PREMA Racing announces that Kean Nakamura-Berta will continue his stint with the team for 2026, stepping up to the FIA Formula Regional European Championship.
The Japanese-Slovakian racer comes from an extremely successful campaign and has recently joined the Williams F1 Team Driver Academy, benefitting from solid support for the transition. In 2025, he claimed the Italian Formula 4 and E4 Championship titles and scored 15 wins including two in the F4 Middle East series early in the year.
Nakamura-Berta joined PREMA for the first time in 2023, and was among the first drivers to compete for the team's karting operation. Late in the same year, he switched to Formula 4 and was quick from the get-go, taking his first win in the 2024 F4 UAE Championship before finishing second in driver points. He later secured his maiden Italian F4 win and went on to win the Rookie Trophy in the E4 Championship.
After a dominant 2025 display, he started off his 2026 season with a bang, cruising to the Formula Regional Middle East Trophy title. He is now set for the start of a new era in European Formula Regional racing.
(PREMA Racing press release)
