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The FIA has named the teams that will enter cars into the inaugural Formula Regional World Cup in Macau this November.
Having traditionally run for Formula 3 cars, the Macau Grand Prix will instead switch to being a race for FRegional machinery, specifically the Tatuus T-318 chassis and Autotecnica-built Alfa Romeo engines already used in a number of championships around the world.
Eleven teams have been confirmed by the FIA, representing several different FRegional series.
Five of the entered teams currently compete in the FRegional European Championship where the Tatuus chassis is used with Alpine-branded Renault powerplants: Prema, R-ace GP, ART Grand Prix, Sainteloc Racing, and MP Motorsport.
With the exception of ART, those teams have all also raced the Alfa Romeo engine in the Middle East championship along with PHM Racing, Pinnacle Motorsport and Evans GP which have also all placed entries for Macau.
Also entered is storied Japanese outfit TOM’S, a five-time winner of the Macau GP in F3 and which competes in the FRegional Japanese Championship, where the Autotecnica engine is fitted to a Dome chassis.
Another Japanese team entered is Super Formula squad TGM Grand Prix, which has not competed in FRegional previously.
Completing the list is Kiwi Motorsport, which competes in its native FRegional Oceania with the Tatuus-Toyota combination and FRegional Americas with its Ligier-Honda cars.
The FIA has not said how many cars each team will run, but had previously indicated that the field would be capped at 27 entries, suggesting only some of the 11 teams will compete with as many as three cars each.