The FIA has published the entry list for the 2024 Macau Grand Prix, which will be run for Formula Regional machinery for the first time.
There are 27 cars entered, with two of them – one at MP Motorsport and one at PHM Racing – yet to have drivers confirmed.
Four teams had already announced their line-ups prior to the entry list publication, and seven teams had their driver signings revealed on Monday.
The highest profile drivers to sign up for the grand prix are FIA Formula 3 race-winners Dino Beganovic and Oliver Goethe, who came sixth and seventh in the championship respectively this year.
Red Bull junior Goethe is currently racing in Formula 2 with MP, and will drive for them in Macau alongside Valerio Rinicella who won the non-championship Eurocup-3 races at the start of 2024. Last year Goethe came ninth in the Macau GP from 21st on the grid.
Beganovic, a Ferrari junior, has raced for Prema the entirety of his single-seater career and continues that partnership into next month’s race. He also drove in the 2023 edition of the grand prix, when it ran for F3 cars, qualifying third, finishing the qualification race in fourth but then retiring from the main race.
His team-mates will be Alex Dunne, an F3 rival and McLaren junior who was in second in the 2023 Macau GP’s qualification race but also failed to finish on the Sunday, and this year’s dominant Italian and Emirati F4 champion Freddie Slater.
Also running three cars is PHM Racing, and its confirmed drivers are Emerati driver Rashid Al Dhaheri – who won races in his domestic F4 championship this year – and Matteo De Palo who is currently 16th in FRegional Europe.
Entering two cars each in Macau are Sainteloc Racing and the Japanese teams TOM’S and TGM Grand Prix.
Sainteloc brings across its drivers from Europe, with its Spanish F4 champion and FREC race-winner Theophile Nael racing one car while Eurocup-3 frontrunner Alexander Abkhazava pilots the other.
Stepping down from third-tier single-seaters with TOM’S are Jin Nakamura and Rikuto Kobayashi, currently third and fourth in Super Formula Lights with a win each.
Super Formula team TGM Grand Prix has signed Japanese F4 racer Rintaro Sato and 2023 FRegional Japanese champion Sota Ogawa, who has been out of action this year.
Kiwi Motorsport’s sole car in Macau is being driven by Jett Bowling, who recently hit form in FRegional Americas.
Macau GP entry list
No. | Driver | Team | 2024 |
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#1 | Oliver Goethe | MP Motorsport | currently 26th in F2, 7th in FIA F3 |
#2 | Valerio Rinicella | MP Motorsport | 17th in FRME, currently 20th in FREC, Eurocup-3 NC winner |
#3 | TBC | MP Motorsport | |
#4 | Ugo Ugochukwu | R-ace GP | 7th in FRME, currently 14th in FREC, 13th in GB3 |
#5 | Enzo Deligny | R-ace GP | currently 10th in FREC, 8th in F4 UAE |
#6 | Tuukka Taponen | R-ace GP | 31st in FIA F3, FRME champion, currently 3rd in FREC |
#7 | Noel Leon | KCMG by Pinnacle | 10th in FIA F3 |
#8 | Mari Boya | KCMG by Pinnacle | 15th in FIA F3, 5th in FRME |
#14 | Theophile Nael | Sainteloc Racing | 11th in FRME, currently 11th in FREC |
#15 | Alexander Abkhazava | Sainteloc Racing | currently 8th in Eurocup-3, 15th in FRME |
#16 | James Wharton | ART Grand Prix | 33rd in FIA F3, currently 2nd in FREC, 6th in FRME, 25th in GB3 |
#17 | Evan Giltaire | ART Grand Prix | currently 8th in FREC |
#18 | Kanato Le | ART Grand Prix | currently 18th in FREC, 22nd in FRME, 23rd in GB3 |
#19 | Rikuto Kobayashi | TOM’S | currently 4th in Super Formula Lights |
#20 | Jin Nakamura | TOM’S | currently 3rd in Super Formula Lights |
#21 | Jett Bowling | Kiwi Motorsport | currently 4th in FRegional Americas, 12th in FRegional Oceania, currently 41st in FREC |
#25 | Rashid Al Dhaheri | PHM Racing | 4th in F4 UAE, currently 9th in Italian F4, 11th in Euro 4 |
#26 | Matteo De Palo | PHM Racing | 18th in FRME, currently 16th in FREC |
#27 | TBC | PHM Racing | |
#30 | Dino Beganovic | Prema | 6th in FIA F3 |
#31 | Freddie Slater | Prema | 22nd in GB3, F4 UAE champion, Italian F4 champion, 2nd in Euro 4 |
#32 | Alex Dunne | Prema | 14th in FIA F3 |
#33 | Tiago Rodrigues | Evans GP | 11th in Australian F4 |
#37 | Cooper Webster | Evans GP | 7th in Australian F4 |
#53 | Sota Ogawa | TGM Grand Prix | No racing |
#55 | Rintaro Sato | TGM Grand Prix | currently 9th in Japanese F4 |
#88 | Kai Daryanani | Evans GP | 8th in Australian F4, 12th in British F4, 25th in F4 UAE, 28th in Italian F4 |