The 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship is a motor racing championship for Formula 3 cars that is sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship is the fourteenth season of Formula 3 racing and the fifth season run under the FIA Formula 3 Championship moniker. It is an open-wheel racing category that serves as the third tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category is run in support of selected rounds of the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers that compete in the championship run the same car, the Dallara F3 2019.^[1]

Prema Racing entered the championship as the defending teams' champion, having secured their title at the last race of the 2022 season.

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2023 championship.^[2] As the championship is a spec series, all teams compete with an identical Dallara F3 2019 chassis and tyre compounds developed by Pirelli.^[1][3] Each car is powered by a 3.4 L (207 cu in) naturally-aspirated V6 engine developed by Mecachrome.^[4]

Teams	No.	Driver	Rounds
Prema Racing	1	Paul Aron	1–4
	2	Dino Beganovic	1–4
	3	Zak O'Sullivan	1–4
Trident	4	Leonardo Fornaroli	1–4
	5	Gabriel Bortoleto	1–4
	6	Oliver Goethe	1–4
ART Grand Prix	7	Kaylen Frederick	1–4
	8	Grégoire Saucy	1–4
	9	Nikola Tsolov	1–4
MP Motorsport	10	Franco Colapinto	1–4
	11	Mari Boya	1–4
	12	Jonny Edgar	1–4
Hitech Pulse-Eight	14	Sebastián Montoya	1–4
	15	Gabriele Minì	1–4
	16	Luke Browning	1–4
Van Amersfoort Racing	17	Caio Collet	1–4
	18	Rafael Villagómez	1–4
	19	Tommy Smith	1–4
Rodin Carlin	20	Oliver Gray	1–4
	21	Hunter Yeany	1–4
	22	Ido Cohen	1–4
Campos Racing	23	Pepe Martí	1–4
	24	Christian Mansell[a]	1–4
	25	Hugh Barter	1–4
Jenzer Motorsport	26	Nikita Bedrin[b]	1–4
	27	Taylor Barnard	1–4
	28	Alex García	1–4
PHM Racing by Charouz	29	Sophia Flörsch	1–4
	30	Roberto Faria	1–4
	31	Piotr Wiśnicki	1–4
		McKenzy Cresswell	TBC

German Formula 4 team PHM Racing took over the entry and assets of Charouz Racing System at the end of the 2022 season, and runs in cooperation with the Czech squad under the PHM Racing by Charouz moniker.^[5]

Carlin compete under new ownership in 2023. The New Zealand-based car manufacturer Rodin Cars became majority shareholder of the team. With that, the team is now called Rodin Carlin.^[6]

Hitech partnered with hardware company Pulse-Eight during the off-season, changing the official name of the team to Hitech Pulse-Eight.^[7]

Reigning teams' champion Prema Racing renewed their lineup completely, as Oliver Bearman, Arthur Leclerc and Jak Crawford all made the step up to the FIA Formula 2 Championship.^[8] The team promoted two of their Formula Regional European Championship drivers to replace them: Ferrari protégé Dino Beganovic, who won the title, and Mercedes junior Paul Aron, who came third.^[9][10] Partnering Beganovic and Aron is Williams Academy driver Zak O'Sullivan, moving from Carlin, with whom he came eleventh in 2022.^[11]

Trident also changed their full lineup, as Roman Staněk and Zane Maloney moved up to Formula 2 and Jonny Edgar switched to MP Motorsport.^[12] Gabriel Bortoleto makes the step up from the Formula Regional European Championship, where he came sixth in 2022.^[13] Joining him is 2022 Euroformula Open champion Oliver Goethe, who deputised for Hunter Yeany at Campos Racing at two events in 2022, and Formula Regional European rookie champion Leonardo Fornaroli.^[14][15]

ART Grand Prix replaced Victor Martins, who won the drivers' title with the team in 2022, with the reigning F4 Spanish champion and Alpine affiliate Nikola Tsolov.^[16] Juan Manuel Correa also left the team to return to the Formula 2 championship.^[17] His seat was filled by Kaylen Frederick, 2020 British F3 champion, who came 17th with Hitech Grand Prix in his second season in FIA F3 in 2022.^[18]

MP Motorsport's three drivers were all replaced. Kush Maini joined Campos Racing in Formula 2, with Mari Boya promoted from MP's Formula Regional European Championship team to replace him, after the Spaniard came tenth in 2022.^[19][20] Jonny Edgar took over Alexander Smolyar's seat, moving over from Trident, with whom he came 12th in his second F3 season in 2022.^[12] The lineup was completed by Williams Academy driver Franco Colapinto, who came ninth in 2022 with Van Amersfoort Racing and swapped teams with Caio Collet.^[21][22]

Hitech Pulse-Eight recruited 2022 Formula Regional European runner-up Gabriele Minì,^[23] who replaced Red Bull junior Isack Hadjar, who left the series to join Formula 2.^[24] Kaylen Frederick also left the team and joined ART Grand Prix.^[18] His seat was filled by Sebastián Montoya, who made his championship debut in 2022 when he replaced the injured Yeany at Campos in Zandvoort.^[25] The teams' lineup was completed by 2022 GB3 champion Luke Browning.^[26]

Van Amersfoort Racing signed Caio Collet, 8th in 2022 with MP Motorsport, to replace Franco Colapinto.^[22] Reece Ushijima was superseded by Tommy Smith, who had been driving in regional F3-level series since 2019, most recently GB3 in 2022, where he took one win on the way to 19th with Douglas Motorsport.^[27]

Carlin fielded an all-new driver lineup, with Zak O'Sullivan switching to Prema, Brad Benavides graduating to Formula 2, and Enzo Trulli switching to Japanese Super Formula Lights.^[28][29] The latter two were replaced by 2020 F4 US champion Hunter Yeany, moving over from Campos after an injury-curtailed season, and Ido Cohen, who drove for Jenzer in 2022 and returned to Carlin, with whom he competed in 2021 and in the 2020 Euroformula Open Championship.^[30][31] The team also signed one Williams Academy driver to replace another, with O'Sullivan's seat being taken over by 2022 British F4 vice-champion Oliver Gray.^[32]

Campos Racing signed Christian Mansell, who had already contested two Formula 3 rounds at Charouz Racing System in 2022, to replace David Vidales, who also moved to Super Formula Lights.^[33][34] Hunter Yeany also left the team to join Carlin and was replaced by 2022 Spanish F4 and French F4 vice-champion Hugh Barter.^[30][35]

Jenzer Motorsport has an all-rookie lineup in 2023, replacing Carlin-bound Ido Cohen, Federico Malvestiti and William Alatalo. Alex García made his Formula 3 debut after a seventh place in the 2022 Euroformula Open Championship with Motopark.^[36] Alongside him will be PHM-backed Nikita Bedrin, who steps up to the category after two years in Formula 4, with a high point of fourth place in the 2022 ADAC and UAE F4 championships.^[37] The last seat was filled by another PHM-supported F4 graduate in Taylor Barnard, last years' ADAC F4 vice-champion.^[38]

New entrant PHM Racing by Charouz hired Sophia Flörsch for their first season in the championship, a move partially funded by FIA Formula 3 promoter Formula Motorsport.^[39][40] Flörsch previously drove for Campos Racing in 2020 and had competed in endurance and sportscar racing since then. She replaced Francesco Pizzi, who left FIA F3 to join TJ Speed in USF Pro 2000.^[41] Their second seat, which was shared by a handful of drivers in 2022, was filled by Roberto Faria, who competed in GB3 for the last three years, coming fifth in the latter two.^[42] The final seat was taken by Piotr Wiśnicki, who graduated to FIA F3 after a season in the Formula Regional European Championship to replace László Tóth.^[43]

Prior to the round at the Red Bull Ring, PHM Racing by Charouz announced that McKenzy Cresswell will be taking over Piotr Wiśnicki's seat for the Spielberg and Silverstone rounds.^[44]

The calendar for the 2023 season was announced in November 2022:

Round	Circuit	Sprint race	Feature race
1	Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir	4 March	5 March
2	Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne	1 April	2 April
3	Circuit de Monaco, Monaco	27 May	28 May
4	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló	3 June	4 June
5	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	1 July	2 July
6	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone	8 July	9 July
7	Hungaroring, Mogyoród	22 July	23 July
8	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot	29 July	30 July
9	Monza Circuit, Monza	2 September	3 September
Source:[45]

• The championship is scheduled to make its debut in Australia, supporting the Australian Grand Prix at the Albert Park Circuit.^[46]
• Formula 3 will return to the Circuit de Monaco for the first time since 2005.^[47] The championship also raced at the venue in 2012 as the GP3 Series.
• The round at Circuit Zandvoort, in support of the Dutch Grand Prix, was removed from the calendar.^[45]
• The championship was originally scheduled to feature ten rounds, but the round at Imola, in support of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, was cancelled as a result of mass flooding which affected the region.^[48]

Formula 2 and Formula 3 run with 55% sustainable fuel in 2023, supplied by Aramco, who replaced Elf Aquitaine as an official fuel partner and supplier.^[49] In a bid to decrease the championships' carbon footprint, an incremental gain in usage is planned until the 2027 season, where usage of 100% sustainable fuel is planned.^[50]

Hitech Pulse-Eight driver Gabriele Minì claimed feature race pole position with the fastest qualifying time at the Bahrain International Circuit. MP Motorsport's Franco Colapinto qualified twelfth to start the reverse-grid sprint race from first place. Contact between Gabriel Bortoleto and Rafael Villagómez on lap two sent Villagómez into the barriers and brought out the safety car. As racing resumed, Campos Racing driver Pepe Martí improved to second place and later passed race leader Colapinto to take his first victory in FIA Formula 3.

On the opening lap of the feature race, pole-sitter Minì lost positions to Trident driver Bortoleto and Grégoire Saucy. He reclaimed second place from Saucy shortly before the safety car was deployed to recover Tommy Smith's car, which had stalled after contact with Mari Boya. When the race restarted, Minì was issued a five-second time penalty for his car being outside the lines at the race start.^[51] He soon passed Bortoleto for the lead, and by the penultimate lap was far enough ahead of fourth-placed Dino Beganovic to stay on the podium despite his penalty, however a final-lap safety car to recover Alex García's retired Jenzer bunched the cars together and dropped Minì to eighth at the finish line. Bortoleto was awarded the victory, followed by Oliver Goethe and Beganovic, all claming their first podiums in the category. At the end of Round 1, Bortoleto led the Drivers' Championship by three points over Goethe.

Championship leader Bortoleto qualified fastest at the Albert Park Circuit and Sebastián Montoya started the sprint race on pole position. The safety car was deployed on the opening lap when second-placed starter Goethe received a puncture and got stuck in the gravel. Luke Browning challenged Montoya for the lead at the restart but lost positions after being launched over a kerb; Montoya was then passed by Franco Colapinto. Two more safety car periods followed to recover the crashed cars of Ido Cohen and Tommy Smith in separate incidents. One more lap of racing took place in which Montoya dropped to third place behind Zak O'Sullivan, however the race ended under a fourth safety car period when Alex García stopped in the gravel. Colapinto crossed the line first, however all three MP Motorsport cars were later disqualified for breaches of the technical regulations, handing O'Sullivan his first victory in FIA Formula 3.

Pole-sitter Bortoleto held the lead on the first lap of the feature race ahead of Grégoire Saucy and Gabriele Minì. Colapinto and Mari Boya were involved in separate accidents on lap two and the safety car was deployed, under which Kaylen Frederick also crashed. A second safety car period began on lap twelve to recover Ido Cohen's car after a collision with Rafael Villagómez; the top three maintained their positions through both restarts and to the end of the race, with Bortoleto taking a second consecutive feature race victory and Minì his first FIA Formula 3 podium. Pepe Martí, who started 30th, came through the field to finish seventh. Bortoleto's victory extended his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 20 points over Saucy.

Monaco became Round 3 after flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy forced the cancellation of the scheduled round at the Imola Circuit. Gabriele Minì took his second feature race pole position in qualifying at the Circuit de Monaco. Pepe Martí started the sprint race on reverse-grid pole. The safety car was deployed on the first lap of the sprint race when Jonny Edgar hit the wall at turn one and other cars received punctures. Martí held his lead at the restart and took his second victory of the year, followed by Leonardo Fornaroli with his first FIA Formula 3 podium. Taylor Barnard had started third but dropped to fifth by the end; Grégoire Saucy completed the podium.

Minì, Beganovic and Paul Aron held their top three positions through the start of the feature race and at the safety car restart after a crash by Ido Cohen. A close battle for fifth place between Sebastián Montoya and Caio Collet ended in contact and dropped both drivers to the back. Minì, Beganovic and Aron made up the podium, with Minì claiming his first win in the category, moving him to second place in the Drivers' Championship. Points leader Bortoleto was classified fifth in the feature race and now held a 17-point lead in the standings.

Pepe Martí set the fastest time in qualifying at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and Zak O'Sullivan started the sprint race from pole position. O'Sullivan led for the entire race distance despite challenges from Luke Browning and two safety car restarts, one for a collision involving Ido Cohen and Rafael Villagómez and the second after separate incidents in which Christian Mansell and Dino Beganovic were beached in the gravel. O'Sullivan's win was his second of the season.

On the opening lap of the feature race, pole-sitter Martí held off attacks from second-placed Taylor Barnard, and a collision between Browning and Leonardo Fornaroli resulted in Browning's retirement. Marti led for the rest of the race to claim his third victory of the year. His win lifted him to second place in the Drivers' Championship, 24 points adrift of championship leader Bortoleto, who finished fourth in both races.

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Report
1	S	Bahrain International Circuit		Pepe Martí	Pepe Martí	Campos Racing	Report
	F	Gabriele Minì	Gabriel Bortoleto	Gabriel Bortoleto[c]	Trident
2	S	Albert Park Circuit		Luke Browning[d]	Zak O'Sullivan[e]	Prema Racing	Report
	F		Gabriel Bortoleto	Grégoire Saucy	Gabriel Bortoleto	Trident
3	S	Circuit de Monaco		Hugh Barter[f]	Pepe Martí	Campos Racing	Report
	F	Gabriele Minì	Gabriele Minì	Gabriele Minì	Hitech Pulse-Eight
4	S	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya		Zak O'Sullivan	Zak O'Sullivan	Prema Racing	Report
	F	Pepe Martí	Pepe Martí	Pepe Martí	Campos Racing
5	S	Red Bull Ring					Report
	F
6	S	Silverstone Circuit					Report
	F
7	S	Hungaroring					Report
	F
8	S	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps					Report
	F
9	S	Monza Circuit					Report
	F

Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers in both races. The feature race pole-sitter also receives two points, and one point is given to the driver who sets the fastest lap inside the top ten in both races. No extra points are awarded to the sprint race pole-sitter, as the grid for that is set by reversing the top twelve qualifiers.

Sprint race points

Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers. One point is awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap and finishes in the top ten. No fastest lap point is awarded if it is set by a driver outside the top ten.^[53]

Feature race points

Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers. Bonus points are awarded to the pole-sitter and to the driver who sets the fastest lap and finishes in the top ten.

Pos. Driver BHR ALB MON CAT RBR SIL HUN SPA MNZ Points SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR 1 Gabriel Bortoleto 19 1F 6 1P 6 5 4 4 92 2 Pepe Martí 1F 6 13 7 1 9 8 1PF 68 3 Dino Beganovic 4 3 5 13 12 2 Ret 3 61 4 Gabriele Minì 17 8P 4 3 11 1P F 20 14 56 5 Paul Aron 5 12 3 6 10 3 5 5 54 6 Franco Colapinto 2 10 DSQ Ret 4 6 6 2 48 7 Grégoire Saucy 7 4 8 2F 3 10 23 27 47 8 Zak O'Sullivan 12 11 1 5 13 7 1F 8 41 9 Luke Browning Ret 5 17 8 8 4 2 Ret 38 10 Leonardo Fornaroli 8 27 7 4 2 24 3 NC 36 11 Oliver Goethe 6 2 Ret 22 17 13 11 16 23 12 Sebastián Montoya 10 9 2 Ret 7F DSQ 26 7 23 13 Taylor Barnard 14 16 12 9 5 8 9 9 16 14 Mari Boya 15 Ret DSQ Ret Ret 18 7 6 12 15 Caio Collet 3 14 21 16 9 Ret 17 12 10 16 Kaylen Frederick 28 7 10 Ret 24 25 14 17 7 17 Christian Mansell 13 13 9F 10 20 17 Ret 10 5 18 Jonny Edgar 9 23 DSQ 11 Ret 14 12 15 2 19 Nikita Bedrin 16 17 15 23† 15 12 10 11 1 20 Nikola Tsolov 26 15 11 21 14 11 13 19 0 21 Hugh Barter 11 26 19 15 25 26 19 13 0 22 Tommy Smith 23 28† Ret 12 21 15 18 23 0 23 Oliver Gray 21 21 20 14 22 19 15 18 0 24 Rafael Villagómez Ret 19 14 19 16 16 27 25 0 25 Hunter Yeany 20 22 22 17 27 20 16 Ret 0 26 Sophia Flörsch 22 20 16 18 23 23 21 20 0 27 Ido Cohen 18 18 Ret Ret 19 Ret Ret 26 0 28 Piotr Wiśnicki 25 24 23 Ret 18 22 24 21 0 29 Roberto Faria 24 25 18 Ret Ret 27 25 24 0 30 Alex García 27 29† Ret 20 26 21 22 22 0 McKenzy Cresswell Pos. Driver SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR Points BHR ALB MON CAT RBR SIL HUN SPA MNZ

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (empty cell) Annotation Meaning P Pole position F Fastest lap

Pos. Team BHR ALB MON CAT RBR SIL HUN SPA MNZ Points SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR 1 Prema Racing 4 3 1 5 10 2 1F 3 156 5 11 3 6 12 3 5 5 12 12 5 13 13 7 Ret 8 2 Trident 6 1F 6 1P 2 5 3 4 151 8 2 7 4 6 13 4 16 19 27 Ret 22 17 24 11 NC 3 Hitech Pulse-Eight 10 5 2 3 7F 1P F 2 7 117 17 8P 4 8 8 4 20 14 Ret 9 17 Ret 11 DSQ 26 Ret 4 Campos Racing 1F 6 9F 7 1 9 8 1P F 73 11 13 13 10 20 17 19 10 13 26 19 15 25 26 Ret 13 5 MP Motorsport 2 10 DSQ 11 4 6 6 2 62 9 23 DSQ Ret Ret 14 7 6 15 Ret DSQ Ret Ret 18 12 15 6 ART Grand Prix 7 4 8 2F 3 10 13 17 54 26 7 10 21 14 11 14 19 28 15 11 Ret 24 25 23 27 7 Jenzer Motorsport 14 16 12 9 5 8 9 9 17 16 17 15 20 15 12 10 11 27 29† Ret 23† 26 21 22 22 8 Van Amersfoort Racing 3 14 14 12 9 15 17 12 10 23 19 21 16 16 16 18 23 Ret 28† Ret 19 21 Ret 27 25 9 Rodin Carlin 18 18 20 14 19 19 15 18 0 20 21 22 17 22 20 16 26 21 22 Ret Ret 27 Ret Ret Ret 10 PHM Racing by Charouz 22 20 16 18 18 22 21 20 0 24 24 18 Ret 23 23 24 21 25 25 23 Ret Ret 27 25 24 Pos. Team SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR SR FR Points BHR ALB MON CAT RBR SIL HUN SPA MNZ

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (empty cell) Annotation Meaning P Pole position F Fastest lap

Notes:

• Rows are not related to the drivers: within each team, individual race standings are sorted purely based on the final classification in the race (not by total points scored in the event, which includes points awarded for fastest lap and pole position).

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