Daryanani and Stevenheydens pen Eurocup-3 deals as Fluxa sets pace

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Kai Daryanani and Yani Stevenheydens will join the grid for the final round of Eurocup-3’s winter series at Motorland Aragon.

MP Motorsport’s deal with Daryanani extends into the main season, in which he will contest an unspecified number of rounds, while Global Racing Service has signed Stevenheydens for this weekend’s Eurocup-3 action.

Stevenheydens was a race-winner with MP in Spanish Formula 4’s Winter Championship earlier this year and was due to race in the main season with the team but Juan Cota has just been named in MP’s line-up in Stevenheydens’ place.

Daryanani kicked off his 2025 with a tricky Formula Regional Middle East campaign, a few months on from winning the F4-spec Formula Trophy title on the same circuits. He was also 12th in British F4 and 25th in F4 United Arab Emirates last year.

Prior to his Spanish F4 WC campaign, Stevenheydens spent two years in the centrally-run French F4 championship. The 19-year-old Belgian was seventh in the 2023 standings, and 2024 runner-up with four race wins and eight poles.

Cota, 17, will be embarking on a third season in Spanish F4. The Spaniard moves across from Drivex School, with whom he was 15th in his rookie season and improved to fourth with a sophomore after a late-season run of four wins and three second places. He also took home the gold medal for Spain in the Motorsport Games’ F4 event, when MP was running his car.

Cota will technically be making a step down by racing in Spanish F4 again, as last month he stepped up to Eurocup-3 with Drivex. After the first two winter series rounds he sits eighth in the points with one podium finish. He will not be on the grid this weekend but MP says he will contest three rounds of the main series during the year.

Campos Racing is another team to make an unscheduled change to its line-up at Aragon, with Lucas Fluxa replacing Kacper Sztuka. Spanish F4 race-winner Fluxa had already stood in for Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak in another of the team’s cars in the previous round, and scored twice.

He has already started his time back in the cockpit on a high, as he topped pre-event testing. There were two sessions on Friday, and Fluxa set a 1m52.460s to top the first by just 0.032 seconds over MP’s Maciej Gladysz.

Ernesto Rivera (Campos) was third fastest, and also within half a second of the pace were Andres Cardenas (MP) and James Egozi (Palou Motorsport).

Only seven of the 26 drivers set personal bests in session two, and Rivera was quickest with a 1m52.785s. He led improving team-mate Jesse Carrasquedo Jr by 0.054s, with Valerio Rinciella (MP) a further 0.004s behind. Gladysz trailed by 0.112s in fourth, and Mattia Colnaghi (MP) was the next improver in fifth. He was 0.133s off the session pace, putting him ninth overall.

Test results