2026 Formula Regional European Championship

All teams compete using identical Tatuus T-326 cars powered by Toyota engines on Pirelli tyres. The ten pre-selected teams for the 2026 season were announced on 2 October 2025. MP Motorsport returned to the series after a one-year absence, while New Zealand-based team Rodin Motorsport made their series debut. The team signed Rashid Al Dhaheri, who finished eighth with Prema Racing in 2025, hired TOM'S driver and Super Formula Lights runner-up Yuki Sano and promoted Emanuele Olivieri from their Italian F4 outfit after he came seventh in 2025. Reigning Drivers' Champion Freddie Slater left Prema Racing as he graduated to FIA F3 with Trident, while Rashid Al Dhaheri moved to R-ace GP and Jack Beeton left the series to compete in Indy NXT with HMD Motorsports. The team initially signed Sebastian Wheldon, but ahead of the start of the season, he joined MP Motorsport instead. The seat was taken by Tomass Štolcermanis, who finished fourth in 2025 F4 Middle East Championship and made a one-off appearance with RPM in 2025. Van Amersfoort Racing saw two of their drivers move up to FIA F3, with Pedro Clerot joining Rodin Motorsport and Hiyu Yamakoshi remaining with VAR's F3 outfit. To replace them, the team signed Francisco Macedo, who moved over from Eurocup-3 after coming 14th in 2025 driving for Campos Racing's Griffin Core outfit, and Andrea Dupé, who graduated from Italian F4 and the E4 Championship. ART Grand Prix saw both Taito Kato and Kanato Le get promoted to the team's FIA F3 setup, while Evan Giltaire moved to Super Formula Lights with B-Max Racing Team. The team signed three F4 graduates in Alpine junior drivers Kabir Anurag and Matteo Giaccardi, who step up after coming 16th in Italian F4 with US Racing and eleventh in French F4, respectively, and reigning French F4 champion Alexandre Munoz. Trident have an all-new line up as they promoted runner-up Matteo De Palo to their FIA F3 team, Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi joined DAMS in FIA F3 and Ruiqi Liu moved to Porsche Carrera Cup Asia with Phantom Global Racing. The team signed Italian F4 graduates Maksimilian Popov and Andrija Kostić, who took sixth place with Van Amersfoort Racing and 17th with US Racing respectively in 2025. Luka Sammalisto also was to join the team, but was replaced ahead of the season by Kai Daryanani, who finished 11th with JHR Developments in the 2025 GB3 Championship. CL Motorsport saw all of their 2025 entrants bar Enea Frey depart the team, with Zhenrui Chi joining MP Motorsport and the other four competitors all leaving the series. Frey rejoined the team for a full season after a three-round campaign in 2025 saw him finish 25th. He was joined by reigning FIA F4 World Cup winner Jules Roussel, who stepped up from French F4, where he came third in 2025, and Reno Francot, who graduated to FREC after coming fifth in Spanish F4 and third in E4 in 2025 driving for KCL/MP and PHM Racing, respectively. RPM saw Enzo Yeh and the other nine part-time entries of 2025 all depart the team. They signed two drivers departing Campos Racing in Spanish F4 in Jan Przyrowski, who was third and already made a one-round guest appearance in 2025, and Miguel Costa, who came 14th in 2025. New team Rodin Motorsport recruited two drivers from the GB3 championship in reigning champion Alex Ninovic, who moved over from the team's outfit in that championship, and Reza Seewooruthun, who joined Rodin after finishing fifth with Argenti with Prema. Italian F4 and Euro 4 runner-up Gabriel Gomez completed the teams' lineup. Returning team MP Motorsport saw Alexander Abkhazava move from the teams' KCL-branded Eurocup-3 satellite outfit, with whom he came 12th in 2025, to FREC, and took on Zhenrui Chi for his full-season FREC debut after a four-race campaign for CL Motorsport in 2025. Sebastian Wheldon, third in Italian F4 with Prema Racing, was originally slated to remain with the Italian team before joining MP Motorsport to complete the team's lineup. Departing team Saintéloc Racing saw Nikita Bedrin move to the GB3 Championship with VRD Racing, Tim Gerhards move to the Le Mans Cup in the LMP3 class with More Motorsport, and Yaroslav Veselaho join AF Corse in the Pro Cup of the International GT Open. == Race calendar ==

The FIA announced the series' provisional calendar on 2 December 2025. The series will reduce its calendar from ten to eight events, with Misano and Barcelona not returning to the calendar. To compensate for this, four rounds will divert from the series' two-race format and hold three races. == Race results ==

First half The 2026 FIA Formula Regional European Championship began at the Red Bull Ring with pole position for Prema's Kean Nakamura-Berta in the opening qualifying session. The opening race saw Nakamura-Berta and R-ace GP's Rashid Al Dhaheri taking turns leading the race while Rodin's Alex Ninovic and MP's Sebastian Wheldon were also part of the lead battle. Nakamura-Berta was victorious in the end, with Al Dhaheri second and Wheldon inheriting third after a penalty for Ninovic. A reverse-grid race followed, where VAR driver Dion Gowda led from start to finish, but was classified fourth after a jump start penalty. That saw Al Dhaheri take his maiden victory after rising from eleventh on the grid to second on the road as Rodin's Reza Seewooruthun and CL's Reno Francot completed the podium. Nakamura-Berta claimed pole position again for race three, but lost his lead to Francot ahead of the first of four safety car interruptions. Francot remained faultless throughout all the restarts to clinch his and his team's first victory ahead of Ninovic and Wheldon. Polesitter Nakamura-Berta was involved in multiple incidents, ending in damage to his rear wing and a non-finish as Francot assumed the lead in the standings. == Championship standings ==

Scoring system The points system was overhauled in 2026, introducing points for the drivers taking pole position in qualifying and setting the fastest lap in the top ten. In the newly introduced three-race rounds, the second race of the weekend sees the top twelve of the first qualifying session reversed on the grid. These sprint races award reduced points: Points for the two main races remain the same in 2026, with the aforementioned addition of bonus points for pole position and fastest lap: Drivers' standings Italics – Fastest Lap † – Did not finish, but classified (completed more than 90% of the race distance) Teams' standings == Notes ==