2025 Formula Regional Middle East Championship

The 2025 Formula Regional Middle East Championship is a multi-event Formula Regional open-wheel single seater motor racing championship. The championship features a mix of professional and amateur drivers, competing in Formula Regional cars. This is the third season of the championship, held in January and February 2025.

All drivers compete using identical Tatuus-built Formula Regional cars powered by a 270HP turbocharged Alfa Romeo engine and running on Giti tires.^[1]

Team No. Driver Status Rounds R-ace GP 1 Enzo Deligny[2] 1–4 2 Jin Nakamura[3] 1–4 3 Akshay Bohra[4] R 1–4 7 Ugo Ugochukwu[2] 1–4 Saintéloc Racing 4 Théophile Naël[5] 1–3 10 Lorenzo Castillo[6] R 1–2 Nikita Bedrin[a][7] 4 26 Jakob Bergmeister[8] R 3 96 Yaroslav Veselaho[5] 1–4 Evans GP 5 Aaron Cameron[9] 1–4 8 Matteo de Palo[10] 4 11 Alex Sawer[11] 3–4 88 Kai Daryanani[b][12] R 1–4 Pinnacle Motorsport 6 Hiyu Yamakoshi[13] R 3–4 24 Ernesto Rivera[14] R 1–4 33 Jesse Carrasquedo Jr.[14] 1–2 56 Yuanpu Cui[13] R 3–4 69 Finley Green[14] 1–4 99 Giovanni Maschio[14] 1–2 Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited 8 Reza Seewooruthun[15] R 1–2 14 Rashid Al Dhaheri[15] R 1–4 27 Freddie Slater[15] R 1–4 28 Doriane Pin[16][17] 3–4 45 Jack Beeton[15] R 1–4 TBA TBA TBC PHM Racing 9 Everett Stack[18] R 1–4 12 Brando Badoer[19] 1–4 AKCEL GP / PHM Racing[5] 15 Aditya Kulkarni[c][5] R 1–4 50 Jaden Pariat[18] R 1–2 James Hedley[20] 3–4 ART Grand Prix 19 Kanato Le[21] 1–4 89 Taito Kato[d][22] R 1–4 95 Evan Giltaire[23] 1–4 Origine Motorsport 22 Wang Zhongwei[2] 1–4 66 Ruiqi Liu[2] 1–4

Icon Status R Rookie

The 2025 calendar was officially announced on 6 September 2024. Kuwait Motor Town was set to return to the calendar after a one-year absence. The championship is now held under the Formula Middle East banner, joint with the F4 Middle East Championship.^[24] The fifth and final round was later revealed to be held at Jeddah Corniche Circuit, which would have marked the championship's debut in Saudi Arabia.^[25] The calendar was amended later on, replacing the two opening rounds at Kuwait Motor Town with two further rounds at Yas Marina.^[18] Days before the start of the season, the calendar was changed once again, replacing the round at Jeddah Corniche Circuit with a round at Lusail International Circuit, also a debuting venue for the series.^[26]

Round		Circuit	Date	Support bill	Map of circuit locations
1	R1	Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Island (Grand Prix Circuit)	18 January	Middle East Trophy (6H of Abu Dhabi) Clio Cup Middle East Gulf Radical Cup F4 Middle East Championship	Yas Marina Dubai Lusail
	R2		19 January
	R3
2	R4	Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Island (Corkscrew Circuit)	22 January	F4 Middle East Championship
	R5		23 January
	R6
3	R7	Dubai Autodrome, Dubai Motor City (Grand Prix Circuit)	8 February	Asian Le Mans Series (4H of Dubai) F4 Middle East Championship
	R8		9 February
	R9
4	R10	Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Island (Grand Prix Circuit)	15 February	Asian Le Mans Series (4H of Abu Dhabi) F4 Middle East Championship Clio Cup Middle East
	R11		16 February
	R12
5	R13	Lusail International Circuit, Lusail (Grand Prix Circuit)	26–28 February	FIA World Endurance Championship (Qatar 1812 km) F4 Middle East Championship
	R14
	R15

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Rookie winner
1	R1	Yas Marina Circuit	Freddie Slater	Freddie Slater	Freddie Slater	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Freddie Slater
	R2			Kanato Le	Kanato Le	ART Grand Prix	Freddie Slater
	R3		Freddie Slater	Freddie Slater	Freddie Slater	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Freddie Slater
2	R4	Yas Marina Circuit	Freddie Slater	Freddie Slater	Evan Giltaire	ART Grand Prix	Rashid Al Dhaheri
	R5			Théophile Naël	Brando Badoer	PHM Racing	Jack Beeton
	R6		Evan Giltaire	Evan Giltaire	Evan Giltaire	ART Grand Prix	Ernesto Rivera
3	R7	Dubai Autodrome	Evan Giltaire	Ugo Ugochukwu	Ugo Ugochukwu	R-ace GP	Rashid Al Dhaheri
	R8			Enzo Deligny	Jin Nakamura	R-ace GP	Freddie Slater
	R9		Evan Giltaire	Evan Giltaire	Evan Giltaire	ART Grand Prix	Rashid Al Dhaheri
4	R10	Yas Marina Circuit	Evan Giltaire	Ugo Ugochukwu	Freddie Slater	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Freddie Slater
	R11			Akshay Bohra	Akshay Bohra	R-ace GP	Akshay Bohra
	R12		Freddie Slater	Freddie Slater	Freddie Slater	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	Freddie Slater
5	R13	Lusail International Circuit
	R14
	R15

The championship's scoring system was overhauled in 2025. Points are awarded to the top twelve classified drivers, while two further points are awarded for taking a pole position in qualifying.^[27]

Pos Driver YMC1 YMC2 DUB1 YMC3 LUS Pts R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 1 Evan Giltaire 3 7 2 1 DNS 1 3 4 1 3 8 2 225 2 Freddie Slater 1 6 1 5 6 Ret 7 2 6 1 7 1 208 3 Brando Badoer 4 5 6 10 1 2 2 9 7 6 3 15 154 4 Ugo Ugochukwu 10 4 Ret 7 4 19† 1 5 2 2 10 3 148 5 Théophile Naël 8 2 4 9 2 4 4 7 3 125 6 Rashid Al Dhaheri 2 8 16 2 5 9 5 3 5 5 9 Ret 124 7 Enzo Deligny 7 3 10 12 11 3 8 8 4 7 5 4 112 8 Kanato Le 9 1 13 14 9 7 6 10 Ret 4 4 16 89 9 Jin Nakamura 12 9 8 6 8 8 10 1 12 16 12 11 70 10 Ernesto Rivera 5 13 5 17 12 5 25† 22 9 8 6 7 65 11 Taito Kato 6 14 7 3 22 18 9 12 10 11 13 6 56 12 Akshay Bohra 15 Ret Ret 16 14 10 11 6 18 10 1 22 48 13 Jesse Carrasquedo Jr. 11 10 3 4 10 17 41 14 Jack Beeton 17 Ret 14 8 3 14 12 11 22 15 Ret 9 31 15 Nikita Bedrin 9 2 Ret 26 16 Reza Seewooruthun Ret 12 9 11 7 6 25 17 Hiyu Yamakoshi 26† 19 8 19 11 5 20 18 Ruiqi Liu 14 22† 19 13 17 11 13 13 11 14 14 8 10 19 Aaron Cameron 13 11 12 18 DNS Ret 24 20 Ret 13 19 10 6 20 Aditya Kulkarni 21 17 11 24 23† 15 17 15 15 12 Ret 12 4 21 Giovanni Maschio 19 Ret 15 21 15 12 1 22 Kai Daryanani 25† 18 18 15 13 13 21 14 14 Ret 17 13 0 23 James Hedley 18 16 13 17 Ret 14 0 24 Yaroslav Veselaho 20 19 17 23 16 Ret 14 17 16 20 21 18 0 25 Everett Stack 18 15 Ret Ret 19 16 Ret 25 19 18 15 Ret 0 26 Yuanpu Cui 15 21 17 24† 21 21 0 27 Doriane Pin 16 18 Ret 23 20 17 0 28 Jaden Pariat 23 16 22 19 20 Ret 0 29 Lorenzo Castillo 16 20 21 20 Ret Ret 0 30 Matteo de Palo Ret 16 Ret 0 31 Finley Green 24 Ret 20 22 18 Ret 19 24 Ret Ret 23 20 0 32 Alex Sawer 20 26 20 21 18 Ret 0 33 Wang Zhongwei 22 21 23 25 21 Ret 22 27 21 22 Ret 19 0 34 Jakob Bergmeister 23 23 Ret 0 Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts YMC1 YMC2 DUB1 YMC3 LUS

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † – Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as they completed more than 75% of the race distance.

Pos	Driver	YMC1			YMC2			DUB1			YMC3			LUS			Pts
		R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3
1	Freddie Slater	1	1	1	3	3	Ret	2	1	2	1	3	1				288
2	Rashid Al Dhaheri	2	2	7	1	2	3	1	2	1	2	4	Ret				247
3	Ernesto Rivera	3	4	2	8	5	1	10†	10	4	3	2	4				179
4	Taito Kato	4	5	3	2	10	9	3	5	5	5	6	3				156
5	Akshay Bohra	5	Ret	Ret	7	7	4	4	3	9	4	1	9				129
6	Jack Beeton	7	Ret	6	4	1	6	5	4	11	7	Ret	5				122
7	Kai Daryanani	11†	9	8	6	6	5	8	6	6	Ret	8	7				84
8	Reza Seewooruthun	Ret	3	4	5	4	2										82
9	Aditya Kulkarni	9	8	5	11	11†	7	7	7	7	6	Ret	6				78
10	Hiyu Yamakoshi							11†	8	3	9	5	2				64
11	Everett Stack	8	6	Ret	Ret	8	8	Ret	12	10	8	7	Ret				46
12	Yuanpu Cui							6	9	8	10†	9	8				33
13	Jaden Pariat	10	7	10	9	9	Ret										22
14	Lorenzo Castillo	6	10	9	10	Ret	Ret										20
15	Jakob Bergmeister							9	11	Ret							6
Pos	Driver	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	Pts
		YMC1			YMC2			DUB1			YMC3			LUS

Ahead of each event, teams nominate two drivers who accumulate teams' points.

Pos	Team	No.	YMC1			YMC2			DUB			YMC3			LUS			Pts
			R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3
1	Mumbai Falcons Racing Limited	14	2	8	16	2	5	9	5	3	5	5	9	Ret				326
		27	1	6	1	5	6	Ret	7	2	6	1	7	1
2	ART Grand Prix	19										4	4	16				293
		89	6	14	7	3	22	18	9	12	10
		95	3	7	2	1	DNS	1	3	4	1	3	8	2
3	R-ace GP	1	7	3	10	12	11	3	8	8	4	7	5	4				260
		7	10	4	Ret	7	4	19†	1	5	2	2	10	3
4	PHM Racing	9	18	15	Ret	Ret	19	16	Ret	25	19	18	15	Ret				154
		12	4	5	6	10	1	2	2	9	7	6	3	15
5	Saintéloc Racing	4	8	2	4	9	2	4	4	7	3							151
		10				20	Ret	Ret				9	2	Ret
		26							23	23	Ret
		96	20	19	17							20	21	18
6	Pinnacle Motorsport	6							26†	19	8	19	11	5				126
		24	5	13	5	17	12	5	25†	22	9	8	6	7
		33	11	10	3	4	10	17
7	Origine Motorsport	22	22	21	23	25	21	Ret	22	27	21	22	Ret	19				10
		66	14	22†	19	13	17	11	13	13	11	14	14	8
8	Evans GP	5	13	11	12	18	DNS	Ret	24	20	Ret	13	19	10				6
		8										Ret	16	Ret
		88	25†	18	18	15	13	13	21	14	14
9	AKCEL GP / PHM Racing	15	21	17	11	24	23†	15	17	15	15	12	Ret	12				4
		50	23	16	22	19	20	Ret	18	16	13	17	Ret	14
Pos	Team	No.	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	Pts
			YMC1			YMC2			DUB1			YMC3			LUS

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