The 2025 Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine is a multi-event, Formula Regionalopen-wheel single seatermotor racing championship held across Europe. The championship features a mix of professional and amateur drivers, competing in Formula Regional cars that conform to the FIA Formula Regional regulations for the championship. This is the seventh season of the championship and the fifth after a merger with Formula Renault Eurocup which resulted in the change of the engine supplier to Alpine.
All teams compete using identical Tatuus FR-19 cars powered by 1.8l Renault engines on Pirelli tyres. Nine of the eleven teams that contested the 2024 season were also confirmed to be pre-selected for 2025.[1]
Iron Dames, who entered the championship in 2024 with a two-car all-female driver lineup, did not continue their entry into 2025.[1]
MP Motorsport, a series mainstay ever since its inception, also left the championship. The team's entry will be replaced by a new Italian-based Chinese team called CL Motorsport.[1][7]
Emirati team AKCEL GP joined the championship, becoming the first Asian team to enter the series.[8]
Reigning Teams' Champions Prema Racing saw all three of their drivers graduate to FIA F3, with reigning Drivers' Champion Rafael Câmara and James Wharton joining Trident and ART Grand Prix respectively, while Ugo Ugochukwu remained with Prema.[9][10][11] The team promoted two drivers from their own Formula 4 operation in Freddie Slater, winner of the 2024 F4 UAE and F4 Italian championships, and Rashid Al Dhaheri, who came fourth and tenth in the same two championships in 2024.[12][13]Jack Beeton, who was runner-up to Slater in Italian F4 with US Racing, pilots the third car of Prema's lineup.[14] The team also fields a fourth car for 2024 F1 Academy runner-up Doriane Pin, who embarks on her second season in the championship after coming 27th with departing team Iron Dames in 2024.[15] Pin contests the rounds that do not clash with her main F1 Academy program.
Saintéloc Racing have an all-new line up as Enzo Peugeot, Matteo De Palo and Théophile Naël all left the team: Peugeot and De Palo moved over to RPM and Trident respectively, while Naël graduated to FIA F3 with Van Amersfoort Racing.[27] The team signed Yaroslav Veselaho, who finished 35th in the standings with ART Grand Prix in his rookie season in 2024, Tim Gerhards, who finished 23rd in the 2024 Spanish F4 Championship with Monlau Motorsport, and Nikita Bedrin, who embarks on his third year in the category after finishing the 2024 season in 16th driving for MP Motorsport.[28][29]
RPM signed two new drivers as reigning Rookies' Champion Noah Strømsted joined Trident in FIA F3 and Edgar Pierre moved to R-ace GP in the Le Mans Cup's LMP3 class.[30][31] To replace them, RPM signed Enzo Peugeot, who finished the 2024 season in 15th with Saintéloc Racing, and Rui-Heng Yeh, who steps up to Formula Regional after taking two podiums in two years of F4 competition.[6]
KIC announced no drivers ahead of the 2025 season, while Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi left the team to join Trident and none of the other six drivers the team fielded in 2024 returned to the series.[35]
New team CL Motorsport signed Zachary David, who embarks on his second season in the championship after coming 13th with R-ace GP in 2024.[16]Valerio Rinicella, who came 20th driving for MP Motorsport, drives for the team at the opening round in place of the Filipino driver ahead of his Eurocup-3 campaign.[40]
New team AKCEL GP signed two FRECA debutants in Aditya Kulkarni, who made his category debut by coming 20th in FRMEC, also driving for AKCEL GP, and Saqer Almaosherji, who previously competed in the F4 Saudi Arabian Championship, coming sixth.[41]
CL Motorsport expanded to a two-car lineup ahead of the round at Spa, but with Rinicella only entering the first round and David still prioritizing his Super Formula Lights campaign, the team fielded Michael Belov and Macéo Capietto.[44]
Ten planned circuits for the 2025 season were first announced in August of 2024.[45] The provisional calendar, with two events yet to be dated, was announced on 27 September 2024,[46] before being finalized on 2 October 2024. Mugello will not be part of the circuit lineup for the first time in series history, with the championship instead opting to return to Misano, where it last raced in 2020.[47] Three pre-season tests will be held at Barcelona, Misano and Paul Ricard.
^Gowda is an Indian driver competing under a British licence.
^ abBedrin and Belov are Russian, but they competed under Italian and Kyrgyz licences respectively as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
^Kulkarni is an Indian driver competing under a British licence.
^Kato is a Japanese driver competing under a French licence.