F3 News

Indonesian brothers Ananda Mikola and Moreno Soeprapto ensured a family sweep by taking pole position for the overall race and Promotions Class respectively at the opening round of the Asian F3 Championship at Batangas in the Philippines.

The expanded 16-car grid likely for the first event of the Asian Formula Three Championship at Batangas this weekend [10 April] is undoubtedly the most competitive field assembled by the series to date.

Josh Fisher took race victory in his maiden British F3 series race by driving to glory in the National class of the series at Donington Park this past weekend for the Trevor Powell run Pioneer-SWR squad.

Suk Sandher made his British Formula Three International Championship debut in two dramatic races at Donington Park circuit in the East Midlands, though his first race was rather short, and expensive.

Indian racer Suk Sandher has signed a deal with Performance Racing to contest the opening round of the 2005 British Formula Three International Championship this coming weekend at Donington Park.

Whilst that Australian Formula One team boss keeps his name firmly in the headlines, there's another Stoddart in the world of motorsport, a whole lot better looking and with far less facial hair, in the form of British F3 contender Susie Stoddart. Crash.net finds out more.

Formula Renault graduate Charlie Hollings will compete in a Lola-Dome chassis for Promatecme UK in this season's British Formula 3 national class it has been announced.

British F3 front-runner Danny Watts was on track at Silverstone last Friday, giving Lola's new Formula 3 car, the B05/30 its first run.

Australia's leading Formula 3 operation, team BRM, have lured Marcus Koch out of retirement to join the team in an engineering role for 2005.

Juho Annala will receive help from an experiences source as he makes the step up to the British Formula Three Championship this season, following confirmation that ex-F1 driver Mika Salo will act as mentor for his fellow Finn.

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.