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Multi-category race winner Nikita Bedrin will join VRD Racing for a GB3 Championship title challenge in 2026. The 19-year-old has won races in every category he has contested, including Formula 4, Formula Regional Middle, and the FIA F3 Championship.

The opening of the 2026 WSK Promotion season at La Conca with the Official Collective Tests on January 16-18 will be followed by the first round of the WSK Super Master Series from January 21 to 25.

The Italian group will play a leading role in the newly created FIA Karting Arrive & Drive European Championship and FIA Karting Arrive & Drive Asian-Pacific Championship over the next two years, supplying Kosmic Kart chassis and Vortex Engines

Patricio Gonzalez will continue to race in GB3 next year, staying with the VRD Racing squad, having contested the second half of the 2025 season with the Anglo-American team. The 17-year-old Mexican driver was able to quickly get up to speed in GB3, earning a best qualifying result of seventh at Donington Park, and a best race result of sixth at the same venue.