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Italian Formula 4 runner-up Jack Beeton has secured a Formula Regional European Championship seat with Prema for 2025.
The 16-year-old Australian joined Nicolas Todt’s All Road Management stable a year ago, and since then has accumulated plenty of F4 experience with rival teams to Prema.
“I’m really looking forward to next year. Prema is a really professional team with a lot of great history and just won the 2024 championship,” said Beeton.
“I will try to do the best I can and have fun. I’m sure that, with Prema, I will be able to do that, so I cannot wait to see what we will be able to achieve together.”
Beeton spent 2021 and ’22 in junior karting at home, winning a club title and coming seventh in the national series’ KA4 Junior class in 2021 and then coming third and fifth in the Queensland and national championships respectively in 2022.
He travelled to Europe to compete in the Ferrari Driver Academy’s World Scouting Final and to begin F4 test preparations with Cram Motorsport, US Racing and Van Amersfoort Racing. To make his car racing debut he headed back to Australia, competing in the Formula Open races at Phillip Island’s ‘Island Magic’ event.
Beeton’s 2023 began in F4 United Arab Emirates, where he raced for Pinnacle VAR and came 23rd in the standings with six points. He remained with VAR for Euro 4 and Italian F4, coming 15th in the former and 23rd in the latter, scoring eight points across the two series.
Next on his schedule was F4 South East Asia, where he raced for Australian team AGI Sport. Two wins from pole in round one and a further three podiums in the remaining events comfortably delivered Beeton the title, although he was one of only two full-time drivers in the series.
At the start of 2024 he and the team headed over to F4 UAE, and two podiums put Beeton 12th in the standings. He then signed with US Racing for a triple F4 programme.
First up was the second half of the Formula Winter Series season, and three podiums put him 10th in the points table. Next up was Italian F4, where he finished second in seven races before finally breaking his victory duck at Barcelona at September. Two more podiums in the final round at Monza were crucial to clinching the championship runner-up spot.
Alongside that he raced in Euro 4, and a singular podium from from the three-round series left him eight in the standings.
In FREC, he will be team-mate to runaway Italian F4 champion Freddie Slater who was the winning driver in all but one of the races that Beeton finished second in.