The 2024 Macau Grand Prix (formally the 71st Macau Grand Prix – FIA FR World Cup) is a planned motor race for Formula Regional cars scheduled to be held on the streets of Macau on 17 November 2024. The race itself will be made up of two races: a qualifying race that will decide the starting grid for the main event. The 2024 race will be the 71st running of the Macau Grand Prix, the first for Formula Regional cars and the inaugural FIA FR World Cup.[1]
| 2024 Macau Grand Prix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Race details | |||
| Date | 17 November 2024 | ||
| Official name | 71st Macau Grand Prix – FIA FR World Cup | ||
| Location | Guia Circuit, Macau | ||
| Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
| Course length | 6.120 km (3.803 mi) | ||
Background and entry list
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The Macau Grand Prix is a race considered by drivers as a stepping stone to higher motor racing categories such as Formula One, and is Macau's most prestigious international sporting event.[2][3] The event was made a non-championship round of the FIA Formula 3 Championship for the first time in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic caused heavy disruptions, particularly concerning entry of foreign drivers into Macau. This caused the race to be held as a domestic Formula 4 event for three years, serving as a round of the Chinese Formula 4 Championship.[4][5][6]
After a return of Formula 3 and other international series to Macau in 2023,[7] the FIA announced that the 2024 event would see a switch to Formula Regional machinery. The organizing bodies called this change a "natural consequence of the evolution of the junior single-seater landscape over the last couple of years", with Formula Regional now effectively embodying the multi-region multi-spec nature that F3 had previously been synonymous with.[8]
Entry list
editAll competitors will use an identical Tatuus T-318 chassis with a 1.742 L (106 cu in) turbocharged inline-4 engine developed by Autotechnica and Alfa Romeo.[9]
| Team | No. | Driver |
|---|---|---|
 MP Motorsport
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1 |  Oliver Goethe
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| 2 |  Valerio Rinicella
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| 3 |  Alessandro Giusti
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| R-ace GP
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4 |  Ugo Ugochukwu
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| 5 | Enzo Deligny
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| 6 |  Tuukka Taponen
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 KCMG IXO by Pinnacle Motorsport
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7 |  Noel León
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| 8 |  Mari Boya
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| Saintéloc Racing
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14 | Théophile Naël
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| 15 |  Alexander Abkhazava[a]
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| ART Grand Prix
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16 |  James Wharton
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| 17 | Evan Giltaire
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| 18 |  Kanato Le
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| TOM'S Formula
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19 | Rikuto Kobayashi
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| 20 | Jin Nakamura
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 Kiwi Motorsport
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21 | Jett Bowling
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 PHM Racing
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25 |  Rashid Al Dhaheri
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| 26 | Matteo de Palo
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| 27 |  Liu Ruiqi
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 SJM Theodore Prema Racing
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30 |  Dino Beganovic
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| 31 |  Freddie Slater
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| 32 | Alex Dunne
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| Evans GP
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33 |  Tiago Rodrigues
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| 37 | Cooper Webster
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| 88 | Kai Daryanani[b]
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| TGM Grand Prix
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53 | Sota Ogawa
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| 55 | Rintaro Sato
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| Sources: [10] | ||
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Abkhazava is Russian-Georgian, but competes under a Kazakh licence as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- ^ Daryanani is Indian, but competes under a British licence.
References
edit- ^ Wood, Ida (22 May 2024). "Macau Grand Prix to run for FRegional cars from 2024 onwards". Formula Scout. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Carino, JP (7 December 2007). "The Macau Grand Prix – A look back through time". AutoIndustriya.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ "Macau Grand Prix". Macao Government Tourism Office. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- ^ Wood, Ida (4 November 2020). "Charles Leong leads 17-car F4 entry list for Macau GP". Formula Scout. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ Wood, Ida (19 August 2021). "Formula 3 drops off 2021 Macau Grand Prix bill". Formula Scout. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ Wood, Ida (20 November 2022). "Andy Chang wins the 2022 Macau Grand Prix". Formula Scout. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ Wood, Ida (5 June 2023). "Formula 3 confirmed to return to Macau for this year's grand prix". Formula Scout. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ "FIA FR World Cup – The latest chapter in Macau's unparalleled history". Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. 24 May 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Wood, Ida (12 June 2024). "FIA confirms spec chassis and engine for FRegional World Cup in Macau". Formula Scout. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Macau Grand Prix - FIA FR World Cup Provisional Entry List" (PDF).
