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The UAE4 grid is continuing to grow with just a few days before the season begins at Yas Marina Circuit.
PHM Racing has announced it will run Emma Felbermayr, Platon Kostin and Iacopo Martinese.
Felbermayr, 18, raced for Rodin Motorsport during her rookie year in single-seaters last year and came 10th in the all-female F1 Academy championship with the support of the Audi-owned Sauber Formula 1 team.
In Spanish F4 the Austrian came 27th and 29th in the winter and main championships, missing a round in both.
Kostin was sixth in Russia’s SMP F4 championship last year, and is currently third in its winter series’ 2025-26 campaign.
Martinese steps up to cars with the backing of sportscar team Cetilar Racing, which previously competed in F4 back in 2022 in association with Iron Lynx. He was chosen for the seat by Dino Chiesa, the head of kart brand and team Kart Republic.
The 15-year-old Martinese spent a year in senior karting, starting off with the WSK Final Cup late in 2024 which he came sixth in. In 2025 the Italian was fifth in WSK’s Super Master Series, sixth in Champions of the Future, 11th in the CIK-FIA World championship and 20th in the European championship on OK karts. He ended his year at the USA’s SuperNationals event, finishing third in the X30 Pro class and also making the final in KA100 Senior karts.
During his junior karting career, Martinese was WSK Euro Series champion, came third in the CIK-FIA European championship two successive years, fourth in CotF, sixth in WSK SMS and eighth in WSK’s Final and Champion cups.
Evans GP now has four drivers signed with the addition of Alba Hurup Larsen, who will miss the fourth and final round at Losail while Ben Nguyen will return to the team’s line-up at that point after missing rounds two and three.
Larsen started her single-seater career with in 2024, doing two Indian F4 rounds with MP Motorsport. Last year she came seventh in F1 Academy with the team, and was 23rd in British F4 and 32nd in FWinter Series’ standings as a part-timer.
Pinnacle Motorsport’s UAE4 line-up has expanded to four cars, as Vladimir Verkholantsev joins for all but round two. In 2025 he was fourth in SMP F4, and currently leads its winter series.