F3 race-winners Beganovic and Goethe head Macau GP entry list

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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