With almost all spectator tickets already sold out, fans will be treated to an event to remember as they cheer from the packed grandstands, while countless thousands more around the world will be glued to the live stream across the four-day spectacular.

The 72nd Macau Grand Prix features seven races, each for a different category of racing vehicle: The Macau Grand Prix – FIA FR World Cup for Formula Regional single seater cars; the mighty Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup for GT3 sportscars; international touring car racing’s annual highlight the Macau Guia Race – Kumho FIA TCR World Tour Event of Macau; the Macau Formula 4 Race – FIA F4 World Cup junior open-wheel race for youngsters transitioning from karting; the one-of-a-kind international fan favourite, the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix – 57th Edition; Greater Bay Area GT Cup (GT4) for GT4 sportscars; and Macau Roadsport Challenge, exclusively for Toyota GR86(ZN8) and Subaru BRZ(ZD8) cars. 

Macau Grand Prix – FIA FR World Cup
This year sees the second running of the Macau Grand Prix for Formula Regional cars and leading the charge are defending champions R-ace GP, which this year brings a talented trio returning to the Guia Circuit for a second time; Italian Matteo De Palo, Formula Regional European Championship (FRECA) runner-up this year; Frenchman Enzo Deligny, who finished the season third; and Japan’s Jin Nakamura, a protégé of Toyota.

SJM Theodore Prema Racing enters this year’s FRECA champion Briton Freddie Slater, his season-long PREMA Racing team-mate, Emirati Rashid Al Dhaheri, and Macao driver Charles Leong Hon Chio. Leong first competed in the F3 Macau Grand Prix in 2018, and twice won the race when it was run for F4 cars. He was runner-up in the 2023 F4 race, and this season was crowned Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia champion.

ART Grand Prix brings FR Middle East champion and FRECA top-five points finisher Evan Giltaire plus Japanese pair Taito Kato and Kanato Le. Meanwhile, Trident Motorsport enters leading drivers from the FIA F3 Championship; Noah Strømsted of Denmark, Thai driver Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak and Briton Reza Seewooruthun.

More F3 talents line up for the two-car KCMG Enya Pinnacle Motorsport attack, with Spaniard Mari Boya, third in the FIA F3 Championship this season and who finished seventh at Macao last year and fourth in 2023, joined by France’s Théophile Naël. Evans GP brings brothers Charlie and Oscar Wurz, sons of Austrian racing great Alexander Wurz who raced at Macau in 1995. Charlie Wurz returns for the first time since 2023, while his younger brother Oscar makes his debut after a season in Eurocup-3. The team is completed by another Macao rookie, talented Japanese FRECA ace Hiyu Yamakoshi.

The Eurocup-3 representation continues with 2025 champion Mattia Colnaghi who is joined at PHM Racing by China’s Enzo Yeh and Mexico’s José Garfias. Van Amersfoort Racing enters Euroformula champion Tymek Kucharczyk of Poland, FR Japan championship-leader Kiyoshi Umegaki, and Zhenrui Chi, who steps up from Italian F4. 

Umegaki’s main title rival this season is Tokiya Suzuki. Both have raced with the Toyota-affiliated TOM’S Formula in 2025, and Suzuki remains at the team for his maiden visit to Macao. His stablemate is Yuki Sano, runner-up with TOM’S in Japan’s Super Formula Lights series. A third French team, Saintéloc Racing, brings further Eurocup-3 contenders in the form of American James Egozi and French-Vietnamese Owen Tangavelou.

Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup
A line-up of elite GT drivers will once again contest the Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup, with six of the world’s greatest automobile names represented on the grid: Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren and Porsche.

‘Mr Macao’ Edoardo Mortara returns in a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 on the hunt for a fifth race victory, partnered at Absolute Corse by German Luca Engstler. Two-time race winner Raffaele Marciello will campaign a ROWE Racing BMW M4, while South African Sheldon van der Linde will be at the wheel of a second BMW at Team WRT.

Porsche is the most-represented manufacturer on the grid with a total of five 911 GT3 Rs; two from the Tempo by Absolute Racing team for 2016 champion Laurens Vanthoor and Alessio Picariello. SCHUMACHER CLRT enters Ayhancan Güven and Laurin Heinrich, while Frenchman Dorian Boccolacci is the Phantom Global Racing entry. 

Ferrari is one marque that has not yet won the race, and is represented by a three-296 GT3 line-up for Antonio Fuoco at AF Corse, Deng Yi at Winhere Motorsports, and the legendary Italian marque’s first-ever Chinese official factory driver Ye Yifei at Harmony Racing. Ye also became the first Chinese driver to win the Le Mans 24 Hours earlier this year, and takes on the Guia Circuit for the second time in his career.

Audi has three R8 LMS GT3 evo IIs on the grid: Christopher Haase at FAW Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom; Swede Joel Eriksson at Audi Sport Asia Team Phantom racing for the marque for only the second time in his career; and Adderly Fong at Uno Racing Team. Rounding out the entry is a McLaren 720S GT3 from Optimum Motorsport for German Benjamin Goethe.

Adding to the excitement this year is the brand-new ‘Super Pole’ session, where the ten quickest drivers in the 30-minute qualifying session will take part in a Super Pole for Saturday’s 12-lap Qualification Race.

Macau Guia Race – Kumho FIA TCR World Tour Event of Macao
Once again counting as the final round of the Kumho FIA TCR world Tour, the Macau Guia Race entry includes four Macao race winners: Sweden’s Thed Björk, Chinese star Ma Qing Hua, Esteban Guerrieri of Argentina and Hungarian Norbert Michelisz.

Heading in to this year’s Macau Guia Race, the battle for the 2025 Kumho FIA TCR World Tour Drivers championship title is between Ehrlacher and Björk, both with newly-crowned 2025 Teams champions Lynk & Co Cyan Racing squad. Ehrlacher, who has a 34-point lead over his team mate, is chasing his third FIA touring car title with the team, and is also joined there by Ma and Santiago Urrutia, fourth on the leaderboard.

A race winner this season, Frenchman Aurélien Comte leads the SP Compétition squad alongside Irishman Max Hart in a pair of CUPRA Leon VZ TCRs, while GOAT Racing enters 2018 Guia Race winner Estaban Guerrieri, Ignacio Montenegro and Pepe Oriola. BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse enters Norbert Michelisz, Mikel Azcona and Néstor Girolami.

From Asia Pacific comes newly-crowned TCR Asia champion Sean Chang in a RevX Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR. The Hyundai Elantra N TCR line-up includes Andy Liang Wenyao of Chinese Taipei with Z.Speed, and Hong Kong’s Lo Sze Ho at Evolve Racing. HMO Customer Racing pair Ryan MacMillan and Josh Buchan fly the flag for Australia.

Macau F4 Race – FIA F4 World Cup
The inaugural Macau Formula 4 Race-FIA F4 World Cup brings together some of the greatest potential in junior single seater competition from across the globe, including the 2025 British, Chinese, French and Italian F4 champions.

British F4 champion and Red Bull Junior Fionn McLaughlin is joined by another race winner from the UK series, Thomas Bearman, the younger brother of Haas Formula 1 rookie star Ollie Bearman. The youngest driver in the field is also from the British F4 series, Indian Ary Bansal who will have just turned 16 ahead of his Guia Circuit debut.

Two Chinese F4 champions are entered: Macao driver Tiago Rodrigues, who claimed the 2023 crown, and this season’s champion Zhang Shimo. Runner-up this season, Kimi Yu Tsai Chan is joined by Wang Yuzhe and Macao driver Marcus Cheong Man Hei.

From the French F4 series come this year’s champion Alexandre Munoz, Jules Roussel and Ryan Caretti. Also from that championship, Rintaro Sato, son of two-time Indy 500 and 2001 F3 Macau Grand Prix winner Takuma Sato, is back for his second visit to Macao having contested the inaugural Macau Grand Prix – FIA FR World Cup last year. 

Off the back of a season in the ultra-competitive Italian F4 Championship come newly-crowned champion Kean Nakamura-Berta, Italian Emanuele Olivieri and American Sebastian Wheldon, son of the late Indy 500 winner Dan and third in this year’s championship.

Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix – 57th Edition
Five-time Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix winner Peter Hickman and defending champion Davey Todd headline the entry for this year’s two-wheeled spectacular on a pair of BMW M1000RRs at Zeeco BMW Motorrad. 

Finland’s Erno Kostamo (Racing for Inclusion by RVS BMW), runner-up to Todd last year, returns in a bid to repeat his 2022 victory. Joining the Finn on the international line-up are Belgium’s Laurent Hoffman (Hoffmann and LM by MRP BMW), and French rider Almaric Blanc (Team Abef Bro Honda CBR1000 RR), the quickest Macao newcomer last year. 

The Isle of Man is represented by Manx Grand Prix winner Michael Evans (RC EXPRESS Honda) alongside last year’s newcomer and rising star Marcus Simpson (WH Racing Team powered by Dynobike Honda). Isle of Wight rider Ryan Whitehall (WR Racing Yamaha R1M), also returns, as does Guia Circuit veteran Sam West (Moto Hub BMW). The Irish contingent, meanwhile, is led by Paul Jordan (Jackson Racing powered by Proposer2 Honda) alongside Michael Sweeney (Martin Jones Racing BMW). 

Two experienced road racers who could also make their mark this week are Australian David Johnson (Racing for Inclusion by RVS BMW), a podium finisher at Macao in 2019, and Briton Rob Hodson (SMT RACING Honda). 

Guia Circuit newcomers this year include Mitch Rees (Jackson Racing powered by Proposer2 Honda), a multiple New Zealand Superbike champion, Briton Don Gilbert (WR Racing Suzuki GSXR1000), and Italy’s Maurizio Bottalico (Croweperformance / Bottalico BMW).

Greater Bay Area GT Cup (GT4)
Nine manufacturers are represented on the entry for the Greater Bay Area GT Cup (GT4), with Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Ginetta, KTM, Lotus, McLaren, Mercedes and Toyota all duelling for honours on the Guia Circuit. The race is also the final round of the four-stop SRO GT Cup.

The driver line-up is led by last year’s race winner Han Lichao in his Toyota Gazoo Racing China GR Supra GT4 EVO2. Han also tops the SRO GT Cup leaderboard after six races held in Shanghai, Pingtan and Beijing, and arrives in Macao with a 36-point advantage over title challenger Mortiz Berrenberg who will race a W&S Motorsport Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS.

Macao is well represented amongst the entry, with a strong local contingent led by Leong Ian Veng. Leong was the top local finisher in the race last year, is a former Macau Roadsports Challenge and CTM Cup winner and will be at the wheel of a Son Veng Racing Team BMW M4 GT4. Last year’s Macau Roadsport Challenge winner Lei Kit Meng will race an RPM Racing Team Ginetta G55, while Wong Cheng Tou and Ip Un Hou are entered in a pair of LW World Racing Team McLaren 570S GT4s. Lao Kim Hou is entered in an RPM Racing Team Ginetta G55 GT4, Miguel Lei in an LW World Racing Team Audi R8 LMS GT4 evo, and Wong Wai Hong in a LEVEL Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT4.

Making his motorsport competition swansong in the race this year is two-time Macau GT Cup winner Darryl O’Young. He will contest the final race of his career in a Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-AMG GT4 Evo.

Macau Roadsport Challenge
A firm favourite with local race fans, the Macau Roadsport Challenge once again promises plenty of on-track thrills from the fleet of Toyota GR86 and Subaru BRZ model race cars. Last year’s Macau Roadsport – Macao SAR Establishment Cup winner Damon Chan Tat Man returns to the Guia Circuit, as do Cheang Kin Sang and Ivan Szeto Wing Shun who both joined him on the podium in 2024. Macau Roadsport Challenge runner-up in 2024 Jeronimo Badaraco will be looking to go one better this year and is amongst a host of Macao drivers entered.