Formula 1’s crown jewel event at Monaco also heralds the return of F2 and F3 to Europe, while five other junior series take to less well-known venues for events of their own. Feeder Series previews the action.

By Feeder Series

At long last, F2 and F3 are finally back… together. F3’s unexpected hiatus of 12 weeks – as long as the gap from F2’s final round of 2025 to its first round of 2026 – means it feels as though the season is only just beginning in Monaco, especially with a sprint race in the Melbourne opener that was shortened by a red flag. Additionally, the Monaco Grand Prix itself has been moved to early June for the first time in decades, further delaying the F1 package’s return to Europe.

For the fully Europe-based series, there are plenty of events ahead too as their seasons pick up steam. Euroformula Open holds its third round of the season at Misano, while Eurocup-3 – with which it shares a car – and Spanish F4 head to Portimão in Portugal. F4 CEZ and Indy NXT will conclude their back-to-back mid-season rounds at the Slovakiaring and Gateway Motorsports Park respectively. Keep reading to find out more about each one.

Want to hear more about what’s coming up this weekend? Check out the latest episode of Feeder Focus from the Feeder Series Podcast here.

1. Formula 2: Round 4, Monaco
2. Formula 3: Round 2, Monaco
3. Indy NXT: Round 8, Gateway
4. Euroformula Open: Round 3, Misano
5. Eurocup-3: Round 2, Portimão
6. Spanish F4: Round 2, Portimão
7. F4 CEZ: Round 3, Slovakia Ring

Formula 2: Round 4, Monaco

Circuit: Circuit de Monaco, 3.337 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Thursday 4 June

• 15:00–15:45: Practice

Friday 5 June

• 15:10–15:26: Qualifying (Group A)
• 15:34–15:50: Qualifying (Group B)

Saturday 6 June

• 14:15–15:00: Sprint race (30 laps)

Sunday 7 June

• 09:25–10:25: Feature race (42 laps)

How to follow: All sessions will be live-streamed on F1 TV, but fans can also follow them live via the series’ live timing service. Local viewing information can be found here.

Weather forecast: Clear skies and warm weather throughout. 

What to know: F2 takes in its first European round of the season in Monaco, with plenty of intriguing storylines forming after early-season forays to Melbourne, Miami and Montréal. The fourth ‘M’, Monte Carlo, boasts the most storied circuit on the calendar, and all eyes will be on Alex Dunne, who has a particular history with the track. In last year’s feature race, his over-opportunistic defence of first place caused a huge Sainte-Dévote pile-up. 

Fighting with Dunne, who is seventh in the championship standings, could be points leader Gabriele Minì. The MP Motorsport driver has finished on the podium in each of the last three races. Minì is on 57 points, 21 clear of Invicta Racing’s Rafael Câmara in second. Former leader Nikola Tsolov is tied with Montréal feature race winner Martinius Stenshorne on 35 points, with the pair third and fourth respectively, while fifth-placed Noel León is two points back on 33. 

There are no driver changes for this round.

Report by Martin Lloyd

From the studio: Dunne has become one of F2’s most iconic drivers over the past year and a half – a transformation he has keenly observed in his native Ireland, where fans now flock to Mondello Park whenever he visits. What does Dunne make of his sophomore F2 season so far? He tells all on the Feeder Series Podcast. Catch the episode here.

You can also read our takeaways from the previous round here.

Formula 3: Round 2, Monaco

Circuit: Circuit de Monaco, 3.337 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Thursday 4 June

• 13:25–14:10: Practice

Friday 5 June

• 11:05–11:21: Qualifying (Group A)
• 11:29–11:45: Qualifying (Group B)

Saturday 6 June

• 10:45–11:30: Sprint race (23 laps)

Sunday 7 June

• 07:45–08:35: Feature race (27 laps)

How to follow: All sessions will be live-streamed on F1 TV, but fans can also follow them live via the series’ live timing service. Local viewing information can be found here.

Weather forecast: Clear skies and warm weather throughout.

What to know: After a three-month break, Formula 3 is back this weekend as the championship tackles the Circuit de Monaco – a track that has quickly become a drivers’ favourite after joining the calendar in 2023.

All eyes will be on Ugo Ugochukwu, the 2024 winner of the Macau Grand Prix. The championship leader’s experience of Monaco last season combined with Campos Racing’s great track record in the Principality – highlighted by victory and third place in 2025 – make him a strong candidate for back-to-back feature race victories.

Competition will be stiff, however, starting with his teammate and fellow Macau winner Théophile Naël, who is yet to finish a race in the points-paying positions this season despite taking pole in Melbourne.

Others who have excelled on street circuits will make their Monaco debuts, such as reigning FRegional Europe champion Freddie Slater and ART Grand Prix rookie Taito Kato, third and fourth in points respectively.

The only driver change for this weekend comes in the third Campos car, which Ernesto Rivera reclaims from Patrick Heuzenroeder. The Mexican was forced to sit out the opening round of the season after picking up a vertebral injury in FR Oceania. Heuzenroeder will return to his regular Eurocup-3 ride with the team.

Report by Daniele Spadi

From the press: Drivers did all sorts of things to cure their boredom over the past three months. Some even got behind the wheel again – in all-electric single-seater machinery. Naël and Slater both participated in the Formula E rookie test in Madrid, with the former topping the morning session. Read what they told us about the opportunity here.

You can also read our takeaways from the previous round here.

Indy NXT: Round 8, Gateway

Circuit: Gateway Motorsports Park, 2.012 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC−5)

Saturday 6 June 

• 14:00–14:55: Practice
• 17:00–17:50: Qualifying

Sunday 7 June

• 16:30–17:15: Race (75 laps)

How to follow: All sessions will be streamed live on IndyCar Live. Live timing will be available on the Indy NXT website.  

Weather forecast: Possibility of showers or thunderstorms during the weekend. Hot, with temperatures up to 33°C on Saturday.

What to know: Just days removed from a chaotic race in Detroit, the first oval race of the Indy NXT season is on the horizon at Gateway. Enzo Fittipaldi took the championship lead from Nikita Johnson with his win in the Motor City, but the margins at the top are razor-thin, with Fittipaldi, Johnson and Tymek Kucharczyk separated by just eight points. 

The oval qualifying format is in effect at Gateway, which means drivers line up in reverse championship order for a single qualifying attempt. Each driver’s fastest time across two laps will decide their starting position for the race.

For Fittipaldi, Jack Beeton, Alexander Koreiba and Matteo Nannini, this weekend marks  their oval racing debut. Kucharczyk contested USF Pro 2000’s Freedom 90 last month to get some oval experience under his belt.

Last year, Lochie Hughes won at Gateway ahead of Myles Rowe and Caio Collet. Eventual champion Dennis Hauger finished fifth.

There is one driver change for this weekend. Yuven Sundaramoorthy (#15) replaces Nicolas Stati at Cusick Morgan Motorsports for this round as Stati has other commitments, per the team. Sundaramoorthy previously raced in Indy NXT for Abel Motorsports in 2023 and 2024, taking a best championship finish of eighth and scoring his maiden series podium at Gateway in the latter season. 

Report by Vincent van der Hoek

From the press: Kucharczyk is experiencing many firsts this year, among them oval racing. Ahead of his Indy NXT oval debut at Gateway, he made a one-off appearance in USF Pro 2000’s Indianapolis Raceway Park round with TJ Speed Motorsports, his engineer’s team, on short notice – and finished third. Click here to find out what he made of the experience.

You can also read the previous round’s report here.

Euroformula Open: Round 3, Misano

Circuit: Misano World Circuit, 4.226 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Friday 5 June

• 10:25–11:05: Free practice 1
• 14:50–15:30: Free practice 2

Saturday 6 June

• 09:55–10:15: Qualifying
• 14:00–14:30: Race 1 (19 laps)

Sunday 7 June

• 10:45–11:15: Race 2 (19 laps)
• 16:00–16:30: Race 3 (19 laps)

How to follow: Qualifying and each race will be streamed live on Euroformula Open’s official YouTube channel. Live timings will be available at cronococa.com.

Weather forecast: Warm all weekend, with rain expected late Friday and likely into Saturday morning. Some clouds on Saturday, but mostly sunny on Sunday.

What to know: Euroformula Open heads to Misano for the first time in what marks the third round of the 2026 season. 

Already leading the championship by a whopping 49 points from second-placed Diego de la Torre is Enzo Yeh, who, last time out, became only the fifth driver in the series’ history to take three race wins in the same weekend.

“I didn’t expect that myself,” Yeh told Feeder Series following the weekend. “I tried to find my pace on Friday, [and] fortunately there were overtaking opportunities in Spa and I took them.”

The Taiwanese driver swept the weekend despite a drive-through penalty in race three for pitting under safety car conditions when the field had been directed not to do so. 

The penalty was not severe enough to override both Yeh’s pace and the advantage of the stop, which appeared at the time to be a calculated move. Yeh, however, admitted he decided to take the stop and insisted he was unaware of the race director’s instructions.

“It was my decision,” he told Feeder Series. “I didn’t know I was not allowed to pit under [the] safety car procedure at that moment. I would not pit if I knew it.”

If so, then it seems both skill and fortune have favoured the championship leader so far, and De la Torre and third-placed Alessandro Famularo will hope to make something happen in Misano to stop Yeh from barrelling to the point of untouchability in the title fight.

There are also some changes to the grid for this weekend with three drivers absent and one new entry.

Drivex will not compete this weekend in keeping with their schedule of running selected weekends this season, with the team and drivers Gino Trappa and Filippo Fiorentino all competing in Eurocup-3’s Portimão round.

BVM’s Alceu Feldmann Neto will also be absent to race in Eurocup-3 with MP Motorsport, and Brazilian Ricardo Baptista (#4) has been named his replacement. The 18-year-old, who contested the Spielberg round of Euroformula Open last year with Nielsen Racing, is currently racing in GB3, in which he sits 20th in the standings on 27 points. 

Report by Archie Harper

Read the previous round’s report here.

Eurocup-3: Round 2, Portimão

Circuit: Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, 4.653 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC +1)

Friday 5 June

• 09:00–09:40: Official test 1
• 11:40–12:20: Official test 2

Saturday 6 June

• 10:00–10:20: Qualifying 1
• 12:15–12:50: Race 1 

Sunday 7 June

• 10:00–10:20: Qualifying 2
• 12:15–12:50: Race 2 

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

Weather forecast: Warm and partly cloudy throughout the weekend.

What to know: For the second year running, Portimão plays host to Eurocup-3’s second round of the season. After appearing on all three steps of the podium last time out at Le Castellet, Palou Motorsport’s James Egozi leads the standings on 52 points, 13 ahead of Hitech’s Keanu Al Azhari. The American driver now heads to a circuit where he has four wins to his name, two of which came back in February’s winter series opener. 

Winter series champion Al Azhari won the final race of the weekend at Le Castellet after a fierce battle with the current championship leader. The Emirati driver also scored a win and two second places during the winter series round. The combination of Egozi’s successful track record at Portimão and Al Azhari’s strong run of form so far in 2026 means that the pair’s close rivalry is most certainly set to continue.

Two drivers who also compete in Spanish F4, Tecnicar’s Andrej Petrović and GRS Team’s Andre Rodriguez, will be replaced by two drivers returning to single-seaters this weekend: Casper Stevenson (#22) and Jakob Bergmeister (#70). 

Stevenson, 23, last competed in single-seaters in 2021 when he finished sixth in Euroformula Open with Van Amersfoort Racing, taking two wins and two third-place finishes in the process. The British driver currently competes in the Endurance Cup rounds of the IMSA SportsCar Championship for GTD team Dragonspeed.

Twenty-year-old Bergmeister’s last competitive outing was with Saintéloc Racing in last year’s FR Middle East round at Dubai, where he finished 23rd twice. In Euroformula Open the year prior, the German driver took a win and six further podiums on his way to fourth in the standings with Motopark despite missing two rounds.

Lastly, Tommy Harfield (#26) will replace Linus Lundqvist at Double R Racing. The 17-year-old British driver is currently competing in his second British F4 season with Chris Dittmann Racing. Though he finished fourth in the championship last year, he is currently 12th in the standings, with a third-place finish at Brands Hatch his best result.

Report by Seb Tirado

Read the previous round’s report here.

Spanish F4: Round 2, Portimão

Circuit: Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, 4.653 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC +1)

Friday 5 June

• 10:10–11:10: Official test 1
• 12:50–13:20: Free practice 1
• 14:50–15:20: Free practice 2

Saturday 6 June

• 9:00–9:20: Qualifying 1
• 11:00–11:35: Race 1
• 13:50–14:20: Race 2 

Sunday 7 June

• 9:00–9:20: Qualifying 2
• 11:00–11:35: 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 in English and Spanish.

Weather forecast: Warm and partly cloudy throughout the weekend.

What to know: Spanish F4 returns to action after a seven-week break for its only international visit of the season at Portimão.

Last time out at Valencia, MP Motorsport’s Rocco Coronel won the first two races of the weekend, and he heads to Portugal as the championship leader on 55 points. The Red Bull junior sits 12 points ahead of closest rival Noah Monteiro, who took a hat-trick of third-place finishes behind Aleix Piñera in the first two races and Coronel’s stablemate Borys Łyżeń in race three.

When the field last visited Portimão in the winter series, Drivex’s Nathan Tye bookended his weekend with victories, whilst Piñera’s T-Code counterpart Andrej Petrović took victory in the reverse-grid sprint race. Monteiro and Coronel both finished on the podium that weekend, with the former finishing second in the final race and the latter taking two third places.

Single-seater debutant Dani Mota (#5) will occupy TC Racing’s third car this weekend, replacing Sandro Pérez. The Spanish driver is a member of the TC Junior Team and has been competing in X30 Senior karting this year, currently sitting third in Spain’s national championship.

At Monlau Motorsport, Yuzuki Sato (#27) will replace Alexander Chartier and similarly make his single-seater debut. The 16-year-old Japanese driver won last year’s FIA Karting Senior Shootout, the prize of which was €250,000 to go towards a campaign in an FIA-certified F4 championship. He also won the inaugural running of the FIA Karting Academy Trophy’s senior category. Chartier is recovering from a thumb injury he sustained in the Italian F4 season opener at Misano four weeks ago.

Lastly, Andre Rodriguez (#96) will move over from GRS Team’s Eurocup-3 squad to a third Spanish F4 entry for this weekend. The 17-year-old American took a best finish of 17th in the Eurocup-3 season opener, and he is also currently competing in Italian F4 with Cram Motorsport, likewise with two best results of 17th so far.

Report by Seb Tirado

Read the previous round’s report here.

F4 CEZ: Round 3, Slovakia Ring

Circuit: Slovakia Ring, 5.922 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Thursday 4 June

• 09:45–10:30: Collective test 1 (heat 1) 
• 10:30–11:15: Collective test 1 (heat 2)
• 12:00–12:45: Collective test 2 (heat 1)
• 13:45–14:30: Collective test 2 (heat 2)
• 15:15–16:00: Collective test 3 (heat 1)
• 16:00–16:45: Collective test 3 (heat 2)
• 17:30–18:15: Collective test 4 (heat 1)
• 18:15–19:00: Collective test 4 (heat 2)

Friday 5 June

• 09:20–10:00: Free practice (heat 1)
• 10:05–10:45: Free practice (heat 2)

• 16:45–17:05: Qualifying (heat 1)
• 17:10–17:30: Qualifying (heat 2)

Saturday 6 June

• 12:00–12:50: Race 1 (groups A and B)
• 16:05–16:55: Race 2 (groups B and C)

Sunday 7 June

• 09:25–10:15: Race 3 (groups A and C)
• 14:05–14:55: Race 4 (final)

How to follow: Races will be live-streamed on YouTube on the official F4 CEZ Championship channel. Live timing is available on Speedhive.

Weather forecast: Mostly cloudy on Saturday, and sunny to partly cloudy on Sunday. Temperatures will remain warm, with rain not expected.

What to know: After a shortened weekend at the Salzburgring, where the fourth race was cancelled because of poor weather, F4 CEZ is back for the third round of the season at the longest circuit in the calendar – the Slovakia Ring.

Securing two wins in Austria last weekend enabled Elia Weiss to take over the championship lead, nine points over the sole non-Jenzer driver in the top four, David Walther. Just one point behind the Dane sits Max Karhan, who is one to watch for this weekend having scored three podiums in last year’s round in Slovakia. The rookie standings, introduced during the round at the Salzburgring, are led by Simon Rechenmacher of Cram Racing after he finished third twice last time out.

There are a few changes to the grid compared to the round in Salzburg. As Spanish F4 takes to the Algarve International Circuit, Sebastián Frigolet will not come back to the Harp Racing car. In his place instead will be Piotr Orcholski (#35), who becomes the second Polish driver to debut mid-season after turning 15 on 4 June. Orcholski tested extensively with Harp Racing across Europe and also competed in last year’s Fórmula Delta finale with the team. He will race under this outfit’s name, contrary to Frigolet, whose entry was run under the Drivex name.

The two Czech drivers who were missing from the Salzburgring entry list – Albert Písařík (#11) of Janík Motorsport and Roman Roubíček (#65) of JMT Engineering – are both back racing this weekend. Meanwhile, Payton Westcott, who made her F4 CEZ debut last week with Cram Motorsport, will not return, nor will Knud Nielsen, who sits 14th in the standings.

Report by Maciej Jackiewicz

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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