Callum Voisin stayed with Rodin Motorsport for a second Formula 3 campaign after an impressive rookie season last year, but he hit a rough patch in the recent triple-header and fell to ninth in the standings. Feeder Series and selected media spoke with the 19-year-old at a mid-season virtual roundtable about his 2025 campaign so far and the importance of adaptation.

By Daniele Spadi

Voisin came into the 2025 season with great ambitions after scoring almost 79 per cent of Rodin’s points last year, including the team’s maiden victory since they joined the current F3 championship as Carlin. The Briton opted to stay with the team in 2025 in a bid to fight for the drivers’ title.

“Everything this year is very similar to last year,” Voisin said. “I’ve got obviously the same team, same engineer, same driver coach, same management. I kept it extremely similar, the bubble around me.”

Voisin endured a tough opening weekend of the season in Melbourne, where he collected only two points in the sprint race and retired from the wet feature race following contact at Turn 9 with Nikola Tsolov. The 19-year-old then bounced back in Bahrain, taking fourth in the sprint and following that up with second place on Sunday after leading early on.

At that point, Voisin was third in the drivers’ standings, and he spoke to Feeder Series afterwards about the importance of ‘maximising every weekend’ and achieving more consistency in his sophomore season. But halfway through the season, his ambitions haven’t quite played out as he might have hoped.

Voisin failed to score points in either race at Imola. He took home fourth in the feature race around the streets of Monaco after finishing 10th in the sprint. In Barcelona, he added only one point to his 2025 tally with 10th in the feature race.

He now sits ninth with 41 points, 64 fewer than championship leader Rafael Câmara has, after those three rounds held on consecutive weekends.

“[The triple-header] is very mentally challenging, I would say. Definitely by the last weekend in Barcelona, you can sense everybody’s a little bit more tired in general,” Voisin told Feeder Series. “I took a few days off to relax a little bit, but then [it’s] straight back onto the training and business as usual, I guess. You’re always busy, to be honest, during the breaks anyway.”

In Voisin’s case, the experience of a prior F3 season comes with an increase in the pressure on his shoulders.

“Being in your second year, you’re more experienced,” Voisin told Feeder Series. “You know what you’re getting yourself into, staying with the same team as well. Naturally, there’s going to be more pressure. I think that’s normal. That’s nothing that I’m worried about, and at the end of the day, that’s natural.

“From my side, there’s not really any drawbacks. Obviously, it’s a new car this year, so it has changed a little bit in terms of what is needed from a driving point of view,” he continued. “But at the end of the day, you need to adapt and you need to be the best at adapting – that’s what makes a good driver.”

The new Dallara F3 2025 car made its competitive debut in Melbourne. Unlike the previous-generation car used since 2019, the new F3 car follows the aerodynamic philosophy of the 2026 F1 cars.

“I’ve learned a lot in terms of my driving [compared to 2024],” he said. “This year’s car does require quite a different driving style in general to really get the most out of the car. That’s something that I spent a lot of time last year working on and perfecting, and then when we got to the new car and it was completely different – it was not disheartening, but it was just different.”

Adaptation skills can make or break a driver’s career, especially in F3. Getting used to a brand-new F3 car is no easy task, especially for those who have to acclimatise to it in a series they already knew.

“It took me a little bit of time to adjust, but it’s all good experience,” he said. “Having to learn and adapt to different driving styles I think is only a good thing because the higher you get up, you need to be able to adapt. If you get a chance at F2 or F1, you only get one day or two to prove yourself.”

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