Formula 3 Archive

  • Menasheh Idafar - Photo Credit: Chris Gurton Photography

    Perfect Timing: Menasheh Idafar Sweeps Snetterton Races

    Menasheh Idafar picked the perfect time to achieve his first perfect weekend in the British Formula 3 International Series National Class, dominating the running at Snetterton to take a points lead to next month’s final round. The Norfolk weekend put the 19-year-old through the entire...

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  • 13 for 31; Jean-Eric Vergne at Snetterton - Photo Credit: Chris Gurton Photography

    Jean-Eric Vergne’s Lucky 13th

    Jean-Eric Vergne underlined his status as new F3 Champion by winning his 13th race of the season at Snetterton with a mature drive in the wet for Carlin. The Frenchman claimed the title at the last round in Silverstone so there was no pressure on...

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  • Brundle T-Sport

    Brundle Looking Forward To Snetterton F3 Debut

    This weekend the Cooper Tires British F3 Series heads to Snetterton for a bank holiday blast with a famous motor sport family name making a return to the Formula 3 series. Kings Lynn’s Alex Brundle is looking to make the most of his home advantage...

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  • Menasheh Idafar - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    Idafar’s Race Three Win Keeps F3 National Class Title Close

    A win in the final British Formula Three race at Silverstone (14-15 August) kept the title race in the National Class tantalisingly close, a dominant performance by Menasheh Idafar keeping his deficit to rival James Cole to just nine points. The pair of T-Sport drivers,...

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  • Adrian Buzaid

    Adriano Buzaid Scores Maiden 2010 F3 Win

    With all the focus of the weekend elsewhere in the Carlin squad Brazilian Adriano Buzaid scored his maiden win of the British F3 season, becoming the ninth different driver to stand atop the podium in the series this year. With the second race of the...

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  • Vergne celebrates being France's first British F3 champion - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    Lights-To-Flag Silverstone Win Seals Jean-Eric Vergne’s Title

    A victory in the second race of today’s (15 August) races crowned Jean-Eric Vergne as the 2010 British Formula Three International Series champion, the Frenchman taking his twelfth win of the season after leading from flag to flag. The commanding nature of the vital win...

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  • James Calado celebrates - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    James Calado Slips To Silverstone Race One Victory

    James Calado claimed his fourth win of the season at a slippery Silverstone, making the right choice as the field scattered on tyre strategy, trying to second guess the changeable conditions. The Racing Steps Foundation backed driver led another 1-2-3-4 result for the dominant Carlin...

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  • Menasheh Idafar - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    Menasheh Idafar Leads National Class in Silverstone Testing

    Menasheh Idafar’s weekend at Silverstone got off to the perfect start, the T-Sport pilot topping the testing sessions in the build up to the three British Formula Three races at Silverstone this weekend (14-15 August). The two sessions saw wet and dry running around the...

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  • JEV on the way to victory

    Vergne Snatches A Second Win At Thruxton In Style

    To say that Jean-Eric Vergne’s victory in this afternoon’s Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International championship feature race was straightforward would be accurate, if a little simplistic. However, such was the manner of his victory today at Thruxton. Similarly, Menasheh Idafar beat team-mate and National...

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  • JEV celebrating his win

    Vergne Moves A Step Closer To The Title

    Normal service resumed today at Thruxton in the Cooper Tires British F3 International championship, with Jean-Eric Vergne winning the morning’s sprint race in blistering form. The victory was his tenth of the season and he also notched up a new fastest lap in the process....

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  • James Calado leads Jean-Eric Vergne - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    James Calado Bounces Back To Win At Thruxton

    James Calado gave a demonstration of racing at Thruxton, fighting back from a poor start to lead home a 1-2-3-4 finish for Carlin the first of the weekend’s three races. While the 22-year-old had topped the testing at the Hampshire track earlier in the week...

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  • Felipe Nasr and Menasheh Idafar at Thruxton - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    James Calado Paces F3 Thruxton Test

    James Calado led the British Formula Three test sessions at Thruxton, in build-up to the series’ races at the Hampshire speed-drome. The Carlin driver set the fastest lap of 1:06.840 in his Dallara/Volkswagen, just a single hundredth outside of the Thruxton lap record and four...

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  • Jean-Eric Vergne - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    Jean-Eric Vergne completes Spa-Francorchamps clean sweep

    Jean-Eric Vergne completed a clean sweep in the British Formula Three Championship weekend at Spa-Francochamps with a win in the 40-minute race. The win brought the Frenchman’s tally of wins to nine – exactly half the races contested so far this season. The points also...

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  • Vergne leads home Felipe Nasr - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    Double win for Vergne on F3′s Spa-Francorchamps Friday

    Jean-Eric Vergne took victory in both of the Fridays races as the British Formula Three Championship visited Spa-Francorchamps. The Frenchman, who lead the title battle to Belguim started the first race from pole, but immediately faced strong opposition the run down to La Source after...

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  • Menasheh Idafar - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    Menasheh Idafar’s first Spa experience “unreal”

    British Formula Three Championship National Class runner Menasheh Idafar ended the opening sessions of the series’ visit to Spa on top of the two-way battle for the class. The 19-year-old’s first running at the legendary 4.35 mile track took place in wet conditions, the weather...

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  • Menasheh Idafar, race three

    Race three damage stops Menasheh Idafar clean sweep

    British born Bahraini Menasheh Idafar took two National Class wins out of the three on offer over the British Formula Three weekend at Rockingham, and only missing out on a clean sweep by fractions of a second. The wins did not come easily for the...

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  • William Buller - Photo Credit: Hitech Racing

    William Buller shines on Hitech’s Rockingham weekend

    Hitech Racing’s British Formula Three weekend saw Ryan Sharp’s team leave Northamptonshire with a good haul of points – both their International Class drivers scoring top six finishes in the first two races of the weekend. Sunday’s feature race, however, also saw the team caught...

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  • Felipe Nasr celebrates - Photo Credit: Chris Enion

    Felipe Nasr survives to take Rockingham F3 race three

    After a weekend of promising much but constantly being thwarted Raikkonen-Robertson finally got a win at Rockingham. Felipe Nasr survived opening lap carnage to win the 40-minute feature race for the British Formula Three Championship. The Brazilian started from fourth, giving him the best available...

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  • Daniel McKenzie - Photo Credit: Chris Enion

    Daniel McKenzie wins at Rockingham: Avoiding the Pit-Falls

    Amid the chaotic novelty of British Formula Three teams making “pitstops” in a twenty minute sprint race a rapid drive from Daniel McKenzie risked making the racing the dominant force of the race. It was a slow start (despite rumours of creeping before the lights)...

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  • Jean-Eric Vergne - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    Jean-Eric Vergne extends title lead with win number six

    Championship leader Jean-Eric Vergne sealed win number six for the season at the first British Formula Three race of the weekend at Rockingham. The Frenchman had begun the weekend in comparatively disappointing style, only managing third on the grid behind Oli Webb and Carlos Huertas....

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  • Felipe Nasr - Photo Credit: Jakob Ebrey Photography

    Felipe Nasr leads F3 Rockingham test

    17-year-old Felipe Nasr was the surprising chart topper in British Formula Three testing ahead of the fifth race weekend of the season at Rockingham. Driving for Raikkonen-Robertson the Brazilian emerged fastest in the second of the three sessions, lapping the 1.94mile International circuit in 1:13.247...

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  • Valttei Bottas leads the field - Photo Credit: Euro F3 Media

    Bottas Finally Breaks His Duck

    Last year's rookie of the year Valtteri Bottas finally scored his maiden win at the Norisring, leading home Signature duo Marco Wittmann and Edoardo Mortara.

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  • Motara leads the field - Photo credit: Euro F3 Media

    Motara Takes Third Win To Extend Championship Lead

    Edoardo Motara lead home a Signature 1-2 at Norisring to extend his championship lead to 16 points in the Formula 3 Euro Series.

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  • British GT

    Win Tickets To British GT And F3 At Rockingham

    The British GT championship heads to Rockingham on the weekend of 17/18 July and we’ve teamed up with the circuit to bring you the opportunity to win one of five pairs of tickets. Alongside the British GT series is the British F3 International Series featuring...

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  • Calado Takes Second Silverstone Win As Webb Is Bridesmaid Again

    Calado Takes Second Silverstone Win As Webb Is Bridesmaid Again

    James Calado claimed his second win of the weekend in round 6 of the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series at Silverstone as the Carlin driver once again led home Fortec’s Oli Webb to move to third in the championship. On a track which...

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  • Sims Delivers Master class In Wet Weather Driving

    Sims Delivers Master class In Wet Weather Driving

    Britain’s Alexander Sims produced a masterful performance in the weekend’s second race of the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series at Silverstone, making the best of the wet conditions to storm from eleventh on the grid to take victory by eight seconds. The Briton...

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  • Calado Becomes Arena Layout’s First Winner

    Calado Becomes Arena Layout’s First Winner

    James Calado took victory in the first of the weekend’s three rounds of the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit, leading home compatriot Oli Webb to become the first person to win on the revised layout which was...

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  • Mehri goes round to take first Euroseries win

    Mehri goes round to take first Euroseries win

    Spain’s Roberto Mehri claimed his maiden victory in the F3 Euroseries in Sunday’s race at the Hockenheimring. The Mucke Motorsport driver led a Spanish 1-2 as he took the win ahead of compatriot Daniel Juncadella (Prema) in the fourth round of the DTM supporting category....

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  • F3 Euroseries Round 2 Hockenheim – Race One

    F3 Euroseries Round 2 Hockenheim – Race One

    Signature driver Marco Wittmann converted his first Euroseries pole position into his first victory at the Hockenheimring, as the German led home team mate Edoardo Mortara and ART’s Valtteri Bottas. Wittmann was jumped in the race to the first corner by Prema’s Daniel Juncadella, but...

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  • F3 Euroseries Round 2 Hockenheim – Qualifying

    F3 Euroseries Round 2 Hockenheim – Qualifying

    German Marco Wittmann gave the home crowd something to cheer about at Hockenheim as the Signature driver took pole position for the second round of the F3 Euroseries. Wittmann displaced Spaniard Daniel Juncadella (Prema) by less than half a tenth late in the session, while...

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