The infamous British weather wreaked havoc on F3’s Silverstone round as Campos Racing took home pole with Nikola Tsolov as well as both victories thanks to Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak and Mari Boya. Feeder Series brings you the main takeaways from the seventh round of the 2025 season.

By Daniele Spadi

Campos stole the show starting from Friday, as Nikola Tsolov set the fastest lap in both practice and qualifying, thus scoring his third pole position of the season. The Spanish outfit reigned supreme in both races too. On Saturday, Inthraphuvasak claimed his maiden F3 win in the sprint race, edging out Martinius Stenshorne and teammate Boya. The Spaniard then had his moment to shine the following day, taking home his first feature race triumph as torrential rain halted proceedings at the Silverstone Circuit after 14 laps. Behind Boya, Théophile Naël took second, while Noel León took Prema Racing’s first podium of the season with third place.

• Pre-weekend roundtable: Prospect of wet weather set to shake up F3’s Silverstone weekend
• Qualifying report and quotes: Tsolov’s consistency ‘set the rhythm’ for third F3 pole of 2025 in Silverstone
• Sprint race report and quotes: Inthraphuvasak: ‘An honour’ to take Thailand’s first F3 win at Silverstone
• Feature race report and quotes: Boya wins Silverstone F3 feature race cut short by heavy rain

1. Mari Boya delivers a masterclass

In the opening phase of his third F3 campaign, Spain’s Mari Boya struggled, scoring just four points in the first five races. Since then, however, he has made multiple steps in the right direction, achieving his first feature race podium in Monaco and finishing in the top seven in all but one race after that.

In Silverstone, the Spaniard was by far the strongest performer of the weekend. After qualifying fourth, he recovered to a third-place finish in the sprint from ninth on the grid. On Sunday, he was the only driver in the top four to opt for wet tyres following a brief yet persistent rainfall ahead of the feature race.

That choice proved inspired, and he shot to the lead of the race off the line and never looked back. He had created a comfortable three-second gap by the halfway stage, when conditions worsened and the safety car came out for Louis Sharp’s spin at Club.

As the rain continued to pour, a red flag stopped proceedings on lap 14, and the intensifying rain on the horizon made it impossible for the race to resume. Boya therefore took his second F3 victory – his first in a feature race – though he only got 19 points from it with  the results taken from lap 12 of 22.

Boya said he felt confident ahead of his home race weekend in Barcelona, and despite finishing 22nd in the feature race there, he has since never left the top five. Though many had raised questions following the announcement that Boya had become an Aston Martin junior, he has proved those doubters wrong while looking like a completely different driver compared to the start of the season. In fact, with three consecutive podium finishes since the feature race at the Red Bull Ring, the 21-year-old has roared up to fourth in the drivers’ standings, 35 points behind championship leader Rafael Câmara. 

2. Naël battles through inconsistency

If Boya has now become one of the most consistent F3 drivers with eight points finishes in the last nine races, others have struggled to place themselves in the top 10 week in and week out.

France’s Théophile Naël has proven his raw pace multiple times this season, taking  feature race podiums in Melbourne, Barcelona and now Silverstone so far in 2025. The Van Amersfoort Racing driver was one of the 16 competitors who opted for wets at the start of the feature race, which helped him jump from ninth to second in just one sector. He eventually finished in that position, claiming 14 crucial points to move up to seventh in the standings.

But the British weekend was not all smooth sailing for Naël. On Saturday, he led the sprint race by lap six before both Inthraphuvasak and Stenshorne overtook him in the second half of the race. After losing third place to Boya at Club on the third to last lap, he eventually crossed the line fourth. However, two separate penalties for leaving the track and gaining an advantage – five seconds for overtaking Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak off track on lap six as well as 10 seconds for fending off Laurens van Hoepen for third on lap 16 – dropped him to 19th.

Naël admits that his season has been inconsistent. He has finished in the top 10 on just six occasions in a campaign that included a six-race scoreless streak from rounds two through four.

“The inconsistency came from a bit on my side, and as well with the whole team,” Naël told Feeder Series ahead of the British weekend. “All three drivers, we were struggling some weekends. When the car is not perfect, we have to maximise everything because the car cannot be perfect every time. Hopefully next time, when the car and everything will go exactly as planned, we can be up there like in Barcelona.”

3. A tough weekend for the title favourites…

Coming into Silverstone, the top three in the drivers’ standings were covered by 28 points. All three finished in the top five in qualifying, with Nikola Tsolov storming to a third F3 pole position while Câmara and Tim Tramnitz took third and fifth respectively.

Given their great performance on Friday, it was surprising that between both races at Silverstone, the trio scored just three points combined. Câmara was the one to take them all, finishing eighth in the sprint, while Tramnitz just missed out by finishing 11th. Meanwhile, Tsolov was tagged by Prema’s Brando Badoer into Turn 4 on the opening lap, thus dropping to the back of the field and ultimately finishing 29th.

The feature race was a nightmare for all three drivers after they elected to start on slick tyres. They dropped outside the top 10 even before the end of lap one, and with the conditions getting worse and worse as time went on, their chances of making a comeback quickly faded.

Naturally, a tricky weekend for the title protagonists favours whoever sits at the top – in this case Câmara, who now has a 27-point lead with just six races to go. But it can also benefit those who are trying to mount a late charge for the title, such as Boya and Martinius Stenshorne, who took second in the sprint.

4. …and a chance for others to shine

Such a topsy-turvy weekend for the main protagonists of the 2025 season enabled other drivers to make their way through the pack. One driver who did so was DAMS driver Christian Ho, who had by far his best weekend of the season to date.

The 18-year-old rookie from Singapore qualified 11th, thus granting himself a front-row start for the sprint, in which he finished sixth. He then went one better in the eventful 12-lap feature race, correctly gambling on wets for the race start and finishing fifth. With that, he collected 13 points in a single race weekend after having scored just four in the previous six rounds.

The same can be said for Prema’s Noel León, who got 16 of his 21 points from the Silverstone weekend. Having joined the Italian outfit with high hopes, the Mexican endured a troublesome season, but he finally scored the team’s first and long-awaited podium finish with third place in the shortened feature race. He also collected four additional points in the sprint thanks to his seventh-place finish.

Roman Bilinski also found his way back into the top 10 in both races for the first time since Monaco, finishing 10th in the sprint and a convincing fourth on Sunday to jump ahead of his more experienced teammate, Callum Voisin. The third Rodin of Louis Sharp was looking set for eighth in the wet feature, but he spun out of the race on lap 10 and lost his chance at a points finish.

5. Campos dethrone Trident in the standings

Since taking a historic double feature race podium in Monaco, Campos Racing have been the team to beat this season. The Spanish outfit has put a driver on the podium in every single race since then except for their home feature race in Barcelona, in which they still took fifth with Tsolov.

In Silverstone, Campos led all four sessions, a historic feat in F3 that had never been done before since the series’ rebranding in 2019. The last time this occurred in the series’ lineage was the 2014 GP3 Series round at the Red Bull Ring, when Carlin topped all four sessions.

This achievement is even more impressive given that each of their drivers took one first place between qualifying and the two races. Tsolov continued his great one-lap form by taking a third pole position of the season, and despite the Bulgarian’s challenging weekend across both races, the team still claimed victory on both occasions. On Saturday, Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak became the first Thai driver to win a race at the F3 level since Alex Albon did so in GP3 at Sepang on 1 October 2016, while Boya dominated the shortened feature race a day later.

With Trident scoring just five points on British soil, Campos now lead what looks to be a three-horse race for the teams’ title. They hold a two-point advantage over their Italian rivals, while MP Motorsport sit in third, trailing Campos by 49 points.

Results and standings after round 7 at Silverstone

Results	P1	P2	P3
Qualifying	Nikola Tsolov, 1:45.043	Ugo Ugochukwu, +0.023s	Rafael Câmara, +0.133s
Sprint race (18 laps)	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak, 35:18.467	Martinius Stenshorne, +1.748s	Mari Boya, +6.466s
Feature race (12 laps)	Mari Boya, 26:01.642	Théophile Naël, +1.424s	Noel León, +2.350s

Standings	Drivers	Teams
P1	Rafael Câmara, 120	Campos Racing, 209
P2	Tim Tramnitz, 93	Trident, 207
P3	Nikola Tsolov, 91	MP Motorsport, 160
P4	Mari Boya, 85	Van Amersfoort Racing, 124
P5	Martinius Stenshorne, 76	ART Grand Prix, 119
P6	Noah Strømsted, 62	Rodin Motorsport, 108
P7	Théophile Naël, 58	Hitech, 76
P8	Alessandro Giusti, 54	Prema Racing, 43
P9	Tuukka Taponen, 52	AIX Racing, 29
P10	Roman Bilinski, 49	DAMS, 23

Read our takeaways from the previous round here.

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