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G4 Racing and Pinnacle Motorsport have each announced a fleet of drivers for the upcoming Formula Regional Middle East season.
The star name among the two line-ups is Alex Powell, who will be racing for Pinnacle and has recently dropped off the Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 team’s junior driver roster.
Now 18 years old, the Miami-born Jamaican had been a Mercedes junior since 2019 when he was in mini karting. He concluded his karting career in 2023 with the Champions of the Future title and third in the CIK-FIA European championship on OK class karts, and the runner-up spot in the FIA World Cup for KZ2 shifter karts.
At the end of that year he joined Prema in Formula 4, an alliance that led to coming fifth in Italian F4 and winning races in E4 and F4 United Arab Emirates. For 2025 he switched to R-ace GP, and was F4 Middle East runner-up before E4 and Italian F4 campaigns that led to further race wins. He also reunited with Prema for a FRegional European Championship cameo.
In FRME he will be team-mate to 16-year-old Emirati-Swedish racer August Raber. He came 21st in British F4 then 11th in Formula Trophy as a single-seater rookie in 2024, then was a race-winning seventh in British F4 and eighth in F4 Middle East last year as well as getting FRegional-level experience by doing two rounds in GB3.
Over at G4, the team’s former karting protege Andrea Dupe, Jules Roussel and Artem Severiukhin have been signed.
Dupe raced for three teams last year, starting off his car racing career with AS Motorsport. He came 17th in Formula Winter Series with the team, then joined PHM Racing in Italian F4 before switching to Prema mid-campaign. That also led to the 17-year-old Frenchman doing two E4 rounds in the latter’s line-up, and he was outside of the top 20 in the standings of both championship.
Roussel, also French but two years older, graduates to FRegional after two seasons in the centrally-run French F4 championship. He won two races as a sophomore, putting him third in the points, and capped off 2025 by winning the centrally-run FIA F4 World Cup in Macau.
Severiukhin hails from Russia, and the 18-year-old steps up to FRME with one year of F4 experience. He came 10th in the FWinter Series and 13th in Italian F4 with Jenzer Motorsport, and made a Spanish F4 cameo with Drivex School.