F3 News

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

There was a surprise in qualifying for the 19th race of the Formula 3 Euro Series season on the 4.574-kilometre-long Grand Prix course at Hockenheim.

Following the news that it is to split from the successful partnership it enjoyed with Japanese manufacturer Dome, Lola Cars has unveiled its new B05/30 Formula Three car that it hopes will follow on from the Lola-Dome F106 that challenged the category stranglehold enjoyed by Dallara since 1993.

The partnership between Lola Cars International Ltd and Dome Cars will come to a close at the end of 2004 after fulfilling its commitment of breaking in to the Formula Three market.

FOTA, the Formula Three Association, and SRO, the Stephane Ratel Organisation, have confirmed plans for a revamped and re-energised second class for the British Formula 3 Championship.

Jamie Green secured the title in the Formula 3 Euro Series surprisingly early given the sheer competitiveness within the series.

Newly crowned Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship Champion Ryan Lewis is relishing a return to the circuit where he enjoyed race victory in last year's FPA race; the stunning Spa Francorchamps circuit in Belgium.

Nelson Piquet Jr was introduced to historic racing at the annual Goodwood Revival Meeting in the UK, and the young Brazilian certainly enjoyed the action. Piquet was one of the stars of the two-part, 29-car St Mary's Trophy race, which took place at the world's largest historic racing festival.

Just 14 points stand in the way of Ryan Lewis and the 2004 Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship and Bank Holiday Monday's Rounds 19 and 20 at Thruxton could see him lift the crown.

What a difference some rain makes. The first race of the day in the British Formula Three championship may not have set the world alight in terms of excitement, but the second race was more than enlivened with a heavy shower just before the start.

India's Formula 3 ace Karun Chandhok's season of bad luck continued at the picturesque Oulton Park circuit when he was forced to retire from both races with mechanical failures.

The Macau Grand Prix will kick off its second half-century with a range of improvements to its race programme, including an all-new format for the prestigious Formula Three event that headlines the weekend.

Carlin Motorsport's Clivio Piccione confirmed his damp track credentials by taking victory on a drying track in the final race of the day at Donington Park, round fourteen of the British F3 championship.

Ryan Lewis continued his domination of the Avon Tyres British Formula 3 Scholarship with victory in both 20 lap races at Castle Combe on Sunday; the 20 year-old from Royston racking up his tenth win from 12 rounds.

Danny Watts, driving a Promatecme Lola-Dome re-wrote the Formula 3 record books on Sunday as he took the Anglo/Japanese chassis to a first ever victory in the Avon Tyres British Formula Three Championship at Castle Combe.