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Trident F3 team signs Sami Meguetounif for 2024

by Peter Allen

Trident has signed Formula Regional graduate Sami Meguetounif to its FIA Formula line-up for 2024.

Meguetounif has spent the past two seasons racing in the FRegional European Championship with MP Motorsport. He was 16th in the standings in 2022 when he scored a second-place finish at Spa-Francorchamps, and took three podiums on his way to ninth in the 2023 points.

He was also a race winner with MP in the FRegional Middle East series at the start of this year. He previously came fourth in French Formula 4 in 2020, before moving to Germany’s ADAC series with R-ace GP.

“I’m really really really happy to be joining Trident,” he said. “We all know the good job the team did in these past seasons.

“I’m very excited to start this new challenge and to be driving during the same race weekends as the big boys of Formula 1. I will work hard this winter to arrive in Bahrain well-prepared. I have already started working with the team during the post-season tests and they already taught me so much to make my adaptation to this new category better and help me go faster.”

Meguetounif joins the returning Leonardo Fornaroli in the Trident line-up, with his FREC rival Santiago Ramos having occupied the third car during testing.

“We are delighted to welcome a promising driver like Sami Meguetounif to our line-up,” said team boss Giacomo Ricci. “[He] achieved good results in the FREC championship and impressed the team’s technical staff in the collective 2024 preparation tests at Jerez, Barcelona and Imola. We are convinced that, by joining the Trident Motorsport family, Sami will find the right environment to make great steps within the motorsport ladder.”