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Just nine unnamed positions remain on the 2019 FIA Formula 3 grid after several teams confirmed drivers for the new campaign, with Charouz filling its three places. It will be known as Sauber Junior Team by Charouz after a partnership arranged between the two last year, with ’18 post-season testers Fabio Scherer and Lirim Zendeli being joined […]
Formula Renault Eurocup race winner Alex Peroni will graduate to FIA F3 in 2019, joining Campos after testing with the Spanish squad at the end of ’18. The 19-year-old joins Sebastian Fernandez in its line-up after two full seasons in Eurocup, winning on one occasion with both Fortec Motorsports and MP Motorsport in ’17 and ’18. Peroni later competed […]
Sebastian Fernandez will drive for Campos in the 2019 FIA Formula 3 championship for his second campaign at the third tier of the motorsport ladder. Fernandez stepped up a level in the 2018 European F3 season with Motopark, claiming two points finishes after two years with F4 machinery. The 18-year-old claimed wins in the Italian and UAE categories, […]
Recent Red Bull signing Juri Vips will join Hitech GP for his second season at the third tier of the Formula 1 junior ladder in 2019 in FIA F3. Vips, who finished fourth in the European F3 drivers’ standings with Motopark in 2018 with four victories from 30 races, first raced as part of its stable […]
Ferrari academy driver Marcus Armstrong will race for Prema in the third-tier of the Formula 1 support leader in 2019 as FIA F3 gets underway. Armstrong has driven for the Italian outfit since 2017, winning the Italian F4 championship and finishing runner-up in the German category. He went on to race in European F3 this year, having […]
European Formula 3 race-winner Jehan Daruvala has gone quickest in the final GP3 post-season test in Abu Dhabi, the last-ever series session before FIA F3’s 2019 introduction. Daruvala posted the best time in the morning, a 1m55.093s, before improving by three-thousandths of a second in the afternoon to remain top to deny Yuki Tsunoda the chance of […]
Niko Kari continued to lead the overall timings on day two of GP3’s post-season tests at Abu Dhabi, posting the fastest time in the morning with his Trident-run Dallara. The Finn set a time of 1m54.683s to lead Jehan Daruvala by just 0.006 seconds in the opening session, one of three drivers in the 1m54s early on. […]
Niko Kari’s first day of testing Trident’s GP3/16 machinery ended with the Finn topping the timesheets in Abu Dhabi, as the final sessions with the car began before FIA Formula 3’s introduction. Kari set a time of 1m53.890s in the afternoon of the first of three post-season sessions to finish 0.571s clear of MP Motorsport’s Jehan Daruvala on […]
A number of junior single-seater champions will get their first or an extended experience of the third tier of Formula 1 support series in GP3 post-season testing in Abu Dhabi between November 29 and December 1. Formula Renault Eurocup champion and runner-up Max Fewtrell and Christian Lundgaard will join Euroformula Open champion Felipe Drugovich and […]
2018 Japanese Formula 4 champion Yuki Tsunoda will graduate to the new FIA F3 category with Jenzer Motorsport in 2019. Honda junior Tsunoda, who won five of the first six races on his way to the title, will also test with the Swiss outfit during post-season testing in Abu Dhabi. This will be his first experience racing […]
ART Grand Prix’s Nikita Mazepin has become the final winner of a GP3 race in a chaotic Abu Dhabi sprint race as the series concludes after nine years. Mazepin made a last-lap overtake on polesitter Juan Manuel Correa at the end of the second straight at Turn 11 to guarantee the victory, around the outside of the […]
Campos’s Leonardo Pulcini has claimed victory in the final GP3 feature race at Abu Dhabi, as Anthoine Hubert sealed the drivers’ championship with third place following a time penalty for Nikita Mazepin. The Force India Formula 1 tester started the race with one potential strategy to delay celebrations being winning from pole with a fastest […]