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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 round of the 2023 season in Monza.

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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[6] TBC
2 United Kingdom Arvid Lindblad TBC
3 Italy Gabriele Minì TBC
Italy Trident 4 Italy Leonardo Fornaroli[7] TBC
5 TBA TBC
6 TBA TBC
Netherlands MP Motorsport 7 TBA TBC
8 TBA TBC
9 TBA TBC
Spain Campos Racing 10 Germany Oliver Goethe TBC
11 TBA TBC
12 TBA TBC
United Kingdom Hitech Pulse-Eight 14 United Kingdom Luke Browning TBC
15 TBA TBC
16 TBA TBC
Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 17 Austria Charlie Wurz TBC
18 TBA TBC
19 TBA TBC
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 20 TBA TBC
21 TBA TBC
22 TBA TBC
France ART Grand Prix 23 TBA TBC
24 TBA TBC
25 TBA TBC
Germany PHM Racing 26 TBA TBC
27 TBA TBC
28 TBA TBC
United Kingdom Rodin Carlin 29 TBA TBC
30 TBA TBC
31 TBA TBC

Team changes

PHM Racing will now operate independently of Charouz Racing System, after the latter co-ran the team during the 2023 season.[8]

Driver changes

Reigning Teams' Champions Prema Racing signed Gabriele Minì for 2024. He leaves Hitech Pulse-Eight, after having finished seventh in his debut season last year with the team, and replaces Formula 2-bound Zak O'Sullivan.[9][10] The team's lineup will be completed by Red Bull junior Arvid Lindblad, who will graduate from the team's Italian F4 outfit after coming third in 2023.[11]

Gabriel Bortoleto will leave Trident and the series after winning the championship the previous year to graduate to the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Virtuosi Racing.[12] Oliver Goethe will also leave the team to move to Campos Racing.[13]

Charlie Wurz, son of former F1 driver Alexander Wurz, is set to join Jenzer Motorsport.[14]

Grégoire Saucy, who finished 14th in the championship last season for ART Grand Prix, will leave the series to join the World Endurance Championship, racing for United Autosports in the new LMGT3 class.[15]

Race calendar

The calendar for the 2024 season was announced in August 2023:

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:[16]

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.[17]

Regulation changes

Technical regulations

  • Formula 3 ran with 55% sustainable fuel supplied by Aramco in 2023.[18] An increase in sustainability is planned for 2024 to continue working towards usage of a 100% sustainable fuel by 2027.[19]
  • 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.[20]

References

  1. ^ "The Car". fiaformula3.com. Formula Motorsport Limited. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Teams & Drivers - Formula 3". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  3. ^ "The Car". fiaformula3.com. Formula Motorsport Limited. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. ^ Benyon, Jack; Evans, David (4 February 2019). "New FIA F3 car will be 'more difficult to drive' than GP3 machine". autosport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  5. ^ "New International F3 car set to use GP3 engine". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  6. ^ "Beganovic stays with PREMA for 2024 FIA F3 programme". Prema Racing. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  7. ^ "Leonardo Fornaroli returns with Trident for 2024 campaign". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  8. ^ Wood, Ida (4 October 2023). "F2 racer Maloney leads entries for first post-season FIA F3 test". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 9 October 2023. PHM Racing, now operating independently of Charouz Racing System which it had co-run its F3 squad with this season...
  9. ^ "Gabriele Minì switches to PREMA Racing for 2024 campaign". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Zak O'Sullivan makes the move to Formula 2". Williams Racing. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Arvid Lindblad completes PREMA Racing's 2024 roster". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  12. ^ Allen, Peter (27 November 2023). "Bortoleto and Maini to form Virtuosi F2 line-up in 2024". Formula Scout. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Oliver Goethe moves to Campos Racing for second F3 season in 2024". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  14. ^ "Charlie Wurz: Die Motorsport-Hoffnung fährt 2024 in der Formel 3". 20 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  15. ^ Kilbey, Stephen (27 November 2023). "Sato & Saucy Confirmed At United For 2024 WEC LMGT3 Campaign". Dailysportscar. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  16. ^ "2024 FIA Formula 3 calendar announced". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  17. ^ "Update on the 2023 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola | Formula 1®". www.formula1.com. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  18. ^ "Formula 2 and Formula 3 partner with Aramco to pioneer low-carbon fuels from 2023". aramco.com. Aramco. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  19. ^ "F2, F3 to run with 55% sustainable fuels from 2023 season". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  20. ^ Wood, Ida (2 November 2023). "F3 gets new medium tyre in 2024 after issues with 2023-spec compound". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
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