F3 News

Young Irish driver Ronayne O'Mahony has signed to drive for Fortec Motorsport in his first season in the top class of the British F3 Championship this year. O'Mahony wants to build on his experience of 2004 and is looking forward to returning to Fortec Motorsport.

Christian Jones has been confirmed as the 2004 Asian F3 champion after the rival Shell Kinetic withdrew its appeal against a penalty applied to title contender John O'Hara at round six in August.

Christian Jones Motorsport recently returned a famous Asian name to the cockpit of a racing car, running John Marcelo in one of its Formula Three cars.

New Formula Three recruit Tim Bridgman has admitted that his deal with frontrunners Hitech Racing was based on a meeting with the team's management, rather than time spent in the car.

The organisers of the Formula 3 Euro Series confirmed the schedule for 2005 last week, with 20 rounds set to take place over the course of ten weekends.

Managing director Rupert Mainwaring believes Lola will have to build on an encouraging season of F3 competition when the 2005 season gets underway.

Lewis Hamilton took a nail-biting victory in the first-ever Bahrain F3 Superprix, beating fellow Euroseries runners Nico Rosberg and Jamie Green after coming from eleventh on the grid.

As Ananda Mikola took the round win and Christian Jones the series title, team BRM's John Pettit made an impact by being the fastest man on track and storming through the field in both races of the final round of the Asian Formula 3 championship.

Opel has announced that development of the highly successful Opel Spiess engine will continue in 2005, although there will no longer be any factory support for teams next season.

Formula BMW UK champion Tim Bridgman aims to be racing in Formula Three next season. Crash.net caught up with his during his latest test, this time with National class runners Performance Racing, at Donington Park...

Performance Racing is continuing to work on the new National class car that will be used in the British F3 championship.

After a season in Formula Renault in 2004, Joey Foster is aiming to make the move to the British F3 Championship next season.

Alexandre Premat of the French ASM team and Robert Kubica of the British Manor Motorsport team helped Mercedes to secure a one-two finish in the 51st running of the Macau F3 Grand Prix.

Alexandre Premat triumphed in an incident-filled 51st running of the Macau Grand Prix, with two Safety Car periods and a red flag bringing an early end to the event.

Lewis Hamilton continued to set himself up as favourite to win this year's 51st Macau F3 Grand Prix by sealing pole position for the main event with victory in the new-for-2004 qualifying race.

Robert Kubica left it until the final five minutes of qualifying on Friday to grab pole position for this weekend's Macau Grand Prix from the grasp of his Manor Motorsport team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

Guy Ligier, Philippe Ligier and Tico Martini took the wraps of their first collaborative single-seater yesterday, during the launch of the Automobiles Ligier JS47 specifically designed for Formula Three.

After guiding F3 rookie Stephen Jelley to three race wins in the 2004 British F3 Scholarship class Championship, Performance Racing were the first team to get their hands on the new Neil Brown Engineering Mugen-Honda engine set for next year's re-christened National class.

Team BRM, the 2004 Australian Formula 3 championship winning team, has expressed delight at the news that the Australian Formula 3 championship will race for the prestigious CAMS Gold Star award in the 2005 racing season.

Chinese racing sensation Marchy Lee returns to Macau for the 51st edition of the gruelling street race later this month, but this time he will be in the headlining Formula 3 race, where the best F3 drivers in the world come together for a world final.

Carlin Motorsport has confirmed rumours linking head of engineering Anthony 'Boyo' Hyatt to an all-new Formula Three operation being set up by McLaren F1 star Kimi Raikkonen and manager Steve Robertson.

With the options to run on British circuits having narrowed after MotorSport Vision made the step of actually asking the British F3 championship to pay the going rate for circuit use, it's an interesting provisional calendar that has been issued for 2005.

With his sights firming set on a Champ Car ride for the future, Marcus Marshall notched-up his third win in the Australian Formula Three championship at Surfers Paradise on a day when Karl Reindler took the championship.

The Lexmark Indy 300 carnival on Queensland's spectacular Gold Coast annually features some of the best drivers from around the world, but sixteen year old New Zealander Nic Jordan has the claim to fame of being the youngest driver ever to take the track in the fourteen years that there has been