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Prema reveals full FRegional and F4 Middle East line-ups

by Ida Wood

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Prema has revealed its full line-ups for Formula Regional Middle East and Formula 4 Middle East, as well as the cars it will be entering under the Mumbai Falcons banner.

All four of its FRegional cars will be considered Mumbai Falcons entries, and the new additions to that line-up include three of the drivers who will also be racing for Prema in FRegional European Championship this year: Rashid Al Dhaheri, Jack Beeton and Freddie Slater.

Al Dhaheri was second in the F4-spec Formula Trophy and fourth in F4 United Arab Emirates last year, Beeton was Italian F4 runner-up and eighth in its sister series E4 (nee Euro 4), and Slater was the F4 UAE and Italian F4 champion as well as E4 runner-up.

The other new name in Mumbai Falcons’ FRME line-up is Reza Seewooruthun, who will contest the first two rounds at Yas Marina Circuit. He will be driving for Argenti with Prema in GB3 later this year, and steps up from F4 where he came third in the British championship and the Motorsport Games, and 16th in F4 UAE last year. Doriane Pin will do the rest of the season.

In F4, Prema has announced Newman Chi for a triple programme in E4, F4 Middle East and Italian F4. The 15-year-old Chinese racer primarily spent 2024 doing single-seater tests, but did contest the FTrophy series in the UAE at the end of the year and came fifth in the standings with two podiums.

His team-mates in F4 Middle East will be Williams junior Sasha Bondarev and Andretti Global junior Sebastian Wheldon. Bondarev contested the last two Italian F4 rounds of 2024 with Prema ahead of a full-time campaign in 2025, and Wheldon – the son of late two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan – will also race for the team full-time in Europe.

He was champion of the F4-spec Skip Barber Formula Race Series in 2023, and last year was YACademy Winter Series runner-up, fourth in USF Juniors and ninth in FTrophy.

Joining the roster of Mumbai Falcons drivers in the Middle East are Arjun Chheda, Kean Nakamura Berta and Tomass Stolcermanis. Chheda was 24th in French F4 and 19th in Indian F4 last year, while Nakamura and Stolcarmanis were team-mates at Prema through 2024. They were second and 18th in F4 UAE, third and fifth in E4, and sixth and ninth in Italian F4.

While Nakamura will continue in those series, Stolceramis is yet to announce his racing plans beyond his upcoming campaign in the Middle East.