2026 Formula Regional European Championship
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The 2026 FIA Formula Regional European Championship is a planned multi-event, Formula Regional open-wheel single seater motor racing championship scheduled to be held across Europe. The championship will feature a mix of professional and amateur drivers, competing in Formula Regional cars that conform to the FIA Formula Regional regulations for the championship. This will be the seventh season of the championship.
After five seasons of working together with Alpine for championship and engine branding purposes, the championship and the manufacturer will split in 2026, coinciding with the series retiring the Tatuus FR-19 after seven seasons and switching to the new Tatuus T-326 chassis.
Teams and drivers
All teams will compete using identical Tatuus T-326 cars powered by Toyota engines on Pirelli tyres. The ten pre-selected teams for the 2026 season were announced on 2 October 2025.
Team changes
After three years of competing in the series, Saintéloc Racing will discontinue their FREC programme. AKCEL GP, who joined the series in 2025 and already ended its efforts after six of ten rounds, will also not return.
MP Motorsport will return to the series after a one-year absence, while New Zealand-based team Rodin Motorsport will make their series debut.
Driver changes
Team's champion R-ace GP renewed their lineup after both Enzo Deligny and Jin Nakamura moved up to FIA F3 with Van Amersfoort Racing and Hitech respectively, and Akshay Bohra moved to Super Formula Lights with TOM'S. The team signed Rashid Al Dhaheri, who finished eighth with Prema Racing in 2025, hired TOM'S driver and Super Formula Lights runner-up Yuki Sano and promoted Emanuele Olivieri from their Italian F4 outfit after he came seventh in 2025.
Reigning Drivers' Champion Freddie Slater leaves Prema Racing as he graduates to FIA F3 with Trident, while Rashid Al Dhaheri moves to R-ace GP and Jack Beeton leaves the series to compete in Indy NXT with HMD Motorsports. Prema promoted reigning Italian F4, E4 and FRMET champion Kean Nakamura-Berta as well as Italian F4 rookie champion Salim Hanna from their Formula 4 operation. The team initially signed Sebastian Wheldon, but ahead of the start of the season, he joined MP Motorsport instead. The seat was taken by Tomass Štolcermanis, who finished fourth in 2025 F4 Middle East Championship and made an one-off appearance with RPM last season.
Van Amersfoort Racing saw two of their drivers move up to FIA F3, with Pedro Clerot joining Rodin Motorsport and Hiyu Yamakoshi remaining with VAR's F3 outfit. To replace them, the team signed Francisco Macedo, who will move over from Eurocup-3 after coming 14th in 2025 driving for Campos Racing's Griffin Core outfit, and Andrea Dupé, who graduates from Italian F4 and the E4 Championship.
ART Grand Prix saw both Taito Kato and Kanato Le promoted to the team's FIA F3 setup, while Evan Giltaire moves to Super Formula Lights with B-Max Racing Team. The team signed three F4 graduates in Alpine junior drivers Kabir Anurag and Matteo Giaccardi, who step up after coming 16th in Italian F4 with US Racing and eleventh in French F4, respectively, and reigning French F4 champion Alexandre Munoz.
Trident will have an all-new line up as they promoted runner-up Matteo De Palo to their FIA F3 team, Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi joined DAMS in FIA F3 and Ruiqi Liu compete in Porsche Carrera Cup Asia with Phantom Global Racing. The team signed Italian F4 graduates Maksimilian Popov and Andrija Kostić, who took sixth place with Van Amersfoort Racing and 17th with US Racing respectively in 2025. Luka Sammalisto also was to join the team, but was replaced ahead of the season by Kai Daryanani, who finished 11th with JHR Developments in the 2025 GB3 Championship.
CL Motorsport saw all of their 2025 entrants bar Enea Frey depart the team, with Zhenrui Chi joining MP Motorsport and the other four competitors all leaving the series. Frey rejoins the team for a full season after a three-round campaign in 2025 saw him finish 25th. He will be joined by reigning FIA F4 World Cup winner Jules Roussel, who steps up from French F4, where he came third in 2025, and Reno Francot, who graduates to FREC after coming fifth in Spanish F4 and third in E4 in 2025 driving for KCL/MP and PHM Racing, respectively.
RPM saw Enzo Yeh and the other nine part-time entries of 2025 all depart the team. They signed two drivers departing Campos Racing in Spanish F4 in Jan Przyrowski, who was third and already made a one-round guest appearance in 2025, and Miguel Costa, who came 14th in 2025.
G4 Racing signed Saqer Al Maosherji, who came 28th in 2025 for both AKCEL GP and G4 Racing, Italian F4 graduate Marcus Sæter, who finished 15th in 2025 with Van Amersfoort Racing, and Rahim Alibhai, who steps up to FREC after a part-time USF Juniors season with Zanella Racing.
New team Rodin Motorsport recruited two drivers from the GB3 championship in reigning champion Alex Ninovic, who moves over from the team's outfit in that championship, and Reza Seewooruthun, who joins Rodin after finishing fifth with Argenti with Prema. Italian F4 and Euro 4 runner-up Gabriel Gomez will complete the teams' lineup.
Returning team MP Motorsport saw Alexander Abkhazava move from the teams' KCL-branded Eurocup-3 satellite outfit, with whom he came 12th in 2025, to FREC, and took on Zhenrui Chi for his full-season FREC debut after a four-race campaign for CL Motorsport in 2025. Sebastian Wheldon, third in Italian F4 with Prema Racing, was originally slated to remain with the Italian team before joining MP Motorsport to complete the team's lineup.
Departing team Saintéloc Racing saw Nikita Bedrin move to the GB3 Championship with VRD Racing, Tim Gerhards move to the Le Mans Cup in the LMP3 class with More Motorsport, and Yaroslav Veselaho join AF Corse in the Pro Cup of the International GT Open.
Race calendar
The FIA announced the series' provisional calendar on 2 December 2025. The series will reduce its calendar from ten to eight events, with Misano and Barcelona not returning to the calendar. To compensate for this, multiple rounds that will be announced at a later date will divert from the series' two-race format and hold three races.
Championship standings
Scoring system
The points system will be overhauled in 2026, introducing points for the drivers taking pole position in qualifying and setting the fastest lap in the top ten. In the newly introduced three-race rounds, the second race of the weekend will see the top twelve of the first qualifying session reversed on the grid. These sprint races will award reduced points:
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | FL |
| Points | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Points for the two main races will remain the same in 2026, with the aforementioned addition of bonus points for pole position and fastest lap: