Photo: FRegional Americas
Formula Regional Americas, United States Formula 4 and Ligier JS F4 Series have unveiled their calendars for 2025.
All three start their campaigns at NOLA Motorports Park on March 27-30, and while it is technically a returning venue for US F4 it was supposed to host the 2024 season opener before its round got cancelled due to delays in the delivery of the new second-generation F4 car from Ligier that the championship was switching to.
The LJSF4 Series launched this year to give a new lease of life to the cars that had been retired from US F4.
On May 15-18 the three return to action at Road America, then FRegional Americas races on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course on June 12-15. It reunites with its feeder series at Mid-Ohio on June 19-22, and after a break of another month all three head to Mid-Ohio on July 31-August 3.
Despite being an American series, US F4 joins FRegional Americas in heading to Canada after that. Mosport returned to the US F4 calendar this year after six years away, and hosted the continental FRegional series for the first time, and the trip proved successful enough for the track to keep its place on the schedule for 2025. It will be visited on August 28-31.
FRegional Americas has swapped out its non-championship races at Laguna Seca and round at Circuit of the Americas to include Virginia International Raceway and Barber Motorsports Park for its final two rounds, with both returning venues.
Virginia was on the calendar from 2019 to 2023, and Barber hosted races in 2019 and ’20. The paddock will head to the two tracks next year on September 18-21 and October 17-19 respectively, with US F4 and LJSF4 Series joining on both occasions.
US F4 expands from a scheduled six to seven rounds in 2025, and its first-generation counterpart expands from five rounds to six for its second season. However there will be no uniform number of races at each round for any of the three series. FRegional Americas’ eight-round schedule will feature 21 races, US F4’s has 18 and LJSF Series’ will include 16 races.
The champion of the latter will receive a $186,700 (£139,630) to spend on switching to US F4 for 2026, and that includes the lease of a car, an engine and two sets of free tyres per event. US F4’s champion will get a $264,900 (£198,115) scholarship to enable graduation to FRegional Americas, and “will be provided [with] the use of a JS F3 chassis from Ligier Automotive, an F3 engine developed, engineered and provided by Mountune” and three free sets of tyres per round.
As for the FRegional Americas champion, their prize “will be announced in the coming weeks”.