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2025 Formula Regional European Championship

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The 2025 Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine is a planned multi-event, Formula Regional open-wheel single seater motor racing championship scheduled to be held across Europe. The championship will feature a mix of professional and amateur drivers, competing in Formula Regional cars that conform to the FIA Formula Regional regulations for the championship. This will be the seventh season of the championship and the fifth after a merger with Formula Renault Eurocup which resulted in the change of the engine supplier to Alpine.

Teams and drivers

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All teams compete using identical Tatuus FR-19 cars powered by 1.8l Renault engines on Pirelli tyres. Nine of the eleven teams that contested the 2024 season were also confirmed to be pre-selected for 2025.[1]

Team No. Driver Status Rounds
Italy Trident 2 Italy Matteo De Palo TBC
29 Thailand Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi TBC
66 China Liu Ruiqi[2] TBC
France ART Grand Prix 9 Japan Kanato Le TBC
TBA Japan Taito Kato TBC
Italy CL Motorsport 20 Malta Zachary David TBC
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 22 Brazil Pedro Clerot[3] TBC
TBA India Dion Gowda TBC
TBA Japan Hiyu Yamakoshi TBC
Italy Prema Racing 28 France Doriane Pin TBC
TBA United Arab Emirates Rashid Al Dhaheri TBC
TBA Australia Jack Beeton TBC
TBA United Kingdom Freddie Slater TBC
Switzerland G4 Racing TBA TBA TBC
Finland KIC Motorsport TBA TBA TBC
France R-ace GP TBA India Akshay Bohra TBC
TBA Japan Jin Nakamura TBC
Italy RPM TBA TBA TBC
France Saintéloc Racing TBA Netherlands Tim Gerhards TBC
TBA TBA TBC
Icon Status
R Rookie

Team changes

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Iron Dames, who entered the championship in 2024 with a two-car all-female driver lineup, will not continue their entry into 2025.[1]

MP Motorsport, a series mainstay ever since its inception, will also leave the championship. The team's entry will be replaced by a new Italian based Chinese team called CL Motorsport.[1][4]

Driver changes

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Reigning Teams' Champions Prema Racing saw all three of their drivers graduate to FIA F3, with reigning Drivers' Champion Rafael Câmara and James Wharton joining Trident and ART Grand Prix respectively, while Ugo Ugochukwu remained with Prema.[5][6][7] The team promoted two drivers from their own Formula 4 operation in Freddie Slater, winner of the 2024 F4 UAE and F4 Italian championships, and Rashid Al Dhaheri, who came fourth and tenth in the same two championships in 2024.[8][9] Jack Beeton, who was runner-up to Slater in Italian F4 with US Racing, will complete Prema's lineup.[10] The team will also field a fourth car for 2024 F1 Academy runner-up Doriane Pin, who embarks on her second season in the championship after coming 27th with departing team Iron Dames in 2024.[11]

Zachary David and Tuukka Taponen left R-ace GP, with David joining the new CL Motorsport team and Taponen leaving the series to move up to FIA F3 with ART Grand Prix.[12][13] The team signed Akshay Bohra, who won the Euro 4 Championship in 2024 with US Racing, and TGR junior driver Jin Nakamura, who will make his racing debut in Europe after finishing the 2024 Super Formula Lights in fourth driving for TOM'S.[14][15]

Van Amersfoort Racing's Brando Badoer will step up to FIA F3 and join Prema, while Ivan Domingues will leave the team.[16] To fill their seats, the team promoted Hiyu Yamakoshi from its Italian F4 outfit after he came third in 2024, and signed Dion Gowda, who finished 11th with Prema in that championship.[17][18]

ART Grand Prix saw Alessandro Giusti leave the team as he left the series to join MP Motorsport in FIA Formula 3.[19] The team signed 2024 French F4 Champion Taito Kato, who will be joined by Kanato Le, who finished 18th with G4 Racing in 2024.[20][21]

Saintéloc Racing saw Matteo De Palo and Théophile Naël leave the team, with the former moving over to Trident and the latter graduating to FIA F3 with Van Amersfoort Racing.[22] The team signed Tim Gerhards, who finished 23rd in the 2024 Spanish F4 Championship with Monlau Motorsport.[23]

Reigning Rookies' Champion Noah Strømsted will leave RPM and the series as he moves to Trident in FIA F3.[24]

Trident will have two new drivers as Alpine Academy driver Nicola Lacorte and Roman Bilinski will both step up to FIA F3 with DAMS and Rodin Motorsport respectively.[25][26] The team signed two drivers switching from other teams in Matteo De Palo, who finished his debut season in 2024 17th with Saintéloc Racing and Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi, who came 24th with KIC Motorsport in 2024.[27][28]

G4 Racing saw Kanato Le leave the team as he moved over to ART Grand Prix.[21]

New team CL Motorsport signed Zachary David, who embarks on his second season in the championship after coming 13th with R-ace GP in 2024.[12]

Departing team MP Motorsport saw Valerio Rinicella join its Eurocup-3 outfit, with whom he already contested the one-off non-championship round in 2024.[29]

Departing team Iron Dames saw Doriane Pin moving to Prema Racing, while Marta García announced she would not continue competing in single-seater motorsport going forward.[11][30]

Race calendar

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Ten planned circuits for the 2025 season were first announced in August of 2024.[31] The provisional calendar, with two events yet to be dated, was announced on 27 September 2024,[32] before being finalized on 2 October 2024. Mugello will not be part of the circuit lineup for the first time in series history, with the championship instead opting to return to Misano, where it last raced in 2020.[33] Three pre-season tests will be held at Barcelona, Misano and Paul Ricard.

Round Circuit Date Supporting Map of circuit locations
1 R1 Italy Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico 3 May Italian GT Championship
R2 4 May
2 R1 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot 17 May International GT Open
GT Cup Open Europe
R2 18 May
3 R1 Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort 7 June Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
R2 8 June
4 R1 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród 5 July International GT Open
R2 6 July
5 R1 France Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet 19 July International GT Open
GT Cup Open Europe
R2 20 July
6 R1 Italy Imola Circuit, Imola 2 August Italian GT Championship
R2 3 August
7 R1 Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 6 September International GT Open
R2 7 September
8 R1 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 20 September International GT Open
GT Cup Open Europe
R2 21 September
9 R1 Germany Hockenheimring, Hockenheim 4 October Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
R2 5 October
10 R1 Italy Monza Circuit, Monza 25 October Italian GT Championship
R2 26 October

Championship standings

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Points system

Points will be awarded to the top 10 classified finishers.

Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th 
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1

References

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  2. ^ MotorSport, Trident. "Trident confirms Ruiqi Liu for the 2025 FRECA". Trident Motorsport (in Italian). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Pedro Clerot Remains with Van Amersfoort Racing for the 2025 FRECA Season". Van Amersfoort Racing. 26 November 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Bohra joins R-ace GP in FREC as David leaves team for CL Motorsport". Formula Scout. 30 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
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  25. ^ "Nicola Lacorte joins DAMS Lucas Oil for 2025 season". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
  26. ^ "Roman Bilinski completes Rodin Motorsport's 2025 Formula 3 lineup". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  27. ^ "Trident announce De Palo for 2025 season". Trident Motorsport. 11 December 2024.
  28. ^ MotorSport, Trident. "Bhirombhakdi to race with Trident in the 2025 FRECA". Trident Motorsport (in Italian). Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  29. ^ [hhttps://www.mpmotorsport.com/valerio-rinicella-joins-eurocup-3-mp-motorsport-2025/ "Rinicella to continue with MP Motorsport in Eurocup-3"]. MP Motorsport. 18 December 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
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