[4] The series supplied all cars with 100% fossil-free fuel, becoming the first Formula Regional championship to take this sustainability step.
[28] The 68th running of the New Zealand Grand Prix was held as the final race of the season, at Highlands Motorsport Park.
[29] The 2024 Formula Regional Oceania Championship began at a wet Taupo with Giles's Christian Mansell taking pole position for the first race.
Two caution periods disrupted proceedings, allowing M2's Gerrard Xie to rise up to second and then grab the lead at the final restart to win.
[36] The second race was held in wet conditions and saw Bilinski forced to pit to repair his rain light, thereby removing him from contention.
Xie spun from second place, while Mansell and his teammate Kaleb Ngatoa both got past Kiwi's polesitter Patrick Woods-Toth.
The pair battled for the race lead with Mansell eventually coming out on top, while mtec's Tommy Smith completed the podium.
[40] He turned his frustration into a momentous first race: in changing conditions, he climbed eight places on the first lap into sixth, forced his way past Xie and Sceats into third and set out after Ngatoa and mtec's Kaden Probst.
The pair had started on wet tires, but the track was now dry enough that Bilinski could easily take the lead and the win ahead of Sceats and Woods-Toth.
Again the leader had to resist pressure from behind, but like Bilinski the day before, Sceats did not put a foot wrong to claim his maiden win.
He needed to outscore Sceats to take the title, but did more than that, rising to second and briefly contending for victory before dropping back into third behind Woods-Toth.
[52] Sceats's only consolation for the loss of the championship title came in him winning the Grand Prix, resisting Hedge for 27 laps before claiming the victory, with Shin also on the podium.
[53] Bilinski came to New Zealand with a single Formula Regional podium in his previous career, but was a championship contender right off the bat.
The championship's second year post-COVID saw it further reestablish itself as a competitive winter series, while also continuing to build upon its unique selling points with the addition of features like a fossil-free fuel.