North America and Asia house the majority of this weekend’s junior single-seater action as the 24 Hours of Le Mans steals the spotlight in Europe. Find out what’s on, where to watch it and what to know about it.

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Formula 1 heads to Montréal for the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend and brings F1 Academy to the venue for the first time. The all-female F4-spec series will hold three races following the postponement of the second race at Miami.

South of the American–Canadian border, FR Americas takes to the track for a standalone round at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while Indy NXT heads to Gateway outside St Louis for its first oval race of the season. Chinese F4 also goes to Zhuhai, located in the Pearl River Delta region of Southern China.

Just to the south is Macau, where the FIA World Motor Sport Council met on Tuesday as part of the motorsport governing body’s annual conference. Major decisions from that meeting included the release of the F1, F2 and F3 calendars for 2026; the approval of a compact trophy concept for FRegional and F4 series; and the granting of an FIA Super Licence to F2 driver Arvid Lindblad, a Red Bull junior, before he turns the usual minimum age of 18 in August.

While not covered in detail in this report, SMP F4 races this weekend at Igora Drive, located about an hour’s drive north of St Petersburg. The event features the first single-seater events on the circuit, which was due to host the Russian Grand Prix from 2023 onwards before F1 cancelled the contract in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Read on to find out more about what’s on this weekend – as well as a bonus segment on the junior single-seater drivers competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

1. F1 Academy: Round 4, Montréal
2. Indy NXT: Round 6, Gateway
3. FR Americas: Round 3, Indianapolis
4. Chinese F4: Round 3, Zhuhai
5. Bonus: Junior single-seater names to watch in the 24 Hours of Le Mans

F1 Academy: Round 4, Montréal

Circuit: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, 4.361 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC−4)

Friday 13 June

• 11:05–11:45: Free Practice
• 18:30–19:00: Qualifying

Saturday 14 June

• 9:15–9:50: Race 1
• 14:50–15:25: Race 2

Sunday 15 June

• 10:55–11:30: Race 3

How to follow: Live timing is available via the F1 Academy website. Sessions are streamed on F1 TV and on F1 Academy’s YouTube and X accounts.

Weather forecast: Dry and sunny throughout all sessions. 

What to know: F1 Academy heads to Montréal for the first time in series history this weekend. 

Because of the cancellation of the second race in Miami, there will be three races in Montréal. The postponed Miami race will be the first race on Saturday, with the grid already set from the results of the qualifying session in Miami. Race two on Saturday will be the standard reverse-grid race, and the full-points race will take place on Sunday. 

Maya Weug currently leads the standings with 64 points, only one point ahead of Doriane Pin. Chloe Chambers, who qualified on pole in Miami, sits in third with 55 points. 

The wild card entry for this round will be Germany’s Mathilda Paatz, who is currently racing in F4 CEZ. Paatz, 16, sits sixth in the standings, with her best finish this year being second at the Red Bull Ring. She also raced in the Formula Winter Series earlier this year, finishing 31st in the standings. She will run with backing from American sports beverage brand Gatorade, which has signed a deal to become an F1 Academy series sponsor from 2026 until 2030.  

We have an exciting addition to the paddock of our own in F2 editor and former F1 Academy editor Calla Kra-Caskey, whom you can follow on X for updates from on the ground.

Report by Kaylene Lau 

Read the previous round’s report here.

Indy NXT: Round 6, Gateway

Circuit: Gateway Motorsports Park, 2.012 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC−5)

Saturday 14 June

• 12:05–13:00: Practice
• 15:35–16:20: Qualifying

Sunday 15 June

• 15:35–16:15: Race

How to follow: All sessions are streamed live on IndyCar Live. Country-specific availability is listed here. In the United States, Fox Sports 2 will show qualifying, while Fox Sports 1 will show practice and the race. Live timing for all sessions is available on the IndyCar website.

Weather forecast: Showers likely Saturday. Partly sunny Sunday, with a low chance of showers in the afternoon.

What to know: Indy NXT holds its sixth of 14 rounds in 2025 this weekend at Gateway Motorsports Park. The venue – located in Illinois but part of the St Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area – is the first of four ovals to feature on the calendar this season.

Dennis Hauger enters the round with a healthy 38-point lead over Andretti Global teammate Lochie Hughes. The Norwegian comes to Gateaway fresh off his fourth victory from five starts in 2025 last time out at Detroit, where the majority of the field was involved in incidents.

Hauger was also the fastest driver at the series’ oval test at Nashville on 1 April. At the oval test earlier this week at Iowa Speedway, he was second behind HMD Motorsports veteran Josh Pierson, with Hughes a relatively distant third.

There are multiple driver changes for this weekend’s round, including two vacancies. Liam Sceats, who has driven HMD Motorsports’ #30 car on a round-by-round basis thus far, will miss this weekend despite appearing on the original entry list published Tuesday, citing off-track challenges as the reason for his absence.

The #18 HMD car last raced by Max Taylor and originally set to be piloted by rookie Evagoras Papasavvas this weekend will also be vacant. The 17-year-old will instead return next weekend at Road America.

The team’s #24 car, which Papasavvas drove in three races earlier this season, has a new occupant for this weekend after not running in Detroit. After a seven-year hiatus from American open-wheel racing, 28-year-old Davey Hamilton Jr returns to Indy NXT for his first of four starts this year, all on ovals. He last raced in the series in the 2018 Freedom 100 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in what was then known as Indy Lights.

From 2019 to October 2021, Hamilton did not compete in motor racing as a consequence of being charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault in Florida in February 2019 and placed on house arrest. Since returning to the cockpit in late 2021, Hamilton has competed in sprint car racing, the discipline in which he raced prior to making his single-seater debut in late 2016. He also tested for HMD at the Nashville Superspeedway last August.

Report by Michael McClure

Read the previous round’s report here.

FR Americas: Round 3, Indianapolis

Circuit: Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 3.925 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC−4)

Thursday 12 June

• 10:30–10:55: Optional test 1
• 14:05–14:30: Optional test 2
• 16:40–17:05: Optional test 3

Friday 13 June

• 10:40–11:05: Practice
• 15:45–16:10: Qualifying

Saturday 14 June

• 13:10–13:45: Race 1

Sunday 15 June

• 9:40–10:15: Race 2
• 13:30–14:05: Race 3

How to follow: Races will be live-streamed on the SpeedTour TV Youtube Channel. Live timing is available on Race Monitor.

Weather forecast: Cloudy Thursday; showers expected Friday and Saturday. Cloudy on Sunday with possible light rain.

What to know: A month after its last round at Road America, FR Americas heads to Indianapolis for its third round of the season.

Last time out, Titus Sherlock secured pole position and won all three races to retake the points lead. The Crosslink Motorsports currently leads by 19 points over Nicolás Ambiado, who came into Road America as the points leader. There, the Chilean took third place in race two last time but could only muster ninth and 11th in the other two races.

Three points behind Ambiado sits Bruno Ribeiro, the highest-placed rookie in the standings The Brazilian finished second in the first two races and took sixth in race three to hold on to third by three points over Brady Golan, who also races in USF Pro 2000.

Three drivers who competed last time are absent from this weekend’s entry list, as is one team. Athan Sterling, Jensen Global Advisors’ last time out, will not compete, meaning the team will field no cars. Atlantic Racing Team’s Daniel Quimby, the reigning F4 US champion and scholarship winner, will also be absent, as will Toney Driver Development’s Lincoln Day, who made his USF Juniors debut last weekend with DEForce Racing.

Day will be replaced by series newcomer Bijoy Garg, who won the LMP2 class of the 24 Hours of Le Mans last year after previously competing on the IndyCar ladder for four years. Garg, 22, races in the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s LMP2 class with Inter Europol Competition, where team owner Nathan Toney is an engineer.

Rejoining the series is Hayden Bowlsbey, who raced in the series last year with his family’s team, IGY6 Motorsports. A three-year veteran of the series, Bowlsbey has never raced with Crosslink Motorsports before but worked as a mechanic with the team at Road America. 

Finally, Nicole Havrda called time on her 2025 FR Americas campaign with Kiwi Motorsport after just one round of competition. She had originally been set for a full season barring two clashes with F1 Academy, the first being this weekend’s round at Montréal. She has yet to score points in either series this year.

Report by Marco Albertini

Read the previous round’s report here.

Chinese F4: Round 3, Zhuhai

Circuit: Zhuhai International Circuit, 4.319 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+8)

Friday 13 June

• 9:35–10:05: Free practice 1
• 10:45–11:15: Free practice 2
• 14:00-14:20: Qualifying 1
• 16:10–16:30: Qualifying 2

Saturday 14 June

• 11:20–12:00: Race 1
• 16:30–17:10: Race 2

Sunday 15 June 

• 10:30–11:10: Race 3
• 15:20–16:00: Race 4

How to follow: Live timing can be found on timing.orbits.cn. Sessions are streamed on the series’ YouTube, Bilibili and Weibo accounts.

Weather forecast: Rain expected all weekend. 

What to know: Chinese F4 heads to Zhuhai for the third round of the season. 

Heading into Zhuhai, Zhang Shimo leads the standings with 158 points. Dai Yuhao sits in second with 126 points after taking two wins in Shanghai last month, while Kimi Chan rounds out the top three with 105 points.

Black Blade GP will field a new lineup in Zhuhai, with experienced sports car racer Hu Heng and Liu Binghong joining the team in place of Cheng Meng and Mi Qi. Meng will instead replace Xu Yingjie at sister outfit Black Blade Racing alongside Chen Sicong. Xu Dan replaces Jing Zefeng at GYT Racing after competing in the opening round. Lu Ye also makes his first appearance this year in place of Huang Chujian at Apollo RFN Racing by ART, having scored twice in the series last year.

Geeke drivers Shi Wei and Fei Jun, Team KRC’s Wu Jiaxin and Happiness Racing’s Zhu Zhenyu will all not race in Zhuhai after competing in the last round in Shanghai. 

Report by Kaylene Lau 

Read the previous round’s report here.

Bonus: Junior single-seater names to watch in the 24 Hours of Le Mans

The 24 Hours of Le Mans may not be a feeder series race, but the world’s most famous endurance race features many names you may know – including four current junior single-seater drivers or 2024 graduates.

Three of those drivers are in the LMP2 class. Making her debut in the race is IDEC Sport’s Jamie Chadwick (#18), who leads the class standings in the European Le Mans Series after winning the first two races. England’s Chadwick, a three-time W Series champion, spent the past two years in Indy NXT, in which she won her first and only race a year ago this week. The silver-ranked 27-year-old joins ELMS teammate Mathys Jaubert and three-time Le Mans winner André Lotterer for her maiden appearance.

Macéo Capietto (#9), who is set to run a partial campaign in FR Europe this season with new team CL Motorsport, is also competing in the race with the Iron Lynx–Proton Competition entry. Capietto is at the foot of the LMP2 class standings in ELMS, but the 19-year-old silver comes to Le Mans with the advantage of experience, having run the race with the Proton outfit last year. The Frenchman joins Jonas Ried, who tested F3 machinery over the winter with AIX Racing, and former F3 driver Reshad de Gerus at the team.

Capietto’s onetime French F4 title rival Esteban Masson (#48) also has Le Mans experience, albeit in the LMGT3 class. The 20-year-old Frenchman, a Toyota junior who currently competes with TOM’S in Super Formula Lights, stepped up to LMP2 this year and is currently third overall in the European Le Mans Series. Gold-ranked Masson joins ELMS teammate Oliver Gray and sports car racing veteran Franck Perera, who was a Toyota F1 test driver in 2004 and 2005.

Iron Lynx also runs a familiar name in the LMGT3 category in Lin Hodenius (#61), who makes his Le Mans debut with the team. The 18-year-old Dutchman competed in several F4-level series last year with Van Amersfoort Racing before making the switch to the World Endurance Championship this year. The silver-ranked driver joins Martin Berry, who is the father of F4 SEA driver Josh Berry, and Maxime Martin, part of the winning line-up in the LMGTE Pro class in the event’s 2020 running.

While none of their drivers have recent ties to junior single-seaters, Euroformula Open newcomers Nielsen Racing (#24) are also competing in the LMP2 class. The team have been a stalwart of the endurance racing scene long before making their single-seater debut this year. This year, they run American endurance racing champion Colin Braun, sim racer–turned–F2 driver Cem Bölükbaşı and AI entrepreneur Naveen Rao. The presence of Rao, a bronze, means the car is part of the Pro/Am subclass within the LMP2 ranks.

The race begins at 16:00 local time (UTC+2) on Saturday and runs until the same time on Sunday. Viewing information can be found here, and the official spotter guide is available here.

Report by Michael McClure

All times and forecasts listed above are subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, follow each series’ websites or social media pages.

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