After nearly a month off, Formula 2 and Formula 3 return to support F1 on its return to Europe, while FRegional Japan holds its second round of 2025 at Fuji. Here’s how you can catch all the action.

By Feeder Series

Can you believe this is our 25th weekend preview of 2025? It’s truly flown by with so much action in junior single-seaters this year, and more is on the horizon this weekend. F2 and F3 return for their seventh and sixth rounds respectively at the Red Bull Ring in Austria, while FR Japan heads to Fuji Speedway for its second round with its largest grid in four years.

Two other junior single-seater championships were set to hold events this weekend but are no longer doing so. Brazilian F4’s original second event of 2025, set to take place at the Autódromo Velocitta, was moved back to September to offer more time to work out issues with the new Audace SNG01 car used in the category’s parent championship, the Stock Car Pro Series.

The AU3 Championship, originally known as FR Australia, also announced the cancellation of its 2025 season earlier this week. The series was set to start this weekend at One Raceway after shipping delays forced the cancellation of the original opener at Phillip Island last month.

In happier news, two F2 drivers will compete in free practice one for the Austrian Grand Prix on Friday. Dino Beganovic will return to Ferrari for his second outing in place of Charles Leclerc, having already driven the Monégasque’s car in Bahrain. McLaren junior Alex Dunne will make his F1 grand prix session debut for the reigning constructors’ champions in Lando Norris’ car. The F2 points leader is thus set to become the first Irishman in a competitive F1 session since Ralph Firman raced in the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix, more than two years before Dunne’s birth.

And finally, we look back on our spring and close out the first half of 2025 with our latest quarterly update from our department heads. Keep reading to find out how to watch your favourite drivers race this weekend – and what your favourite pieces of content were recently.

1. Formula 2: Round 7, Spielberg
2. Formula 3: Round 6, Spielberg
3. Formula Regional Japan: Round 2, Fuji
4. Feeder Series quarterly round-up: Spring 2025

Formula 2: Round 7, Spielberg

Circuit: Red Bull Ring, 4.318 km 

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2) 

Friday 27 June

• 11:05-11:50: Free practice
• 15:55-16:25: Qualifying

Saturday 28 June

• 14:15-15:05: Sprint race (28 laps)

Sunday 29 June 

• 10:00-11:05: Feature race (40 laps)

How to follow: All sessions will be live-streamed on F1 TV, but fans can also follow them live via the series’ live timing service. Local viewing information can be found here.

Weather: Showers possible Friday. Clear skies Saturday and Sunday, with temperatures nearing 30°C.

What to know: Formula 2 is back this weekend at Spielberg, four weeks after the Barcelona round that was dominated by Arvid Lindblad. 

Alex Dunne returned to the top of the drivers’ standings on 87 points after a weekend of damage limitation in Barcelona. The McLaren junior finished second and fifth in the sprint and feature races respectively, having started 19th and eighth in the two races. In the sprint race, Dunne benefitted from a safety car period to surge through the field late on, as did eventual race winner Richard Verschoor. The Dutchman finished third in the feature and is just three points behind Dunne on 84 points. 

Lindblad is third on 79 points after taking his first feature race win in Barcelona. Jak Crawford and Luke Browning are in fourth and fifth places, both on 73 points, while Leonardo Fornaroli has dropped to sixth with 66 points. There are no driver changes this round.

Report by Martin Lloyd

From the press: Dunne may be riding high in the standings, but a month ago, he was low on morale after receiving significant online abuse for inciting the first-corner pile-up in the Monaco feature race. Rodin Motorsport team manager Benn Huntingford opened up on how the team supported Dunne through a tough personal period. Read Huntingford’s words here.

After Dunne on Friday, 17-year-old Lindblad will become the next driver to make his debut in an F1 free practice session, doing so at the British Grand Prix – an opportunity facilitated by his being granted dispensation to receive an FIA Super Licence before turning 18. Find out how Lindblad got it here, and hear his thoughts on his ongoing F2 campaign here.

You can also read our takeaways from the previous round here.

Formula 3: Round 6, Spielberg

Circuit: Red Bull Ring, 4.318 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Friday 27 June

• 9:55–10:40: Free practice
• 15:00–15:30: Qualifying

Saturday 28 June

• 10:05–10:50: Sprint race, 21 laps

Sunday 29 June

• 8:30–9:20: Feature race, 26 laps

How to follow: All sessions will be live-streamed on F1 TV, but fans can also follow them live via the series’ live timing service. Local viewing information can be found here.

Weather forecast: Showers possible Friday. Clear skies Saturday and Sunday, with temperatures nearing 30°C.

What to know: Following a three-week break, F3 is set to start the second half of the 2025 season at the Red Bull Ring.

Following his third feature race win of the season in Barcelona, Rafael Câmara enters the round looking to extend his 26-point lead in the drivers’ standings over Nikola Tsolov. The Bulgarian, who has finished in the top five in the last three races, won last year’s sprint race in Styria.

In last year’s FRegional Europe round at Spielberg, James Wharton and Théophile Naël took victories. Naël comes to this year’s F3 event off the back of a second-place finish on Sunday in Barcelona, one day after his team scored their first 1-2 finish in the series.

MP Motorsport’s Alessandro Giusti finished third for his maiden F3 podium in the Barcelona feature race, and he too is a previous victor at Spielberg in FR Europe, winning race two in 2023.

Round six will also see two driver changes compared with Barcelona. After Nicola Lacorte received a race ban for reaching 12 penalty points on his licence, DAMS have selected Nikita Johnson as his replacement. The 17-year-old American, currently in his second GB3 season and partial rookie Indy NXT campaign stateside, is set to make his F3 debut at the Red Bull Ring.

James Hedley is also set to return to the #26 AIX car, last driven by Euroformula Open’s José Garfias. Hedley had to miss the Spanish Grand Prix weekend because of a hand injury he sustained in an incident the previous weekend in Monaco.

Report by Daniele Spadi

From the press: The current F3 grid has 18 rookies – two per team excluding Campos Racing. But with each newcomer coming from a different background, how do teams get them up to speed? Read what Trident team manager Giacomo Ricci and Van Amersfoort Racing team principal Bradley Joyce had to say about preparing rookies for the step up.

Callum Voisin is no stranger to F3 by now, but he and other returning drivers faced a challenge of their own in adapting to the new Dallara F3 2025 after having raced the previous car. The Briton, currently ninth in the standings, opened up about how he’s gotten used to the car and how he feels he still needs to grow. Read the article here.

You can also read our takeaways from the previous round here.

Formula Regional Japan: Round 2, Fuji

Circuit: Fuji Speedway, 4.563 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+9)

Friday 27 June

• 8:30–9:15: Practice 1
• 13:30–14:15: Practice 2

Saturday 28 June

• 11:35–11:50: Qualifying 1
• 12:00–12:15: Qualifying 2

Sunday 29 June

• 8:50–9:20: Race 1
• 14:30–15:00: Race 2

How to follow: All races are live-streamed on the series’ official YouTube channel. Streams include a split-screen display with trackside cameras and live timing.

Weather forecast: Cloudy all weekend. Rain is unlikely.

What to know: Formula Regional Japan enters its second round of the 2025 season at Fuji this weekend with 15 drivers, the most drivers a round has seen since the Fuji round in 2021, when 16 entered.

If the first round at Okayama in May is anything to go by, the 2025 season promises to have a championship fight involving multiple drivers, including TOM’S drivers and Toyota juniors Tokiya Suzuki and Kiyoshi Umegaki. The pair swept all three races at Okayama, and with the Toyota academy’s 100 per cent win rate at the Toyota-owned Fuji Speedway last year, Suzuki and Umegaki will be expected to continue their strong form this weekend. 

As was planned ahead of the season, Lin Chenghua will make his FR Japan debut at this weekend’s round with Ragno Motor Sport. Additionally, masters’ class drivers “Yuki” of Nilzz Racing, “Yugo” and his own team N-Speed, and Sky Motorsport’s Wang Zhongwei will enter the championship, while Shoichiro Akamatsu replaces Yuki Tanaka at Eagle Sports. 

Report by Finjo Muschlien

Read the previous round’s report here.

Feeder Series quarterly round-up: Spring 2025

Spring is a time of renewal and growth, and those are exactly what we aimed to achieve across editorial, social and broadcast: quiet, steady progress towards delivering you the best content possible through frenetic weekends of racing in April, May and June.

The majority of our editors have already been to a paddock this year, producing content for both our website and our social media platforms. Highlights included our first visits to Canada, Austria and Monaco and repeat visits to venues in France, Italy, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Brazil for on-the-ground coverage. Any guesses as to which paddock we’ll be reporting from next? 

As for content, your favourite pieces from the spring were the Italian F4 and GB3 season guides, while our interview with GB4 driver Ava Dobson on her recovery from a concussion last year and her F1 Academy wild card opportunity was our most-read feature from the past three months. Keep an eye on more material to come from our recent visits trackside.

The social team waved goodbye to long-standing member Maddie Tanabe in May and welcomed Joseph Black last month. Our X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram accounts have seen steady growth since our last update, while on TikTok, we are in the middle of introducing every F1 team’s junior programme and their F1 Academy–supported drivers.

Another information-based video, “How fast is an F1 car compared to F2, F3, and more?”, joined the continually growing “The five female drivers who could reach F1” in our library of evergreen content on YouTube. And following on from the weekend previews and reviews you’ll find on our website, we also rolled out a new weekend preview on our video platforms! ”Feeder series in 60 seconds” brings you rapid-fire information in vertical video form, narrated by Joseph Black from our social team.

An otherwise quieter quarter for the broadcasting team still saw the release of our podcast with then–F2 points leader Joshua Dürksen, who spoke about all things racing and sopa paraguaya. As for our other podcast content, stay tuned! We made a list of your ideal guests for the Feeder Series Podcast, which means you’ll see a few of them appear on the show soon…

— Michael McClure, head of content; Jordy van de Bunt, head of social media; Jim Kimberley, head of broadcasting

All times and forecasts listed above are subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, follow each series’ websites or social media pages.

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