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2023 Monza Formula 3 Round
The 2023 Monza Formula 3 round was a motor racing event held between 1 and 3 September at the Monza Circuit. It was the final race of the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship and was held in support of the 2023 Italian Grand Prix. Heading into the final round with a 38-point-margin over his nearest rivals Paul Aron and Pepe Martí, Gabriel Bortoleto was crowned the 2023 Drivers' Champion after qualifying on Friday as Aron and Martí both failed to score pole position in order two secure two vital points for their respective championship hopes. Bortoleto became the next series' champion as a rookie since Oscar Piastri in 2020. Classification After Paul Aron and Pepe Marti failed to secure the feature race pole position and the two points that came with it Gabriel Bortoleto became the 2023 FIA formula 3 champion becoming the 5th FIA Formula 3 champion, the first Brazilian driver and first driver for Trident to win the FIA Formula 3 Championship. Qualifying Notes * – Olive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monza Circuit
The Monza Circuit ( it, Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, , National Automobile Racetrack of Monza) is a race track near the city of Monza, north of Milan, in Italy. Built in 1922, it was the world's third purpose-built motor racing circuit after Brooklands and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis and the oldest in mainland Europe. The circuit's biggest event is the Italian Grand Prix. With the exception of the 1980 Italian Grand Prix, 1980 running, the race has been hosted there since 1949 Italian Grand Prix, 1949. Built in the Royal Villa of Monza park in a woodland setting, the site has three tracks – the Grand Prix motor racing, Grand Prix track, the Junior track, and a high speed oval track with steep bankings which was left unused for decades and had been decaying until it was restored in the 2010s. The major features of the main Grand Prix track include the ''Curva Grande'', the ''Curva di Lesmo'', the ''Variante Ascari'' and the ''Curva Alboreto'' (formerly ''Curv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Piastri
Oscar Piastri (born 6 April 2001) is an Australian racing driver who previously served as the reserve driver for Alpine F1 Team, having previously been in the team's driver academy. He won the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup with R-ace GP, and won the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship and 2021 Formula 2 Championship with Prema Racing. He is only the sixth driver to win the GP2/Formula 2 Championship in their rookie season, and the fifth driver to win the GP3/Formula 3 Championship and the GP2/Formula 2 Championship in consecutive seasons. He will make his Formula One debut in 2023 driving for McLaren. Due to his success in lower formulae, Piastri is widely considered as one of the most promising young drivers in motorsport. Junior career Karting Born in Melbourne, Australia, Piastri started racing remote controlled cars at a national level before beginning his karting career in 2011. Having gone professional and competed in various Australian races and championships in 2014, Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Smith (racing Driver)
Thomas Smith (born 6 June 2002) is an Australians, Australian racing driver set to compete in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing. He previously raced with Douglas Motorsport in the 2022 GB3 Championship, GB3 Championship, having won one race and finishing 19th overall in the standings. Career New Zealand Formula Ford The first single-seater series in which Smith competed was the 2017–18 New Zealand Formula Ford Championship. He had a best finish of third place at Teretonga Park. F3 Asian Championship Smith's first year in the F3 Asian Championship was in 2019 F3 Asian Championship, 2019. Driving for Pinnacle Motorsport, Smith had a best finish of eighth place at the final race in Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai. This, along with five more points-scoring results, put him 12th in the championship. For the 2019–20 F3 Asian Championship, 2019–20 season, Smith joined Absolute Racing, teaming up with the inaugural W Series (championship), W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Mansell
Christian Mansell (born 9 February 2005) is an Australian racing driver set to compete in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship with Campos Racing. He previously competed in the 2022 Euroformula Open Championship for CryptoTower Racing, finishing in third overall in the standings. Career Karting Mansell did not achieve much karting success, his highest finish in the CIK-FIA Karting European Championship came in 2019, where he achieved 69th in the OKJ category. Lower formulae 2019 In 2019, Mansell made his single-seater debut in the New South Wales Formula Race Car Championship. The Bolwarra resident also raced in two rounds of the Australian Formula 4 Championship with AGI Sport and finished all but one race in the top seven. However, due to Mansell being a guest driver he was not classified in the standings. 2020 For 2020 Mansell moved over to the United Kingdom to race full-time in the F4 British Championship, partnering Zak O'Sullivan and Matías Zagazeta at C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campos Racing
Campos Racing is a Spanish motor racing team, founded by former Formula One driver Adrián Campos. The team has been successful in Formula Three and the GP2 Series. History After retiring from racing, Campos formed his own team at the end of 1997, under the name Campos Motorsport. In 1998 the team began by competing in the new Open Fortuna by Nissan, with Marc Gené and Antonio García as drivers. Gené won the championship and García finished fifth, with Campos taking the teams title. Gené stepped up to Formula One in , and his place in the team was taken by karting driver Fernando Alonso. Alonso went on to win the Euro Open Movistar by Nissan as it was renamed, with García finishing fifth again and Campos retaining the teams title. With Alonso moving onto International Formula 3000, García led the team in 2000, winning the championship and also helping Campos to win a third consecutive teams title. The series became the World Series by Nissan in 2002. In 2004 the team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grégoire Saucy
Grégoire Saucy (born 26 December 1999) is a Swiss racing driver and the current champion of the Formula Regional European Championship. He will race with ART Grand Prix in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship. Career V de V Challenge Monoplace Saucy's first year in single seaters was in 2016 when he drove for Luxembourger team RC Formula in the V de V Challenge Monoplace. The 3 podiums Saucy scored on his way to 4th in the championship were all second places in the three races at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours. ADAC Formula 4 Saucy raced his first season in ADAC Formula 4 in 2018 where he raced as a guest driver for Jenzer Motorsport like he did the year previously in the Italian F4 championship. In the two races he raced he finished 11th and 5th. In 2019 he raced for R-ace GP where he finished on the podium twice. Saucy ended the season in 9th, 28 points behind his Russian teammate Michael Belov. Italian Formula 4 Jenzer Motorsport signed Saucy to race for them 2017 I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ART Grand Prix
ART Grand Prix is a French motor racing team that competes in formula single-seaters in Europe. In 2012, it competed in the GP2 Series and GP3 Series as Lotus GP to reflect sponsorship from British sports and racing car manufacturer Lotus. The team competed as Lotus ART in 2011. Corporate history ART Grand Prix was created in 2005 as a collaborative project between Frédéric Vasseur, the principal of ASM Formule 3, and Nicolas Todt, the son of the then Scuderia Ferrari team principal and eventually Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) president Jean Todt. Vasseur wanted to expand his championship-winning Formula Three team into the newly created GP2 Series, while Nicolas Todt had expressed an interest in team management. He had become involved in motorsport as a driver manager, and was notable for representing Felipe Massa. Todt took charge of the new team's commercial and promotional interests, while Vasseur managed the day-to-day running of the operation. ART is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Tsolov
Nikola Tsolov ( bg, Никола Цолов, born 21 December 2006) is a Bulgarian racing driver who is the current champion of the F4 Spanish Championship and a member of the Alpine Affiliate programme. He will race with ART Grand Prix in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship. Career Karting The Bulgarian lion (a nickname that he gained early in his career) started his karting career in 2016, supported by his father. He become a Republic champion in 2016 and 2017 in the Bulgarian Mini class. In 2018 he moved to the Italian championships. Driving one of Kart Republic’s machines for DPK Racing adorned in the colours of Fernando Alonso’s FA Racing outfit, Tsolov was one of the breakout stars this year having gone from Mini to OK-J to OK in successive years. He won the WSK Open Cup in 60 Mini karts in 2019, came seventh in the junior world championship last year and then was absolutely on it at the senior level in 2021. Tsolov was invited by Fernando Alonso to drive alongside him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Fornaroli
Leonardo Fornaroli (born 3 December 2004) is an Italian people, Italian racing driver who is set to compete in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship for Trident. He is the 2022 Formula Regional European Championship, 2022 Formula Regional European rookie champion. Career Karting Fornaroli began kart racing, karting competitively in his native Italy around the age of ten, first winning the Mini Academy class of the Championkart championship in 2016 before moving up to X30 Junior the following year. He came runner-up in the 2017 X30 Challenge Italy, in a season that also included entry to international Italian American Motor Engineering, IAME events, but found more success in 2018, when he was third in the Italian Karting Championship and made his full-time European debut in the WSK Super Master Series. Fornaroli's final year in karting would prove to be his best, as he was a front-runner in the 2019 WSK Euro Series on his KF2, OK debut and finished 3rd in the prestigious Trofeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Amersfoort Racing
Van Amersfoort Racing is an auto racing team based in the Netherlands. In 2022 the team competes in the Formula 2 Championship, the Formula 3 Championship, the Formula Regional European Championship, Euroformula Open Championship, Italian F4 Championship and the German ADAC Formula 4 Championship. Notable past drivers for the team include Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Anthoine Hubert, Callum Ilott, Mick Schumacher, Giedo van der Garde, Jos Verstappen, Christijan Albers, Richie Stanaway, Marcel Albers, Tom Coronel, Renger van der Zande, Joey Alders, Dennis Hauger and Franco Colapinto. History First steps (1975-1996) The team was formed in 1975 by Frits van Amersfoort. They competed in such series as Formula Opel Lotus Benelux, Opel Lotus Euroseries and Dutch Formula Ford. In 1989 they reached their first major success, winning Formula Ford 1600 Netherlands championship with Marcel Albers. In 1992 they won Formula Opel Lotus Benelux with Jos Verstappen. German Formula Three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caio Collet
Caio Jotta Collet (born 3 April 2002) is a Brazilian racing driver who most recently competed in the FIA Formula 3 Championship for MP Motorsport. He is the 2018 French F4 Championship champion and a member of the Alpine Academy. Career Karting Collet began his career in karting at the age of seven, claiming multiple titles in his native Brazil, before moving to Europe where his performances led him to being signed to the Birel ART team in 2016 and eventually Nicolas Todt's All Road Management scheme. Lower formulae At the start of 2018 Collet made his single-seater debut for Silberpfeil Energy Dubai in the 2017–18 Formula 4 UAE Championship. Collet impressed as he finished his first race in 3rd position behind Leon Köhler and David Schumacher, Collet only competed in the 3rd and 4th rounds of the season however in those seven races he finished on the podium in every race bar one. This amounted in 124 points and 6th position, his only win came at round 4, race 3 whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIA Formula 3 Championship
The FIA Formula 3 Championship is a third-tier international single-seater racing championship and organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship launched in 2019 as a feeder series for the FIA Formula 1 World Championship and FIA Formula 2 Championships. It was the result of a merger between two third-tier single-seater racing championships, the GP3 Series and the FIA Formula 3 European Championship as it was announced on 10 March 2018. The championship is part of the FIA Global Pathway consolidation project plan. Unlike its predecessor, the Formula 3 European Championship, the series runs exclusively in support of Formula One races. Origins and history On 13 March 2017 it was announced that the GP3 Series would merge with the FIA and DMSB's FIA Formula 3 European Championship and as such, both bodies would merge their both third-tier open-wheel single seater formula racing series, the GP3 Series and FIA Formula 3 European Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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