Euroformula Open will embark on its 13th season, with a raft of new drivers and a new team joining the grid. Feeder Series tells you all you need to know about the 2026 Euroformula Open season ahead of the first round at Portimão.
By Archie Harper
Though it is the 26th season of the GT Sport–run championship since it first began, 2026 marks the 13th season under its current iteration as Euroformula Open. The series had been known as Spanish Formula 3 and European F3 Open before it rebranded again in 2014 under its present name.
Euroformula Open will enter the 2026 season combining the Dallara 324 chassis and TOM’S-prepared Toyota engine for its second year running as a spec-engine series. The current formula aligns the series with Super Formula Lights in its technical specification.
Last season, Tymek Kucharczyk took the championship crown in dramatic fashion, with one race to go, at the final round in Monza. Kucharczyk won the penultimate race of the season with a margin of victory of only 0.001 seconds on track, giving him enough of a points gap to seal the title. He ended the season with only 17 points between him and runner-up Yevan David in what was the series’ tightest championship margin since 2015.
The Pole is racing in Indy NXT this year and is currently sitting third in the championship after three rounds. Title challengers David, Michael Shin and José Garfias have all stepped up to F3.
The calendar
This year will see a shakeup of the calendar, with Austria’s Red Bull Ring omitted for the first time since 2018 and Italy’s Misano making its series debut.
For the fourth year in a row, Portimão will host the season opener. Per an announcement made last October, the season finale in Barcelona, originally scheduled for the weekend of 16–18 October, was moved to the following week, so the season will now conclude on the weekend of 23–25 October.
- Round 1: Algarve International Circuit (17–19 April)
- Round 2: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps (15–17 May)
- Round 3: Misano World Circuit (5–7 June)
- Round 4: Hungaroring (3–5 July)
- Round 5: Circuit Paul Ricard (17–19 July)
- Round 6: Hockenheimring (11–13 September)
- Round 7: Autodromo Nazionale Monza (25–27 September)
- Round 8: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (23–25 October)
The format
The race format will remain the same as last year. Each weekend will involve two free practice sessions on Friday, a qualifying session and race one on Saturday, and races two and three on Sunday.
The grid for race one will be determined by the results of the qualifying session. Race two’s grid will be set using the results of race one with the top six reversed. The grid for race three will use the results of qualifying and similarly reverse the top six.
The points for all three of the races each weekend will follow the FIA standard of 25 points for the winner, down to one point for 10th position. An additional point will be awarded to the fastest driver in the qualifying session as well as to the driver with the fastest lap in each of the three races.
No changes have been announced to the rule stipulating that each driver’s worst three scores be dropped at the end of the season, nor to the points formats for rookies and teams used in 2025. Last year, the top five rookies scored following a 10-8-6-4-3 points system. The teams’ championship uses the same points system, with the top two drivers from each team eligible to score points and no points blocking from other drivers in place.
Where to watch
Followers of the series will be able to watch each round via Euroformula Open’s official YouTube channel. Other viewing options are also available in the form of channels listed under the media section of the Euroformula Open website. Live timings will be available at cronococa.com.
Teams and drivers
Three teams and 11 drivers are signed up for round one, though there is one notable omission relative to last year’s entry list. British team Nielsen Racing rebranded their open-wheel division to Northstar Racing for 2026, but despite participating in off-season testing and announcing a three-car entry, they are not present in Portimão. The title-winning sports car squad founded by David ‘Sven’ Thompson in 2014 expanded to single-seaters last year and finished third on debut in the Euroformula Open teams’ championship. Nielsen Racing went on to finish ninth in the LMP2 standings of the 2025–26 Asian Le Mans Series over the winter.
In December 2025, G Motorsport were also announced to be making their debut in the series with two cars. The Modena-based single-seater team had featured extensively in winter testing with Euroformula Open machinery but did not appear with either car on the Portimão entry list.
Team Motopark
Founded in 1998 by Timo Rumpfkeil, Motopark have become regular title contenders on the Euroformula Open grid. Since joining the series in 2019, the Germany-based team have taken all teams’ and all bar one drivers’ championship, either under their Team Motopark banner or that of their former satellite team CryptoTower Racing, which last competed in the series in 2023.
The highest-placed returner from 2025, Everett Stack (#9) will continue in the series after two wins and four more podiums carried him to sixth in the championship last season. The 18-year-old American has previously raced in a variety of series, including Formula Regional Middle East, Eurocup-3, F4 CEZ, Italian F4, Euro 4 and F4 UAE, all since 2024. Across all the other series, Stack scored a best result of 10th while racing in Italian F4, making his 2025 Euroformula Open campaign by far his most successful to date.
Enzo Yeh (#21) will return for a fresh attempt at the series, switching to Motopark after appearing elsewhere on the grid for the final two rounds of last season. The Taiwanese driver scored a best result of fourth and took one fastest lap in his first taste of the Dallara 324 machinery. The 17-year-old moved to Euroformula Open after racing in the first six rounds of FR Europe with RPM and achieving a best result of 11th. He also competed in FR Oceania in the winter of 2025 and scored 149 points on his way to 11th in the championship.
Also returning is Diego de la Torre (#44), who will remain with Motopark for his sophomore campaign in Euroformula Open. Scoring just one podium in 2025, the Mexican finished eighth overall in the championship. After making his single-seater debut in 2022 in F4 NACAM with two rookie-season podiums, he competed in Italian F4 in 2023 with AKM Motorsport and in Eurocup-3 the following year with Saintéloc Racing, with best results of 22nd and 11th respectively.
The first of Motopark’s rookies is De la Torre’s fellow Mexican Lorenzo Castillo (#10). Castillo is coming off the back of a 2025 spent in Eurocup-3 competition with Saintéloc Racing. Three times he scored a best result of 15th in the winter series before one-upping that with a best of 14th in the main championship.
Eighteen-year-old Jan Koller (#50) joins the grid for his rookie season following a partial 2025 Italian F4 campaign. The Czech driver competed in a total of 14 races across five rounds throughout the season, with a best finish of 12th in race two at the final round in Misano.
Polish rookie Wiktor Dobrzański (#7) also joins the Motopark line-up, entering the series after competing in the Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship and Eurocup-3 in 2025. In the winter series, the 19-year-old contested race three of the opening round and drove in all subsequent races of the winter series, scoring a best finish of 13th in race one at Portimão. His Eurocup-3 campaign was partial and he raced at just three rounds, taking a best result of 18th in his final race at Spa.
The third Mexican completing Motopark’s 2026 line-up is Jesse Carrasquedo Jr (#27) The 18-year-old had been announced with Van Amersfoort Racing in F3 before vacating his seat prior to the season opener. Carrasquedo Jr competed in Eurocup-3 with the Griffin Core by Campos team last year, finishing eighth in the winter series and fifth in the main series, and made appearances in the Barcelona and Austria rounds of F3 last year with Hitech. He most recently contested five races at the end of the FR Middle East Trophy season this winter, scoring a best result of 11th.
BVM Racing
Last year’s runners-up in the teams’ championship, BVM Racing, have remained the main challengers to Team Motopark’s dominance for the past four seasons. The Italian squad – founded by team namesakes Antonio Bertoni, Bruno Vanni and Giuseppe Mazzotti in 1993 – competed in Euroformula Open at its inception in 2014 before leaving the series in 2018 and finally returning for the 2021 season. Last season’s championship victory for Tymek Kucharczyk signified the first time a BVM driver had taken the series’ ultimate prize. The win was also the team’s first-ever title, on the whole, racing in Euroformula Open.
Joining the outfit in 2026 will be Alessandro Famularo (#11), who will continue with BVM after completing the final three rounds of the season with them in 2025. The 23-year-old Venezuelan’s highest finish was fourth place in race three of the penultimate round in Barcelona. Famularo had previously driven in F3 with Charouz Racing System in the final round of the 2022 season at Monza. Last year marked Famularo’s return to racing after a two-year hiatus following his appearance at the 2022 F3 post-season test with Charouz.
BVM will also field Mexican rookie Javier Herrera (#3) for 2026 following his third-place championship finish in F4 CEZ. The 16-year-old won three races and scored a further podium on his way to third overall in the championship with Jenzer Motorsport. The young Mexican stayed with Jenzer to pair that campaign with four races in Italian F4 in 2025, scoring one point and a best result of 10th in race three at Monza.
Completing the Italian team’s line-up will be Divy Nandan (#4), who joins the series following a partial GB3 campaign in 2025. The Indian driver moves across from the British series after he scored a best finish of 14th across four rounds. Previously, the 23-year-old raced in Indian F4 in 2024, in which he finished fourth in the standings with four podiums to his name.
Aaron Ferrazzano by Neri Autosport
A new name on the Euroformula Open grid, Neri Autosport will be the first French outfit to compete in the championship after Top F3 exited the European F3 Open Championship ahead of the series’ rebrand in 2014. The team, founded in 2016 by racing driver Jean-Luc Neri, most recently competed in the 2025 F2000 Italian Formula Trophy and Austrian Formula 3 Cup seasons.
The team will kick off their first foray into Euroformula Open by fielding Belgian rookie Aaron Ferrazzano (#58) in a privateer entry. Upon graduating from karts in 2025, 18-year-old Ferrazzano contested the Hoosier Formula Cup season, finishing second overall in the championship with three wins and a further five podiums to his name.
The grid at a glance
| Team | # | Driver |
| BVM Racing | 3 | Javier Herrera (R) |
| 4 | Divy Nandan | |
| 11 | Alessandro Famularo | |
| Team Motopark | 7 | Wiktor Dobrzański (R) |
| 9 | Everett Stack | |
| 10 | Lorenzo Castillo (R) | |
| 21 | Enzo Yeh | |
| 27 | Jesse Carrasquedo Jr | |
| 44 | Diego de la Torre | |
| 50 | Jan Koller (R) | |
| Aaron Ferrazzano by Neri Autosport | 58 | Aaron Ferrazzano (R) |
Header photo credit: Fotospeedy / GT Sport
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