Trident Motorsport have produced three consecutive Formula 3 drivers’ champions, and they now have the chance to take the teams’ title as well. Ahead of the season finale in Monza, Feeder Series spoke to team principal Giacomo Ricci, drivers’ champion Rafael Câmara and second-year driver Charlie Wurz to learn more about how the team unlocks the potential from their drivers.

By Tori Turner

In 2023, Trident won its first drivers’ championship in F3 with Gabriel Bortoleto after narrowly missing out in 2021 with Jack Doohan and 2022 with Zane Maloney. Since then, they have kept up their winning streak to produce a further two titles with Leonardo Fornaroli in 2024 and Rafael Câmara this season. 

The Italian team have always been frontrunners within the series, consistently finishing first or second in the teams’ championship every year since 2020. Whilst they missed out on crowning Doohan as champion in 2021, Trident took their first and only teams’ title that year, beating Prema Racing by the smallest margin in F3 of four points.

This weekend, Trident have the chance to win the teams’ championship yet again as they enter the round with a 19-point advantage over rivals Campos Racing. But their success could not be achieved without their drivers, whom they help develop and support throughout the season.

“It’s very tough at the start [of the season] to keep and move the team in a positive loop,” Giacomo Ricci told Feeder Series. “Once you can move the team in a positive loop, you can attract competitive drivers every year. Having a very talented and strong driver is the first part.”

Trident fielded two rookie drivers this season: Câmara and Noah Strømsted, both of whom were fresh out of FRegional Europe. Despite their lack of experience, the two adjusted to F3 instantly and produced strong results from the first round, achieving a double podium in the Melbourne feature.

“Regarding the preparation, we are extremely dedicated on this topic,” Ricci said. “We try to create a positive atmosphere within the team because we have to consider in Formula 3 especially [the drivers] are very, very, very young and quite inexperienced. It’s extremely important to transmit to them the basic information and to try to help them to mature as much as possible during the postseason test of the previous year and during the preseason test.”

All three Trident drivers are currently in the top 10 of the championship standings with one round to go. Strømsted sits in sixth with 73 points, having achieved his maiden F3 victory in the sprint race in Spa two rounds ago. Charlie Wurz, the only non-rookie in the team, is in 10th after securing two consecutive podiums in Spa and Budapest. 

“The level of the team is very high, and I think that’s where they make the biggest differences, teaching the drivers exactly what to do,” Wurz told Feeder Series in the Monza paddock. “We spend so much time in the factory throughout the year. We spend a lot of time there working on those fine details that can maybe go over your head, but if you keep working on those fine details and find a few hundredths everywhere, it makes a quite a big difference. 

“We’ve worked really hard on that, on the sim especially because we’re limited on testing, so that’s where you have to do a lot of the work. That’s the main thing in general, and just learning from the engineers and their massive experience, so I’ve definitely learned so much from them and that’s where the most has been found.”

Câmara became the first F3 champion to win the title before the final round after taking his fourth win and fifth pole position in Hungary. His 156 points make up over half of Trident’s total for the 2025 season so far. 

“When I joined, there was a new car, so [on] habits that I had from the previous year and things I needed to learn, they were very clear, and they basically showed me the things that help and the way you need to drive the car,” Câmara told Feeder Series. “For every driver, we just need to adapt to what the car needs,and they helped me to find that and all the preparation we did for every weekend to start the championship. They also did a very good job to set the car in a good window already in Melbourne.”

“The team and the expectations being always great is something special to us now having three drivers champions in a row,” Ricci said. “I couldn’t ask anything more than this. It would be really important for the future to keep up the momentum.”

A total of 89 points are on offer for F3 teams this weekend. Trident can afford to lose up to 19 points to Campos this weekend and still win the title. Both teams have won five races, but Trident currently have the advantage if the championship remains tied on account of having four feature race victories to Campos’ two.

Additional reporting by Michael McClure

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