With rain overnight and the threat of more rain in the forecast throughout the day, RMC Winter Trophy competitors descended on the Orlando Kart Center (OKC) for the final time in 2024. With race wins, championships, and tickets to the RMC Grand Finals on the line, the wheel-to-wheel action commenced with prefinals for all classes with grids set from Friday’s qualifying session before the afternoon made way for the main events on Championship Sunday.

Wheel-to-wheel racing kicked off at the RTX Karting RMC Winter Trophy Sunday. Now a three-race series due to issues with timing and scoring on Saturday, qualifying on Friday afternoon set the grid for the prefinals on Sunday. With Prefinal A and B for classes over 36 entries, the top-18 in each prefinal transferred directly to the main event with all other class prefinals setting the grid for the finals.

The second running of the Rotax Winter Trophy has hit the spot in 2023, growing the two-round series to a total of 100 entries. With an increase in participants of 66.6% on the first edition of the Rotax MAX Challenge Winter Trophy USA in Florida last year, the interest in the championship saw drivers coming from 14 different nations to compete for the titles and RMC Grand Finals tickets.

We can‘t believe that the week is actually over now, as today we crowned the champions of the 2022 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals and there was simply incredible racing action out on track.

What a lovely sunny day in the mountains of Portimao at the Kartodromo Internacional Algarve. The sun was shining the whole day and gave us beautiful weather for the traditional Drivers picture before the pre-finals of the RMCGF 2022 started.

Today the Kartodromo Internacional Algarve welcomed us in the morning shrouded in fog what prompted a fifteen-minute delay to the start of our on-track action. But this did not lower the spirit of our racers.

Yesterday saw the first real part of the full-throttle action that is experienced by the whole paddock, as all 394 drivers would brave the changeable weather conditions that saw the final part of Non-Qualifying Practice and the first five of eight classes go out for Qualifying.

Paul Aron‘s victory was won by keeping the lead from start to finish. After signing the pole position this morning, he climbed on the top step of the podium for the fifth time this year at the wheel of  Prema Racing team’s car number 3.

Prema Racing’s driver Paul Aron scored the fastest time in the first Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine qualifying at Barcelona, and claimed race one pole position in an extraordinarily close session, which was held with all the cars on the track due to the fog.

The Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine ends its eighth round of the season at Red Bull Ring with Hadrien David‘s victory in Race 2. The young driver of the R-ace GP team drove a perfect race after starting from pole, and kept the lead from start to finish.

A spectacular Race 1 full of twists and turns took place at the Red Bull Ring, where the eighth round of the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine was held, with Kas Haverkort (Van Amersfoort Racing) reaching the highest step of the podium ahead of teammate Joshua Dufek. Behind, RPM’s new addition Pierre-Louis Chovet‘s entered the season with a flawless performance, leading him to third place having led the race for a few laps.

Paul Aron confirmed his top form at Red Bull Ring claiming his fifth pole position of the year in the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine at the end of a thrilling qualifying session. 

The second Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine race at Spa Francorchamps put on a show, as usual, providing some excitement to the numerous spectators on the stands and paddock of the Belgian track.

FA Racing driver Esteban Masson topped the collective tests in the sixth round of the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine at Hungaroring.

The series leader, Dino Beganovic (Prema Racing), scored the best time of the day and set his second pole position of the season after the one obtained at Monza

Prema Racing’s Dino Beganovic claimed his first Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine victory in the opener race of the weekend at Monza.

Paul Aron and Prema Racing were quickest in the first collective test at Monza for the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine. The Estonian rose to the top of the times in the final part of the session and stayed there until the checkered flag.

The 2022 season of Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine gets underway at Monza this weekend (23/24 April) with 37 drivers all gunning for glory and 12 different teams.

The 2022 Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine season moved a step closer as the teams and drivers competing in this year’s series came together for the last collective test at Monza (5-6 April).

Gabriele Minì set the fastest time in Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine two day testing on the Montmeló circuit, in Spain. The ART Grand Prix driver led the charts in both days. The 17-year-old Italian emerged in yesterday’s first session with the best time of 1m40.497s. Minì secured the fastest lap also in today’s first session with 1m40.503s.

The first of two day test at Barcelona officially kicked off the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine 2022 season. In a mix of wet and dry condition a number of 40 drivers have attended the first session in the morning. Gabriele Minì (ART Grand Prix) set the best time of 1:40.497 in the final stages. Dino Beganovic (Prema Racing) finished second, 0.288 seconds behind the Italian. 

Brazilian racer Eduardo Barrichello has signed with Arden Motorsport for his second season in Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine joining Noel Leon (Red Bull Junior) and Joshua Dürksen. 

JD Motorsport lined up three cars again in round 6 of the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine held this weekend at Spa-Francorchamps. After the successful one-off appearance of Michael Belov at Le Castellet, where the Russian driver took a double podium, Ido Cohen drove the Italian squad's third car. The Israeli driver found an agreement with JD Motorsport to contest the second part of the season.

The third round of the 2021 Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine hasn’t been an easy one for JD Motorsport. The Italian outfit fielded its two rookie drivers at the iconic Monte Carlo street circuit aware of the challenge ahead. 
 

Race 1 for the third round of the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine season was held on Saturday morning at Monte Carlo. Both JD Motorsport drivers were new to the iconic street circuit, and they only had one practice to learn it, the 50-minute Free session scheduled on Thursday. Then, they immediately had to face the qualifying session, which is crucial in Monaco since overtaking is virtually impossible. 
 

The first collective tests of the opening season of the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine will take place tomorrow and Thursday

JD Motorsport is delighted to announce that Eduardo Barrichello will drive for the team in the 2021 Formula Regional European by Alpine championship. The 19-year-old Brazilian, son of former Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello, is coming from a positive 2020 season, having claimed three wins, nine podiums and three pole positions en-route to second place in last year's USF2000 Championship.