Photo: Macau Grand Prix
Prema has announced its line-up for this year’s Macau Grand Prix, which features a two-time winner of the event.
The 2025 edition will be the second to run for Formula Regional cars, and award the FIA FRegional World Cup. It takes place on November 13-16, the same weekend as the Eurocup-3 season finale.
Driving Prema’s three cars in Macau will be Rashid Al Dhaheri, Charles Leong and Freddie Slater.
Al Dhaheri came sixth in FRegional Middle East this year and is currently seventh in the FRegional European Championship, both in Prema-run cars and with Slater as his team-mate. He was FRME runner-up and leads FREC.
In 2024, Al Dhaheri was disqualified from the Macau GP but was third in the supporting Formula 4 race the year before. Slater was ninth in that F4 race, and was classified 13th in last year’s grand prix.
Leong has been busy racing in Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia in recent years, and has contested the Macau GP five times in his career. The local talent’s first two entries into the race were during its Formula 3 era, then he starred when it switched to being a race for F4 cars.
He took pole, won the qualification race and the main race in both 2020 and ’21, then in 2022 qualified third, gained one place in the qualification race and finished on the grand prix podium in third.
R-ace GP ran Ugo Ugochukwu to victory in the inaugural FRegional World Cup, and the French team will be attempting to defend its victory with Enzo Deligny, Matteo De Palo and Jin Nakamura.
Deligny and De Palo are currently fighting Slater for the FREC title, and came fifth and 19th respectively in FRME. Nakamura was 10th in FRME and sits 10th in the FREC standings with one round to go.
At last year’s Macau GP, Deligny finished fourth, Nakamura retired and De Palo was disqualified.
Another winning team on the grid is TOM’S, which will field an all-Japanese line-up of Yuki Sano and Tokiya Suzuki.
Sano is currently second in his home country’s F3-level Super Formula Lights championship, and Suzuki sits second in the FRegional Japanese Championship standings with one round remaining.
Pinnacle Motorsport and Sainteloc Racing will also only be entering two cars each rather than three.
Mari Boya and Theophile Nael, who came third and eighth respectively in the FIA F3 Championship this year, will drive for Pinnacle. Nael was disqualified on his Macau GP debut in 2024, while Boya finished seventh after coming fourth in 2023.
Sainteloc has two Macau debutants: James Egozi and Egozi Tangavelou.
Egozi began 2025 by coming third in the Eurocup-3 winter series, and is currently seventh in the main championship. He could drop out of the top 10 in the standings by missing the final round to race in Macau.
Tangavelou was fourth in Eurocup-3 last year, and claimed a podium in its non-championship event. His 2025 has been split between part-time campaigns in USF Pro 2000 and then Eurocup-3.