Photo: Mat Acton
Hitech GP has added Keanu Al Azhari and Gino Trappa to its line-up for the 2026 Eurocup-3 season.
Al Azhari, 18, from a motorsport family as his father was a karter and his younger brother Adam is currently 10th in UAE4.
After making his debut in the Formula 1-supporting Formula 4 races at Yas Marina Circuit in 2022, finishing on the podium in the both, the older Al Azhari brother spent 2023 and ’24 in F4.
In his rookie UAE4 campaign he came seventh in the standings with two podiums, and improved to third in his sophomore campaign as he won twice, made the podium in five other races and also claimed three poles. Between the two, he contested the F1 support races again and won both from pole position.
Al Azhari raced for MP Motorsport in Spanish F4 in both years, and the pole and podium he began the 2023 season with proved to tbe the highlights of his campaign as he came ninth in the standings. In 2024 he was championship runner-up, wining four races, making the podium nine other times and starting on pole five times. He also did half of the Formula Winter Series that year, and a winning start helped put him seventh in the points table.
For 2025, Al Azhari joined the Alpine Academy, stepped up to GB3 and continued to race LMP3 prototype sportscars in Germany. He drove for Hitech in GB3, taking one victory, four other podiums and a pole en route to sixth in the points table.
Hitech is new to Eurocup-3, and it currently has a four-car line-up as Al Azhari and Trappa join the previously announced Santino Panetta and Stefan Bostandjiev.
Trappa came fifth in Brazilian F4 two years ago, winning one race, and relocated his career to Europe in 2025. He started off in Spanish F4 with Drivex School, coming 18th in the winter championship then 16th in the main championship.
His half-season in FWinter Series with Van Amersfoort Racing left him 22nd in the standings, then the 17-year-old joined Jenzer Motorsport for F4 Central European Zone and was champion with six victories, five other podiums and three poles.
A Euroformula cameo granted Trappa with experience of third-tier single-seaters, with Eurocup-3 using a similar car to Euroformula this year, and he ended 2025 by finishing in ninth in the FIA F4 World Cup on the streets of Macau.