Following the announcement of Eurocup-5 by the Royal Spanish Motorsports Federation (RFEDA), the championship has taken another major step forward by confirming a full grid for its inaugural 2027 season.
The new category, created to provide the ideal transition between karting and the F4 Spanish Championship, has received an overwhelmingly positive response from across the paddock, with eight professional teams committed to the inaugural season. To ensure a balanced and competitive field, each entrant will be permitted to field a maximum of four cars.
The teams confirmed for the 2027 season are, in alphabetical order: Drivex Team, DXR Formula Team Monaco, Elite Motorsport, Hitech, IM4 by AGS Racing, Palou Motorsport, Speedy Motorsport and Tecnicar by Amtog.
Sportingly managed by EPIC Championships, the organisation behind the F4 Spanish Championship and Eurocup-3, Eurocup-5 has been designed to offer young drivers aged 14 and 15 a cost-controlled, equal and highly professional environment in which to begin their single-seater careers.
The 2027 calendar will feature five race meetings at MotorLand Aragón, Portimão, Jerez, Navarra and Barcelona-Catalunya. Each event will follow a straightforward format: Friday with 2 hours of practice; Saturday and Sunday each with a 20-minute qualifying session followed by a 25-minute race.
In addition to the race weekends, the championship will also include five official pre-season test days, ensuring every driver enters the season with equal preparation opportunities while preserving one of Eurocup-5’s core principles: the prohibition of private in-season testing with single-seaters or similar competition vehicles.
As previously announced by RFEDA, the championship has been built around a sustainable model with a maximum seasonal budget of €150,000, placing the emphasis on driver talent rather than financial resources.
Eurocup-5 will use the new ADESS AD27 single-seater, purpose-built for this crucial stage in a driver’s development. The AD27 combines modern safety standards with performance specifically tailored to ease the transition from karting into single-seater racing. Built around a carbon-fibre chassis measuring 4,758 mm in length, 1,750 mm in width and 960 mm in height, it has a target weight of 570 kg including driver and fuel (subject to final homologation) and features a 51-litre fuel tank. Power comes from a turbocharged 1.2-litre, three-cylinder engine, producing 145 hp and 240 Nm of torque.
The championship will also offer a strong prize structure. The RFEDA will award a €42,000 prize to a standout Junior driver from the 2026 Hyundai Spanish Karting Championship to facilitate their move into Eurocup-5 in 2027. In addition, the 2027 Eurocup-5 Champion will receive a €100,000 prize fund to support their progression to the F4 Spanish Championship, paid directly to the team with which the driver competes the following season.
“Eurocup-5 has been created in response to a real need within our sport. Together with the RFEDA, we identified a growing demand from young drivers aged 14 and above who wanted to begin driving single-seaters before reaching Formula 4. Until now, many of them had no structured pathway and were forced to prepare in environments that did not always offer the highest standards of safety, sporting equality or cost control. Eurocup-5 provides the solution by bringing that transition into a fully regulated, professional championship. Karting remains the best school for any racing driver, and our objective has never been to replace it, but to complement it. By concentrating the Eurocup-5 season into four to five months, young drivers will be able to continue competing in karting while taking their first steps in single-seaters without significantly increasing the overall cost of their development.”
— Marco Rodríguez, CEO, EPIC Championships
“I am deeply proud and delighted by the extraordinary reception that Eurocup-5 has received since its launch. The fact that all 30 available entries were filled in just a few days is the clearest demonstration of the confidence that drivers, teams and families place in Spanish motorsport and in its ability to continue leading ambitious projects for the future. Projects that truly transform a sport are fortunate to find people who choose to build rather than question. To all of them, thank you for believing in the RFEDA from day one.”
— Manuel Aviñó, President, Royal Spanish Motorsports Federation (RFEDA)
