A full house at Guia: record 68 drivers for the 73rd Macau Grand Prix

The weekend

Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November 2026, Guia Circuit

The entry

68 drivers, 34 countries and territories, all three FIA World Cups at capacity

Formula Regional

26 drivers, 13 teams, and a brand new second-generation Tatuus T-326

Formula 4

24 drivers, up from 20, now run by 12 teams instead of one central operator

GT World Cup

18 cars, a record eight manufacturers, GT3's 20th anniversary

Also on the bill

The Kumho FIA TCR World Tour ends its season in the Guia Race

What a full house means if you are watching

Entry lists are usually paperwork. This one reads as a promise about the racing. A full grid on the Guia Circuit means 26 single-seater drivers threading the same narrow streets in qualifying, and no thin races anywhere on the programme. The spectator version of the record is simple. There is no weak race on this year's card.

The mix matters too: newly crowned champions from the European and national series, factory GT drivers with Macau wins behind them, and the juniors the big Formula 1 academies are watching. No hobbyists. Our Grand Prix guide covers the weekend session by session.

Formula Regional: the headline act gets a new car

The race that decides the Macau Grand Prix winner is the FIA Formula Regional World Cup, back for its third edition with 26 drivers across 13 teams. The machinery changes this year: the second-generation Tatuus T-326 makes its Macau debut, with new aerodynamics and an FIA push-to-pass system, Race Mode, built to help drivers attack where overtaking is famously hard.

Emanuele Olivieri, the newly crowned Formula Regional European champion, leads R-ace GP, the team that won the first World Cup here in 2024. Pinnacle Motorsport, the team that took last year's race with Théophile Naël, runs Enzo Deligny, third here last year, alongside Hiyu Yamakoshi. Add FREC runner-up Sebastian Wheldon and third-placed Kean Nakamura-Berta, Super Formula Lights champion Evan Giltaire and Eurocup-3 champion James Egozi, and most of this class's 2026 champions are in one race, on one street circuit. Watch, too, for Jules Roussel: he won the first F4 World Cup here last year and steps up to Formula Regional with Van Amersfoort Racing, exactly the ladder the FIA wants this weekend to be.

Formula 4: the big format change, explained plainly

Last year's first F4 World Cup was run by a single central operator: one organisation prepared every car, closer to a spec showcase than a team contest. For 2026 the FIA has handed it to the teams. Twelve established teams from 10 countries each run two Tatuus F4-T421 cars on Pirelli tyres, and the grid grows from 20 to 24 drivers.

Why should a spectator care? Because drivers now race with their home teams, engineers and liveries, and team-mates can help or hinder each other the way they do in any other race. The entry deepens too: British F4 champion Dries van Langendonck races for PREMA, alongside Italian F4 champion Luka Sammalisto, Red Bull junior Rocco Coronel at MP Motorsport, Williams academy driver Oleksandr Bondarev and Mercedes juniors Andy Consani and Kenzo Craigie. Most have never seen the Guia Circuit. First laps here, in a 24-car field, will be lively.

GT: eight manufacturers, and an open fight

The FIA GT World Cup brings 18 cars and a record eight manufacturers: Aston Martin returns alongside Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Mercedes-AMG and Porsche, in the year GT3 racing turns 20. Porsche fields the most cars, four, still chasing a first win here. Ferrari arrives as the defending manufacturer after Antonio Fuoco's victory last year, though Fuoco himself is not on this year's list.

At the sharp end: two-time winners Maro Engel and Raffaele Marciello, 2018 winner Augusto Farfus, plus Kelvin van der Linde, Thomas Preining, Earl Bamber, Marco Sørensen, Laurin Heinrich and Yifei Ye. A new Silver Cup classification adds a race within the race. If you only watch one GT session, make it the qualification race: grid position at Lisboa is half the result on Sunday.

And the TCR finale completes the weekend

On top of the 68, the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour finishes its season in the Guia Race, its eighth and final round, a touring car tradition here since 1972. Four FIA competitions, one street circuit, four days. If you cannot be here, the FIA streams all three World Cups live and free on YouTube, though Macau at full volume is a thing to hear in person.

Going? The practical bit

The 73rd Macau Grand Prix runs Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November 2026 on the Guia Circuit. The spectator guide covers how the weekend works; the ticket guide has stands and prices. On tickets, move now if you have not already: as of 17 October, the official listing had Sunday 22 November sold out in the Grand Stand and Reservoir Stand, with Lisboa Bend reserved seats (MOP 1,200) still on sale; Saturday 21 November was down to Reservoir Stand seats (MOP 400). Thursday and Friday, at MOP 100 with full grids all day, might be the best value days of the weekend. Hotels go early too; where to stay for the Grand Prix covers the track-facing options.