Twelve teams were preselected on 12 September 2016.
Driver changes •
French F4 champion
Yifei Ye and
2016 F4 British Championship driver
Luis Leeds made their Eurocup debut with
Josef Kaufmann Racing. • F4 British Champion
Max Fewtrell,
2016 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship driver Thomas Maxwell and
2016 V de V Challenge Monoplace driver Thomas Neubauer joined
Tech 1 Racing. Another 2016 Tech 1 regular
Hugo de Sadeleer left single-seaters to join
United Autosports in LMP2 class of the
2017 European Le Mans Series. • French F4 Championship driver
Raúl Guzmán competed for
R-ace GP, he was joined in the team by
Robert Shwartzman, who previously raced for Josef Kaufmann Racing. •
Panam GP Series champion
Axel Matus and V de V Challenge Monoplace driver Gregoire Saucy made their debuts for
AVF by Adrián Vallés. They was joined by Rodrigo Pflucker who has competed two rounds with
Cram Motorsport. • V de V Challenge Monoplace champion
Alex Peroni and
2016 Asian Formula Renault Series driver Najiy Razak made their Eurocup debut with
Fortec Motorsports. • JD Motorsport signed all-rookie line-up with Sun Yueyang and
Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer who jumped straight from the karting. • Mark Burdett Motorsport team were joined by
Formula 4 South East Asia champion Presley Martono and
2016 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup driver Julia Pankiewicz. •
MP Motorsport squad was staffed by SMP F4 and
F4 Spanish champion
Richard Verschoor,
F1600 Championship Series driver and another Red Bull Junior
Neil Verhagen and Verschoor's SMP F4 title rival
Jarno Opmeer. •
Arden signed with Red Bull Junior driver
Dan Ticktum, Formula Renault 2.0 NEC driver Ghislain Cordeel and F4 British Championship driver Zane Goddard. ==Race calendar==