Alessandro Giusti enjoyed a strong rookie F3 season last year, finishing in 10th with two podium finishes to his name. Feeder Series caught up with the Williams junior to talk about his career path, other racing opportunities and future endeavours.

By Daniele Spadi

After two impressive seasons in French F4 culminating in a drivers’ title win in 2022, Giusti stepped up to FRegional Europe as one of the hottest prospects on the single-seater scene.

Competing for G4 Racing, the Frenchman impressed perhaps more than expected, claiming three wins on three different circuits – Le Castellet, Spielberg and Monza – to finish sixth, scoring 111 of the team’s 134 points.

Such results could have justified a move straight up to F3 the following year, though Giusti opted against it.

“We had a very, very strong season, but I think we were missing a bit of pace in Zandvoort and Hockenheim [the final two rounds] to step in F3,” Giusti told Feeder Series.

“It was the right decision [not to step up]. In the budget, it was not possible [at] the time. It was a strong season, and it was better for me to stay again with ART and to learn even better for F3.” 

After his strong showing in 2023, it was announced in January 2024 that Giusti would join the Williams F1 team’s driver academy.

For his second FR Europe campaign, Giusti switched to ART Grand Prix. He continued to improve race after race, clinching two victories and five further podiums throughout the season and scoring points in 16 out of 20 races. He ultimately finished fourth with 195 points.

By that point, he was ready to step up to F3 in 2025, and he did so with MP Motorsport. The Dutch team had finished in the top six of the teams’ standings every year since 2019, so expectations were high for the Frenchman, who was partnering up with former FR Europe rival Tim Tramnitz and fellow rookie Bruno Del Pino.

“We started quite off in Barcelona in the test,” he admitted. “Straight from Melbourne, the team did an amazing job to be back at the pace. I think we were missing a bit in quali the first few rounds, but in the race, we were really strong.”

After struggling more than expected in pre-season testing, the start to Giusti’s rookie F3 campaign wasn’t the strongest either. In his first qualifying session in Melbourne, Giusti finished down in 14th, a result that then led to a scoreless opening weekend of the season.

“I was not really extracting everything from the car because I was doing mistakes on my push and qualifying [laps],” he said.

But Giusti was quick to make decisive changes to feel more at ease with the car. As a result, he scored points in the following nine races, including two back-to-back podiums at the end of that streak with third in the feature race at Barcelona and second in the following round’s sprint at the Red Bull Ring.

After a couple of disappointing races, including another scoreless weekend in Silverstone, he was back on track for the final two rounds of the season, displaying the improvements over one-lap pace that he was seeking at the start of the year.

“[By the end] the quali was very strong and the race was strong,” Giusti explained.

“P9 in Budapest was one tenth from P3. It was not bad. And [in Monza] I was less than a tenth, I think it was 57 thousandths, from P1. It was quite painful, especially with the speed we had, but we had not so much of a tow.” He eventually finished the sprint race sixth and the feature race eighth while also claiming the fastest lap in the latter..

At season’s end, Giusti ended up 10th in the final standings with 67 points. He once again put his consistency on display by scoring points in 13 out of 19 races – tied with third-placed Mari Boya for the most points finishes in the field – and retiring from a race only once.

“I think it was quite a good rookie season, but we need to, for sure, get better for my next year,” he told Feeder Series. “[It’s a] question of now getting the last step to fight for pole and victory, but I think we’re close to it, so it’s good.”

Over the winter break, Giusti stayed on top of his physical and mental preparation ahead of the new F3 season, though he opted to shed the rust in 2026 in another piece of machinery. The 19-year-old partook in Formula E’s rookie free practice session in Miami on 30 January, joining forces with the Jaguar team ahead of the Miami E-Prix.

This was not his first time in the all-electric single-seater series, as he had also been part of the championship’s rookie test in Berlin last July with Lola Yamaha Abt, which offered drivers six hours of running split into two halves.

“We had a discussion with Jaguar and Williams, and we decided to take [the opportunity],” Giusti explained to Feeder Series in the Miami paddock. “In Berlin it was a long day, so we could test quite a lot of things. Here it’s quite a short session, 40 minutes, so I’m just getting back to it, getting back to the track and we’ll try to test a few things with the team.”

The differences between F3 and Formula E cars can make it difficult to apply lessons from one to the other. For Giusti, however, participating in Formula E sessions has long-term benefits beyond his 2026 F3 campaign.

“I don’t think it will help that much for F3, to be honest. But for the energy management for example, I think in F1 next year, it will be quite an important thing,” he said. “So it’s still a good experience to have it, imagining if I get to F1 one day with the new car, it will be a big help.”

As he enters 2026, Giusti has retained the backing of the renamed Williams F1 Team Driver Academy. With Luke Browning having moved to Super Formula, he is now the highest-ranked driver within the programme on the junior single-seater ladder. Still, he doesn’t feel his rise through the ranks has changed the support he receives from the academy.

“The help is the same. I still have the simulator where I can prepare for the race week and the tests,” he told Feeder Series. “I still have the same people behind me, so it’s good to have the same people and the same preparation as last year.”

Giusti will stay in F3 with MP Motorsport for a second straight season, partnering fellow second-year driver Tuukka Taponen – who finished one place ahead of him in the standings, also on 67 points – and reigning Eurocup-3 champion Mattia Colnaghi. 

“This year, I’m a second-year [driver], so it will be different,” he said. “The goal at the end of the year will be to fight for a good place in the championship.”

Additional reporting by Michael McClure and Tori Turner

Header photo credit: Dutch Photo Agency