2025 FIA F4 World Cup

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2025 Macau Grand Prix
Circuito da Guia GP.svg
Race details
Date 16 November 2025 (2025-11-16)
Official name Macau Formula 4 Race – FIA F4 World Cup
Location Guia Circuit, Macau
Course Temporary street circuit
Course length 6.120 km (3.803 mi)
Pole position
Driver
Time 2:24.148

The 2025 FIA F4 World Cup is a planned motor race for Formula 4 cars scheduled to be held on the streets of Macau on 16 November 2025. [1] The race itself will be made up of two races: a qualifying race that will decide the starting grid for the ten-lap main event. The 2025 race will be the first running of the F4 World Cup.

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Background and entry list

Formula 4 cars previously competed in Macau from 2020 until 2022 as part of the Macau Grand Prix and as non-championship rounds of the F4 Chinese Championship. In 2023, the 2023 Macau Formula 4 Race as a non-championship round of the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. [2] [3]

Entry list

All competitors will use an identical Ligier JS F422 chassis with a 1.3 L turbocharged inline-4 engine. All 20 cars will be centrally-run. [4] The entry list consists of drivers from across the world, with participation being determined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. [5]

Of the twenty drivers entered into the race, seven of them were previously champions in Formula 4 machinery, including Tiago Rodrigues, Fionn McLaughlin, Alexandre Munoz, Shimo Zhang, Gino Trappa, Kean Nakamura-Berta, and Emanuele Olivieri. [6] [7] Despite being selected to compete, Ethan Nobels withdrew from the race following an accident in the F4 Brazilian Championship earlier the same month. [8]

No.DriverMain series
2 Flag of Macau.svg Marcus CheongKarting
3 Flag of Macau.svg Tiago Rodrigues F4 Middle East Championship
5 Flag of Ireland.svg Fionn McLaughlin Formula Winter Series
F4 British Championship
7 Flag of France.svg Jules Roussel French F4 Championship
11 Flag of France.svg Alexandre Munoz French F4 Championship
12 Flag of Brazil.svg Ethan Nobels [a] F4 Brazilian Championship
15 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Wang Yuzhe F4 Middle East Championship
F4 Chinese Championship
16 Flag of South Korea.svg Kyuho Lee F4 Spanish Championship
17 Flag of Japan.svg Itsuki Sato F4 Japanese Championship
21 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shimo Zhang F4 Chinese Championship
26 Flag of France.svg Rayan Caretti French F4 Championship
30 Flag of Japan.svg Rintaro Sato French F4 Championship
42 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Emily Cotty [9] F4 Middle East Championship
Italian F4 Championship
46 Flag of India.svg Ary Bansal GB4 Championship [b]
48 Flag of Argentina.svg Gino Trappa [10] Formula 4 CEZ Championship
F4 Spanish Championship
51 Flag of Japan.svg Kean Nakamura-Berta F4 Middle East Championship
Italian F4 Championship
E4 Championship
61 Flag of Hong Kong.svg Kimi Chan F4 Chinese Championship
68 Flag of Italy.svg Emanuele Olivieri F4 Middle East Championship
Italian F4 Championship
87 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Thomas Bearman Formula Winter Series
F4 British Championship
98 Flag of the United States.svg Sebastian Wheldon F4 Middle East Championship
Italian F4 Championship
Source: [4] [7] [11]

See also

Notes

  1. Nobels withdrew from the race following an accident in the F4 Brazilian Championship earlier the same month.
  2. The GB4 Championship was ran in older generation GB3 cars instead of Formula 4 machinery.

References

  1. "The 72nd Macau Grand Prix to be held in November". Macau Grand Prix . Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  2. "FIA F4 World Cup: One decade in the making". Macau Business. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  3. "Future superstars set for inaugural Macau Formula 4 Race – FIA F4 World Cup". Macau Grand Prix . 13 October 2025. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Seven Formula 4 champions to contest inaugural FIA F4 World Cup". formulascout.com. 13 October 2025. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  5. "Excitement builds as FIA World Cups head to Macau". Federation Internationale de l'Automobile . 11 November 2025. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  6. Wood, Ida (13 October 2025). "Seven Formula 4 champions to contest inaugural FIA F4 World Cup". Formula Scout. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  7. 1 2 Lau, Kaylene (12 November 2025). "FIA Formula 4 World Cup 2025: Macau Grand Prix guide". Feeder Series. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  8. @feeder_series (11 November 2025). "Ethan Nobels will not participate in the FIA F4 World Cup in Macau this weekend" (Tweet). Retrieved 11 November 2025 via Twitter.
  9. "Race ace Cotty off to Macau for F4 World Cup". sussexexpress.co.uk. 18 October 2025. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  10. "GINO TRAPPA Presente en el GP de Macao". corazonf1.com (in Spanish). 3 October 2025. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  11. "Macau Formula 4 Race – FIA F4 World Cup" (PDF). macau.grandprix.gov.mo. Retrieved 5 November 2025.