2026 FIA Formula 3 Championship

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The 2026 FIA Formula 3 Championship is a scheduled motor racing championship for Formula 3 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship will be the seventeenth season of Formula 3 racing and the eighth season run under the FIA Formula 3 Championship moniker. FIA Formula 3 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 2026 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 2025.

Campos Racing will enter the season as the reigning Teams' Champions, having secured their inaugural title at the final race of the 2025 season at Monza Circuit.

Entries

The following teams and drivers are scheduled to compete in the 2026 FIA Formula 3 Championship.[1] As the championship is a spec series, all teams will compete with an identical Dallara F3 2025 chassis with a 3.4 L (207 cu in) naturally-aspirated V6 engine developed by Mecachrome.[2] All teams will compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli.

Entrant No. Driver name Rounds
Spain Campos Racing 1 France Théophile Naël TBC
2 United States Ugo Ugochukwu TBC
3 Mexico Ernesto Rivera TBC
Italy Trident 4 Denmark Noah Strømsted[3] TBC
5 United Kingdom Freddie Slater TBC
6 Italy Matteo De Palo TBC
Netherlands MP Motorsport 7 Italy Mattia Colnaghi TBC
8 Finland Tuukka Taponen TBC
9 France Alessandro Giusti[4] TBC
France ART Grand Prix 10 France Taito Kato[a] TBC
11 Poland Maciej Gładysz TBC
12 Japan Kanato Le TBC
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 14 Japan Hiyu Yamakoshi TBC
15 Mexico Jesse Carrasquedo Jr. TBC
16 Spain Bruno del Pino TBC
New Zealand Rodin Motorsport 17 Brazil Pedro Clerot TBC
18 Italy Brando Badoer TBC
19 Singapore Christian Ho TBC
Italy Prema Racing 20 New Zealand Louis Sharp TBC
21 Australia James Wharton TBC
22 France Enzo Deligny TBC
United Kingdom Hitech TGR 23 South Korea Michael Shin TBC
24 Republic of Ireland Fionn McLaughlin TBC
25 Japan Jin Nakamura TBC
United Arab Emirates AIX Racing 26 United States Brad Benavides[5] TBC
27 Sri Lanka Yevan David TBC
28 Brazil Fernando Barrichello TBC
France DAMS Lucas Oil 29 Italy Nicola Lacorte[6] TBC
30 Thailand Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi TBC
31 TBA TBC

Driver changes

Campos Racing will have an all-new lineup after Nikola Tsolov, Mari Boya and Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak left the team, all graduating to FIA F2, with Tsolov remaining with Campos, Boya to Prema Racing and Inthraphuvasak joining ART Grand Prix.[7][8][9] The team signed two sophomore drivers in 2025 Macau Grand Prix winner Théophile Naël, who leaves Van Amersfoort Racing after finishing eighth with the team in 2025, and Ugo Ugochukwu, who left Prema Racing after ending the 2025 season 16th.[10][11] Red Bull Junior driver Ernesto Rivera will complete Campos' lineup on his graduation from their Eurocup-3 outfit.[12]

Reigning champion Rafael Câmara will step up to Formula 2 with Invicta Racing, while Charlie Wurz leave the series to compete in Super Formula with Team Goh.[13][14] The team signed Formula Regional European Championship champion Freddie Slater and promoted runner-up Matteo De Palo for their full-season debut after Slater already deputized for two rounds for AIX Racing and Hitech TGR in 2025.[15][16]

Both Tim Tramnitz and Bruno del Pino left MP Motorsport, with the latter joining Van Amersfoort Racing.[17] To replace them, the team signed reigning Eurocup-3 champion Mattia Colnaghi, who also joined the Red Bull Junior Team, as well as Ferrari junior driver Tuukka Taponen, who departs ART Grand Prix after coming ninth in 2025.[18][19][20]

ART Grand Prix reset their lineup as Tuukka Taponen joined MP Motorsport, James Wharton joined Prema Racing and Laurens van Hoepen move to FIA F2 with Trident.[20][21][22] The team signed Eurocup-3 winter series champion Maciej Gładysz, who finished tenth in Eurocup-3, and promoted 2024 French F4 Champion Taito Kato and Kanato Le from their FRECA outfit, where they finished the 2025 season in seventh and 14th, respectively.[23][24][25]

Van Amersfoort Racing will have an all-new line-up, as Théophile Naël moved to Campos Racing while Santiago Ramos and Ivan Domingues left the team.[10] VAR promoted Hiyu Yamakoshi from its FRECA outfit, who finished ninth and signed Bruno del Pino, who leaves MP Motorsport after finishing the 2025 season in 23rd, and Jesse Carrasquedo Jr., who deputized for Hitech TGR for two rounds in 2025.[26][17][27]

Rodin Motorsport also have three new drivers with Louis Sharp move to Prema, Callum Voisin to compete in Porsche Carrera Cup GB and Roman Bilinski to Formula 2 with DAMS.[28][29][30] They signed Brando Badoer, who in turn left Prema after finishing his debut season with the team in 25th, 2024 Eurocup-3 champion Christian Ho, who departed DAMS after coming 22nd in 2025, and Pedro Clerot will graduate from FRECA, where he raced with Van Amersfoort Racing, who finished fourth.[31][32][33]

Brando Badoer, Ugo Ugochukwu, and Noel León all left Prema Racing as Badoer and Ugochukwu moved to Rodin Motorsport and Campos Racing respectively while León stepped up to Formula 2 with Campos Racing.[31][11][34] Prema signed Enzo Deligny from FRECA, where he finished third with R-ace GP. James Wharton returns to Prema, departing ART Grand Prix after finishing his full-time debut season in 18th.[35][21] 2024 GB3 champion Louis Sharp will complete Prema's lineup for his sophomore season after a 26th place with Rodin Motorsport in 2025.[28]

Hitech TGR also renewed their lineup after Martinius Stenshorne stepped up to Formula 2 with Rodin Motorsport and neither Gerrard Xie nor any of the team's four part-time competitors returned.[36] Hitech signed a returnee and two championship debutants: Michael Shin made his FIA F3 debut in 2023 with PHM Racing by Charouz and has since been competing in Euroformula Open with Team Motopark where he finished 3rd, TGR Junior driver Jin Nakamura steps up from FRECA, where he finished 10th with R-ace GP, and Fionn McLaughlin enters FIA F3 after winning the 2025 F4 British Champion with Hitech's outfit in that series.[37][38][39]

AIX Racing will have two new drivers as neither James Hedley nor Nicola Marinangeli returned to the team. To replace them, AIX signed two Euroformula Open graduates: Yevan David, the series runner-up who will become the first Sri Lankan driver to compete in Formula 3, and 7th place Fernando Barrichello, who already deputized for Hedley at the team in the last round of the 2025 season.[40][41]

DAMS Lucas Oil saw Christian Ho leave the team as he moves to Rodin Motorsport.[32] To replace Ho, the team signed Thai driver Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi from FRECA, where he finished 16th with Trident.[42]

Race calendar

Round Circuit Sprint race Feature race
1 Australia Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne 7 March 8 March
2 Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir 11 April 12 April
3 Monaco Circuit de Monaco, Monaco 6 June 7 June
4 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 13 June 14 June
5 Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 27 June 28 June
6 United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone 4 July 5 July
7 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot 18 July 19 July
8 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród 25 July 26 July
9 Italy Monza Circuit, Monza 5 September 6 September
10 Spain Madring, Madrid 12 September 13 September
Source:[43]

Calendar changes

  • Formula 2 and Formula 3 followed Formula One in replacing the round at Imola Circuit with a second round in Spain held at the newly-built Madring.[44]

Results and standings

Scoring system

Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers in both races.[b] The pole-sitter in the feature race will also receive two points, and one point will be given to the driver who set the fastest lap in both the feature and sprint races, provided that driver finished inside the top ten. If the driver who set the fastest lap is classified outside the top ten, the point will be given to the driver who set the fastest lap of those inside the top ten. No extra points will be awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race as the grid for it will be set by reversing the top twelve qualifiers.

Sprint race points

Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers. A bonus point will be awarded to the driver who set the fastest lap and finished in the top ten.[45]

Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   FL 
Points 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1
Feature race points

Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers. Bonus points will be awarded to the pole-sitter and to the driver who set the fastest lap and finished in the top ten.

Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   Pole   FL 
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 2 1

Notes

  1. ↑ Kato is a Japanese driver competing under a French licence.
  2. ↑ In the event of a race ending prematurely, the number of points paying positions can be reduced, depending on how much of the race has been completed.

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