With post-season testing now in the books, the 2025 Formula 3 grid is rapidly taking shape as the series prepares for the introduction of its first new car in six years. Here’s everything you need to know about who’s going where next year.

By Daniele Spadi and Tori Turner

As always, F3 experiences significant turnover, with most drivers only staying around for one or two seasons before moving on to F2 or other series. This year’s drivers’ champion, Leonardo Fornaroli, has already been announced by Invicta for the 2025 F2 season, while title rival and top F3 rookie Arvid Lindblad will join him in the series at Campos.

After initial uncertainty, the driver market moved remarkably quickly in 2024. While in previous years, few seats were public by late October, more than half have already been revealed by now after this season.

After four days of post-season testing in Jerez and Barcelona earlier this month, the picture has become clearer, especially given the additional announcements in the last few days. Some line-ups are already complete, including those of frontrunners Prema and Trident.

The new car will present major question marks for the 2025 season. It should help rookies get up to speed much quicker compared to previous seasons and, as in F2, has the potential to reset the pecking order amongst the series’ 10 teams.

For the next three-year cycle, the series will also welcome French team DAMS as the last remaining F3-only outfit, Jenzer Motorsport, leaves the series after 15 years in the F1 support paddock.

Prema Racing

Prema were dominant in the teams’ standings in 2024 but missed out on the top spot in the drivers’ championship for the third time in the past three seasons. Their driver line-up for 2025 remained uncertain for a long time – with as many as six different drivers rumoured at one point, including Ferrari juniors Rafael Câmara and Tuukka Taponen – but the final pieces fell into place shortly before testing, Feeder Series understands.

To try to regain the drivers’ title, the Italian outfit have selected one of the most impressive rookies from 2024 in Noel León to lead the team. The Mexican was by far VAR’s strongest driver last season, claiming four podiums on his way to 10th in the drivers’ standings and helping the Dutch outfit to seventh in the teams’ standings by scoring 79 of their 91 points. The 2023 Euroformula Open champion took fans by surprise with his pace and racecraft in his rookie season and will be one of the top returning drivers next year.

To join him, Prema have selected two rookies graduating from the FRegional European Championship. Brando Badoer, son of former Ferrari F1 driver Luca, is currently fifth with one round to go. Despite having yet to win in his single-seater career, he has impressed with 10 podiums across 33 FR races this year.

Completing Prema’s line-up is Ugo Ugochukwu, who will stay with the team after his rookie FR Europe campaign. The 2023 Euro 4 Champion has struggled throughout the season and sits 14th with one podium to his name. His FR Middle East and partial GB3 campaigns were similarly disappointing, with no wins or pole positions in either. 

Prema’s three 2024 F3 drivers are all projected to move up to F2 after their title assaults this past season. Lindblad has already been signed by Campos and Gabriele Minì made his F2 debut last time out in Baku. Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic will join Prema for the FRegional World Cup in Macau next month in what is expected to be his final outing for the Italian team after five years together.

Among other Prema-affiliated drivers, 2024 F3 rookie Alex Dunne – a McLaren junior like Badoer and Ugochukwu – will also join Prema for his second attempt at winning the Macau Grand Prix, though this partnership is not thought to be indicative of a deeper relationship between the two. Italian F4 and F4 UAE champion Freddie Slater, the team’s long-signed third driver in Macau, will move up to Prema’s FRegional team after a rumoured jump up to F3 à la Ollie Bearman earlier this summer did not materialise.

Trident Motorsport

Fornaroli’s spectacular last-corner overtake in the final F3 race of 2024 gave him the drivers’ title, Trident’s second after Gabriel Bortoleto won it the previous year. As their three drivers eye moves away from F3, the Italian outfit will field an all-new line-up for 2025.

Reigning FR Europe champion Rafael Câmara will drive one of their cars off the back of a dominant run to the title in his second season in the series. Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s onetime ADAC F4 rival will, like fellow Ferrari junior and previous FR Europe champion Beganovic, leave Prema for the first time in his single-seater career. His 2024 efforts make him an early title favourite.

Alongside Câmara, Trident will field fellow rookie Noah Strømsted, who already got a taste of the series earlier this year in Monza with Campos. The Danish driver will be looking to impress as he has done this year in FR Europe, in which the RPM driver sits sixth with four podiums while leading the rookie standings.

To partner the two rookies, the team has returning driver Charlie Wurz, previously of Jenzer. The 18-year-old Austrian, the son of former F1 driver and two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Alexander Wurz, had a best finish of fifth back in the Melbourne feature race en route to 22nd in the standings.

Fornaroli is already confirmed to be with Invicta for his maiden F2 campaign next year, and his two former teammates are also aiming to follow him up the junior single-seater ladder. Two-time F3 race winner Sami Meguetounif is expected to stay with Trident while stepping up to F2, Feeder Series has learned. The future of Santiago Ramos, who came 16th, is less uncertain, though the Mexican is looking at a promotion to F2 too.

Of other possibilities for the seat, Ruiqi Liu from Trident’s FR Europe squad replaced Charlie Wurz for the final day of post-season testing, but he was never believed to be in the frame for a seat at the F3 team. His teammates Nicola Lacorte and Roman Bilinski both were, but those discussions had cooled by September. Feeder Series understands it was then that the team signed Câmara, who was originally slated to go to Prema rather than Ugochukwu.

ART Grand Prix

After a dip in form in 2023 that saw them finish eighth in the teams’ standings, ART enjoyed a great 2024 season, with three wins and 11 podium finishes. The French outfit claimed third in the teams’ standings, with Christian Mansell coming fifth in the drivers’ standings.

Taking home three of those podiums in 2024 was Laurens van Hoepen, who will return to F3 with ART next season after coming 13th in 2024. The 19-year-old has raced with them since his 2022 FR Europe campaign and made his debut in F3 machinery at the 2023 Macau Grand Prix. His year of experience, ART’s recent form and his streak of strong qualifying performances combine to make Van Hoepen a driver to watch next season.

Tuukka Taponen, the 2024 FR Middle East champion and current third-placed driver in FR Europe, will join ART for the full 2025 F3 season after making his debut in the series with them back in Spa. The Finn demonstrated that he felt immediately at ease with a more powerful car by qualifying 13th. In the wake of that starring cameo, the Ferrari junior earned the attention of several F3 teams as well as an F2 outfit, with jumping over F3 in the vein of the F1-bound Antonelli understood to have been a serious possibility.

Taponen’s onetime F4 UAE opponent James Wharton will be the team’s third driver. Wharton currently holds second in FR Europe with a slim 10-point advantage over Taponen after a late-season charge that has seen him win four of the last nine races. Wharton’s promising F3 debut back in a damp Silverstone weekend with Hitech puts him in good stead for next year, and he will get to know the team more when he races with them in Macau next month.

Before Wharton and Taponen’s destinations were finalised, ART were thought to be in negotiations to promote Williams junior Alessandro Giusti from their FR Europe squad. The 18-year-old expressed a desire to remain with the team and to enter the Macau Grand Prix, but neither materialised. Neither of the team’s other two drivers for Macau – FR rookies Evan Giltaire and Kanato Le – were touted as candidates for F3. 

With Van Hoepen staying on for a second season and Mansell expected to move up to F2 full-time in 2025, the driver left out of ART’s stable is Nikola Tsolov. The Alpine junior told Feeder Series back in August that he hoped to stay in the series for the third year running and fight for the title, though his 2025 destination is believed to be elsewhere on the grid…. 

Campos Racing

Campos Racing finished the 2024 season fourth overall with two sprint victories and several podium finishes, matching their 2023 position in the standings. Oliver Goethe’s consistency put him in mathematical contention for the drivers’ championship until the final round, which he forwent to race in F2.

Campos’ season highlight was Mari Boya’s sprint win in Barcelona, the team’s second win at their home circuit in two years. Boya will return to Campos for another season, his third in F3. Though he finished only 15th in the standings in 2024, he topped the times in Barcelona post-season testing with a time of 1:27.209, a promising sign for 2025.

Thailand’s only podium finisher in modern F3, Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak, has been confirmed to race alongside Boya in 2025. Inthraphuvasak’s only podium finish in F3 in 2024 was a second place in Hungary, but a year of experience and move up to grid with Campos, with whom he finished sixth in Eurocup-3 in 2023, could help him become a more regular points scorer.

Campos have not yet confirmed the occupant of their third seat, which both F3 veteran Nikola Tsolov and Campos Eurocup-3 driver Jesse Carrasquedo filled in testing. Tsolov, who won the 2022 Spanish F4 title with the team, is the likeliest choice for Campos after finishing 11th in the standings this year with three wins to his name. The 17-year-old Fernando Alonso protégé was already spotted visiting the Campos garages in Monza before setting the fastest lap of the Jerez test, a 1:29.758, a month later.

The team’s other two 2024 drivers are expected to race in F2 next year, with Red Bull junior Oliver Goethe having already done so with MP Motorsport as the replacement for the F1-bound Franco Colapinto. Despite a tough second year in F3 that saw him finish 17th, Sebastián Montoya is also looking to join F2 next year – potentially with Prema, where he raced from 2020 to 2022. With Goethe’s departure, Campos looks set to have no Red Bull juniors in its F3 squad next year despite strong, deepening ties with the programme elsewhere.

Hitech GP

Hitech GP had mixed fortunes in 2024, with defending Macau Grand Prix winner Luke Browning finishing third in the drivers’ standings while teammate Cian Shields scored zero points throughout the season.

While they both look set to move up to F2 – with Browning all but confirmed to be remaining with Hitech – their teammate Martinius Stenshorne will embark on a sophomore F3 season with Hitech after finishing 18th in the drivers’ standings in 2024. His best result of the season came early on with a sprint race victory in Melbourne, but the 2023 FR Europe runner-up struggled to replicate that form later in the year. The 2025 F3 season will be Stenshorne’s first full championship with the backing of the McLaren Driver Development Programme, which he earned in May.

Confirmed to be joining him is China’s Gerrard Xie, who will step up to F3 after finishing seventh with the team in GB3 this year. Two poles and a win during the fourth round at the Hungaroring were the highlights of his sophomore season in that series. He also finished seventh in FR Oceania over the winter and won a race in a Euroformula Open cameo at Spa.

Having completed both post-season tests with Hitech, Joshua Dufek is expected to complete Hitech’s lineup for the 2025 season. After spending 2023 in both FR Europe and Euroformula Open, Dufek graduated to F3 with AIX Racing for 2024 but failed to score until the final feature race in Monza, where he achieved a 10th-place finish. Dufek’s lining up at Hitech is a recent development that occurred shortly before testing, Feeder Series understands.

MP Motorsport

The 2024 season saw MP Motorsport fall from third to sixth in the teams’ championship with only one win, a setback for a team that had otherwise been on an upward trajectory during its time in F3.

That victory was taken in the Monza sprint race by Germany’s Tim Tramnitz, who will return to the Dutch team for a second season in F3. Tramnitz scored points consistently and ended his rookie season with four podiums, including the win, en route to ninth in the points. The 19-year-old Red Bull junior is set to be the highest-placed F3 driver from 2024 to return to the series and is a possible title favourite if MP adapts well to the new car.

Spanish driver Bruno Del Pino, 18, was announced Wednesday as MP Motorsport’s second driver for the 2025 season. The nephew of former F1 driver Pedro de la Rosa has raced with MP at the FRegional level since 2023. Del Pino is third in the Eurocup-3 standings with seven overall podiums and three wins this season, and out of 15 races held so far, he has finished outside the points only twice.

Williams junior Alessandro Giusti is likely to join the Dutch team as their third driver, though this is not yet confirmed as the Frenchman is thought to have had several options on the table. The 2022 French F4 champion currently sits fourth in the FR Europe standings with six podiums, including two wins, in his second season in the category.

MP’s other two 2024 drivers, Alex Dunne and Kacper Sztuka, are not likely to remain in the series for the next season. Sztuka, the 2023 Italian F4 champion, finished 27th in F3 this year and harboured hopes of moving up to F2, but budget remains a problem, especially after he lost Red Bull Junior Team backing in June. After he races with Prema in Macau, Dunne, 14th in F3 in 2024, is expected to step up to F2 having forgone F3 post-season testing, with Rodin believed to be a possible – but not certain – destination.

Van Amersfoort Racing

Van Amersfoort Racing came seventh in the teams’ standings with four podiums but went winless for the first time since their arrival in the series back in 2022. The Dutch outfit will be looking for redemption next year with what is set to be an all-new line-up.

At least two drivers are expected to graduate from FR Europe to join the team. One is Ivan Domingues, who has raced with VAR since 2023 in both F4 and FR. Though the Portuguese driver, like current teammate Badoer, has never won in single-seaters, he has enjoyed a good rookie season in FR Europe and sits ninth with two podiums to his name.

The second expected FR graduate is Théophile Naël, currently racing with Saintéloc Racing as he has done since his single-seater debut in 2022. The 17-year-old Frenchman took his and Saintéloc’s first win in the series last month at the Red Bull Ring and is currently the team’s top scorer. Naël was among the drivers linked to Trident, but VAR now appears to be his destination after he spent three of four days of post-season testing with the Dutch team. Carrasquedo, who replaced him for one day, is believed unlikely to displace him.

Though VAR’s third seat is still up for grabs, it is likely that John Bennett will fill the spot after doing all four days of post-season testing with the team. The 2024 GB3 runner-up took home three wins and eight additional podiums in his third season in the series. He also raced in FR Middle East over the winter with Evans GP, scoring one point.

VAR’s 2024 drivers are set to move to other teams for 2025. León will switch to Prema, which has a longstanding relationship with the All Road Management organisation that oversees his career. Tommy Smith, who finished 20th, is confirmed to be heading stateside to race in Indy NXT in 2025 with HMD Motorsports. Having failed to score a point in 2024, Sophia Floersch is expected not to return to F3 with VAR, but her 2025 plans have yet to be announced.

Rodin Motorsport

After a challenging start, Rodin Motorsport excelled in the latter stages of the 2024 season thanks to Callum Voisin, who helped the team to their first race win in the current iteration of the series in Spa.

As was confirmed last month, Louis Sharp will partner with Rodin for a fourth year in a row as he jumps up to F3. The freshly crowned GB3 champion is one of New Zealand’s most promising talents in recent years and, like now-F1 driver Liam Lawson, is personally backed by Rodin Cars founder and CEO David Dicker. Sharp took five victories in his one and only GB3 season to add to the six he scored en route to the British F4 title in 2023.

Whilst not officially confirmed, Polish-British driver Roman Bilinski is expected to join Rodin in 2025. Bilinski’s 2024 started off on a high when he won the FR Oceania title with six wins and six further podiums from 15 races, but his year derailed after he broke two vertebrae in a road car accident in June. That incident forced him to miss several rounds of his third FR Europe season, though he has scored in five of the six races since his return last month.

Voisin had previously told Feeder Series that he had plans for another season in the series, though he was notably absent from post-season testing, with Slater taking his place for all four days after a GB3 appearance with the team in September at Donington Park. While the testing absence has raised questions about Voisin’s future, Feeder Series understands that he opted to skip them to save money for the 2025 F3 season, which he would run with Rodin.

As for Rodin’s other two 2024 drivers, Joseph Loake, who ended the year 26th, recently participated in a USF Pro 2000 series test with Turn 3 Motorsport, finishing second overall. He may well move to one of their open seats next year. The 2025 plans of Piotr Wiśnicki, who finished 23rd, are unknown.

AIX Racing

AIX Racing, known as PHM Racing until May 2024, improved from six points in 2023 to 35 in 2024. Their season highlight was a historic one-two for Nikita Bedrin and Inthraphuvasak in the sprint race at the Hungaroring, but while Inthraphuvasak and Dufek’s futures are secured, race winner Bedrin faces uncertainty even with direct funding from PHM.

AIX’s 2025 line-up remains somewhat unclear, as it has been at this point in previous years. Current Eurocup-3 championship leader Javier Sagrera tested with the team and previously expressed interest in stepping up to F3 when speaking to Feeder Series over the summer, but the Spaniard’s position at the team is thought to be uncertain. The current MP Motorsport driver previously spent two years in GB3 in 2021 and 2022 before moving to Eurocup-3 with Palou Motorsport in 2023.

José Garfias also participated in the two post-season tests with AIX after ending his Eurocup-3 campaign early. The Mexican, previously with Saintéloc Racing, is 10th in the standings with a best finish of fourth in Le Castellet, and he has made the same mid-year Euroformula Open switch that Wurz and Dufek did before their respective moves up to F3 for 2024.

The third seat is the least secure, with a number of candidates emerging as possibilities. Recent AIX F2 driver Niels Koolen participated in the first post-season test, with Carrasquedo taking his place in the second one. The Mexican’s onetime Eurocup-3 rival Emmo Fittipaldi, currently fifth in the points, was also present at Monza and has links to AIX from his 2022 post-season testing appearance with the team in their guise as Charouz. Spanish F4 driver Preston Lambert and his manager were also present in Monza with AIX, though a jump to F3 would be ambitious.

DAMS

A new addition to the F3 grid for 2025, DAMS replaces the departing Jenzer Motorsport for the series’ next three-year cycle. The French team, stalwarts in F2 and predecessor GP2, are expanding to the third tier for the first time since the 2017 GP3 Series season.

Returning for his second season in F3 with DAMS is Matías Zagazeta, who previously raced with Jenzer. The Peruvian driver, DAMS’ first signing for their debut season, scored points on only one occasion this year, taking home a third-place finish in the Silverstone sprint. Zagazeta was the 2021 British F4 runner-up but never mastered FR-spec cars in the two years that followed.

Christian Ho, Sagrera’s main rival for the Eurocup-3 title, is also set to join the French outfit for his first taste of F3 next year. The Singaporean, who turns 18 next week, has four wins, three additional podium finishes and a series-high seven pole positions to his name this season. The move up with Campos that could have reportedly accompanied a title now appears unlikely, but Ho had previously said he was graduating with an unspecified team, now understood to be DAMS.

Alpine Academy driver Nicola Lacorte is expected to join Zagazeta and Ho at DAMS. After an up-and-down 2023 in Italian F4 and Euro 4, both of which he finished ninth, the 17-year-old moved up to FR for 2024, spending the winter in FR Oceania after signing with Alpine and then competing with Trident in FR Europe. Despite scoring points on two occasions, he has been eyeing a move to F3 since the start of the year even with his initial plans of graduating with Trident falling through.

The expected 2025 trio all tested for Jenzer in post-season testing. While Zagazeta remains and Wurz changes teams, Max Esterson – Jenzer’s top scorer in 2024 – is not expected to do another year in F3, with a move to F2 for 2025 possible but not confirmed.

Date	Driver	Team
27 September 2024	Charlie Wurz	Trident Motorsport
1 October 2024	Mari Boya	Campos Racing
1 October 2024	Ugo Ugochukwu	Prema Racing
4 October 2024	Louis Sharp	Rodin Motorsport
7 October 2024	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak	Campos Racing
7 October 2024	Brando Badoer	Prema Racing
7 October 2024	Noah Strømsted	Trident Motorsport
7 October 2024	Gerrard Xie	Hitech GP
7 October 2024	Laurens van Hoepen	ART Grand Prix
7 October 2024	Martinius Stenshorne	Hitech GP
8 October 2024	Tuukka Taponen	ART Grand Prix
8 October 2024	Rafael Câmara	Trident Motorsport
14 October 2024	James Wharton	ART Grand Prix
14 October 2024	Noel León	Prema Racing
21 October 2024	Tim Tramnitz	MP Motorsport
22 October 2024	Matías Zagazeta	DAMS
23 October 2024	Bruno Del Pino	MP Motorsport
29 October 2024	Callum Voisin	Rodin Motorsport
29 October 2024	Nicola Lacorte	DAMS
5 November 2024	Roman Bilinski	Rodin Motorsport
5 November 2024	Nikola Tsolov	Campos Racing
28 November 2024	Théophile Naël	Van Amersfoort Racing
30 November 2024	Javier Sagrera	AIX Racing
3 December 2024	Alessandro Giusti	MP Motorsport
4 December 2024	Joshua Dufek	Hitech GP
15 January 2025	Christian Ho	DAMS
16 January 2025	Ivan Domingues	Van Amersfoort Racing
26 January 2025	Santiago Ramos	Van Amersfoort Racing
17 February 2025	Nicola Marinangeli	AIX Racing

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