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Ean Eyckmans and Rene Lammers will both step up to Eurocup-3 with MP Motorsport this year to continue their rivalry with Thomas Strauven.
Eyckmans and Lammers finished second and fourth in the Spanish Formula 4 championship with MP in 2025 as Campos driver Strauven took the title.
Belgian Eyckmans – son of former Formula 3000 and IndyCar driver Wim – was in his first year of car racing after winning the Richard Mille Young Talent Academy shootout. Dutch driver Lammers, whose father is former Formula 1 driver and Le Mans 24 Hours winner Jan, had a much improved second season in Spanish F4 after coming 13th as a much-anticipated rookie in 2024.
The pair will be joined in MP’s Eurocup-3 line-up by Australian driver Gianmarco Pradel, who came fourth in GB3 last year with Rodin Motorsport after two seasons in Italian F4 with US Racing. A fourth driver is set to be announced soon.
Campos meanwhile has completed its four-car line-up with Strauven and Pradel’s fellow Australian GB3 convert Patrick Heuzenroeder to be joined by Red Bull junior Enzo Tarnvanichkul and former Mercedes protege Alex Powell.
Thai driver Tarnvanichkul will be entering his second year in Eurocup-3 with Campos having come eighth in the 2025 standings with one win. He also won a race in a partial GB3 campaign.
American-Jamaican Powell makes the full-time step up from F4 after coming fifth in the Italian championship with Prema in 2024 and ninth last year with R-ace GP, when he was also runner-up in the United Arab Emirates series to team-mate Emanuele Olivieri. Released from the Mercedes junior programme at the end of 2025, Powell currently sits third in the Formula Regional Middle East Trophy with Pinnacle Motorsport.
Elsewhere, the 2025 Brazilian F4 champion Heitor Dall’Agnol has joined the grid with Palou Motorsport, while Hitech has signed Stefan Bostandjiev, who made the unusual switch from GT racing to single-seaters last year with a dual campaign across GB4 and GB3, finishing 12th in the standings in the former.
American Andre Rodriguez, who contested three rounds of Italian F4, three rounds in Euro 4 and a single weekend of Spanish F4 in his rookie single-seater campaign last year, has become the first driver announced by GRS Team.