2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship

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The 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship is a planned motor racing championship for Formula 3 cars that will be sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship will be the thirteenth season of Formula 3 racing and the fourth season run under the FIA Formula 3 Championship moniker. It will be an open-wheel racing category that will serve as the third tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category will be run in support of selected rounds of the 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship. As the championship will be a spec series, all teams and drivers that will compete in the championship will run the same car, the Dallara F3 2019.[1] For the 2022 season, a new chassis was to be introduced, but this change has been halted by the cost-cutting measures introduced because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Trident will enter the championship as the reigning teams' champion, having secured their title at the last round of the 2021 season.

Entries[]

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2022 championship.[3] As the championship will be a spec series, all teams will compete with an identical Dallara F3 2019 chassis and tyre compounds developed by Pirelli.[1][4] Each car will be powered by a 3.4 L (207 cu in) naturally-aspirated V6 engine developed by Mecachrome.[5]

Teams No. Driver Rounds
Italy Trident 1 United Kingdom Jonny Edgar 1
2 Czech Republic Roman Staněk 1
3 Barbados Zane Maloney 1
Italy Prema Racing 4 Monaco Arthur Leclerc 1
5 United States Jak Crawford 1
6 United Kingdom Oliver Bearman 1
France ART Grand Prix 7 France Victor Martins 1
8 Switzerland Grégoire Saucy 1
9 United States Juan Manuel Correa 1
Netherlands MP Motorsport 10 Brazil Caio Collet 1
11 Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile Alexander Smolyar[a] 1
12 India Kush Maini 1
Czech Republic Charouz Racing System 14 Hungary László Tóth 1
15 United Kingdom Ayrton Simmons 1
16 Italy Francesco Pizzi 1
United Kingdom Hitech Grand Prix 17 United States Kaylen Frederick 1
18 France Isack Hadjar 1
19 Malaysia Nazim Azman 1
Spain Campos Racing 20 Spain David Vidales 1
21 United States Hunter Yeany 1
22 Spain Pepe Martí 1
Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 23 Israel Ido Cohen 1
24 Finland Niko Kari 1
25 Finland William Alatalo 1
United Kingdom Carlin 26 United Kingdom Zak O'Sullivan 1
27 Spain Brad Benavides[b] 1
28 Italy Enzo Trulli 1
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 29 Argentina Franco Colapinto 1
30 Mexico Rafael Villagómez 1
31 United Kingdom Reece Ushijima[c] 1

Team changes[]

Van Amersfoort Racing will join the series after purchasing HWA Racelab's assets in October 2021.[8]

Driver changes[]

2021 teams' champions Trident saw two of its drivers graduate to Formula 2, Jack Doohan and Clément Novalak signing with Virtuosi Racing and MP Motorsport respectively. They will be replaced by Red Bull Junior Jonny Edgar, who will move from Carlin after achieving 18th in the 2021 season, and 2019 British F4 champion Zane Maloney, who came 4th in the 2021 Formula Regional European Championship. David Schumacher will move to DTM and be replaced by Roman Staněk, returning for his third year in the series after driving with Hitech Grand Prix in 2021.[9][10][11]

Prema Racing's Dennis Hauger will leave Formula 3 after winning the championship in 2021 and will join Formula 2 with the team. His seat will be taken by Ferrari-backed ADAC and Italian F4 champion Oliver Bearman. Alongside him, Prema signed Jak Crawford, moving over from Hitech Grand Prix to replace Olli Caldwell, who stepped up to Formula 2 with Campos Racing.[12][9]

ART Grand Prix also promoted one driver to the higher rank, with Frederik Vesti graduating to the outfit's Formula 2 team. His teammate Alexander Smolyar left the series and will be replaced by reigning Formula Regional European champion Grégoire Saucy. Vesti's seat will be filled by Victor Martins, who moves over from MP Motorsport for his second season.[13][14][15]

MP Motorsport signed 2020 BRDC British Formula 3 runner-up Kush Maini to replace Tijmen van der Helm, who moved to Endurance racing full-time. Maini is set to be joined by Russian Alexander Smolyar, who switched from ART Grand Prix for his third year in the series, swapping teams with Victor Martins.[16][14]

Charouz Racing System will line up László Tóth, moving from Campos Racing, with whom he came 32nd in 2021. He will replace Logan Sargeant, who will compete in Formula 2 with Carlin. Tóth will be partnered by Francesco Pizzi, graduating from the Formula Regional European Championship, where he came 20th in 2021, and GB3 Championship runner-up Ayrton Simmons, who already competed for the team in the 2021 season finale. They will replace Hunter Yeany, who left for Campos Racing, and Zdeněk Chovanec.[17][18][19][20]

Hitech Grand Prix driver Ayumu Iwasa will also graduate to Formula 2 after signing for DAMS. His replacement will be new Red Bull Junior Isack Hadjar, fifth place in the Formula Regional European Championship. Jak Crawford and Roman Staněk will also leave the team, joining Prema Racing and Trident, respectively. They will be replaced by Kaylen Frederick, moving over from Carlin, and Nazim Azman, graduating from the Euroformula Open.[21][9][11][22][23]

Campos Racing will field an all-new driver lineup as László Tóth will move to Charouz Racing System, Amaury Cordeel will join new team Van Amersfoort Racing in Formula 2 and Lorenzo Colombo will leave the series after one year to compete in Prema's WEC programme. The team hired Pepe Martí, who raced for Campos' Spanish F4 team in 2021. He will be partnered by Hunter Yeany, who switched from Charouz Racing System, and David Vidales, who joined the series after coming tenth in the Formula Regional European Championship.[17][24][25][19][26]

Jenzer Motorsport drivers Calan Williams and Filip Ugran signed with Trident in Formula 2 and Van Amersfoort Racing in the Euroformula Open, respectively. Williams will be replaced by former Carlin driver Ido Cohen. The team also signed Formula Regional European Championship podium finisher William Alatalo, and later announced the return of Niko Kari to the series for the first round of the season.[27][28][29]

Carlin will see their three drivers Jonny Edgar, Kaylen Frederick and Ido Cohen move to Trident, Hitech and Jenzer, respectively. The team promoted GB3 champion and new Williams junior Zak O'Sullivan from their GB3 division, and Brad Benavides and 2021 F4 UAE champion Enzo Trulli from their Euroformula Open team.[9][22][30][31][32]

Van Amersfoort Racing signed Rafael Villagómez, rejoining the team after racing for them in the Euroformula Open and for HWA Racelab in Formula 3 in 2021, as well as rookies Franco Colapinto, a race winner in the Formula Regional European Championship and the European Le Mans Series, and Reece Ushijima, who came fourth in the GB3 Championship.[33][34][35]

Race calendar[]

A provisional nine-round calendar was announced on 15 October 2021:

Round Circuit Sprint race Feature race
1 Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir 19 March 20 March
2 Italy Imola Circuit, Imola 23 April 24 April
3 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 21 May 22 May
4 United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone 2 July 3 July
5 Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 9 July 10 July
6 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród 30 July 31 July
7 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot 27 August 28 August
8 Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort 3 September 4 September
9 Italy Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza 10 September 11 September
Source:[36]

Calendar changes[]

After changing the weekend format to three races per weekend in 2021, the format will be reverted back to more race weekends with two races each in 2022. As in Formula 2, the race weekends will feature a sprint race and a feature race, with the latter being longer and worth more points.

  • The Bahrain International Circuit will feature on the calendar for the first time as the season opener.
  • The Imola Circuit will also feature on the calendar for the first time.
  • The rounds at Silverstone and Monza will return after not featuring in the 2021 season.
  • The rounds at Paul Ricard and Sochi will not be featured on the calendar after appearing in 2021.

Regulation changes[]

Sporting changes[]

The race weekend format will return to a similar format to the seasons before 2021. On Saturday, only one race will be held, with the grid still formed by reversing the top twelve drivers from qualifying, while the Sunday race will be started in qualifying order.[37]

The championship will have a reprofiled scoring format. The points for pole position and fastest lap will each be cut in half; now awarding 2 points for pole, and 1 for the fastest lap in each race. The points for race 1 will be changed significantly, with 10 points being awarded for the winner, 9 points for 2nd, then 8 for 3rd, and it descends all the way to 1 point for 10th. Changes will also be applied for Formula 1’s other feeder series, the FIA Formula 2 Championship.[38]

Results and standings[]

Season summary[]

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Report
1 S Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit
F
2 S Italy Imola Circuit
F
3 S Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
F
4 S United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit
F
5 S Austria Red Bull Ring
F
6 S Hungary Hungaroring
F
7 S Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
F
8 S Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort
F
9 S Italy Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
F

Notes[]

  1. ^ Alexander Smolyar is Russian, but he competes as a neutral competitor using the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile flag as Russian national emblems were banned by the association due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  2. ^ Benavides is an American-Spanish-Guatemalan driver competing under a Spanish licence.[6]
  3. ^ Ushijima is a Japanese-American driver competing under a British licence.[7]

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