2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship

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.

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[6] TBC
2 Italy Gabriele Minì TBC
3 Brazil Rafael Câmara TBC
Italy Trident 4 TBA TBC
5 TBA TBC
6 TBA TBC
Netherlands MP Motorsport 7 TBA TBC
8 TBA TBC
9 TBA TBC
Spain Campos Racing 10 TBA TBC
11 TBA TBC
12 TBA TBC
United Kingdom Hitech Pulse-Eight 14 TBA TBC
15 TBA TBC
16 TBA TBC
Switzerland Jenzer Motorsport 17 TBA 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.[7]

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.[8] Gabriel Bortoleto will leave Trident and the championship after winning the title the previous year. Rafael Câmara return Prema Racing for 2024 Season

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:[9]

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.[10]

Regulation changes

Technical regulations
  • Formula 3 ran with 55% sustainable fuel supplied by Aramco in 2023.[11] An increase in sustainability is planned for 2024 to continue working towards usage of a 100% sustainable fuel by 2027.[12]

References
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  2. "Teams & Drivers - Formula 3". FIAFormula3® - The Official F3® Website. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
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  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.
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  7. 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...
  8. Wood, Ida (25 October 2023). "Alpine junior Gabriele Mini to race for Prema in his second F3 season". Formula Scout. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
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  10. "Update on the 2023 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola | Formula 1®". www.formula1.com. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  11. "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.
  12. "F2, F3 to run with 55% sustainable fuels from 2023 season". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
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