel Kelleher profited to finish fifth, and MP’s Reno Francot was sixth after Petrovic was another to get a five-second penalty and dropped to 17th.

The top 12 from qualifying were reversed to form the front of race two’s grid, putting MP’s Lyzen on pole ahead of Petrovic and Schormans.

Lyzen led the 14-lap race lights-to-flag, but results were taken from lap 12 and then lap 11.

Tunon started fourth and had a half-spin on lap one that dropped him to 14th. Coronel also fell down the field as he did get off the grid until lap two. That meant the field had to be guided by the safety car through the pits at the end of lap one, and racing resumed on lap three with Lyzen streaking away.

Schormans attacked Petrovic hard, but on lap four Francot starting pressuring him. On lap 10 he started locking up, and a huge one a lap later allowed Francot to get past. He continued locking up, and after the chequered flag waved on lap 12, he lost five further places as drivers continued racing through to the end of lap 14.

The final results put him back into fourth, between Francot and Tye. Kanthan was sixth, while Kelleher and Monteiro got from row six up to seventh and eighth.

Results round-up
Race 1 (13 laps)
1 Noah Monteiro Campos Racing 24m58.257s
2 Ty Fisher Campos Racing +3.004s
3 Beau Lowette TC Racing +5.211s
4 Nacho Tunon Tecnicar Motorsport +5.523s
5 Daniel Kelleher Campos Racing +6.669s
6 Reno Francot MP Motorsport +8.155s
7 Fausto Arnaudo Monlau Motorsport +8.511s
8 Borys Lyzen MP Motorsport +8.828s
9 Jensen Burnett Drivex School +9.237s
10 Simon Bulbarella Drivex School +9.696s
Fastest lap: Monteiro, 1m32.603s

Race 2 (11 laps)
1 Lyzen 18m20.225s
2 Andrej Petrovic Tecnicar Motorsport +5.454s
3 Francot +7.461s
4 Kasper Schormans MP Motorsport +7.840s
5 Nathan Tye Drivex School +7.899s
6 Vivek Kanthan Campos Racing +8.382s
7 Kelleher +9.138s
8 Monteiro +9.538s
9 Tunon +11.402s
10 Fisher +11.977s
FL: Lyzen, 1m32.439s

Championship standings
1 Monteiro 64   2 Tye 62   3 Tunon 40   4 Francot 38   5 Petrovic 37   6 Kanthan 35   7 Kelleher 26   8 Rocco Coronel 23   9 Schormans 22   10 Fisher 19

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Campos Racing’s Noah Monteiro claimed pole position in the first qualifying session of the second Spanish Formula 4 Winter Championship round at Jarama.

Friday began with pre-event testing, which was topped by Rocco Coronel. He set a 1m32.125s to lead MP Motorsport team-mate Reno Francot by 0.166 seconds, Campos’s Daniel Kelleher by 0.187s and MP’s Borys Lyzen by 0.195s. A second covered the top 24 in the 32-car field.

Two free practice sessions followed later in the day, and Kelleher was quickest in both. His 1m32.231s in FP1 put him 0.078s ahead of Coronel, his closest rival in FP2, and 0.085s clear of Francot.

Nathan Tye (Drivex School), Vivek Kanthan (Campos), Monteiro and Lyzen were next up, with Lyzen improving in FP2 to be 0.205s off.  A quarter of a second split the top nine, and 23 drivers were within a second of the pace once again.

Qualifying one was on Saturday morning, and Lysen was first to the top in the 20-minute session. It was not until six-and-a-half minutes in that he was pushed off top spot, with Coronel setting a 1m32.487s to lead team-mate Kasper Schormans by 0.313s and Lyzen by 0.466s.

Fracnot lapped 0.035s shy of Coronel as Lyzen pitted, the only driver to do so. MP’s Felipe Reijs got into third place after eight minutes, 0.008s ahead of Schormans, at which point only 14 drivers had laid down representative laptimes.

That number soon increased to 20, and G4 Racing’s Jean Paul Karras went seventh fastest with a laptime 0.535s off Coronel’s benchmark and 0.015s quicker than brother Philippe Armand’s best.

Coronel headed to the pits at the end of the session’s first half, and was promptly demoted to second by Tye who set a 1m32.254s. His team-mate Jensen Burnett jumped up to fourth, before TC Racing’s Maria Germano Neto went third fastest with a 1m32.501s.

Tye lowered the pace to 1m31.999s, as team-mate Simon Bulbarella matched Germano. Everyone was now on track, and had recorded flying laps.

Kanthan trimmed Tye’s advantage to 0.286s with eight minutes to go, then Tecnicar Motorsport’s Nacho Tunon reduced it further to 0.248s. Kanthan found himself in fifth, as Kelleher and Bulbarella outpaced him. At the same time, Tecnicar’s Andrej Petrovic jumped 10 spots to sixth, while Campos’s Ty Fisher languished in 26th.

Monteiro hit the top with less than six-and-a-half minutes remaining of qualifying, posting a 1m31.839s, and half a minute later TC Racing’s Beau Lowette surprised by going third fastest after previously being in 23rd place. Fisher also improved to sit fifth, 0.411s off the provisional poleman.

Tunon took third place with five minutes to go, but failed to break the 1m32s barrier, and Petrovic set a personal best to be fourth. A few seconds later they were each demoted two places as Monteiro set a new 1m31.644s benchmark. Kanthan got within 0.234s of it, and Kelleher pipped Tunon by 0.011s to fourth.

Fisher lapped 0.027s shy of Kanthan three minutes from the end, and Coronel climbed from 17th to sixth before another improvement on his next lap put him third and just 0.001s ahead of Fisher.

Francot also re-entered the top 10 in the last two minutes, and just before the chequered flag Kelleher got into second with a laptime 0.197s off Monteiro’s best but has a five-place grid penalty to serve. The poleman was in the pits along with Germano, and no other drivers improved.

Qualifying results

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Campos Racing’s Noel Leon topped the timesheet in the afternoon on day one of Formula 2 pre-season testing at Barcelona.

AIX Racing’s Cian Shields was first to record a flying lap seven minutes in, and was swiftly beaten by Rodin Motorsport’s morning pace-setter Martinius Stenshorne who posted a 1m25.930s. His team-mate Alex Dunne got within 0.14 seconds of that two minutes later to sit second, but Stenshorne then grew his gap to 0.359s.

Following a cooldown lap, Dunne trimmed Stenshorne’s advantage to 0.17s, and after 15 minutes the pair had a 1.8s gap to AIX’s drivers in third and fourth. The laptimes of Campos and Prema’s line-ups were several seconds off.

Invicta Racing’s Joshua Duerksen became Rodin’s closest rival 22 minutes in, posting a 1m26.554s. It took a further 10 minutes of driving for him to improve further, to 1m26.406s, and Van Amersfoort Racing’s Nico Varrone rose to fourth at the 34-minute mark. His team-mate Rafael Villagomez demoted Shields to sixth place eight minutes later.

The track was quiet thereon, and hour one of three ended with ART Grand Prix, DAMS, Hitech GP, MP Motorsport and Trident’s drivers still yet to lap at pace.

Duerksen set a new personal best 68 minutes in, leaving him 0.597s off Stenshorne’s 1m25.712s benchmark. DAMS had sent its drivers out for flying laps, with Hitech and MP doing so 10 minutes after that.

A 1m26.278s put Hitech’s Ritomo Miyata third, team-mate Colton Herta separated VAR’s drivers in sixth and Invicta’s Rafael Camara went eighth with a first effort 1.59s off the pace.

The track became quiet again, and Duerksen was in a group who headed out with 65 minutes to go. Before setting a lap, he halted running by spinning at turn three.

Action resumed with 58 minutes remaining, and ART GP’s drivers laid down their first flying laps. Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak set a 1m26.504s in fifth with 46 minutes left, and team-mate Kush Maini slotted into 11th.

A few minutes later, Prema’s Mari Boya and Leon improved to fifth and sixth with 1m26.8s laps, then Duerksen lowered the pace to 1m25.274s before most pf the field returned to the pits.

On the next runs, a flurry of personal bests appeared around half an hour from the end. Leon got within 0.325s of Duerksen and Villagomez was fifth, then Miyata beat Leon by 0.016s, Campos’s Nikola Tsolov jumped from 14th to sixth and Herta also bettered Villagomez as a second now split the top eight.

Camara went sixth fastest five minutes later, setting a 1m25.928s, followed by Trident becoming the last team to log laps at a representative pace.

The final runs had begun for some drivers with 15 minutes left, and Duerksen sat third two minutes after that as Leon went purple in every sector to set a 1m24.370s and lead Varrone (up from 13th) by 0.688s.

Inthraphuvasak later improved to sixth, 1.432s off Leon’s benchmark, and the day was ended eight minutes early by Prema’s Sebastian Montoya entering the gravel at turn one.

Additional reporting by Jacob Awcock

Afteroon session results

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Campos Racing’s Theophile Nael was quickest on the final morning of FIA Formula 3 pre-season testing at Barcelona.

Early on in the three-hour session it was Noah Stromsted (Trident) who was fastest, a 1m27.620s lap putting him 0.034 seconds ahead of Ugo Ugochukwu (Campos). Freddie Slater (Trident) was third, 0.104 behind.

Nael moved into third early in the second hour, 0.085s off the top, and half a second split the top 10. Brando Badoer (Rodin Motorsport) was fifth with a 1m27.891s, ahead of Patrick Heuzenroeder (Campos), Brad Benavides (AIX Racing), Louis Sharp (Prema), Niko Lacorte (DAMS) and Taito Kato (ART Grand Prix).

On his next run, Nael improved to 1m27.525s with the fastest splits in sectors one and three to claim top spot by 0.095s. Once he pitted, the track was empty until Lacorte headed back out with 73 minutes to go.

Tuukka Taponen (MP Motorsport) rose from 15th to eighth with 64 minutes remaining, setting a 1m28.075s to edge ahead of Sharp by 0.01s, as only a few drivers headed out at a time.

In the final hour, teams turned their attention to long runs and pitstop practice. The final classification was set with 56 minutes to go, when Alessandro Giusti (MP) moved up from 28th to 24th and team-mate Mattia Colnaghi made a big gain that lifted him from last place but only by 0.011s over Gerrard Xie (DAMS)

Half a second split the top seven, and only Bruno del Pino (Van Amersfoort Racing), Colnaghi and Xie were over a second off the pace.

Campos’s trio and Yevan David (AIX) were the only drivers to take the chequered flag, and the most running was completed by Nael and Ugochukwu.

Additional reporting by Ida Wood

Morning session results

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Ugo Ugochukwu secured top spot on the second afternoon of FIA Formula 3 pre-season testing at Barcelona with a late lap to lead a Campos Racing 1-2-3.

Teams opted to focus on long runs at the start of the three-hour session, and Bruno del Pino (Van Amersfoort Racing) set the early pace. A 1m32.219s put him 0.039 seconds ahead of Theophille Nael (Campos).

With nearly an hour gone, Fernando Barrichello (AIX Racing) took over top spot with a 1m31.566s and morning pace-setter Freddie Slater (Trident) slotted into fourth, 0.751s behind.

There was usually only one team on track at a time thereon until the final hour. Slater beat Barrichello’s benchmark by 0.158s, then with 51 minutes to go Brad Benavides (AIX) pipped him by 0.017s. His time on top did not last long either as he was outpaced by all three Campos drivers.

The pace was lowered to the 1m30s, and Ugochukwu led the way with a 1m30.492s. Nael was 0.486s behind, and test-only stand-in Patrick Heuzenroeder was 0.716s adrift in third.

Eight drivers had gone sub-1m31s with half an hour to go, and Jin Nakamura (Hitech GP) was quickest. His 1m30.260s lap put him 0.162s ahead of Enzo Deligny (VAR), Ugochukwu was third and next up were the closely matched Rodin Motorsport trio of Brando Badoer, Pedro Clerot and Christian Ho.

Nakamura’s team-mates Tim Tramnitz and Fionn McLaughlin were 27th and 28th, and with 24 minutes remaining Tramnitz snatched first place by 0.012s and McLaughlin jumped to eighth. Badoer improved to be just 0.021s from the top in third.

McLaughlin climbed another spot eight minutes from the end, and three minutes later Clerot got within 0.154s of Tramnitz’s pace to occupy fourth. After a cooldown lap, McLaughlin attacked again and a 1m30.077s made him fastest by 0.171s. He was soon fourth though, as the top 10 embarked on their final flying laps.

Badoer rocketed ahead with a 1m29.153s, leading Ho by 0.164s and del Pino by 0.711s. A few seconds later Ugochukwu lowered the pace to 1m28.241s and Deligny improved to move into fourth. When Ugochukwu’s team-mates crossed the line, they slotted into second and third. Heuzenroeder went second quickest, 0.203s off, and Nael trailed by 0.414s.

The final order was locked in with four minutes to go, and red flags ended the session 78s early after Deligny stopped in sector two.

Afternoon session results

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Campos Racing has announced that one of its drivers for the 2026 FIA Formula 3 season will not contest the first pre-season test, but it will still field three cars.

Red Bull junior Ernesto Rivera, who will race for Campos this year, will not be in the cockpit at Barcelona on Febrary 10-12 and Patrick Heuzenroeder has been called up to drive his car.

At the start of 2026, Rivera raced in Formula Regional Oceania and in the final round at Highlands Motorsport Park he had a crash after the bridge section in the second race nine days ago that led to him missing the season’s final two races. The 17-year-old Mexican is still recovering from bak pain and has not been cleared to be back driving on track.

There were two podiums and a fastest lap for Rivera in the first two rounds of the FRegional Oceania season, and while he began round three with a pole he only had one top-10 finish in the next two rounds and came 11th in the standings. Rivera steps up to F3 after coming fourth in Eurocup-3 with Campos and ninth in FRegional Middle East last year.

Heuzenroeder will be in Campos’s Eurocup-3 line-up for 2026, and the Formula 1-supporting FIA F3 Championship is the next target for the 20-year-old Australian in his career. He was GB3 runner-up and fourth in FRegional Oceania last year, winning a race in both. It was his third GB3 campaign, having done two rounds in 2023 then coming 12th in the 2024 season.

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Ary Bansal was fastest in Formula Winter Series pre-event testing at Algarve, which featured several new drivers.

For this weekend Rodin Motorsport has added a fourth car for new Mclaren Formula 1 junior Ella Stevens, who will be making her single-seater racing debut. She will race for Rodin in the all-female F1 Academy championship later this year.

Oscar Repetto is out and Alexandre Louza is in at Cram Motorsport, as had been planned, and Mathilda Racing has filled its second car with Italo-Venezuelan racer Emmilio Valentino Del Grosso. He came 18th in entry-level sportscar series Ginetta Junior in 2025.

Nicolas Cortes joins Jenzer Motorsport’s line-up for the rounds at Algarve and Motorland Aragon. The 15-year-old Mexican raced for the team last year, coming fourth in Formula 4 Central European Zone and cameoing in E4 and Italian F4.

Campos Racing fielded the all-female trio of Chiara Battig, Rafela Ferreira and Alisha Palmowski in FWinter Series’ season opener at Estoril, with Batting making the podium and Palmowski claiming a pole. Only Battig remains for Algarve, and will be joined by Zoe Florescu Potolea and Leon Hedfors. Megan Bruce has also been signed, but will not race until a later round.

Florescu won the junior classification in the third edition of the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission’s Ferrari Driver Academy-affiliated Girls on Track Rising Stars programme in 2023, when the Italo-Romanian was 13 years old.

The FDA-funded karting campaign that followed in 2023 lack strong results, but on KZ2 shifter karts last year (racing under an American license) she showed improved form and came 19th in WSK’s Super Master Series and 25th in the CIK-FIA World Championship. There were also F4 test outings with multiple teams.

Hedfors, 17, hails from Sweden and his career is guided by Infinity Sports Management. He began his F4 career last November in the United Arab Emirates-based Formula Trophy, coming 22nd in the standings.

US Racing’s Bansal set the pace in the first test session on Thursday. His final lap, a 1m49.773s, put him 0.051 seconds ahead of Dries Van Langendonck (Rodin) and 0.149s clear of Roman Kamyab (US).

Rocco Coronel (Van Amersfoort Racing) was 0.462s behind in fourth, with Noah Killion (US) and Alfie Slater (Rodin) the only other drivers within a second of Bansal.

All 33 drivers improved in session two. Bansal lowered the pace to 1m46.6s, leading Olexander Savinkov (US) by 0.573s, Van Langendonck by 0.692s, Coronel by 0.731s, Arjen Kraeling (US) by 0.884s and Ludovico Busso (US) by 0.952s.

In session three, Bansal was one of only four non-improvers. Coronel set a 1m46.703s to top the timesheet, pipping Bansal and Savinkov by 0.056s. Alexander Ruta (VAR) was also within 0.1s of Coronel, and half a second covered the top eight.

Excessive track limits violations and worse conditions meant laptimes were a lot slower on Friday. Van Langendonck’s 2m03.466s on his final lap was the fastest of session four, 0.377s clear of Bansal. He topped session five with a 1m59.579s, and had a 1.244s gap to Ethan Lennon (Rodin).

Slater posted a 2m06.111s in his final lap of testing to secure top spot in session six. Van Langendonck and Lennon were 0.136s and 0.369s behind, with Coronel trailing by 0.584s. Ruta, Teodor Borenstein (Jenzer) and Bansal were also within a second of Slater’s pace.

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Ean Eyckmans and Rene Lammers will both step up to Eurocup-3 with MP Motorsport this year to continue their rivalry with Thomas Strauven.

Eyckmans and Lammers finished second and fourth in the Spanish Formula 4 championship with MP in 2025 as Campos driver Strauven took the title.

Belgian Eyckmans – son of former Formula 3000 and IndyCar driver Wim – was in his first year of car racing after winning the Richard Mille Young Talent Academy shootout. Dutch driver Lammers, whose father is former Formula 1 driver and Le Mans 24 Hours winner Jan, had a much improved second season in Spanish F4 after coming 13th as a much-anticipated rookie in 2024.

The pair will be joined in MP’s Eurocup-3 line-up by Australian driver Gianmarco Pradel, who came fourth in GB3 last year with Rodin Motorsport after two seasons in Italian F4 with US Racing. A fourth driver is set to be announced soon.

Campos meanwhile has completed its four-car line-up with Strauven and Pradel’s fellow Australian GB3 convert Patrick Heuzenroeder to be joined by Red Bull junior Enzo Tarnvanichkul and former Mercedes protege Alex Powell.

Thai driver Tarnvanichkul will be entering his second year in Eurocup-3 with Campos having come eighth in the 2025 standings with one win. He also won a race in a partial GB3 campaign.

American-Jamaican Powell makes the full-time step up from F4 after coming fifth in the Italian championship with Prema in 2024 and ninth last year with R-ace GP, when he was also runner-up in the United Arab Emirates series to team-mate Emanuele Olivieri. Released from the Mercedes junior programme at the end of 2025, Powell currently sits third in the Formula Regional Middle East Trophy with Pinnacle Motorsport.

Elsewhere, the 2025 Brazilian F4 champion Heitor Dall’Agnol has joined the grid with Palou Motorsport, while Hitech has signed Stefan Bostandjiev, who made the unusual switch from GT racing to single-seaters last year with a dual campaign across GB4 and GB3, finishing 12th in the standings in the former.

American Andre Rodriguez, who contested three rounds of Italian F4, three rounds in Euro 4 and a single weekend of Spanish F4 in his rookie single-seater campaign last year, has become the first driver announced by GRS Team.

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