Photo: Macau GP Organising Committee
The 20-car entry list for the inaugural FIA Formula 4 World Cup in Macau on November 13-16 has been released.
There will be seven F4 champions on the grid, and the most experienced is local talent Tiago Rodrigues. He won the Chinese F4 title and gained his first Macau experience in F4 South East Asia in 2023, then contested last year’s Macau Grand Prix.
Marcus Cheong also has Macau experience from the F4 races there two years ago, with both he and countryman Rodrigues cameoing in Chinese F4 this year.
The other champions headed to Macau all claimed their titles in 2025, with the list consisting of Fionn McLaughlin (British), Alexdandre Munoz (French), Kean Nakamura Berta (Italian), Emanuele Olivieri (Middle East), Gino Trappa (Central European Zone) and Shimo Zhang (Chinese).
Drivers with experience higher up the single-seater ladder competing are Rodrigues, Ary Bansal, who won the GB4 championship in its first year using previous-generation GB3 chassis rather than F4 cars, and Trappa who did a round of the third-tier Euroformula championship earlier this year.
The Macau GP was a Chinese F4 round from 2020 to 2022 and was a non-championship round when it was on the F4 SEA calendar.
In each of those years drivers were entered by teams. It has not been stated whether the grand prix-supporting FIA F4 World Cup will be contested by multiple teams or centrally run by one, but a statement by the FIA indicates the latter:
With technical and operational support provided by Mintimes, the organiser of the Chinese F4 championship, in association the [French F4-organising] FFSA and Ligier, the ultimate level playing field has been created. This will allow these young talents to be fully focused on demonstrating their potential on Macau’s 6.120-kilometre Guia Circuit, ranked as one of the world’s most challenging FIA-homologated racing tracks.
F4 SEA has been a centrally run championship each season except for 2023, with French F4 and Indian F4 operating under the same model.
Entry list
| No. | Driver | Nat. | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | Marcus Cheong | MAC | 17th in Chinese F4 |
| #3 | Tiago Rodrigues | MAC | 14th in F4 Middle East, NC in Chinese F4 |
| #5 | Fionn McLaughlin | IRL | British F4 champion, 3rd in FWinter Series |
| #7 | Jules Roussel | FRA | 3rd in French F4 |
| #11 | Alexandre Munoz | FRA | French F4 champion |
| #12 | Ethan Nobels | BRA | currently 6th in Brazilian F4 |
| #15 | Yuzhe Wang | PRC | 7th in Chinese F4, 29th in F4 Middle East |
| #16 | Kyuho Lee | ROK | 10th in F4 SEA, 20th in F4 Middle East, currently 21st in Spanish F4, 31st in Spanish F4 WC |
| #17 | Itsuki Sato | JAP | currently 1st in Japanese F4, currently 7th in Indian F4 |
| #21 | Shimo Zhang | PRC | Chinese F4 champion |
| #26 | Rayan Caretti | FRA | 4th in French F4 |
| #30 | Rintaro Sato | JAP | 9th in French F4 |
| #42 | Emily Cotty | ENG | 21st in F4 Middle East, currently 23rd in E4, 31st in Italian F4, NC in FWinter Series |
| #46 | Ary Bansal | IND | GB4 champion, 11th in British F4, currently 16th in E4, 39th in Italian F4 |
| #48 | Gino Trappa | ARG | F4 CEZ champion, currently 14th in Spanish F4, currently 16th in Euroformula, 18th in Spanish F4 WC, 22nd in FWinter Series |
| #51 | Kean Nakamura Berta | JAP | Italian F4 champion, currently 1st in E4, 3rd in F4 Middle East |
| #61 | Yutsai Chan | HKG | 2nd in Chinese F4 |
| #68 | Emanuele Olivieri | ITA | F4 Middle East champion, 7th in Italian F4 |
| #87 | Thomas Bearman | ENG | 8th in British F4 & FWinter Series |
| #98 | Sebastian Wheldon | USA | 3rd in Italian F4, currently 5th in E4, 7th in F4 Middle East |