Eurocup-3 heads to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this weekend for the final two races of its 2024 season, with three drivers in contention for the drivers’ championship. Feeder Series tells you what you need to know about them and their 2024 seasons ahead of the finale. 

By Seb Tirado

As was the case during Eurocup-3’s inaugural season last year, Eurocup-3’s season finale will see one Campos driver and two MP drivers battle for the drivers’ title. Across the weekend, 56 points are up for grabs.

MP’s Javier Sagrera currently leads the standings with 228 points. The 20-year-old has more than a race win’s worth of points between himself and his closest competitor, Campos’ Christian Ho on 202 points. Behind him in third is Sagrera’s teammate Bruno Del Pino on 192 points.

Last year, Campos Racing’s Esteban Masson achieved two grand slams – taking both pole positions, race wins and fastest laps and leading every lap of each race – to take the title, defeating MP Motorsport teammates Mari Boya and Sebastian Øgaard.

Campos also took the teams’ title by two points last year after a close season-long battle with MP Motorsport. But this year, the Dutch squad were crowned teams’ champions last time out at Jerez after amassing an unassailable 96-point gap over their Spanish rivals.

Javier Sagrera (P1, 228 points)

Sagrera competed in Eurocup-3’s debut season last year with Palou Motorsport. Despite missing the final two weekends at Valencia and Barcelona, he finished eighth in the standings having taken podiums at Spa, Monza and Jerez.

This year, the 20-year-old won the first race of the season at Spa and has since taken three more wins and six further podiums. Highlights of his season so far include a double win from pole at Zandvoort after having led every lap and two second-place finishes last time out at Jerez. 

The only time Sagrera has failed to score points this season was in race one at Aragón, when he had to retire less than a minute into the race. Heading through the first corner, Sagrera’s teammate Owen Tangavelou forced him wide and subsequently spun him, terminally damaging his car. That retirement was his only result outside of the podium in the last nine races.

Taking the Eurocup-3 title this year would pay dividends for Sagrera as he prepares for the next step in his career. When asked about his 2025 plans by Feeder Series back in June, Sagrera said his goal was to “keep progressing” through the FIA ladder and suggested that it “should be [his] next step”.

Since then, he completed both of the Formula 3 post-season tests at Jerez and Barcelona with AIX Racing last month. One berth also remains unannounced at MP Motorsport for the 2025 F3 season.

Christian Ho (P2, 202 points)

Christian Ho had a less than ideal start to his debut season in Formula Regional machinery. Coming off his sophomore Spanish F4 campaign with Campos, in which he finished as the runner-up to Théophile Naël, Ho retired from the only race at Spa with an electrical issue and from race one at Spielberg with a mechanical issue. 

Nevertheless, the Singaporean driver has been Sagrera’s closest rival since Portimão, where the 18-year-old took his first two wins of the season in races one and two, the former being a grand slam. 

Ho last led the standings after the Paul Ricard round. There, after taking pole for both races, he finished second with the fastest lap in race one and scored a grand slam in race two, both times finishing one position ahead of Sagrera. Sagrera reclaimed the championship lead away from him in the next round at Zandvoort with his dominant weekend.

Last time out at Jerez, Ho beat Sagrera in the first race and scored another grand slam before finishing fifth in race two. Ho was also crowned this year’s rookie champion.

Taking the title in his debut season would boost Ho’s stock ahead of the next stage in his career, which he said in September would be an F3 season. Ho said before the season that there was a “high chance” he would move up to F3 with Campos if he won the title, but the Spanish team’s line-up has already been finalised. He completed all of the post-season tests with Jenzer Motorsport, whose entry will be taken over by DAMS in 2025, and wore DAMS gear of his own at the tests.

Bruno Del Pino (P3, 192 points)

Del Pino, at 36 points behind his championship-leading teammate, has only an outside chance for this year’s title, but he could still move up a position in the standings and play a part in the title fight.

Del Pino competed in Eurocup-3’s debut season last year with MP Motorsport. The 18-year-old took points in all but two races across the season and scored a best finish of fourth at both Zandvoort and Valencia. He also became the series’ first rookie champion.

Del Pino took his first Eurocup-3 podium and win this year in races one and two respectively at Spielberg. He has gone on to score a second place at Portimão, a win at Paul Ricard and a double podium at Zandvoort. Last time out at Jerez, Del Pino took his first career pole in qualifying for race two and went on to win with a grand slam.

Unlike his championship rivals, Del Pino has his future secured. Two weeks ago, MP Motorsport announced he would be part of their F3 lineup for 2025 alongside Tim Tramnitz.

Header photo credit: Dutch Photo Agency