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Ruiqi Liu will remain with Trident in 2025 for a second Formula Regional European Championship season.
The Chinese came 22nd in the standings this year, scoring three points, and before that was 26th in FRegional Middle East with PHM Racing. He reunited with the team to contest the FRegional World Cup-awarding Macau Grand Prix, coming 22nd in the qualification race and crashing out of the main race.
“It has been a pleasure to continue my journey with Trident, super exciting and ready to put some good show,” said Liu.
The 18-year-old also made a Chinese Formula 4 cameo this year that resulted in a podium, having coming fourth in the championship the previous season by winning three of his eight races and only being off the podium once. His F4 results in Europe varied, with fourth place in Formula Winter Series at the start of 2023 followed by 14th in Euro 4 and 30th in Italian F4.
Liu’s team-mates in 2025 will be Matteo De Palo and Nandhavhud Bhirombhakdi. The latter came 14th in ADAC F4 two years ago, then was 21st in both Euro 4 and Italian F4 last years and a points-free 26th in FREC with KIC Motorsport this season.
ART Grand Prix has made its second signing, and currently has an all-Japanese line-up as Kanato Le joins the already announced Taito Kato. The 17-year-old will also drive for ART GP in FRME too next year.
Le won twice en route to seventh in the 2023 British F4 standings as a single-seater rookie, and in 2024 made FRME and GB3 outings in addition to his main programme which was FREC with G4 Racing. He took one podium and two other points finishes, ending the season 18th in the standings.
“I am very happy to be racing with ART GP for the 2025 season,” said Le. “We had a productive winter test and I am confident that we will achieve great results together so I can’t wait to get started with them next year. Thank you very much to everyone who made this possible.”
He made his first race outing with the team in last month’s Macau GP, finishing 19th in the qualification race then retiring from the main race.