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Jenzer Motorsport has named the first two drivers in its four-car Formula Winter Series line-up, and both are single-seater debutants.
Markas Silkunas, 16, is a Lithuanian karting talent who is going to race in FWinter Series ahead of an anticipated F4 Central European Zone campaign after testing with multiple teams in 2025.
He represented his country at the 2022 Motorsport Games, was third in the 2023 FIA Karting Academy Trophy and stepped up full-time to the senior OK kart class in 2024. He was seventh in WSK’s Euro Series and 20th in its Champions Cup, a finalist in the CIK-FIA World championship and 24th in the European championship. On OK-N Senior karts he was Champions of the Future Academy Program runner-up.
He won that championship last year and leads the 2025-26 season of its Emirati counterpart, and was 24th in WSK’s Euro Series on OK karts.
Levi Arn is Jenzer’s second signing, and like the team he hails from Switzerland. The 15-year-old was the country’s national champion on KZ2 shifter karts last year, and third in the Swiss championship for OK karts in 2024.
He has also tested with multiple F4 teams through 2025, and outside of Switzerland finished 21st in the FIA Karting World Cup and 31st in the Trofeo Andrea Margutti.
Cram Motorsport has revealed the five drivers filling the four-car line-up it will be entering in the FWinter Series.
First to be announced was Andre Rodriguez, who will be racing for the Italian team in three championships, then it was confirmed Alexandre Louza would join for two FWinter Series rounds. Last year he raced on home soil in Brazil’s Formula Delta championship, which uses halo-shod cars, and was championship runner-up.
Max Kammerlander, Samuel Ifrid and Oscar Repetto will be their team-mates.
Swiss racer Kammerlander competed on X30 Senior karts last year, and came third in the Rotax Senior standings of Rotax Max Challenge Switzerland in 2024. He also has sportscar testing experience.
His countryman Ifrid finished 20th in the 2022 RMC Grand Finals in Rotax Senior, was 26th a year later and has primarily karted in Switzerland since.
Repetto joined Cram last September, contesting one E4 and one Italian Formula 4 round. He went points-free in both. Earlier in the year the Italo-Monegasque driver had come 16th in the WSK Euro Series for OK karts, and he had finished 14th in the WSK Champions Cup in 2024.
After missing last season, Rodin Motorsport will return to the FWinter Series paddock in 2026 with three cars.