Everything is set at Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, where 38 drivers representing 25 different nations and competing for 10 teams are ready to fight for victory across the three races of the second round of the E4 Championship.
US Racing arrives with a seven-car line-up led by championship leader Luka Sammalisto, who heads the standings after the opening round. Joining him are Arjen Kraling, Ary Bansal, Edward Robinson, Ludovico Busso, Oleksandr Savinkov and Noah Killion.
Prema Racing also fields seven cars, including McLaren Driver Development Programme driver Christian Costoya, Williams Driver Academy representative Oleksandr Bondarev and Ferrari Driver Academy driver Niccolò Maccagnani. The line-up is completed by British driver Roman Kamyab, Turkish racer Alp Aksoy, Chinese driver Kingsley Zheng and Swiss driver Georgiy Zasov.
R-ace GP will field five drivers, led by Mercedes Junior Team member and current championship runner-up Kenzo Craigie. He is joined by fellow Mercedes Junior Andy Consani, Greek twins Jean-Paul and Philippe-Armand Karras, and Hungarian driver Tamas Gender.
Trident Motorsport also enters five cars, with Brazilians Bernardo “Beco” Bernoldi and Augustus Toniolo, Swiss driver Florentin Hattemer, Czech racer Dominik Simek and Bulgarian Lyuboslav Ruykov.
PHM Racing brings four Tatuus cars to the grid, driven by Andre Rodriguez, ACI Team Italia representative Iacopo Martinese, Monaco’s Oscar Repetto and Estonian driver Roland Kuklane.
New additions feature in Jenzer Motorsport's lineup for the weekend, with the Swiss team set to field Finnish driver Ella Hakkinen in the E4 Championship. Racing with McLaren support and the daughter of two-time Formula 1 World Champion Mika Hakkinen, she will be joined by Teo Borenstein and Bader Al Sulaiti.
Van Amersfoort Racing fields a three-car line-up featuring Thomas Bearman, younger brother of current Formula 1 driver Oliver Bearman, alongside Polish driver Alex Ruta and Brazilian Pedro Lima.
AKM Motorsport, the San Marino-based team led by Marco and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, will field two drivers: ACI Team Italia representative Vittorio Orsini and Abdullah Kamel.
Romanian outfit Real Racing will have a single representative in Danish driver Knud Nielsen, while PA Racing will make its E4 Championship debut with Italian driver Ginevra Panzeri.
Track action gets underway on Friday, 17 July, with two free practice sessions. The first is scheduled from 08:00 to 08:40, followed by a second session from 13:08 to 13:48.
Qualifying will take place on Saturday, 18 July. The first session is scheduled from 10:45 to 11:00, with the second running from 11:10 to 11:25. As per the E4 Championship format, the first session will determine the grid for Race 1, while the second session will set the grid for Race 2. The Race 3 grid will be decided by each driver's second-best lap across the two qualifying sessions.
The opening race of the weekend will start on Saturday afternoon at 16:35. All three races will be contested over a distance of 30 minutes plus one lap.
Race 2 and Race 3 will take place on Sunday, 19 July, at 11:00 and 17:25 respectively, completing a weekend that could already prove decisive in the battle for the 2026 title.
All races throughout the weekend will be broadcast live on ACI Sport TV, streamed on the championship’s official social media channels, and carried by the international network of broadcasters bringing the E4 Championship and Italian F4 to fans around the world.