Prema Racing (sometimes stylised as PREMA Racing), previously known as Prema Powerteam, is an Italian motorsport team, owned and operated through the DC Racing Solutions parent company. Founded in 1983, the team is based in Grisignano di Zocco and currently operates out of Italy and the United States. They are the sister team of Iron Lynx and its own sister team, Iron Dames.
Prema participate in various junior championships and have been a talent pool for several Formula 1 junior programs including: Toyota, Renault, Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull, and Williams. Their participation in motorsports is not limited to junior formulae though, as the team made their FIA World Endurance Championship and European Le Mans Series debuts in 2022, marking the beginning of their efforts in the endurance racing. They also started competing in the IndyCar Series during 2025.
, Prema are fielding 29 drivers and participate in fourteen championships under various names.
History
Junior formulae series Prema Racing started operating in 1983 and joined the Italian Formula 3 Championship the following year. National F3 would be the main proving ground for the team in the early years. Among his first famous alumni stand future Touring Car star Fabrizio Giovanardi, multiple Le Mans winner Rinaldo Capello and Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve. More Italian Formula 3 Championship titles came in 1990 with Roberto Colciago, in 1998 with Donny Crevels and in 1999 with Peter Sundberg. The team also made a one-season attempt at the International Formula 3000 Championship.
In 1988, the team made its first international foray at the Macau Grand Prix, a competition that would have seen it at the start for the most part of the following decades.
In 2000, Prema started competing in the modern-era Formula Renault races, winning the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup Team Championship and the Italian Formula Renault 2000 championship with Ryan Briscoe in 2001. Other notable achievements include winning the 2005 Italian Formula Renault 2000 Championship with future F1 star. Over 10 Prema drivers have made it into Formula 1. Kamui Kobayashi.
In 2003, the team entered the Formula 3 Euro Series and won the inaugural edition with Ryan Briscoe. In the following years, the team struggled to achieve competitive results but rebounded by claiming the 2011 and 2012 titles with Roberto Mehri and Daniel Juncadella. The series then transitioned into the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, and Prema started almost complete domination, winning all the team titles from 2011 and 2018 and all the driver championships but one. Some of the Champions also went on to become Formula 1 drivers including Esteban Ocon, Lance Stroll, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, and Mick Schumacher. In 2011, the team claimed its first Macau Grand Prix win with Juncadella.
In the same period, the team started expanding towards the bottom and the top of the junior single-seater ladder. Between 2006 and 2009, the team took part in the World Series Formula V8 3.5 championship with a best placing of fourth in 2008 with Miguel Molina, and also competed in the short-lived Italian and European Formula Abarth championships.
With the FIA establishing a more strictly-regulated ladder toward Formula 1, Prema progressively expanded to encompass all its steps. While staying active in European Formula 3, the team embraced Formula 4, winning the first two editions of the Italian Formula 4 Championship with Lance Stroll and Ralf Aron. It also entered the GP2 Series in 2016, finishing 1–2 at debut with Red Bull Junior driver Pierre Gasly and Antonio Giovinazzi. In 2017, as the series evolved into the FIA Formula 2 Championship, Prema dominated again with Ferrari Driver Academy's Charles Leclerc claiming seven wins and seven poles en route to an early title.
For 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship campaign the team fielded experienced drivers Sean Gelael and Nyck de Vries. In the 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship the team were represented by Ferrari Driver Academy members Marcus Armstrong, Robert Shwartzman and Guanyu Zhou. Their 2016 F3 driver Ralf Aron returned to the F3 team, as well as Mick Schumacher who went on to win the Formula. For their double ADAC and Italian F4 programme they signed Olli Caldwell and Ferrari Academy drivers Enzo Fittipaldi and Gianluca Petecof. Red Bull Junior Jack Doohan is scheduled to race with Prema for selected round in both championships.
In the team is represented in FIA Formula 2 by Sean Gelael and their FIA F3 European Champion Mick Schumacher. Whilst the team only finished 9th in the team championship in F2, they were the champions in the inaugural F3 Championship with the drivers Robert Shwartzman, Jehan Daruvala and Marcus Armstrong. Shwartzman would also end up winning the driver's title, with Armstrong and Daruvala coming second and third respectively. Prema also competed in Italian F4 in 2019, where they came second in both championships, being beaten comprehensively by Van Amersfoort Racing and the Norwegian driver Dennis Hauger.
Mick Schumacher was retained and Shwartzman was promoted for the following F2 season. Schumacher would go on to win the drivers title, with Shwartzman finishing in 4th with the most wins. In the 2020 F3 season, the driver line up was Logan Sargeant, Prema's 2019 FREC winner Frederik Vesti, and Oscar Piastri. Piastri would win the drivers' championship, with Sargeant and Vesti 3rd and 4th respectively. For the 2020 FREC season, Prema's line up consisted of four full time drivers; past Prema F4 drivers Oliver Rasmussen and Gianluca Petecof, as well as Arthur Leclerc and Jamie Chadwick. The season was completely dominated by the team, with Petecof, Leclerc and Rasmussen finishing in the first three positions of the drivers' championship, and as in 2020 F3 season winning the teams' championship by a more than comfortable margin.
On 14 January 2026, it was reported that the Rosin family had left the team. On 6 February 2026, it was reported that Australian engineer Stephen Mitas was Prema's new team principal and CEO.
IndyCar Series
In early 2024, Prema expressed interest about joining IndyCar as early as 2025. In April of that year, the team confirmed their entry into the 2025 season, and are going to be supplied by Chevrolet engines. The team is set to have a two driver lineup, composed of Callum Ilott and former Prema F2 driver Robert Shwartzman.
The team secured its first pole position with Shwartzman for the 2025 Indianapolis 500. Shwartzman became the first rookie driver to win the pole in qualifying since the 1983 running of the event. Despite the rookie pole at Indianapolis in 2025, Prema Racing's continued involvement has been placed in doubt owing to media reports centering around the team's financial stability starting in November 2025 and sudden exit of the Rosin family in January 2026.
The official IndyCar Series entry list also does not list Prema Racing as an official entrant as of 1 February 2026.
Current drivers +Drivers competing with Prema in Driver FIA Formula 211 Sebastián Montoya12 Mari Boya FIA Formula 320 Alex Powell21 James Wharton22 José GarfiasFR European51 Kean Nakamura-Berta88 Salim Hanna33 Tomass ŠtolcermanisItalian F410 Alp Aksoy27 Oleksandr Bondarev1 Christian Costoya19 Niccolò Maccagnani98 David Cosma Cristofor69 Kingsley Zheng4 Roman KamyabUAE4 Series27 Oleksandr Bondarev 1 Christian Costoya9 Payton Westcott98 David Cosma CristoforE410 Alp Aksoy27 Oleksandr Bondarev1 Christian Costoya19 Niccolò Maccagnani98 Georgiy Zasov69 Kingsley Zheng4 Roman Kamyab73 Lyuboslav Ruykov F1 Academy8 Mathilda Paatz9 Payton Westcott19 Natalia Granada
List of championships Defunct series in italics; reigning champions in bold.
List of Teams' Championships Series Year Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 2001 Italian Formula Renault 2001 2003 Formula Abarth 2010 Formula 3 Euro Series 20112012 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps 2013 FIA F3 European 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Italian F4 2014 2015 2016 2018 2020 2022 2023 2024 2025 ADAC F4 2016 2017 2022 GP2 2016 FR European 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024 FIA Formula 3 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024FIA Formula 2 2020 2021 F3 Asian 2021 F1 Academy 2023 2024 2025 E4 (Euro 4) 2023 2024 2025 FR Middle East 2023 2025 2026
List of Drivers' Championships Series Year Driver Italian Formula Three 1990 Roberto Colciago Giuseppe Bugatti 1998 Donny Crevels 1999 Peter Sundberg Italian Formula Renault 2001 Ryan Briscoe 2003 Franck Perera 2005 Kamui Kobayashi Formula 3 Euro Series 2003 Ryan Briscoe 2011 Roberto Merhi 2012 Daniel Juncadella Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 2005 Kamui Kobayashi F3 International Trophy 2011 Roberto Merhi FIA F3 European 2012 Daniel Juncadella 2013 Raffaele Marciello 2014 Esteban Ocon 2015 Felix Rosenqvist 2016 Lance Stroll 2018 Mick Schumacher Formula Renault 2.0 Alps 2013 Antonio Fuoco Italian F4 2014 Lance Stroll 2015 Ralf Aron 2017 Marcus Armstrong 2018 Enzo Fittipaldi 2020 Gabriele Minì 2022 Andrea Kimi Antonelli 2024 Freddie Slater 2025 Kean Nakamura-Berta GP2 2016 Pierre Gasly ADAC Formula 4 2017 Jüri Vips 2022 Andrea Kimi Antonelli FIA Formula 2 Charles Leclerc Mick Schumacher Oscar Piastri FR European 2019 Frederik Vesti 2020 Gianluca Petecof 2022 Dino Beganovic 2023 Andrea Kimi Antonelli 2024 Rafael Câmara 2025 Freddie Slater FIA Formula 3 2019 Robert Shwartzman 2020 Oscar Piastri 2021 Dennis Hauger F3 Asian 2021 Zhou Guanyu F1 Academy 2023 Marta García 2025 Doriane Pin E4 (Euro 4) 2023 Ugo Ugochukwu 2025 Kean Nakamura-Berta FR Middle East 2023 Andrea Kimi Antonelli 2026 Kean Nakamura-Berta
Current series results FIA Formula 2 Championship Year Chassis Engine Tyres Drivers Races Wins Poles Podiums DallaraGP2/11 MecachromeV8108 V8 Charles Leclerc 22 7 8 4 10 1st 282 2nd 380 Antonio Fuoco 22 1 0 1 5 8th 98 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Sean Gelael 23 0 0 0 1 15th 295th231 Nyck de Vries 24 3 2 4 6 4th 202 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Mick Schumacher 22 1 0 2 1 12th 539th68 Sean Gelael 20 0 0 1 0 17th 15 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Mick Schumacher 24 2 0 2 10 1st 215 1st 392 Robert Shwartzman 24 4 0 1 6 4th 1772021 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Robert Shwartzman232038 2nd 192 1st 444.5 Oscar Piastri2365611 1st 252.52022 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Dennis Hauger 28 2 0 3 4 10th 115 4th 241 Jehan Daruvala 28 1 0 2 8 7th 1262023 DallaraF2 2018 MecachromeV634T V6 t Frederik Vesti 25 6 1 1 10 2nd 192 2nd 322 Oliver Bearman 26 4 3 2 6 6th 1302024 DallaraF2 2024 MecachromeV634T V6 t Oliver Bearman 24 3 0 1 3 12th 75 5th 194 Gabriele Minì 2 0 0 0 1 27th 6 Andrea Kimi Antonelli 26 2 0 4 3 6th 1132025 DallaraF2 2024 MecachromeV634T V6 t Sebastián Montoya 27 0 0 2 3 12th 91 6th 163 Gabriele Minì 27 0 0 3 3 13th 72 DallaraF2 2024 MecachromeV634T V6 t Sebastián Montoya 24 0 0 1 1 17th 30 10th 51* Mari Boya 25 0 0 0 0 20th 21
* Season still in progress.
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