F3 News

The Silverstone-based Promatecme Formula Three team have announced that Bruce Jouanny has agreed to stay on board for a second season, where he will be joined by Scholarship Class graduate Ernani Judice.

Meritus Racing have signed former Formula Renault race driver, Gavin Smith, 22, from Dublin, Ireland. Smith replaces Championship Class bound Michael Keohane in one of the top Scholarship Class seats in the 2002 British Formula 3 Championship.

Northern Ireland's Derek Hayes will contest the 16 round French Formula 3 Championship in 2002 with the LD Autosport team.

Niki Lauda's proposed run in Jaguar's grand prix car will not be the only time the family name takes to the track in the next few weeks, as the Austrian's son steps onto the lower rungs of the racing ladder.

Mark Mayall, who claimed fourth place in the Scholarship Class of the 2001 British Formula Three Championship, has signed for the front-running Alan Docking Racing to contest the main class in the prestigious series.

The United States Formula Three Championship powered by Volkswagen announced its 2002 racing program at a conference hosted by Indy Partnership during the Performance Racing Industry show in Indianapolis.

Gary Paffett - 2000 British Formula Three Championship Scholarship Class champion - elected to continue his Formula Three career in Germany in 2001.

Frenchman Jonathan Cochet thoroughly justified his decision to return to Formula 3 competition by dominating today's International Formula 3 Korea Super Prix at the Changwon International Raceway in South Gyeongsangnam-do Province.

Combined qualifying times for Sunday's Korean Formula Three Grand Prix (2 x 25 laps):

Takuma Sato lived up to pre-race expectations as he dominated the 48th Macau Formula Three Grand Prix to add the blue riband event to his successes in the British championship and the annual Zandvoort Masters.

Sweden's Bjorn Wirdheim put in one of the biggest surprises in recent Macau Grand Prix history when he overcame a highly-rated field to claim pole position for Sunday's blue riband event.

The new Swindon-Ford engine is undergoing a development exercise this week, in which Team Avanti will be playing a large role in testing the engine.

Italian Paolo Montin maintained his advantage at the head of the field as he claimed provisional pole position on Thursday for this weekend's Macau Grand Prix.

Formula 3 driver Andy Priaulx will be reunited with former race team Promatecme for the prestigious Macau Grand Prix in November.

This year's line-up at the Macau Grand Prix is being heralded as one of the most talented and competitive the event has ever seen, topped by a man who could well be a motor racing legend in the making, Japanese sensation Takuma Sato.

Silverstone - based Promatecme Formula 3 Team is delighted to announce its line - up for the prestigious Macau Grand Prix, highlight of the Formula 3 season and the place where all the World's up and coming young drivers from various F3 championships race together.

Ryan Dalziel put a frustrating 2001 season behind him yesterday (Tuesday 23 October) with an impressive test for former British Formula Three Champions Manor Motorsport.

Race car constructor Ralt have announced that they will run two cars in the British F3 Championship in 2002 after an absence from the series of almost eight years.

Meritus Racing, Daventry have tested the top three drivers from this season's Irish Formula Ford Championship: winner, George McAlpine (41), Michael Devaney (16) and Charlie Donnelly (17) all tested the Scholarship Class winning F3 car at Silverstone National Circuit.

Jaguar Racing will no longer participate in the British Formula Three Championship from next season. The team has decided to concentrate all its efforts into Formula One and a new consortium will take over the running of the team.

Bruce Jouanny starred at the prestigious Elf Masters Formula 3 race at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium. Jouanny was delayed on the first lap by polesitter Mark Taylor getting it all wrong, Taylor ending up facing the wrong way and out on the spot.

Carlin Motorsport dominated the first Championship Class British Formula Three Championship race at Brands Hatch today, Anthony Davidson leading home new champion Takuma Sato, these two well clear of the rest of the field.

Anthony Davidson was fastest at Brands Hatch today, Thursday, in testing for this weekend's Green Flag British F3 Championship races.

Fast rising South African talent Alan van der Merwe has joined Carlin Motorsport's championship-winning squad to contest next season's British Formula Three Championship.