The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the global governing body for motor sport and the federation for mobility organisations worldwide, today announces that the 2025 Macau Grand Prix is set to feature more FIA World Cup racing action than ever before. The World Motor Sport Council has given its approval by e-vote for the creation of the Formula 4 World Cup, together with the return of the FR World Cup and GT World Cup.

Organised and promoted by the Macau Grand Prix Organising Committee and Automobile General Association Macao-China (AAMC), the Macau Grand Prix will be held for the 72nd time from 13-16 November 2025 and is one of the most prestigious events in world motor sport. In recent years, the addition of FIA World Cups across different categories has proven to be a hugely successful collaboration that ensures the event remains at the forefront of the international motor sport calendar.

Following the first running of the FIA FR World Cup in Macau last year, the event solidifies its historical position as the ultimate test for junior drivers before they make the step up into international competition.

Formula Regional occupies the level of the progression pathway that was, in years past, called Formula 3. There are five FR championships taking place throughout 2025, and as has been the case for decades, the Macau Grand Prix offers the opportunity to the drivers and teams at the top of their regional class to come together for a one-event shootout on arguably the most challenging circuit in the world.

As for the inaugural edition, Topspeed, the organisers of the FR Middle East Championship, will provide the technical and operational support for the event in November.

Education is at the heart of FIA Formula 4, and this is the guiding principle behind the creation of the FIA F4 World Cup. With track time limited and fewer street circuits available to them at national and regional level, the event will give young drivers an extra opportunity to come and compete on the Guia Circuit – an unforgiving 6.12km ribbon of asphalt draped over the undulations of Macau’s historic harbourfront – before the best of them step up to the faster, more challenging top-tier FR World Cup.

The FIA Formula 4 concept was first introduced over ten years ago and has gone on to be one of the biggest success stories in junior motor sport history – with National Sporting Authorities (ASNs) organising no fewer than 13 different national series within the FIA’s framework of technical and sporting regulations.

The FIA F4 World Cup in Macau will offer the top drivers an incredible opportunity to race in a global field of F4 talent. There will be a rigorous driver selection process, with only the most talented young drivers given the opportunity to compete. Mintimes, the organiser of the F4 Chinese Championship, will be the Single Operator, together with FFSA, responsible for providing the technical support for the FIA F4 World Cup.

The initiative also aims to bring karting academy students from Macau, China and the wider region to attend the event in an observational capacity, providing them with the opportunity to experience a car racing event and giving them valuable insights for the next step of their own careers. 

Finally, this major step will undoubtedly be of benefit to the local drivers from Macau, who will be able to have a full range of international events – Karting, Formula 4 and Formula Regional, on their home soil.

FIA Single-Seater Committee President, Emanuele Pirro, said: “Macau is an essential part of the education of a young driver, and we have a duty to protect its legacy and its future. There are so few challenges like the Macau Grand Prix left that we felt it was the right moment to introduce the FIA F4 World Cup. It will give the best drivers coming from the national level an opportunity to learn what it takes to drive the Guia Circuit in an F4 car, which is a bit more forgiving than an FR car, so that when they come back in one or two years for the FR World Cup they are ready to really show what they can do.

“It’s really exciting that the Macau Grand Prix is growing into a real motor sport festival, with our single-seater races, the GT World Cup and also Touring Cars, the 2025 edition is already shaping up to be very special. We’re also working hard to make sure that we use the opportunity to inspire and educate the young karting drivers from the region – the potential for growth and development across China and the Asia-Pacific region is massive as we push to grow motor sport participation.”

Mr CHONG Coc Veng, Chairman of the AAMC, said: “We are happy to see FIA holding an F4 World Cup at the Macao Guia Circuit, which is an opportunity for young drivers in the region to look for their development pathway from international karting events to single-seater F4 and FR, and become world champions in the future.”