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PHM Racing has announced two drivers for the upcoming Formula Regional Middle East season, which will run to a different schedule than originally planned.
The first two rounds were due to take place on the final two weekends of January in Kuwait at the country’s Kuwait Motor Town circuit, but have been relocated to Yas Marina Circuit. It means the first four rounds all take place in the United Arab Emirates, since Dubai Autodrome and Yas Marina had already been confirmed as hosts of the next two events.
Initially there was no venue designated for round five, but it was later decided that the Jeddah circuit raced on by Formula 1 would be used for the finale on February 25-27. The supporting Formula 4 Middle East championship has made the same revisions to its calendar, and F4 South East Asia – which shares the same promoter – has had its 2025 schedule updated.
Round two has moved from Sepang on June 6-8 to Buriram on May 23-25, round three has been confirmed as taking place on Thailand’s Bangsaen street circuit, round four switches from Buriram and mid-August to Sepang on the first weekend of September, and the finale at Sepang has been postponed by two weeks to September 19-21.
In FRME, PHM has signed Jaden Pariat and Everett Stack. Pariat steps up to FRegional after racing in F4 since 2022.
He debuted in British F4, contesting two rounds and scoring once. A Formula Winter Series cameo kicked off his 2023, then he did half of the British F4 season and after a maiden podium in round one only scored twice more and came 23rd in the standings. Last year he contested his home championship in Indian, but again did not see out a full campaign and was third in the points table with two wins and five other podiums after missing the final round.
Stack has plentiful experience in the entry-level category but has tasted FRegional machinery too. In 2023 he did four United States F4 rounds, then stepped up to FRegional Americas for the final two events which resulted in four seventh place finishes as his best results.
He left his home country at the start of 2024 to join PHM in a multi-series programme. It started off with F4 UAE, in which he came 34th in the standings, then in Italian F4 he came 27th after scoring a solitary point. The American was also 30th in E4 (nee Euro 4), made a F4 Central European Zone cameo and later joined Palou Motorsport for an outing in the FRegional-based Eurocup-3 series.