Callum Voisin emerged as a standout driver in the second half of the 2024 F3 season, delivering six consecutive points finishes and Rodin Motorsport’s first F3 victory just before the summer break. Feeder Series spoke to Voisin at the final round in Monza to discuss his 2024 campaign and what comes next.

By Tori Turner

Voisin’s lights-to-flag victory in the feature race in Belgium was the highlight of the year for both him and Rodin’s F3 squad. But after a challenging start to his rookie F3 season that saw him fail to score in the first six rounds, that win at the end of July seemed unfathomable.

“The first half of the season was tough for the whole team. We didn’t quite have the whole package to really fight for that many points,” Voisin told Feeder Series from the Rodin awning in Monza. “But then Imola was more of a turning point for us. We all of a sudden were much better. 

“Unfortunately, there’s just a lot of missed opportunities. We could have definitely scored points way earlier, [but] whether it was mistakes of my own or misfortune, [we] didn’t quite get the results that we deserved.”

After taking the 2023 GB3 title, Voisin chose to remain with Rodin, previously Carlin, as he moved up to F3. But as the season began in Bahrain, it appeared the team was not where they wanted to be.

For the first three rounds of the season, the British team were at the bottom of the table in the teams’ championship, having failed to score a single point. They did not score until the fourth round in Monaco, where Voisin’s teammate, Joseph Loake, finished fifth and ninth.

While those wound up being Loake’s only points of the season, they also left Voisin with ground to make up in the intra-team battle involving the British duo and Poland’s Piotr Wiśnicki.

 “They’ve been pushing me very hard over the whole year,” Voisin said about his teammates. “For a long time, Joe had more points than me. I always had to try [to] outperform him.”

Success at Silverstone

Voisin was still seeking his first points of the season when he arrived at Silverstone for the seventh round of the championship. It was the site of his first double GB3 pole in 2022, when he first worked with Rodin team manager Sam Waple and Miles Macpherson, his number one mechanic this season in F3.

Heavy rain throughout the weekend brought unpredictable track conditions – and a chance for the British driver to show his abilities in the wet. On a drying track in qualifying, he put himself ninth, giving him his first top-10 starting positions in F3. While his first points came from fourth place in the delayed sprint on Saturday, his performance in the feature race was what really turned heads.

A bold strategy choice from Rodin saw Voisin start on slicks as opposed to wets, the more popular option. Throughout the opening laps of the race, the track began to dry out, helping Voisin speed through the pack and put himself in the lead by lap three.

But when the rain returned to the circuit when the second safety car period ended on lap seven, Voisin fell back as he struggled for grip on his slick tyres. He dropped from first to 21st in a lap and a half, and as the safety car came out again at the end of lap nine, the win seemed out of reach.

Then, as the safety car came in again with 13 minutes of the race remaining, the rain abated. He made his way through the pack of drivers once more and was in the lead with five and a half minutes to go. 

Voisin crossed the finish line in first but was quickly demoted to third when a 10-second penalty for overtaking Jenzer’s Max Esterson off track earlier in the race was applied. Despite losing out on his maiden victory, he still earned his and Rodin’s first podium with third place, behind the Prema duo of Arvid Lindblad and Gabriele Minì.

“It was extremely tricky conditions and we managed to fly our way through,” Voisin said.

Following the success of his home race, there was a shift in how Voisin approached the races ahead of him. He ended up with four more points finishes and never finished below seventh across the three rounds in July. 

“I definitely felt like I still had a point to prove coming into Hungary,” Voisin said. “I’d never been there before, so it was going to be a tough weekend. But we were quick out the box, to be honest. I was relatively surprised how quick we were and how well we got off on top of things.

“So I think after Budapest I was definitely much more relaxed. I turned up to a track I’d never driven before [and] got two P6s. It was a very good, solid amount of points.”

“Coming into Spa, I thought, ‘Right, from now on, top 12 or even top eight is basically where we should be every single time now.’ And look where that got us.”

Lights-to-flag victory at Spa

After narrowly missing out on his maiden win in Silverstone, the opportunity came around again just three weeks later in the penultimate round in Belgium. As traffic jams in qualifying left the usual frontrunners out of place, Voisin set an F3-best lap time of a 2:04.321, which earned him his first pole position.

With his best starting position yet, all Voisin had to do during the feature was stay calm and keep his position. He did exactly that.

A strong start meant he led the pack straight off the line, and when safety cars were deployed for incidents during the race, he controlled the restarts on laps six, nine and 13 to hold position and secure his maiden win. 

After giving the team their first podium in F3 under the Rodin name back in Silverstone, he went one better and gave them their first win in the series as well. His Spa victory came at the same venue as the team’s final win in predecessor series European F3, taken six years and one day before by Jehan Daruvala.

Voisin said that among other strong performances, including his Silverstone podium and his charge from 29th to 14th in the Spielberg sprint race, he regarded that feature race victory as his best performance of the season.

“I never want to end a season without winning a race,” Voisin said. “I always want to win races, so of course, it was a goal for me.

“The way it came about was a bit different than what I expected. I wasn’t necessarily expecting to grab pole, grab the win and fastest lap with it, with leading every single lap. Domination wasn’t exactly what I was expecting, but it was very welcome as a result.”

Voisin ended the 2024 season 12th in the drivers’ championship, with a total of 67 points. He failed to add to his tally at Monza, but his points still made up almost 80 percent of Rodin’s total of 85 for the season.

What’s next for Voisin?

Voisin identified consistency as an aspect of his performance he needed to improve.

“We’ve had the pace since quite early on, to be honest, but we’ve never been able to extract it and showcase it,” Voisin told Feeder Series. “For me, working on the consistency and making sure every weekend we’re there or thereabouts – certainly in my rookie season, I think that was the main thing I wanted to work on.

“The last three weekends have been mega. That’s exactly what I wanted and we’ve got that. 

On other things to work on, there’s always countless things that I’m learning. I still don’t know this car 100%, obviously with it being such limited running. I’m always working hard to improve and see what different things I can extract from the car.”

F3 will have a new car, the Dallara F3 2025, next season. If he chooses to spend another year in the series, Voisin will find himself having to acclimatise to another car, but his late-season form would make him one of the series’ top prospects if he remains.

“I’m aiming for another year of F3. Nothing’s been sealed at the moment,” he said at the time. “But I’m not too worried about it because I’ve done everything that I can. I’ve won races, I’ve scored a good amount of points over the last three races. Over the last three race weekends [Silverstone, Hungaroring and Spa], I’ve been the highest points scorer. To be honest, from my side, I don’t feel like I could do more.”

Though Feeder Series understands that he had been in talks with more than one outfit, another F3 season with Rodin – which has already signed new GB3 champion Louis Sharp – appears his most likely path for 2025.

Interview by Michael McClure

Header photo credit: Dutch Photo Agency