F3 News

Avon Racing continues its long involvement with British Formula 3 with the announcement of a new deal with the BRDC. The championship will now be called Green Flag British F3 Championship with Avon Tyres, extending an association dating back to 1982.

Dates and locations for next years Championships:

Tomas Scheckter saw his podium hopes slip away when he suffered engine problems in the second leg of the Macau F3 Grand Prix.

German Pierre Kaffer made the most of a drying track to set the quickest time during Sunday morning's warm-up session for the Macau Grand Prix - despite a spin. The session had started with a wet track after a short rain shower in the morning, but the surface quickly dried out.

German Pierre Kaffer drove a storming race to clinch victory in the opening heat of the Macau Grand Prix.

A statement by the Macau Grand Prix Organising Committee: During the warm up for the Guia Race, competitor number 3 (Frans Verschuur) suffered apparent brake failure at Lisboa Bend.

Britain's Carlin Motorsport ruled the roost at the end of qualifying for this weekend's Macau F3 Grand Prix, as improvements from both Narain Karthikeyan and Takuma Sato locked out the front row.

Italy's Paolo Montin proved to be the fastest man around the enclave, as he topped the opening qualifying session for this weekend's Macau Formula Three Grand Prix.

BRDC Junior Single Seater Champion Aaron Scott shined on his debut Formula Three test at Silverstone - comparing favourably with the experienced drivers present.

The Swiss Racing Team has confirmed Malaysia's Alex Yoong as partner to Tomas Scheckter for the Macau and Korean Formula Three double-header next month.

New British Formula Three Champion, Antonio Pizzonia, will not be contesting the Macau and South Korea races, as he concentrates instead on moving up the motor sport ladder.

Brazilian driver Antonio Pizzonia won the Green Flag British F3 Championship at Spa Francorchamps, but he could nothing about visiting race winner Tiago Monteiro.

Antonio Pizzonia was all but handed the British Formula Three crown before the lights went out at Spa-Francorchamps.

Just weeks after it appeared that its race programme would be scuppered by the withdrawal of key British circuits, the Powertour initiative has been handed a lifeline by British Motorsport Promoters [BMP].

The BRDC is throwing its weight behind plans to take British spectators to the Spa PowerTour meeting next month.

The British Formula three series will have undergone something of personnel reshuffle by the time it arrives at Silverstone this weekend, with changes to both the Championship and Scholarship class line-ups.

In the most widely expected announcement of the last couple of weeks, Westley Barber has finally been handed the vacant seat alongside Antonio Pizzonia at Manor Motorsport.

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Five of Britain's leading circuits have confirmed their intention to withdraw from the British Racing Drivers' Club PowerTour package next season, according to a release issued by Brands Hatch Leisure Group.

Teams representing the British Formula Three Championship are celebrating a dominant weekend at Spa in Belgium, after winning both of yesterday's races.

Nicolas Kiesa took his first Formula Three race victory since graduating from Formula Ford last season, and made up for the disappointment of throwing away his last pole position in the category.

Top British driver Gary Paffett is on the verge of being Britain?s first circuit racing champion of 2000, and will earn the accolade by winning the British Formula Three Scholarship Class title this weekend.

French drivers dominated the Pau F3 classic, taking a one-two finish around the streets of the Pyrenees town.

Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia has been excluded from the first Formula Three qualifying session at Silverstone, following a clash with Ireland's Warren Carway.