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The 2025 Eurocup-3 grid is continuing to grow, with teams securing drivers before the inaugural Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship campaign begins.
Jerez hosts the opening round this weekend, with an entry list expected later this week. Many teams have not confirmed whether their drivers signed for the main championship will also be competing in the winter equivalent.
A new entry to the Eurocup-3 paddock is Swedish-licensed but Spanish-based team Allay Racing. It will field brothers Emil and Linus Hellberg, who did the last three rounds of the 2024 season as guest drivers. Linus’s best finish was 14th, and Emil’s was 15th. The 49-year-old Emil was Italian Sports Prototype champion in 2023, and raced against his brother there.
Drivex School has added Juan Cota, Preston Lambert and Lenny Ried to its Eurocup-3 line-up.
Cota, 17, won the Motorsport Games Formula 4 gold medal for Spain last year and was fourth in Spanish F4 with four wins. Three of those came at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit, the same location as his Motorsport Games success. The F4 sophomore also claimed a Formula Winter Series victory.
Lambert, also 17, came fourth in F4 Western in 2023 then raced part-time in Spain last year. He picked up a best finish of 14th from 16 races in F4, and 15th from his Eurocup-3 cameo.
Ried is stepping up the single-seater ladder after one year in F4 in which he had a best finish of 12th in Spanish F4 and 17th in FWinter Series.
Palou Motorsport, launched by three-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou, run by his father Ramon and partnered with top IndyCar team Chip Ganassi Racing through its driver development programme, has named four drivers so far for 2025.
Luciano Morano stays with the team after a points-free 2024 campaign, Isaac Barashi joins after coming 20th with Global Racing Service last season, Alceu Feldmann Neto makes the bold choice to race in the series after being a part-timer in Brazilian F4 in 2024 and Adam Hideg steps up after coming 17th in Spanish F4 and 20th in FWinter Series as a rookie.
Barashi, Hideg and Morano are anticipated to race in the Eurocup-3 SWC to warm up for their main campaign.
In the Sainteloc Racing garage this year will be Garrett Berry and Lorenzo Castillo. Berry was 21st last season driving for Palou, and Castillo – currently racing in Formula Regional Middle East – is another driver moving up after a points-free year in Spanish F4.
Although not confirmed by the team, Jesse Carrasquedo Jr will be driving for Campos Racing in the Eurocup-3 SWC opener. The Mexican was a winner in Eurocup-3 last year and despite missing several rounds was eighth in the standings, and currently he is eighth in FRME.
Another Eurocup-3 SWC-only entry, for now, is Cristian Cantu at GRS. He was sixth in NACAM F4 back in 2022, championship runner-up a year later and a points-free 30th in Spanish F4 last season.