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Sainteloc Racing has announced Nikita Bedrin will be part of its Formula Regional European Championship line-up this year.
It will mark the 19-year-old’s first full attack at the championship, having done two rounds in 2023 and then seven in 2024.
His first outing was with Monolite Racing, and resulted in a ninth and a fifth place, then he joined Van Amersfoort Racing for the season finale and came away with a podium. His 2024 campaign with MP Motorsport featured seven points finishes and Bedrin coming 16th in the standings.
Bedrin has had greater success in FRegional Middle East, first with PHM Racing and then with Sainteloc. In 2023 he drove for the former, and came eighth in the championship after converting two poles into two wins. When he joined Sainteloc for the last two FRME rounds of 2025, Bedrin showed suprerior tyre management skills to claim a victory and two third places at Losail and a runner-up finish at Yas Marina Circuit that helped lift him to 11th in the standings despite missing three rounds.
That experience of tyre saving was built from two seasons at the next level in the FIA Formula 3 Championship. Bedrin may have only come 18th and 19th in those campaigns, but still picked up strong results. As a rookie with Jenzer Motorsport he stood on the podium twice, and with AIX Racing claimed a maiden feature race victory at the Hungaroring.
In FREC, Bedrin will be team-mate to Spanish Formula 4 graduate Tim Gerhards and FREC sophomore Yaroslav Veselaho.