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]
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]
^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.
