Off the back of an impressive sophomore season in Eurocup-3, Bruno Del Pino stepped up to Formula 3 with longtime squad MP Motorsport in 2025. With four results in the points, including a podium in Imola, he finished 23rd in the standings. Feeder Series sat down with Del Pino in Monza to discuss his rookie campaign in F3 and his future in the championship.

By Francesca Brusa

Since its conception in 2023, Eurocup-3 has quickly gained esteem among FRegional championships in Europe, with more and more drivers choosing it over the longer-running, more expensive Formula Regional Europe Championship before climbing to FIA F3.

One such driver was Bruno Del Pino, F3 rookie in 2025, with whom Feeder Series spoke on the weekend of the finale in Monza.

After being the highest-placed rookie in his first season in Eurocup-3 in 2023, Del Pino scored three wins and five further podiums in his sophomore campaign to finish third in the standings with 209 points. These results gave him the push to step up to F3 the following year.

“I was always on the podium and battling for the championship,” Del Pino said of his 2024 Eurocup-3 season. “Of course, Eurocup-3 is a great way to build up the momentum coming towards the rookie [season], but there’s many things that come into account such as the new way in how to manage the race, the limited time in F3. 

“There’s less than an hour in free practice and then 30 minutes qualifying, so it’s really a limited amount of time, and that’s one thing that Eurocup doesn’t have but F3 does have. And it’s a really difficult thing to adapt to.

“Coming towards the season in the pre-season testing, we’ve done quite a bit of race runs to try and perfect it, also the tyre management. It was quite difficult throughout the season because it’s quite different, coming in the race run when you’re alone and having the other 29 drivers battling against you.”

Del Pino’s rookie campaign in F3 didn’t turn out as he had hoped. He retired only once thanks to a late incident with Eurocup-3 title rival Javier Sagrera in the season-opening sprint race at Melbourne, but he also only scored points in four races. Nine points from his total of 16 came from second in the sprint race at Imola, achieved after starting from reverse-grid pole alongside winner and teammate Tim Tramnitz. 

“Imola has been a highlight so far, a podium in the sprint race, but it’s been an up-and-down season for me,” the 19-year-old said. “I could have been getting up there in the top 10 because I had the pace to, but I think my qualifying has been the strong point.”

For only the second time since they joined the F3 grid, MP Motorsport clinched third in the teams’ championship behind Campos Racing and Trident. This was also possible thanks to the performances of Tramnitz and Alessandro Giusti, who collected five podiums combined, including Tramnitz’s Imola sprint race victory. They finished the season fourth and 10th respectively.

Having worked with the Dutch outfit since 2023, Del Pino said that MP had ‘been strong in nearly all the rounds’ despite a dip in performance in the second half of the season.

“This has been my third year with MP, and I’ve been knowing the team for the last few Eurocup seasons,” he told Feeder Series. “Coming towards this season, obviously we had new engineers and new mechanics, but it’s a similar way of working.”

“It’s true that coming into the last round, we struggled to be there in the last three to four [rounds]. We didn’t get as many points as we expected, but I think we can step back up,” Del Pino added.

“It’s just a lot of work, a lot of time that we speak with the engineers and a lot of ways to try and improve the car. And also it’s a new car, so we started from scratch and we implemented quite well the first things.”

We now know that in 2026, Del Pino will stay in F3 but make the switch to Van Amersfoort Racing for his sophomore season in the series. The series’ other Dutch outfit claimed three race wins and four further podiums this year to finish fifth in the teams’ standings.

“Even though it’s not been my strongest season so far, I’ve demonstrated that I have good pace, good qualifying and rhythm that I can carry towards the next season,” he said. 

“The main goal is to stay in Europe and still fight for the dream that mainly every driver has – to be in F1. I think I have the right tools to do that. I just need to get more confident in myself, get more involved and get the results that I think are going to appear soon.”

The three post-season tests back in October gave Del Pino a chance to get acquainted with Van Amersfoort Racing. He shone brightest in the second test in Barcelona by achieving top-10 finishes in the morning sessions on day one, when he clinched ninth, and on day two, when he scored sixth. 

Additional reporting by Michael McClure

Header photo credit: Dutch Photo Agency