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The 2025 seasons of Italian Formula 4 and Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine are set to kick off at the Misano World Circuit.



The start of the Italian Formula 4 Championship is never an ordinary moment in the season. Each spring gives fans a chance to remember and celebrate the anniversary of the very birth of FIA Formula 4, which made its debut on 6–7 June 2014. It was in fact the Italian F4 series that first hit the track in the new category format, which has gone on to achieve immense global success over the past 11 years, nurturing some of motorsport’s brightest talents.


Just like in 2024—and for the fifth time overall—Misano will host the season opener, sharing the paddock this year with the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine. The two ACI Sport-promoted series promise intense battles, as tradition dictates, with packed grids full of talent.



F4 Italia

The new season opens with a spectacular 41-car grid, featuring 13 teams and drivers representing 27 different nationalities. This record turnout means an increase in the number of races during the Misano weekend, rising from three to four.



Teams and Drivers


Prema Racing

Oleksandr Bondarev

Chi Newman

Tomass Stolcermanis

Kean Nakamura Berta

Salim Hanna

Sebastian Wheldon


US Racing

Andrija Kostic

Luka Sammalisto

Kabir Anurag

Jan Koller

Maxim Rehm

Gabriel Gomez


R-ace GP

Emanuele Olivieri

Alex Powell

Emily Cotty

Guy Albag

Oleksandr Savinkov


Van Amersfoort Racing

Maksimilian Popov

Aleksander Ruta

Dante Vinci

Marcus Saeter

Payton Westcott


Jenzer Motorsport

Enea Frey

Teo Schopp

Artem Severiukhin

Bader Al Sulaiti

Bart Harrison


Maffi Racing

Nathaniel Berreby

Kirill Kutsov

Kornelia Olkucka

David Walther


Viola Formula Racing

Ludovico Busso

Emir Tanju

Arthur Lorimier


PHM AIX Racing

Andrea Dupe

David Cosma-Cristofor


Real Racing

Luca Viisoreanu

Andrei Duna


Cram Motorsport

Luis Elia Weiss


Technorace Competition

Francesco Pio Coppola


AS Motorsport

Phil Colin Strenge



Schedule

The opening weekend begun with collective testing on Thursday while free practice sessions are running on Friday morning, and will be followed by qualifying at 17:30. The four races will take place on Saturday (Race 1 at 11:15 and Race 2 at 17:10) and Sunday (Race 3 at 10:55 and Race 4 at 19:30).


Here is the full 2025 season calendar:

2-4 Maggio, Misano

23-25 Maggio, Vallelunga

20-22 Giugno, Monza

11-13 Luglio, Mugello

1-3 Agosto, Imola

19-21 Settembre, Barcelona

10-12 Ottobre, Misano



FRECA

Following a round of testing at Barcelona, Misano, and Le Castellet, the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine begins its season on the Adriatic coast, once again taking teams and drivers to some of Europe’s most iconic tracks.



Teams and Drivers


Prema Racing

Freddie Slater

Rashid Al Dhaheri

Doriane Pin (absent from the first round due to F1 Academy duties in Miami driving her Tatuus T-421-F1A)

Jack Beeton


R-ace GP

Enzo Deligny

Akshay Bohra

Jin Nakamura


Van Amersfoort Racing

Pedro Clerot

Hiyu Yamakoshi

Dion Gowda


ART Grand Prix

Evan Giltaire

Taito Kato

Kanato Le


Saintéloc Racing

Nikita Bedrin

Tim Gerhards


RPM

Giovanni Maschio

Enzo Peugeot

Rui-Heng Yeh


Trident Motorsport

Matteo De Palo

Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi

Ruiqi Liu


G4 Racing

Arthur Aegerter

Edouard Borgna

Kacper Sztuka


CL Motorsport

Valerio Rinicella


Akcel GP

Aditya Kulkarni

Saqer Al Maosherji



Schedule

The Misano round is ready to get underway with a Friday test session, followed by Qualifying 1 (8:30 AM) and Race 1 (4:10 PM) on Saturday, and Qualifying 2 (8:30 AM) and Race 2 (5:30 PM) on Sunday.


Here are the 10 rounds of the season:

2-4 Maggio, Misano

16-18 Maggio, Spa-Francorchamps

7-8 Giugno, Zandvoort

4-6 Luglio, Hungaroring

18-20 Luglio, Paul Ricard

1-3 Agosto, Imola

5-7 Settembre, Red Bull Ring

19-21 Settembre, Barcelona

4-5 Ottobre, Hockenheim

24-26 Ottobre, Monza



F4 Brasil and F4 SEA also kicking off

In a packed race weekend, the Formula 4 Brasil and Formula 4 South East Asia championships will also begin their seasons, respectively at Interlagos and Sepang. Joining them on track this weekend are F1 Academy (Miami), British F4 (Silverstone), Spanish F4 (Navarra), USF Juniors (Barber Motorsports Park), and F4 NACAM (Mexico City).

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Destination Macau: the T-326 and T-421 set to star in the 2026 FIA World Cups
Destination Macau: the T-326 and T-421 set to star in the 2026 FIA World Cups
The FIA has officially confirmed the adoption of Tatuus single-seaters for the 2026 Formula Regional and Formula 4 World Cups.
Tatuus cars, already competing in national and regional championships around the world, will once again take center stage on the prestigious streets of Macau for the FIA Formula Regional World Cup and FIA Formula 4 World Cup. From 19 to 22 November, 13 teams in Formula Regional and 12 teams in Formula 4 will battle on the iconic Guia Circuit. For the T-326 , this will mark its debut in Macau, following the T-318's appearances in the Formula Regional World Cup in 2024 and 2025. For the T-421 , it will be a welcome return after making its Macau debut in the Formula 4 World Cup in 2023.

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“Motorsport works like magic, capable of inspiring that uniquely Italian determination to keep believing in something even when the numbers don’t add up.”
“Motorsport works like magic, capable of inspiring that uniquely Italian determination to keep believing in something even when the numbers don’t add up.”
The words of CEO Giovanni Delfino in an interview with la Repubblica.

The CEO of Tatuus, ATM – Autotecnica Motori, and the Korus Group was featured in an interview published today in la Repubblica and written by Irene Saderini. During the conversation, he reflected on some of the most important and defining moments of his career, while also sharing his views on several aspects of the global motorsport industry.
The full interview is available on repubblica.it .

A Personal Journey A central theme of the interview is the CEO’s personal story, which began with his decision to pursue engineering studies and continued through a career marked by bold choices and decisive moments: “I don’t believe in luck; I believe in being able to seize it. When an opportunity comes your way, you have to recognize it. That said, it would be unfair to claim I wasn’t fortunate. I joined the company when I had virtually nothing. The founder allowed me to repay my debt over time, and I only finished paying the last installments two or three years ago.”
Delfino also spoke about his early years at Alfa Corse, where he developed his passion for experimentation and performance engineering: “At heart, I am a track engineer. I worked in the testing departments, where our job was to find that extra half horsepower from a finished product. My first experiences came in Alfa Romeo Touring Cars, with drivers such as Giovanardi, Tarquini and Larini competing against BMW and Mercedes. Sometimes those extra two horsepower were what won you the race.”

Formula 4 and Driver Development Among the key topics discussed was the production of Formula racing cars and engines, today one of the cornerstones of the Korus Group: “Everything starts with studying the regulations, which always leave room for interpretation—and success comes from finding the right one.” Speaking about Formula 4 engines, Delfino explained: “It all starts with a four-cylinder Fiat 500 Abarth unit. It must cost less than €16,500 due to the price cap and last 10,000 kilometres. My objective is to ensure that every engine performs the same.” The reward is seeing young talents progress step by step through the motorsport ladder and ultimately reach the highest levels of the sport: “It was particularly rewarding to see Andrea Kimi Antonelli begin his career in one of our cars.”

The Motorsport Industry The interview also included a broader reflection on the remarkable momentum motorsport is experiencing worldwide: “Motorsport sometimes works like a kind of magic, capable of overcoming marketing logic and keeping alive that uniquely Italian determination to believe in something even when the numbers don’t add up.”
Particularly representative of the Korus Group’s vision was Delfino’s perspective on internal combustion and electric powertrains: “For me, the smell of a winning engine is the smell of gasoline, hard work and sacrifice. A twelve-cylinder engine on track is like a violin—actually, an entire orchestra of violins. Racing is my world, and I find it difficult to see any of that emotion in batteries alone. Hybrid technology, however, is a different story. We are part of the FIA working group on the new regulations, and I find the hybrid approach very compelling.”
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Tatuus Celebrates the 500th T-421, the World’s Most Widely Used Formula 4 Car
Tatuus Celebrates the 500th T-421, the World’s Most Widely Used Formula 4 Car
The Lainate-based manufacturer has celebrated the production and delivery of the 500th chassis of the single-seater on which Kimi Antonelli and Arvid Lindblad developed their careers.

Born in 2021, the Tatuus T-421 reached its 500th unit produced and delivered in May 2026, once again confirming its status as one of the most manufactured and successful racing single-seaters worldwide. The milestone was celebrated by the Lainate-based brand together with all its employees and the sister companies of the Korus group, which contribute daily to the T-421 project: ATM–Autotecnica Motori, Breda Racing, and Next Solution Technologies.
Today, the T-421 is the most widely used Formula 4 car in the world, competing across 16 championships spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. Behind its wheel, some of the most exciting talents in contemporary motorsport have developed, including Kimi Antonelli and Arvid Lindblad , who built the first steps of their single-seater careers in the second-generation Tatuus F4 before progressing all the way to the pinnacle of Formula 1.
“The 500th T-421 is not only a major milestone for Tatuus, but also an important achievement for the entire international motorsport ecosystem,” said Giovanni Delfino, CEO of Tatuus and the Korus Group. “With the introduction of Formula 4 in 2014, the FIA created a new pathway between karting and single-seaters, enabling drivers to arrive better prepared for higher categories. This model has established itself through years of significant growth in motorsport, during which many championships were launched and expanded, now reaching grids of nearly 50 cars per round with the second generation we celebrate today. These are figures that were difficult to imagine at the beginning of this journey, but which now define the everyday reality of many of the companies within the Korus Group.”
“Throughout Tatuus’ history, many of our models have achieved widespread adoption across global championships and have demonstrated unparalleled driver development capabilities,” added Gianfranco De Bellis, President of Tatuus and the Korus group. “The T-421 is writing an important chapter in the history of our brand and, together with the first-generation car, is now approaching 800 units produced. These volumes allow us to aim toward the milestone of 1,000 F4 single-seaters, a figure previously approached by the various Formula Renault models that marked a turning point in our history and in the development path of many drivers.”
As the second generation of Formula 4 single-seaters, the T-421 succeeded the T-014, which from 2014—the year Formula 4 was introduced—through 2021 was produced in just under 300 units. It represented the ideal platform for drivers transitioning from karting to single-seaters, and helped develop talents such as Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, Max Verstappen, Isack Hadjar, Liam Lawson, Lance Stroll, Oliver Bearman, Gabriel Bortoleto, and Franco Colapinto.
The T-421 is just one of many examples of the cooperation that makes the Korus group one of the leading global ecosystems in motorsport engineering. The companies within the Group involved in the celebration have contributed to the project from day one, within a consolidated model of synergies that each year gives rise to new cars, powertrains, and solutions for motorsport.
Specifically, ATM–Autotecnica Motori developed and supplies the Abarth-derived inline four-cylinder engine that powers the car, while Breda Racing is responsible for a large portion of the components—such as the halo and suspension arms—as well as instrumentation required for managing the cars both on track and at HQ. Next Solution Technologies provides a significant part of the car’s electronic and electromechanical systems, in addition to supplying steering wheels and rain lights.
However, the milestone of 500 cars does not represent a finishing point for Tatuus. Production of the current model will continue through 2028 , when FIA regulations foresee the introduction of the third-generation car , on which the brands of the Korus Group are already actively working.

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