2025 FIA Formula 3 Championship
The 2025 FIA Formula 3 Championship was a motor racing championship for Formula 3 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. The championship was the sixteenth season of Formula 3 racing since the inception of the GP3 Series and the seventh season run under the FIA Formula 3 Championship moniker. FIA Formula 3 is an open-wheel racing category serving as the third tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category was run in support of selected rounds of the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers who competed in the championship ran the same car, the Dallara F3 2025.
Rafael Câmara won the Drivers' Championship in his rookie season with Trident after winning the feature race at the penultimate round in Hungary, becoming the first rookie champion since fellow countryman Gabriel Bortoleto back in 2023, and the fourth rookie champion in the FIA Formula 3 Championship.
Prema Racing entered the season as the reigning Teams' Champions, having secured their title at the penultimate race of the 2024 season at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. They did not defend their title, with Campos Racing winning their first Teams' Championship in the FIA's third tier of single-seater racing at the final race of the season.
2025 saw the introduction of a new Dallara-built chassis, with the championship retiring the Dallara F3 2019 it had used since its inaugural season in 2019.
Entries
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2025 FIA Formula 3 Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams competed with an identical Dallara F3 2025 chassis with a naturally-aspirated V6 engine developed by Mecachrome. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli.Team changes
After 15 years of competing in FIA F3 and its predecessor GP3, Jenzer Motorsport departed the championship to focus on its Formula 4 efforts. DAMS Lucas Oil took over their spot as the series' tenth team, returning to the third tier of FIA-sanctioned formula racing for the first time since the 2017 GP3 Series.Hitech Grand Prix and Toyota Gazoo Racing's TGR-DC junior programme formed a new collaboration in 2025, with the team entering under the Hitech TGR guise.
AIX Racing now competed under an Emirati racing licence for the 2025 season following the use of a German racing licence in 2024. This marked the first time in the championship's history that a Middle Eastern team competed on the grid.
Driver changes
had an all new-lineup as all three of their drivers graduated to Formula 2, with 2024 runner-up Gabriele Minì staying with Prema, Red Bull junior Arvid Lindblad moving to Campos Racing, and Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic joining Hitech TGR. Two McLaren juniors in Ugo Ugochukwu and Brando Badoer graduated from the Formula Regional European Championship, while Prema's final seat was taken by Noel León, who departed Van Amersfoort Racing after coming tenth with the team in 2024.Trident also hired three new drivers as reigning champion Leonardo Fornaroli and Sami Meguetounif moved up to Formula 2, with Fornaroli joining Invicta Racing and Meguetounif staying with Trident, and Santiago Ramos moving to Van Amersfoort Racing. The team recruited Charlie Wurz, who came 22nd with Jenzer Motorsport in his debut FIA Formula 3 season. Trident's lineup was completed by two drivers stepping up from FRECA in Rafael Câmara, the reigning series champion who drove for Prema, and rookie champion Noah Strømsted, who came sixth driving for RPM and made a one-off FIA F3 appearance in 2024 with Campos Racing.
ART Grand Prix saw Nikola Tsolov and Christian Mansell leave the team, with the former moving to Campos Racing, and the latter initially set to graduate to Formula 2 with Rodin Motorsport before announcing his temporary retirement from racing due to personal reasons. As a replacement, the team signed the drivers that came second and third in FRECA in 2024: James Wharton, who drove for Prema and made his FIA F3 debut when he substituted for Martinius Stenshorne at Hitech, and Ferrari junior Tuukka Taponen, who drove for R-ace GP and also made his FIA F3 debut as he replaced Tsolov at ART Grand Prix at the penultimate round of 2024.
Campos Racing signed two drivers switching from other teams to replace Oliver Goethe and Sebastián Montoya as both graduated to Formula 2 with MP Motorsport and Prema Racing, respectively. Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak, who left AIX Racing after coming 24th with the team in his debut season, returned to the team he drove for in Eurocup-3 in 2023, while Nikola Tsolov ended his second FIA F3 season with ART Grand Prix in eleventh and returned to the team with whom he won the 2022 Spanish F4 title.
Hitech TGR saw both Luke Browning and Cian Shields step up to Formula 2, with Browning staying with Hitech and Shields joining AIX Racing. The team promoted one driver from their GB3 outfit, with Gerrard Xie graduating to FIA F3 after coming seventh with the team in 2024, and signed Joshua Dufek, who departed AIX Racing after finishing his debut season in 28th.
MP Motorsport also had two new drivers, as Alex Dunne stepped up to Formula 2 with Rodin Motorsport and Kacper Sztuka moved to Eurocup-3 to join Campos Racing's satellite Griffin Core outfit. To replace them, the team promoted Bruno del Pino from their Eurocup-3 outfit, where he was the rookie champion in 2023, and signed Williams Academy driver Alessandro Giusti, who stepped up from FRECA after coming fourth in 2024 with ART Grand Prix.
All three of Van Amersfoort Racing's drivers left the team, with Noel León joining Prema and both Tommy Smith and Sophia Flörsch departing the series after multiple seasons to move to Indy NXT with HMD Motorsports. The team took on one experienced driver in Santiago Ramos, who embarked on his second FIA F3 season after finishing 16th with Trident in 2024. Two FRECA graduates joined him: Ivan Domingues, who finished tenth with Van Amersfoort Racing in that series in 2024, and 2023 Spanish F4 Champion Théophile Naël, who joined the team after coming ninth in FRECA with Saintéloc Racing.
Rodin Motorsport also signed two new drivers as Joseph Loake departed the series to move to join Garage 59 in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and Piotr Wiśnicki left the team. The team promoted reigning GB3 Champion Louis Sharp from its outfit in that championship and signed 2024 Formula Regional Oceania Champion Roman Bilinski, who has been competing with Trident in FRECA for the past three years.
AIX Racing had two new drivers in its line up as Inthraphuvasak and Dufek moved to Campos Racing and Hitech TGR, respectively. The team signed Eurocup-3 runner-up Javier Sagrera to fill one of the seats. International GT Open driver Nicola Marinangeli also joined the team, returning to single-seater racing for the first time since the 2022 Euroformula Open Championship to make his FIA F3 debut.
New team DAMS Lucas Oil signed Matías Zagazeta, who embarked on his second season in the championship after coming 25th with Jenzer Motorsport in 2024. Alpine Academy driver Nicola Lacorte also joined the team, graduating from FRECA after coming 21st with Trident in 2024. DAMS' lineup was completed by 2024 Eurocup-3 champion Christian Ho.
Two of the three drivers that competed for the departing Jenzer Motorsport team joined other FIA F3 teams, with Wurz joining Trident and Zagazeta signing with DAMS. Max Esterson left the series to join Trident in Formula 2.
In-season changes
left AIX Racing after the first round to prioritise his FRECA campaign. For the second round in Bahrain, his seat was filled by reigning Italian F4 Champion and Formula Regional Middle East runner-up Freddie Slater.Ahead of the third round, reigning Euroformula Open Champion Brad Benavides was announced to take over the No. 28 AIX Racing entry for the rest of the season. This marked his return to the championship where he last competed in 2022. The team saw another change in its lineup, as Javier Sagrera was replaced by James Hedley, who competed in one round last year with Jenzer Motorsport.
Joshua Dufek left Hitech TGR ahead of the fifth round at Barcelona. He was replaced by Jesse Carrasquedo Jr. for the next two rounds, who stepped up to FIA Formula 3 after previously competing in the Formula Regional category. Euroformula Open driver José Garfias also made his FIA Formula 3 debut, replacing James Hedley for the Barcelona round after Hedley sustained a hand injury in a crash during the previous round.
Following the conclusion of the Barcelona round, Nicola Lacorte received a one-round suspension after accumulating twelve penalty points on his licence. GB3 driver Nikita Johnson replaced him for the Spielberg round, making his debut in the championship.
Nikita Johnson joined Hitech TGR for the Silverstone round, making his second outing in FIA F3 after competing in the previous round with DAMS Lucas Oil. He replaced Jesse Carrasquedo Jr.
Freddie Slater joined Hitech TGR for the Spa-Francorchamps round, also making his second outing this season like Nikita Johnson, whom he replaced. Slater previously competed in the Sakhir round with AIX Racing.
Nikita Johnson returned to Hitech TGR for the Budapest round after a one-round absence, replacing Freddie Slater, who went on to compete in the Formula Regional European Championship. Johnson also competed in the season finale.
Ahead of the season finale, Euroformula Open driver Fernando Barrichello was announced to make his FIA F3 debut at Monza with AIX Racing in preparation for a full-season step up with the team in 2026. He replaced James Hedley, who moved to Van Amersfoort Racing to replace Santiago Ramos after the latter mutually parted ways with the team.