The second day of testing at the La Conca International Circuit in Muro Leccese saw Mercedes F1 driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli take to the track. He was among the 323 participants registered for the Official Collective Tests organized by WSK Promotion ahead of the start of the racing season.

The MP Group has further expanded its karting activities by acquiring the legendary karting circuit Karting Genk. To this end, MP owner Henk de Jong reached an agreement with the Lemmens family, who opened the outdoor track at Horensbergdam in 1983 and have owned it ever since. MP, best known in the Netherlands for its leading Formula racing team MP Motorsport, has been working for several years to grow its presence in karting—the foundation of the talent ladder that MP Motorsport offers all the way up to Formula 2.

Noah Wolfe will benefit from continued valuable support from VAR by Birel in his quest for honours in a multitude of kart championships around Europe next year.

The Nissan Formula E Team will line up with Gabriele Minì for the upcoming Rookie Free Practice session, which takes place in Saudi Arabia later this month ahead of the first-ever Jeddah E-Prix.

Another long, intense year of racing is ending, and the time has come to take stock for the Sauber Academy drivers. Théo Pourchaire, Zane Maloney, and Carrie Schreiner kept active throughout 2024, racing on some of the world's most renowned circuits representing Sauber Motorsport's driver development programme in their respective campaigns.