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2025 Formula Regional European Championship
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 driversAll 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 changesIron 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][5] Driver changesReigning 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.[6][7][8] 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.[9][10] Jack Beeton, who was runner-up to Slater in Italian F4 with US Racing, will complete Prema's lineup.[11] 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.[12] 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.[13][14] 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.[15][16] Van Amersfoort Racing saw both Brando Badoer and Ivan Domingues graduate to FIA F3, with Badoer joining Prema and Domingues remaining with the tea.[17][18] To fill their seats, VAR 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.[19][20] ART Grand Prix saw both Yaroslav Veselaho and Alessandro Giusti leave the team as Veselaho moved to Saintéloc Racing and Giusti left the series to join MP Motorsport in FIA Formula 3.[21] The team signed 2024 French F4 Champion Taito Kato, who will be joined by Kanato Le, who finished 18th with G4 Racing in 2024.[22][23] 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.[24] The team signed Yaroslav Veselaho, who finished 35th in the standings with ART Grand Prix in his rookie season in 2024, and Tim Gerhards, who finished 23rd in the 2024 Spanish F4 Championship with Monlau Motorsport.[25][26] Reigning Rookies' Champion Noah Strømsted will leave RPM and the series as he moves to Trident in FIA F3.[27] 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.[28][29] 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.[30][31] G4 Racing saw Kanato Le leave the team as he moved over to ART Grand Prix.[23] Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi left KIC Motorsport as he moves to Trident.[31] 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.[13] 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.[32] 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.[12][33] Race calendarTen planned circuits for the 2025 season were first announced in August of 2024.[34] The provisional calendar, with two events yet to be dated, was announced on 27 September 2024,[35] 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.[36] Three pre-season tests will be held at Barcelona, Misano and Paul Ricard.
Championship standings
Points will be awarded to the top 10 classified finishers.
References
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