The 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship is a planned motor racing championship for Formula 3 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship will be the fifteenth season of Formula 3 racing and the sixth season run under the FIA Formula 3 Championship moniker. It is an open-wheel racing category serving as the third tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category will be run in support of selected rounds of the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers competing in the championship will run the same car, the Dallara F3 2019.[1]

Prema Racing will enter the championship as the reigning Teams' Champions, having secured their title at the final race of the 2023 season in Monza.

Entries

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship.[2] As the championship is a spec series, all teams will compete with an identical Dallara F3 2019 chassis with a 3.4 L (207 cu in) naturally-aspirated V6 engine developed by Mecachrome.[3][4][5] All teams will compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli.

Entrant No. Driver name Rounds
Italy Prema Racing 1 Sweden Dino Beganovic TBC
2 Italy Gabriele Minì TBC
3 United Kingdom Arvid Lindblad TBC
Italy Trident 4 Italy Leonardo Fornaroli TBC
5 France Sami Meguetounif TBC
6 Mexico Santiago Ramos TBC
Netherlands MP Motorsport 7 Germany Tim Tramnitz TBC
8 TBA TBC
9 TBA TBC
Spain Campos Racing 10 Germany Oliver Goethe TBC
11 Colombia Sebastián Montoya TBC
12 Spain Mari Boya TBC
United Kingdom Hitech Pulse-Eight 14 United Kingdom Luke Browning TBC
15 Norway Martinius Stenshorne TBC
16 United Kingdom Cian Shields TBC
Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 17 Austria Charlie Wurz TBC
18 United States Max Esterson TBC
19 Peru Matías Zagazeta TBC
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 20 Mexico Noel León TBC
21 Germany Sophia Flörsch TBC
22 Australia Tommy Smith TBC
France ART Grand Prix 23 Australia Christian Mansell TBC
24 Netherlands Laurens van Hoepen TBC
25 TBA TBC
Germany PHM AIX Racing 26 TBA TBC
27 TBA TBC
28 TBA TBC
United Kingdom Rodin Motorsport 29 United Kingdom Callum Voisin TBC
30 United Kingdom Joseph Loake TBC
31 TBA TBC
Source: [6]

Team changes

PHM Racing will now operate independently of Charouz Racing System, after the latter co-ran the team during the 2023 season.[7] Ahead of the season, they also announced the AIX Investment Group as a new title sponsor, changing the team's name to PHM AIX Racing.[8]

After Rodin Cars became Carlin's majority shareholder in 2023 and rebranded the team as Rodin Carlin, the Carlin family departed the team, with Rodin taking full ownership and renaming the team Rodin Motorsport.[9]

Driver changes

Reigning Teams' Champions Prema Racing saw two of their drivers graduate to Formula 2, with Zak O'Sullivan joining ART Grand Prix and Paul Aron signing with Hitech Pulse-Eight.[10][11] Their replacements will be Gabriele Minì, leaving Hitech Pulse-Eight after having finished seventh in his debut season last year, and Red Bull junior Arvid Lindblad, who will graduate from the team's Italian F4 outfit after coming third in 2023.[12][13]

Trident also recruited two new drivers, as their reigning champion Gabriel Bortoleto will leave the series to graduate to Formula 2 with Invicta Racing, and Oliver Goethe will move to Campos Racing.[14][15] The team signed two drivers graduating after two seasons of FRECA: Sami Meguetounif, who drove for MP Motorsport and came ninth in the standings in 2023, and Santiago Ramos, who finished the 2023 season in eleventh with RPM.[16][17]

MP Motorsport promoted Franco Colapinto to their Formula 2 outfit after already fielding him in the 2023 season finale.[18] The team signed Red Bull junior Tim Tramnitz, who will graduate from FRECA after coming third in the 2023 campaign with R-ace GP, to replace him.[19] Jonny Edgar also left the team and the series to race in the European Le Mans Series with Orlen Team AO by TF.[20]

Campos Racing signed three new drivers, all of them contesting their sophomore seasons in the championship, as Pepe Martí graduated to the team's Formula 2 outfit and Christian Mansell moved over to ART Grand Prix.[21][22] Oliver Goethe will move over from Trident after coming eighth in 2023, Mari Boya will depart MP Motorsport after ending his 2023 campaign in 17th place and Sebastián Montoya departs Hitech Pulse-Eight, with whom he came 16th.[15][23][24]

Hitech Pulse-Eight saw two of their drivers move to different teams, with Gabriele Minì joining Prema Racing and Sebastián Montoya joining Campos Racing.[12][24] Filling these seats will be 2023 FRECA Rookie Champion Martinius Stenshorne and Cian Shields, the vice-champion of the 2023 Euroformula Open season.[25][26]

Jenzer Motorsport driver Alex García left the championship to join Isotta Fraschini in the Hypercar division of the World Endurance Championship.[27] Matías Zagazeta will replace him, graduating to FIA Formula 3 after spending two years in FRECA culminating in a 22nd place with R-ace GP in 2023.[28] Charlie Wurz, son of former F1 driver Alexander Wurz, is set to join him, also stepping up from Formula Regional competition after winning the 2023 FROC.[29] Formula Ford Festival winner Max Esterson will complete the team's lineup after debuting during the 2023 season, where he entered two rounds for Rodin Carlin.[30]

Van Amersfoort Racing signed reigning Euroformula Open Champion Noel León, replacing Caio Collet.[31] Rafael Villagómez also departed the team and will be replaced by Sophia Flörsch, the first woman to score points in Formula 3's modern era, who will leave PHM AIX Racing after she came 23rd with the team in 2023.[32]

ART Grand Prix recruited Christian Mansell, who leaves Campos Racing after concluding the 2023 campaign with 12th place in the standings, to replace Grégoire Saucy, who will leave the series to join United Autosports in the World Endurance Championship's new LMGT3 class.[22][33] The team also promoted Laurens van Hoepen from the outfit's FRECA team after coming tenth with them in the 2023 championship.[34]

PHM AIX Racing saw their driver Sophia Flörsch move to Van Amersfoort Racing.[32]

Rodin driver Oliver Gray will leave the series and single-seater racing to move to the European Le Mans Series with Inter Europol Competition.[35] He will be replaced by reigning GB3 Champion Callum Voisin.[36] Joining him will be another GB3 graduate in Joseph Loake, who finished the 2023 season in third with JHR Developments.[37]

Race calendar

Round Circuit Sprint race Feature race
1 Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir 1 March 2 March
2 Australia Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne 23 March 24 March
3 Italy Imola Circuit, Imola 18 May 19 May
4 Monaco Circuit de Monaco, Monaco 25 May 26 May
5 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 22 June 23 June
6 Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 29 June 30 June
7 United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone 6 July 7 July
8 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród 20 July 21 July
9 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot 27 July 28 July
10 Italy Monza Circuit, Monza 31 August 1 September
Source:[38]

Calendar changes

  • The FIA Formula 3 Championship will return to Imola after the round in 2023 was cancelled as a result of mass flooding which affected the region.[39]

Regulation changes

Technical regulations

  • Formula 3 ran with 55% sustainable fuel supplied by Aramco in 2023.[40] An increase in sustainability is planned for 2024 to continue working towards the usage of 100% sustainable fuel by 2027.[41]
  • After multiple races in 2023 had to be shortened because of concerns regarding the durability of Pirelli's medium tyre, a new specification of tyres will be introduced.[42]

Sporting regulations

From this season, a new rule in order to try and prevent drivers benefitting from causing red flags during qualifying sessions will be brought in for both the Formula 2 and FIA Formula 3 championships. Thus, if the stewards deem a driver to be the sole cause for the issuing of a red flag, the driver responsible will have their fastest lap time of that session deleted, as well as being prevented from taking any further part in that session.[43]

References

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