🇷🇺 Michael Belov

Michael Belov is a professional driver competing in single-seater racing across multiple junior and intermediate formula championships. The Russian-born driver, racing under the Kyrgyz flag, has spent the majority of his recent career in the Formula Regional European Championship with CL Motorsport, where he accumulated 57 starts from 2021 through 2025. He has also raced in Formula 3, the Formula Renault Eurocup, ADAC Formula 4, and Italian F4. Belov holds an FIA Silver grading for endurance competition, a classification indicating a driver developing towards the full professional grades.[1]

Across 106 career starts, Belov has taken 3 wins and 17 podiums. His breakthrough came in Italian F4 in 2019, where he recorded 7 podiums across 19 starts and finished fourth in the championship standings. That same year he took 1 win and 2 podiums in ADAC Formula 4. His main tenure since then has been in Formula Regional European, where he claimed 2 wins and 8 podiums over five seasons, the bulk of his 57 starts in that series coming with CL Motorsport. Formula 3 in 2020 yielded 6 starts with no podiums, while the Formula Renault Eurocup saw 9 starts without placing him on the podium.[2]

Belov's regular opponents in Formula Regional European include Paul Aron, an established professional with prior runs in Formula 2 and Italian F4, against whom Belov has competed closely; and Joshua Dürksen, a FIA Silver-graded established professional with substantially more experience across Formula 2, Italian F4, and ADAC Formula 4. Belov has finished ahead of Andrea Kimi Antonelli, a generational driver and multiple junior champion who has since raced in Formula 1, once across their meetings. He has also outfinished Isack Hadjar, an elite professional who competed in Formula 1, on nine occasions. Most of Belov's recent starts have come with G4 Racing, a team that has fielded over two dozen drivers and has won races in this index.