Car Number: 5
Country: Brazil
Age: 20
Team: mtec Motorsport
Rising Brazilian star Lucas Fecury has been confirmed as the first driver for the 2024 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship.
Fecury competed in the 2023 New Zealand-based championship, learning the circuits and the FT-60 car with Kiwi Motorsport but will move to another of the championship’s contracted teams – mtec Motorsport – for his 2024 campaign.
Although Brazil has a rich history of F1 drivers including names like Fittipaldi, Piquet and Senna, Lucas hails from São Luís, Maranhão, in the north region of Brazil, which is one part of the country without a big tradition in motorsport.
Despite that, Lucas was Brazilian Kart Champion in 2020 and also runner up in the popular ROK Cup USA Florida Winter Tour in 2021, so has plenty of karting pedigree prior to his limited single seater career.
In 2023 his results in New Zealand were steady and he used the experience as a successful springboard into a 2023 summer season with DeForce Racing in the USF Junior Championship – the first rung of the Road To Indy ladder.
Fecury completed a solid season with a podium at the Barber Motorsports Park the season highlight. He took eight other top ten finishes to complete the season ninth overall in the points table.
