# Race Performance Motorsport

Race Performance Motorsport (RPM) is an Italian based and Irish owned auto racing team currently competing in the Formula Regional European Championship.

## Background

2022
In February 2022, Irish racing driver Keith Donegan purchased the assets of RP Motorsport to start his own team, Race Performance Motorsport (RPM). The team is registered in Italy, and based in Piacenza, like its predecessor. With an aim to compete in the Formula Regional European Championship, he took on Enrico Carraro as team manager, and the team made their competition debut in the 2022 Formula Regional European Championship, when they took the place of DR Formula. They started their first season with Italian racing driver Pietro Delli Guanti and Donegan himself.
In an interview on 16 May 2022, Donegan revealed intentions for the team to field a third car in the Formula Regional European Championship before the end of the 2022 season.
For Round 6 at the Hungaroring, the team fielded Andrea Rosso in the third car to be kept for the remainder of the season, and Owen Tangavelou replaced Donegan as the driver in the second car. It was at that same round RPM scored the team's first points in FRECA, with Tangavelou finishing in P9. Tangavelou would go on to score 14 more points in 2022, making him the best placed RPM driver with P20 in the standings.
Pierre-Louis Chovet joined the for the last 3 rounds replacing Pietro Delli Guanti and immediately scored RPM's first podium. He would go on and score another podium at the Barcelona round.
2023
For the 2023 season, the team signed Macéo Capietto, Santiago Ramos and Adam Fitzgerald. The latter appeared on The Late Late Show alongside RPM owner Keith Donegan before the season started.
During the first race of the season at the first round at the Imola Circuit, Fitzgerald broke three vertebrae and was hospitalized after a collision with sausage kerbs on the track, a similar incident to that of Abbie Eaton during the 2021 Austin W Series round. Fitzgerald was able to return for the second round at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
On 1 July 2023 at Spa-Francorchamps, Fitzgerald was involved in a multi-car chain reaction collision initiated when Tim Tramnitz lost control. Fitzgerald collided at high speed with Dilano van 't Hoff. The accident left the RPM driver with many broken bones whilst Van 't Hoff subsequently lost his life. Due to his injuries, Fitzgerald was unable to compete in any of the remaining rounds. He returned to training less than nine weeks after his serious crash. He was 38th in the standings, with a best finish of 19th place.
Noah Strømsted joined RPM during the last two rounds of the season. Maceo Capietto and Santiago Ramos scored a total of 144 points, which resulted in a 4th in the 2023 FRECA Teams Standings.
2024
Noah Strømsted remained with the team for 2024 and was joined by Giovanni Maschio and Edgar Pierre.

## Current series results
### Formula Regional European Championship

| Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.laps | Podiums | D.C. | Points | T.C. | Points |
| 2022 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Owen Tangavelou | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20th | 15 | 9th | 16 |
| 2022 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Pietro Delli Guanti | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25th | 1 | 9th | 16 |
| 2022 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Santiago Ramos | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27th | 0 | 9th | 16 |
| 2022 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Keith Donegan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30th | 0 | 9th | 16 |
| 2022 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Andrea Rosso | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34th | 0 | 9th | 16 |
| 2022 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Pierre-Louis Chovet | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | NC | 0 | 9th | 16 |
| 2023 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Macéo Capietto | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8th | 77 | 4th | 144 |
| 2023 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Santiago Ramos | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11th | 67 | 4th | 144 |
| 2023 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Adam Fitzgerald | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38th | 0 | 4th | 144 |
| 2023 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Noah Strømsted | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | 0 | 4th | 144 |
| 2024 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Noah Strømsted | 20 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6th | 121 | 6th | 122 |
| 2024 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Giovanni Maschio | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th | 1 | 6th | 122 |
| 2024 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Edgar Pierre | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31st | 0 | 6th | 122 |
| 2025 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Enzo Peugeot | | | | | | | | | |
| 2025 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Enzo Yeh | | | | | | | | | |
| 2025 | Tatuus F3 T-318- Alpine | Giovanni Maschio | | | | | | | | | |