After a busy week with Indy NXT and the USF Pro series running on track in the United States, last week did not feature a major collective testing outing. Instead, several smaller testing programmes took place across Europe, the Middle East and Brazil. Feeder Series tells you who tested where over the past week.

By Maciej Jackiewicz

Super Formula, F3 at Lusail

The fastest cars to appear this week did so at the Lusail circuit in Qatar thanks to another Aspire track day hosted on Tuesday and Wednesday.

After testing in Jeddah, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi, Aspire Formula Motorsport brought two of their modified SF-23 chassis, driven by Niels Koolen (#1) and Emmo Fittipaldi Jr. (#2). Alongside the AFM cars, Prema tested two F3 cars, with one of them being driven by Ricardo Escotto (#2) and the second by an unidentified driver.

Eurocup-3, F4 and GB4 at Silverstone

The first major test of the year in the United Kingdom took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. Eurocup-3, F4 and GB4 cars were present at the Silverstone Circuit.

Reigning Eurocup-3 champion Mattia Colnaghi tested the new Eurocup-3 machinery with his F3 team for this year, MP Motorsport, alongside a trio of MP drivers confirmed for the 2026 Eurocup-3 season: Ean Eyckmans, René Lammers and Gianmarco Pradel. Double R Racing brought one F4 car, while Douglas Motorsport arrived in Silverstone with one GB4 machine. Both of them were driven by unidentified drivers.

Eurocup-3, F4 at Valencia

Spain has been a popular place for drivers and teams to test during the winter, and it was no different this week. The drivers associated with Centro Especializado de Tecnificación Deportiva del Motor (CETDM) – the training and development centre for young motorsport athletes based at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo – tested on the Valencia circuit on Tuesday.

All of the cars that were tested belonged to Tecnicar. Nacho Tuñón drove in the sole Eurocup-3 Dallara 326, while the F4 cars were shared by Carmen Boix, Dani Briz, Óscar Fuertes, Neus Llin, Hugo Martí, Daniel Mota, Sandro Pérez and Aleix Piñera. Only Piñera has raced in F4 before, doing so with Tecnicar in the last two rounds of Spanish F4 last year.

Other testing

Two GB4 teams completed their shakedowns this week. Liam McNeilly drove the Fox Motorsport machine at Snetterton on Tuesday, while Jack Fabby tested the car of Idola Motorsport on Thursday. Another GB4 team, Elite Motorsport, completed a three-day test at Navarra on from Tuesday to Wednesday, with their drivers being Fred Green (#1), Matan Achituv (#2), Emmilio Valentino Del Grosso (#3) and Charlie Smith (#4). Green and Achituv have been confirmed to race with the team this season, while Del Grosso has tested with the team extensively over the winter.

Also in Spain, Soren Motorsports continued their extensive winter testing program with two cars on the Andalucia Circuit. As usual, Dean Pedersen was testing their F4 car, with his coach Christian Brooks in the second machine.

In Valencia on Sunday, meanwhile, 2022 Turismo Carretera champion Manu Urcera (#12) drove the Dallara F2 2018 car run by Speed-Center Motorsport.

In Brazil, meanwhile, a four-car F4 car test took place at the Autódromo Internacional de Campo Grande. Murilo Mazzotti drove one of the machines, sharing the track with two 2025 Fórmula Delta drivers – Barbara Estevo and series champion Alexandre Louza, whose coach João Rosate was also driving.

Read the previous week’s round-up here.

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