Formula 1 and its support series tackle the new Madring street circuit, where F2 will finish off its European season and F3 will crown a champion. Feeder Series previews the action from seven series, including hotly contested title deciders in FRegional Europe and Super Formula Lights.

By Feeder Series

We’re finally reaching the point in the year when championships are ending rather than beginning. Indeed, this weekend, three of the seven series covered in our previews and reviews will stage their final rounds, those being F3 at Madrid, FRegional Europe at Hockenheim and Super Formula Lights at Motegi.

Sprinkled among those are four other championships with significant storylines playing out. In F2, it’s the intensifying battle between mid-season dominator Nikola Tsolov and a rising Rafael Câmara; in Eurocup-3 and Euroformula Open, it’s a runaway points leader in each with a pack of rivals hoping to curb their momentum; and in F4 CEZ, it’s a multi-driver brawl with a newly announced Eurocup-3 test prize on the line. Keep reading to find out more about what’s at stake.

While not covered in detail, the fifth round of NACAM F4 will take place at Autódromo Miguel E. Abed, the same venue that hosted the season-opening round. Having won four of the last five races, Alessandros Racing’s Alex Bobadilla holds a 47-point lead in the championship over Alan Zezatti, who has not finished off of the podium since the very first race of the season. Ram Racing’s Oliver Trejo sits third, 104 points back, after joining Zezatti on the podium in all three races in the previous round at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. 

Alongside Bobadilla, Zezatti, and Mariano Alatorre, Leo Mancera is set to make his debut for Alessandros in the #27 car, meaning there will be a vacancy in the #26 car that has run in every round so far this season.

Indian F4 will also begin its 2026 season this weekend with the first round of a scheduled six at Kari Motor Speedway. Fourteen drivers have been announced: Ahmedabad Apex Racers’ Mathias Forland, Chennai Turbo Riders’ Sai Aditya and Anay Doshi, Goa Aces JA Racing’s Aryan Narola and Luviwe Sambudla, Godspeed Kochi’s Mahlori Mabunda, Hyderabad Blackbirds’ Bhuvan Bonu and Shravan Shanmugavel, Kichcha’s Kings Bengaluru’s Enzo Rujugiro and Aris Kyriakou, Kolkata Royal Tigers’ Swarnav Das and Aaron Mehta, and Speed Demons Delhi’s Krishay Gutte and Ntiyiso Mabunda.

The centrally run series has not unveiled car numbers for its confirmed drivers. This weekend’s three races are set to be shown on Star Sports and JioHotstar within India.

Formula 2: Round 11, Madrid

Circuit: Circuito de Madring, 5.416 km

Schedule: All times local (GMT+2) 

Friday 11 September

• 11:05–11:50: Free practice
• 15:00–15:30: Qualifying

Saturday 12 September

• 14:15–15:05: Sprint race (23 Laps or 45 minutes + 1 lap) 

Sunday 13 September

• 11:25–12:30: Feature race (32 Laps or 60 minutes + 1 lap) 

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: Sunshine is forecast across the weekend, with temperatures climbing to a high of 32°C on Sunday.

What to know: Formula 2 travels to its third new venue of 2026 as they take on the recently constructed Madring street circuit.

In the previous round at Monza, Nikola Tsolov’s margin at the top of the championship was shaved to 11 points by Rafael Câmara, who moved up to second place in the standings following a scoreless home round for Gabriele Minì. The Italian has been demoted to third, 30 points behind Tsolov.

However, it was Câmara’s Invicta Racing teammate Joshua Dürksen who stole the show at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza last weekend, claiming a double victory to continue his impressive record of five podiums in six attempts around the Temple of Speed. 

But the form book now goes out the window as even the toughest of title contenders will be tested by the tight and twisty Madring circuit. There are no changes to the entry list for this round.

Report by Cliona Sheerin

You can read our takeaways from the previous round here.

Formula 3: Round 9, Madrid

Circuit: Circuito de Madring, 5.416 km

Schedule: All times local (GMT+2)

Friday 11 September

• 09:55–10:40: Free practice
• 18:25–18:45: Qualifying 1
• 18:55–19:15: Qualifying 2

Saturday 12 September

• 11:05–11:50: Sprint race (16 laps or 40 minutes + 1 lap)
• 18:00–18:50: Feature race 1 (19 laps or 45 minutes + 1 lap)

Sunday 13 September

• 09:45–10:35: Feature race 2 (19 laps or 45 minutes + 1 lap)

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: Sunshine is forecast across the weekend, with temperatures climbing to a high of 32°C on Sunday.

What to know: Like F2, F3 also heads to the Madring, but the stakes will be much higher. The Spanish circuit will host the championship’s season finale, which will have an additional qualifying session to set the grid for a second feature race.

In the drivers’ standings, Freddie Slater and Ugo Ugochukwu are separated by just 15 points. This year, Slater has finished on the podium at least once in each race weekend; Ugochukwu has missed out in three rounds, but he is one of three drivers with two victories to his name.

Both Ernesto Rivera and Théophile Naël are still mathematically in contention, though their odds of winning are minuscule. They sit 65 and 66 points back respectively, with 67 points up for grabs this weekend.

In late August, two days of in-season testing let the drivers sample the brand-new Madring. Drivers labelled it a demanding track both physically and mentally, and 19 red flags were reported throughout the two days.

There are three line-up changes this weekend. Niccolò Maccagnani make his Formula 3 debut for Rodin Motorsport, taking Christian Ho’s spot. The Ferrari academy driver, who is currently ninth in the Italian F4 standings, will become the youngest driver to be part of the F3 grid since Jak Crawford in 2021, having turned 16 years old a fortnight before the round. Singaporean citizen Ho, who turns 20 at the end of next month, is heading back to Singapore to fulfill his two-year-long National Service military requirements, having completed his maths, higher-level maths and physics A-levels in the United Kingdom in June.

Two others will miss the round as a result of accidents. DAMS driver Gerrard Xie was involved in a high-speed accident on lap 10 of the sprint race at Monza that sent him airborne after colliding with the car of Michael Shin. He raced in the following day’s feature race but was withdrawn from Madrid on Thursday on medical advice. So too was AIX Racing’s Ricardo Escotto, who was injured in a road accident between the two rounds. Neither driver will be replaced.

Report by Daniele Spadi

From the press: Bruno Del Pino was one of the standout drivers in the first half of the 2026 F3 season, aided by a few pivotal off-season changes – but of late, theat early form has fallen off a cliff. He sat down with Feeder Series in Budapest to discuss his mixed second campaign and what he’s looking forward to the most at his home race. Read the article here.

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

FRegional Europe: Round 8, Hockenheim

Circuit: Hockenheimring, 4.574 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Friday 11 September 

• 11:57–12:47: Free practice 1
• 17:03–17:53: Free practice 2

Saturday 12 September 

• 09:10–09:25: Qualifying 1 group A
• 09:30–09:45: Qualifying 1 group B
• 13:05–13:35: Race 1 

Sunday 13 September 

• 09:40–09:55: Qualifying 2 group B
• 10:00–10:15: Qualifying 2 group A
• 16:15–16:45: Race 2

How to follow: Each qualifying and race will be available to watch live on the FR Europe official YouTube channel. Live timing will be available at Cronococa.

Weather forecast: Warm and partly cloudy throughout the weekend with a chance of showers on Sunday afternoon.

What to know: There are many sounds to be heard at the race track, but on Sunday afternoon, Hockenheim will fall silent as the 2026 Formula Regional European champion is crowned.

Emanuele Olivieri holds the cards on 200 points after taking his second win of the season at Imola. The championship leader and new rookie champion has stood on the podium in all but two of the last eight races.

The nearest challenger Sebastian Wheldon could not quite topple Olivieri throughout round seven, but a second place in race one has brought the American to 180 points.

Former points leader Kean Nakamura-Berta was virtually absent at Imola, squandering his advantage and slipping to a 25-point deficit overall.

In a similar story, Rashid Al Dhaheri has not seen the top five since his dominant round six and lost the most from Imola – holding only 165 points in the standings.

Only one can win it all.

Two final changes to the grid will also occur this weekend, firstly with Ary Bansal (#46) stepping into René Lammers’ vacated CL Motorsport car as the Dutchman returns to Eurocup-3. The Indian driver is third in the Italian F4 standings with US Racing, having achieved five podiums including one win this season. The 16-year-old reigning GB4 champion also finished third overall in the 2026 Formula Winter Series with two victories to his name.

The other change will be at RPM, where Giovanni Maschio departs to contest the Le Mans Cup at Silverstone on 12 September. Replacing him will be current British F4 title contender Lewis Wherrell (#99). The Briton has taken 10 podiums, including three wins, in the series this season, and he sits 33 points back from the top of the standings with two rounds to go.

Report by Archie Harper

From the press: Rome wasn’t built in a day. Nor were CL Motorsport – three years, in fact, passed from concept to contest for the Chinese-owned, Italian-based squad. With their first victory and a much improved second season in FR Europe now largely behind them, key team figures reflected on how all the pieces came together. Read the article here.

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

Eurocup-3: Round 5, Silverstone

Circuit: Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit, 5.891 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+1)

Friday 11 September

• 08:45–09:45: Official test
• 14:45–15:02: Qualifying 1
• 15:08–15:25: Qualifying 2

Saturday 12 September

• 11:45–12:20: Race 1

Sunday 13 September

• 09:00–09:35: 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: Partly cloudy all weekend. Showers are possible throughout, primarily from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning.

What to know: For its final appearance on the support bill of the European Le Mans Series, Eurocup-3 will visit the United Kingdom for the first time. Contrary to its previous joint weekends, however, timetable restrictions mean that the championship will only contest two races of 30 minutes plus one lap each on the Silverstone circuit. The sprint race format will return for the Jerez round in two weeks’ time.

After sweeping the weekend last time out at Monza, James Egozi now has a dominant 93-point lead in the drivers’ standings ahead of Ean Eyckmans. In the teams’ championship, Palou Motorsport have a 78-point advantage over MP Motorsport, who appeared on both podiums at Monza with René Lammers.

Three drivers make their return to Eurocup-3 this weekend: Valentin Kluss (#11) at TC Racing, Nacho Tuñón (#22) at Tecnicar, and Francisco Macedo (#41) at Campos Racing, replacing Juan Cota, Andrej Petrović and Alex Powell respectively. 

Kluss previously competed in the 2024 season with Campos, finishing sixth in the standings with three podiums. Since then, the 19-year-old German driver has only competed in one round of the GT4 Winter Series with NM Racing Team earlier this year, taking a best finish of ninth. 

Tuñón competed with Tecnicar at Eurocup-3’s last shared ELMS weekend at Imola, where he finished a best of 19th in race one. The Spanish driver is currently sixth in the Spanish F4 standings for satellite team T-Code, having taken two wins and a third-place finish so far. 

Macedo, 18, competed in the first six rounds of FR Europe with Van Amersfoort Racing before vacating his seat over the summer break, and he is 23rd in the standings with a best finish of sixth at the Hungaroring. He competed in Eurocup-3 last year and took a second-place finish at Le Castellet on his way to 14th in the standings with Campos.

Lastly, two drivers will make their Eurocup-3 debuts this weekend: Tomás Pregliasco – competing as “Sam Urus” (#3) – will race for Drivex in place of Nathan Tye, while James Hedley (#26) will replace Tommy Harfield to become the third Double R Racing driver in the #26 car.

“Sam Urus” competed in the first two Spanish F4 rounds with DX Racing Team before switching to TC Racing for the Aragón round. Hedley last raced competitively in F3 last year, when he initially replaced Javier Sagrera at AIX Racing and later returned to deputise for Santiago Ramos at Van Amersfoort Racing in the season finale.

Powell, the only full-season driver to be absent this weekend, is instead competing in F3 with Prema Racing.

Follow editor Seb Tirado on X for updates from the paddock.

Report by Seb Tirado

From the press: Rafael Pérard, currently eighth in the standings, has been one of the two Palou Motorsport drivers quietly backing up Egozi’s bold title charge. The Frenchman’s journey to motorsport, however, is an unusual one, taking him through three countries and an unlikely meeting with the relatives of an F1 star. Read the full interview here.

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

Euroformula Open: Round 6, Hockenheim

Circuit: Hockenheimring, 4.574 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Friday 11 September 

• 09:59–10:39: Free practice 1
• 15:05–15:45: Free practice 2

Saturday 12 September 

• 10:30–10:50: Qualifying
• 15:55–16:25: Race 1 (18 laps)

Sunday 13 September 

• 10:35–11:05: Race 2 (18 laps)
• 17:15–17:45: Race 3 (18 laps)

How to follow: Qualifying and each race will be available to watch live on the Euroformula Open official YouTube channel. Live timing will be available at Cronococa.

Weather forecast: Warm and partly cloudy throughout the weekend with a chance of showers on Sunday afternoon.

What to know: Euroformula Open returns after a lengthy summer break for round six at Hockenheim as things look a little more interesting in the championship battle.

Enzo Yeh, still 60 points clear at the top of the standings, suffered a setback at Paul Ricard with a spin in race three summing up a weekend to forget for the Taiwanese driver.

One driver revelling in the events of the last round will be Yeh’s nearest rival, Everett Stack. The Virginian took identical results across rounds four and five with first, third and fourth place at each – plus a fastest lap alongside his first win of the season in Budapest.

Diego de la Torre will look to return to prominence after a scoreless race two in France, while Jesse Carrasquedo Jr will seek to repeat his pole and victory from race one last time out in a bid to break into the top three.

Drivex will not contest this round because of a clash with Eurocup-3, meaning that Le Castellet race two winner Filippo Fiorentino, two-time podium finisher Gino Trappa and Celo Hahn will all not return for this round.

Elsewhere, former Ferrari junior and 2025 F1 Academy runner-up Maya Weug (#64) will take the seat vacated by Alceu Feldmann Neto at BVM Racing. The triple national racing under a Dutch licence currently sits fifth in Belcar Endurance Series racing with ART Racing following her title-contending F1 Academy campaign last year, in which she achieved nine podiums including three wins. Feeder Series understands that Weug is likely to do only one round with the team but that there is potential for her to contest at least one more round this season.

Report by Archie Harper

From the press: Diego de la Torre’s breakthrough Euroformula Open victory at the Hungaroring set in motion a quiet ascent that has put him third in the standings. What’s been the key to finding a mindset that enables you to perform at your best? He told us more about the progress he’s made in 2026. Read the article here.

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

Super Formula Lights: Round 6, Motegi

Circuit: Mobility Resort Motegi, 4.801 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+9)

Thursday 10 September

• 09:00-11:00: Practice 1
• 14:00–16:00: Practice 2

Friday 11 September

• 08:35–10:05: Practice 3
• 13:40–15:10: Practice 4

Saturday 12 September

• 10:20–10:30: Qualifying 1
• 10:40–10:50: Qualifying 2
• 15:15–16:00: Race 1 (19 laps)

Sunday 13 September

• 09:20–09:50: Race 2 (14 laps)
• 15:20–15:50: Race 3 (14 laps) 

How to follow: All races will be live-streamed on the series’ official YouTube channel. Live timing is available at sfl.racelive.jp.

Weather forecast: Cloudy all weekend. Rain is expected on Friday and is possible but less likely on Saturday and Sunday..

What to know: Seven points separate the top three as Super Formula Lights heads into its final round of the season at Motegi this weekend.

Yusuke Mitsui leads the drivers’ standings on 85.5 points with three races and 32 points still up for grabs. Toyota junior Kiyoshi Umegaki trails the Delightworks Racing driver by 3.5 points, while B-Max Racing’s Evan Giltaire is third on 78.5 points. 

Should Mitsui or Giltaire become the series’ champion, they would be the series’ second champion after Teppei Natori in 2021 to take the crown without having the support of a Japanese manufacturer. Toyota-backed Umegaki, meanwhile, would become the youngest SFL champion in history. 

While Mitsui and Giltaire have their eyes set on potential Super Formula drives next year with Delightworks and B-Max respectively, Umegaki is set to switch to the FRegional European Championship with R-ace GP next year to chase F1.

Daichi Okamoto (#51) will make his debut in Super Formula Lights with the B-Max-operated Buzz Racing team at Motegi. Okamoto last raced in single-seaters in 2020, when he raced in the third round of FRegional Japan with Saccess Racing. He currently races in the GR 86 / BRZ Cup and has entered two rounds of Super Taikyu. 

JMS Racing Team’s Nobuhiro Imada will miss this weekend’s round after sustaining a rupture of the first lumbar vertebrae in a crash at Sugo.

Report by Finjo Muschlien

Read the previous round’s report here.

F4 CEZ: Round 5, Brno

Circuit: Automotodrom Brno, 5.403 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Thursday 10 September

• 09:00–09:30: Collective test 1 (teams A)
• 09:35–10:05: Collective test 1 (teams B)
• 12:10–12:40: Collective test 2 (teams A)
• 12:45–13:15: Collective test 2 (teams B)
• 14:50–15:20: Collective test 3 (teams A)
• 15:25–15:55: Collective test 3 (teams B)
• 17:30–18:00: Test (teams A)
• 18:05–18:35: Test (teams B)

Friday 11 September

• 10:45–11:25: Free practice (heat 1)
• 11:35–12:15: Free practice (heat 2)
• 15:20–15:40: Qualifying (heat 1)
• 15:50–16:10: Qualifying (heat 2)

Saturday 12 September

• 09:35–10:25: Race 1 (groups A and B)
• 14:25–15:15: Race 2 (groups B and C)

Sunday 13 September

• 09:00–09:50: Race 3 (groups A and C)
• 15:05–15:55: Race 4 (final) 

How to follow: All sessions will have live timing available at Race Results. Races will be live-streamed on YouTube on the official F4 CEZ Championship channel.

Weather forecast: Warm and partly sunny all weekend.

What to know: After the early-August round at Most, F4 CEZ moves south-east but stays in Czechia for the penultimate round of the series at the Autodrom Brno, renowned for MotoGP races.

A winning hat-trick at Most gave Elia Weiss of Jenzer Motorsport the championship lead. David Walther from Maffi Racing sits 14 points behind the German driver, having finished third in all three races he contested during the last round. The series’ qualifying master, Teodor Borenstein, sits just 10 points behind the Dane.

The battle for the championship title gained new significance after it was announced last month that the 2026 F4 CEZ champion would get to take part in a Eurocup-3 car test with ‘one of Eurocup-3’s leading teams’. The last two champions of F4 CEZ, Oscar Wurz and Gino Trappa, ended up in the Spanish-based FRegional-level championship.

Drivex made their debut in F4 CEZ this year, with their best result so far being ninth scored by Jorge Bruno at Slovakiaring, but the Spanish outfit will not compete in the fifth round of the championship as both of its drivers – Bruno and Simón Bulbarella – are missing from the entry list.

Three further teams will compete with one fewer car compared to the Most round. Missing from the entry list are Janík Motorsport’s Albert Písařík, Renauer Motorsport’s Andreas Lo Bue, and JMT Engineering’s František Němec do not appear on the entry list.

Alexia Danielsson from STEP Motorsport will not compete this weekend as she takes on her second F1 Academy rookie test at Navarra on Friday. She will be replaced by 15-year-old Danish driver Knud Nielsen (#69), who competed in the first two rounds of the championship with Real Racing alongside his campaign in Italian F4 with the Romanian team.

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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