The flagship Formula Regional and F4 events worldwide take place this weekend as part of the 72nd Macau Grand Prix, while Eurocup-3 and Spanish F4 hold their final rounds of the season at Barcelona.

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It’s a truly global weekend for junior single-seaters, with events all across Asia, Europe and North America.

Ten teams and 27 drivers will compete in the FIA FRegional World Cup, while 19 from F4 series – including seven single-seater champions this year – will join them in the Macau paddock for the inaugural FIA F4 World Cup.

Eurocup-3 and Spanish F4 hold the final single-seater races of the year in Europe in Barcelona, though with both championships already wrapped up.

Elsewhere, F4 Saudi Arabia is hosting a pair of rounds in Jeddah this week. The first took place on Monday and Tuesday, with two changes to the entry list: Theo Palmer and Macau-bound Ary Bansal were replaced by Spanish F4 and GB4 driver Lewis Wherrell and karting graduate Wojciech Woda. In race one, championship leader Kit Belofsky started from pole position, but 12 laps later it was Wherrell who emerged victorious. 

Race two began with a rolling start because of an issue with the starting lights. Polesitter Adam Al Azhari crossed the line first, but he and second-placed Wherrell were later penalised for a safety car infringement, handing the win to Scott Lindblom. Belofsky continues to lead the standings on 103 points, while Lindblom has moved into second place, 10 points behind Belofsky and one ahead of Al Azhari. The series will return to Jeddah on Friday and Saturday for round four.

Indian F4 will also return this weekend for its fourth round, originally scheduled to take place in Goa two weeks ago but later moved to Kari Motor Speedway. Shane Chandaria currently leads the championship by 12 points from Ishaan Madesh, with Sachel Rotgé a further two behind. Two-time winner Itsuki Sato will not return as he is competing in the Macau Grand Prix, and will be replaced by F4 Middle East driver Arjun Chheda. Aris Kyriakou, who was part of the Formula Global Shootout Program, will join Godspeed Kochi; it is unknown which driver he will replace there.

In the Americas, the final round of the Formula Pro USA Western Series will be in Buttonwillow Raceway Park in California, while Fórmula Delta’s penultimate round – where a champion may be crowned – will be in Velocitta.

Additional reporting by Mitchell Ash

1. FIA Formula Regional World Cup, Macau
2. FIA Formula 4 World Cup, Macau
3. Eurocup-3: Round 8, Barcelona
4. Spanish F4: Round 8, Barcelona

FIA Formula Regional World Cup, Macau

Circuit: Circuito da Guia, 6.120 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+8)

Thursday 13 November

• 09:15–09:55: Free practice 1
• 15:50–16:30: Qualifying 1

Friday 14 November

• 10:15–10:55: Free practice 2 
• 14:30–15:10: Qualifying 2

Saturday 15 November

• 16:15–17:20: Qualifying race 

Sunday 16 November

• 15:30–16:35: Race

How to follow: Sessions will be streamed live on the FIA’s official YouTube channel and the Macau Grand Prix website. Live timing is available on its-live.net.

Weather forecast: Clouds on Thursday giving way to sunny conditions the rest of the weekend.

What to know: The 72nd Macau Grand Prix and the second edition of the Formula Regional World Cup will take place this weekend at the Guia Circuit. 

Last year, Ugo Ugochukwu took the inaugural FR World Cup title, becoming the second American driver to win the Macau Grand Prix after Bob Earl in 1981. This year, ten teams and 27 drivers will race in Macau, running the Tatuus T-318 chassis with Alfa Romeo engines developed by Autotecnica. 

Many of those competing this weekend also raced in last year’s race, including Enzo Deligny and Mari Boya, who finished fourth and seventh in the main race. Charles Leong, the only Macanese driver to have won the Macau Grand Prix twice, will also compete. Trident and Van Amersfoort Racing will also return to compete at the Guia Circuit after last racing in the F3-spec event in 2023. 

Follow head of content Michael on X for updates from the paddock.

Report by Kaylene Lau

FIA Formula 4 World Cup, Macau

Circuit: Circuito da Guia, 6.120 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+8)

Thursday 13 November

• 10:10–10:50: Free practice 1

Friday 14 November

• 09:15–09:55: Free practice 2 
• 13:30–14:10: Qualifying 

Saturday 15 November

• 11:40–12:45: Qualifying race 

Sunday 16 November

• 09:15–10:20: Race

How to follow: Sessions will be streamed live on the FIA’s official YouTube channel and the Macau Grand Prix website. Live timing is available on its-live.net.

Weather forecast: Cloudy on Thursday, with sunny conditions during the rest of the weekend.

What to know: The new FIA F4 World Cup event this year will bring F4 cars to the Guia Circuit for the first time since 2023. 

Seven out of the 20 drivers invited to race in the World Cup event this weekend are F4 champions from series across the globe. The drivers will run the Ligier JS F422, also badged as the Mygale M21-F4, with engines provided by Alpine.

For many of the drivers invited to race in the event, this weekend will mark their first time racing in Macau. However, two drivers who raced in the FR World Cup last year will race in the F4 edition this year, with Rintaro Sato and local driver Tiago Rodrigues both making their returns to the Guia Circuit. The other driver on the grid with experience at the track is fellow Macanese racer Marcus Cheong, who competed in the F4 race in 2023. 

Follow head of content Michael on X for updates from the paddock.

Report by Kaylene Lau

Eurocup-3: Round 8, Barcelona

Circuit: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, 4.657 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+1)

Thursday 13 November

• 14:50–15:30: Official test 1

Friday 14 November 

• 12:20–13:00: Official test 2

Saturday 15 November

• 11:40–12:00: Qualifying 1
• 15:10–15:45: Race 1

Sunday 16 November

• 09:00–09:20: Qualifying 2
• 14:40–15:15: Race 2

How to follow: All races will be streamed on the Eurocup-3 YouTube channel. All sessions will have live timing on Al Kamel Systems.

Weather forecast: Possible thunderstorms all day Friday; sunny on Saturday morning. Light rain showers expected Saturday evening and Sunday morning. 

What to know: Mattia Colnaghi and MP Motorsport might’ve wrapped up the drivers’ and team’s championships last time out at Jerez, but the battle for runner-up in both is still hotly contested going into the final round of the 2025 season at Barcelona.

In the drivers’ standings, Valerio Rinicella currently stands second on 185 points, nine ahead of Ernesto Rivera and 23 ahead of Kacper Sztuka. In the teams’ standings, Campos Racing on 346 points lead Griffin Core, their satellite team, by 31 points.

In the first official test earlier today, Rinicella also led the way, with Red Bull juniors Jules Caranta, Rivera and Enzo Tarnvanichkul all in the top five. Rinicella’s MP Motorsport teammate Maciej Gładysz came fourth.

Three drivers are missing the round to compete in the Macau Grand Prix this weekend, with two of them having replacements in Barcelona. Monlau Motorsport’s Lorenzo Campos (#71) will make his FR-level debut and occupy Colnaghi’s seat at MP Motorsport. The Angolan driver is currently 27th in the Spanish F4 standings with a best finish of 13th at Portimão.

At Drivex, Michael Belov (#11) will replace Oscar Wurz after previously appearing with Allay Racing at Assen, where he scored the team’s first points with a second-place finish in race one. Joining him at Drivex are Ádám Hideg (#17) in place of Alan Orzynski and Eurocup-3 debutant Cadi Baptista (#21).

Hideg last competed in Eurocup-3 machinery during the Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship with Palou Motorsport, in which he finished 19th in the standings with a single points finish of 10th in the final race at Aragón. Baptista, currently 11th in Brazilian F4, has raced machinery at a similar level in Euroformula Open’s Spielberg round, taking a best finish of 10th.

The final Macau-bound driver, James Egozi, will not have a replacement at Palou Motorsport, and the team will compete with a three-car lineup.

After debuting in the championship last time out, Tecnicar will add Dani Maciá (#28) to their lineup this weekend. The Spanish driver will make his FR-level debut, having last competed in open-wheel machinery in Spanish F4’s 2023 season with GRS Team. He also competed in the 2024 Ultimate Cup Series’ European Endurance Prototype Cup in the LMP3 class with Team Virage, finishing 10th in the standings. 

GRS Team return to Eurocup-3 with a two-car lineup of Maximilian Popov (#73) and Yani Stevenheydens (#74). The former will make his FR-level debut after competing with Van Amersfoort Racing in the Formula Winter Series, Italian F4 and E4 this year and taking eight podiums across 41 races. The latter – the 2024 French F4 runner-up – competed as GRS Team’s sole Eurocup-3 entry in the first two rounds of the season and participated in Spanish F4’s Valencia round with the team last month as a guest driver.

Allay Racing and their drivers, Linus Hellberg and Emil Hellberg, will be absent this weekend. It is currently unknown whether the Swedish outfit will return to the championship next season. 

Follow Eurocup-3 editor Seb on X for updates from the paddock.

Report by Seb Tirado

Read the previous round’s report here.

Spanish F4: Round 8, Barcelona

Circuit: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, 4.657 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+1)

Thursday 13 November

• 14:00–14:40: Official test 1

Friday 14 November 

• 11:30–12:10: Official test 2

Saturday 15 November

• 09:00–09:30: Free practice

• 12:10–12:30: Qualifying 1
• 16:00–16:35: Race 1

Sunday 16 November

• 08:30–08:50: Qualifying 2
• 11:35–12:05: Race 2
• 15:30–16:05: Race 3

How to follow: All sessions will have live timing at Al Kamel Systems. All races will be streamed on the Spanish F4 YouTube channel.

Weather forecast: Possible thunderstorms all day Friday; sunny on Saturday morning. Light rain showers expected Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

What to know: Much like in its parent series Eurocup-3, Spanish F4 has three drivers in contention for the runner-up position to Thomas Strauven, who sealed his second drivers’ title of 2025 last time out at Valencia. René Lammers is currently on 220 points, 25 ahead of rookie champion Ean Eyckmans, who is in turn only seven clear of Eurocup-4 winter series runner-up Jan Przyrowski. 

Strauven topped the first test session on Thursday, with Matúš Ryba, Andrej Petrović and Miguel Costa following him in the order. Przyrowski was the highest-placed driver in contention for the runner-up spot, finishing fifth.

MP Motorsport will add a fourth car to their line-up to field 2025 Ginetta Junior champion and Red Bull junior Rocco Coronel (#3) as a wild card entry. The Dutch driver took 11 wins and eight further podiums on his way to the title, with all his victories coming amidst a podium streak that lasted 17 races. 

Two drivers, Rodin’s Kyuho Lee and Drivex’s Gino Trappa, will compete in the F4 World Cup in Macau this weekend. Rodin will solely run Nathan Tye and Emma Felbermayr this weekend, whilst Drivex will replace this year’s F4 CEZ champion in the #48 car with stablemate Christopher El Feghali, whose vacated seat will now be occupied by Kirill Kutskov (#33). The Kyrgyz-licenced 17-year-old competed in Italian F4 this year with Maffi Racing and finished 18th in the standings with a best finish of fourth in the final round at Misano.

Cadi Baptista will move up to Drivex’s Eurocup-3 squad this weekend. His vacated seat, however, is understood to be occupied not by F1 Academy’s Rafaela Ferreira as stated on the entry list but rather by Daniel Nogales (#15). The 22-year-old Spanish driver finished runner-up in the European Le Mans Series’ LMP3 class this year with Team Virage and competed in Eurocup-3 last year with Drivex and later Saintéloc Racing. 

With Yani Stevenheydens and Lorenzo Campos competing in Eurocup-3, their respective seats at GRS Team and Monlau Motorsport will be occupied by Pablo Riccobono Bello (#71) and Santiago Baztarrica (#91), who returns to the championship. The former finished 16th in French F4 this year with a best finish of sixth at Spa, whilst the latter is currently classified 23rd in the standings after being replaced at TC Racing by Rogério Grotta ahead of the Jerez round.

Follow Spanish F4 editor Seb on X for updates from the paddock.

Report by Seb Tirado

Read the previous round’s report here.

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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