A 20-car grid has been revealed for this weekend’s inaugural Motorsport Games Formula 4 Cup at Vallelunga, with a change of drivers for Portugal’s entry.

Three F4 champions will contest the tournament, which will use qualifying and then a qualifying race to set the gird for the trophy-awarding main race.

A KCMG-designed, Hitech GP-run hybrid chassis will be used by all of the drivers, marking the first time a halo has appeared on a F4 racing car and the first time hybrid technology has been utilised in junior single-seaters.

Only 11 drivers had been named prior the reveal of the full grid, with Portugal swapping the already announced karter Guilherme de Oliveira for GT4 racer Mariano Pires.

F4 champions Luis Leeds (Australia), Malthe Jakobsen (Denmark) and Pavel Bulantsev (Russia) will be among the favourites for victory, but there are also other experienced names such as Euroformula Open racers Niklas Krutten (Germany) and Ido Cohen (Israel).

The newly announced additions include the likes of Brazilian stock car racer Joao Rosate, one-time Italian F4 regular William Alatalo (Finland), 2019 French F4 runner-up Reshad De Gerus, Asian Formula Renault racer Hugo Hung (Hong Kong), and Japanese Formula 3 frontrunner Kazuto Kotaka.

Motorsport Games F4 Cup entry list

Australia – Luis Leeds

Belgium – Nicolas Baert

Brazil – Joao Rosate

Czechia – Vaclav Safar

Germany – Niklas Krutten

Denmark – Malthe Jakobsen

Spain – Belen Garcia

Finland – William Alatalo

France – Reshad De Gerus

Hong Kong – Hugo Hung

Hungary – Laszlo Toth

Ireland – Lucca Allen

Israel – Ido Cohen

Italy – Andrea Rosso

Japan – Kazuto Kotaka

Kuwait – Mohammed Al Nusif

Mayalsia – Jasper Thong

New Zealand – Flynn Mullany

Portugal – Mariano Pires

Russia – Pavel Bulantsev