2022 In February 2022, Irish racing driver
Keith Donegan purchased the assets of
RP Motorsport to start his own team, Race Performance Motorsport (RPM). The team is registered in Italy, and based in
Piacenza, like its predecessor. With an aim to compete in the
Formula Regional European Championship, he took on Enrico Carraro as team manager, and the team made their competition debut in the
2022 Formula Regional European Championship, when they took the place of DR Formula. They started their first season with Italian racing driver
Pietro Delli Guanti and Donegan himself. In an interview on 16 May 2022, Donegan revealed intentions for the team to field a third car in the
Formula Regional European Championship before the end of the
2022 season. For Round 6 at the
Hungaroring, the team fielded
Andrea Rosso in the third car to be kept for the remainder of the season, and
Owen Tangavelou replaced Donegan as the driver in the second car. It was at that same round RPM scored the team's first points in FRECA, with Tangavelou finishing in P9. Tangavelou would go on to score 14 more points in 2022, making him the best placed RPM driver with P20 in the standings.
Pierre-Louis Chovet joined the for the last 3 rounds replacing
Pietro Delli Guanti and immediately scored RPM's first podium. He would go on and score another podium at the Barcelona round.
2023 For the 2023 season, the team signed
Macéo Capietto,
Santiago Ramos and
Adam Fitzgerald. The latter appeared on
The Late Late Show alongside RPM owner
Keith Donegan before the season started. During the first race of the season at the first round at the
Imola Circuit, Fitzgerald broke three vertebrae and was hospitalized after a collision with sausage kerbs on the track, a similar incident to that of
Abbie Eaton during the
2021 Austin W Series round. Fitzgerald was able to return for the second round at the
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. On 1 July 2023 at
Spa-Francorchamps, Fitzgerald was involved in a multi-car chain reaction collision initiated when
Tim Tramnitz lost control. Fitzgerald collided at high speed with
Dilano van 't Hoff. The accident left the RPM driver with many broken bones whilst Van 't Hoff subsequently lost his life. Due to his injuries, Fitzgerald was unable to compete in any of the remaining rounds. He returned to training less than nine weeks after his serious crash. He was 38th in the standings, with a best finish of 19th place.
Noah Strømsted joined RPM during the last two rounds of the season. Maceo Capietto and Santiago Ramos scored a total of 144 points, which resulted in a 4th in the
2023 FRECA Teams Standings.
2024 Noah Strømsted remained with the team for
2024. and was joined by
Giovanni Maschio and Edgar Pierre. Strømsted took 4 podiums on the way to take 6th in the driver's championship, securing the rookie title ahead of drivers like
Evan Giltaire and
Pedro Clerot. RPM finished 6th in the team's standings with 122 points.
2025 Giovanni Maschio remained with the team for the
2025 season, teaming up with
Enzo Peugeot who switched from
Saintéloc Racing, and
Enzo Yeh. Maschio only scored a couple of points finishes for the team, while the other two seats changed drivers many times throughout the season, leading to an underwhelming season where RPM finished 7th in the teams standings with 9 points.
2026 Maschio was once again retained for what is set to be his 3rd year with the team, and he will be joined by
Jan Przyrowski, who will return after racing for RPM in the final round of 2025, as well as Miguel Costa, who steps up from
Spanish F4. == Current series results ==