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Category: F3
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The F3 Feature Race at the 2024 Italian GP concluded a spectacular season, and the championship title came down to the very final corner. Trident’s Leonardo Fornaroli has made history, becoming the first Italian driver to secure the Formula 3 Drivers’ Championship – and doing it on home soil. Meanwhile, his teammate Sami Meguetounif claimed…
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The FIA Formula 3 Championship unveiled the new F3 2025 car in Monza this weekend. The new car will be raced until the end of the 2027 F3 season. Designed to increase overtaking, next year’s F3 car follows in the footsteps of F2’s new 2024 regulations. Improvements in safety, sustainability, dynamics, and aerodynamics have all…
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Championship leader Leonardo Fornaroli has taken pole F3 Feature Race at the 2024 Italian GP on Sunday with a Qualifying time of 1:38:287. He is followed by Alexander Dunne with a 1:38:818 and Gabriele Mini with a 1:38:543. The Italian GP marks the final qualifying session of the 2024 FIA Formula 3 season. With the…
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Campos Racing’s Mari Boya topped the times in the F3 Practice session at the 2024 Italian GP. The Spaniard was quickest of the session by a tenth with a 1:38.172, followed by ART’s Christian Mansell and Rodin’s Callum Voisin. Championship leader Leonardo Fornaroli finished in P27, while P2 in the Championship, Gabriele Minì, set the…
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F1 Academy was back this weekend in Zandvoort, and PREMA Racing’s resurgence in form saw them return to the top step of the podium. Mercedes Junior Driver Doriane Pin led from pole in a rainy Race 2 to secure her second win of the season. She was also on course for a podium in the…
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Noah Strømsted will replace Oliver Goethe for the FIA Formula 3 season finale this weekend in Monza. The Danish driver will join the Campos Racing line-up alongside new teammates Mari Boya and Sebas Montoya. Although this is Strømsted’s first appearance in the category, the driver has already integrated into the team after competing with them in…
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As the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship gets closer to crowning a champion, let’s take a look at the title fighters. The 2024 Formula 3 championship has been a season of intense battles, unexpected twists, and standout performances from all 30 drivers on the grid. This intensity has ultimately led to the title fight coming…
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The Director and Founder of Hitech GP, Oliver Oakes, has been announced as the new Team Principal of BWT Alpine F1 Team following the exit of Bruno Famin. The Enstone-based outfit have announced the appointment of their third team principal in just over a year amidst a tumultuous few seasons with poor results. Oakes, who,…
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There’s been yet another bout of post-race penalties for the F3 grid during the Belgian GP weekend – this time following the 2024 Feature Race. ART’s Christian Mansell has been handed a ten-second time penalty for causing a collision with Arvid Lindblad earlier today. The Australian was found to be wholly to blame for the…
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In an F3 Feature Race filled with incidents and Safety Cars, Callum Voisin survived three restarts to claim victory at the 2024 Belgian GP. Not only did the F3 2024 Belgian GP weekend see Voisin’s team Rodin Motorsport end a ten-year victory drought after the Feature race, but there is now a new Championship leader.…
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It was a PREMA Racing 1-2 at the F3 Sprint Race at the 2024 Belgian GP, with Dino Beganovic clinching the victory. Gabriele Minì, who led at the start, was caught by his teammate after an early Safety Car restart following a crash for Jenzer’s Max Esterson. Van Amersfoort Racing’s Noel León secured P3 on…
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Rodin Motorsport’s Callum Voisin has secured his maiden Pole position at the F3 Qualifying session of the 2024 Belgian GP. The Brit will start from the front of the grid in Sunday’s Feature race beside MP Motorsport’s Alex Dunne in P2. Leonardo Fornaroli secured P3, followed by Sebastián Montoya. An enormous traffic jam in the…
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Ferrari Driver Academy driver Tuukka Taponen is set to drive in this weekend’s F3 2024 Belgian GP Weekend as a replacement for ART’s Nikola Tsolov. The 17-year-old Finnish driver, who currently drives in the 2024 Formula Regional European Championship, will compete in the second ART car. However, Taponen will only be in the car for…
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ART’s Laurens van Hoepen has been disqualified from the F3 Feature race at the 2024 Hungarian GP, stripping him of his P2 position. The Dutchman had his result nullified following a breach of the F3 Technical Regulations. The FIA concluded that “Car 24 had not met the minimum weight requirement set out in Article 5.1…
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ART’s Nikola Tsolov secured his first Feature race win and third F3 race win this season at the 2024 Hungarian GP, closely followed by his teammate Laurens van Hoepen. Van Amersfoort racing’s Noel León secured some vital points in P3, with Trident’s Leonardo Fornaroli and the third ART of Christian Mansell in completing the top…
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AIX Racing have secured their maiden win in Formula 3. Not only did Nikita Bedrin drive to victory in the F3 Sprint race at the 2024 Hungarian GP, but his teammate Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak secured P2. Inthraphuvasak becomes the first Thai driver to stand on an F3 podium, and AIX’s victory means ten teams have now…
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In a session cut short when Browning hit the wall, Laurens Van Hoepen took pole with a 1:33.935 in the F3 Qualifying for the 2024 Hungarian GP. He led from teammate Tsolov and Fornaroli. The top 3 drivers are split by just 7 points heading into the F3 Hungarian GP weekend, with Gabriele Minì leading…
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Campos Racing’s Mari Boya topped the times in the F3 Practice session at the 2024 Hungarian GP. The Spaniard was followed by the two Hitech Pulse-Eights of Martinius Stenshorne and Luke Browning, both within three tenths. Van Amersfoort Racing’s Noel León finished in P4 and the Trident of Leonardo Fornaroli in P5. Tyre degradation will…
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Formula 3 driver Sophia Flörsch and F1 Academy driver Chloe Chambers recently took part in a two-day test at Silverstone with the FIA, helping to define the setup regulations of both classes to make the respective championships as accessible as possible. The test included things such as wide-range setup changes, using different compounds of tyre,…
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Several incidents and Safety Cars led to an eventful Formula 3 race