Ferrari academy driver – and son of ex-F1 racer Jean – Giuliano Alesi has won a third straight GP3 sprint event, this time at Spa-Francorchamps. Alesi dominated to lead all 13 laps and win by 3.3 seconds ahead of Mercedes protégé and championship leader George Russell. Ryan Tveter claimed third ahead of Honda junior Nirei […]
Mercedes Formula 1 junior George Russell has claimed his third victory of the 2017 GP3 season after battling back to win the feature event at Spa-Francorchamps. Russell developed a winning margin of 7.4 seconds to head an ART 1-2-3, with Renault academy prospect Jack Aitken finishing 0.4s ahead of Honda protege Nirei Fukuzumi. The winner […]
Mercedes Formula 1 protégé George Russell has taken pole position for the Belgian GP3 feature race at Spa-Francorchamps on a drying track. The GP3 championship leader set a lap time of 2m27.042s to claim his third pole of the year. This time was almost 21 seconds slower than Dorian Boccolacci’s 2m06.163s from practice as the […]
Trident’s Dorian Boccolacci has topped the timesheets in GP3 practice at Spa-Francorchamps in a session where the grid largely focused on race performance. The Frenchman set a lap time of 2m06.163s to lead Sauber Formula 1 development driver Tatiana Calderon by 0.405 seconds. His team-mate Kevin Joerg finished third ahead of Arden’s Leonardo Pulcini and […]
Italian Formula 4 race winner Juan Manuel Correa is joining Jenzer for the remainder of the 2017 GP3 season. Correa joins Alessio Lorandi and Haas Formula 1 development driver Arjun Maini at the team to help him build momentum for racing in a series in 2018. He finished sixth in the Italian category with Prema […]
Formula 2 and Formula 3 European Championship race-winner Prema is looking into a possible expansion into the GP3 Series for the 2018 season. The Italian team has dominated junior motorsport in recent years, having a racer win the F3 title since 2012 and winning the GP2 drivers’ and teams’ championships in its maiden season in […]
The summer break in the world revolving around Formula 1 gives the perfect time to reflect on what has happened so far in European single-seater racing. Its smaller sibling GP3 has held four rounds and eight races in Spain, Austria, Britain and Hungary as young drivers start to create more headlines in motorsport. Mercedes F1 […]
World Rally champions Markku Alen and Ari Vatanen have described how they have been thrilled by the growth of both Valtteri Bottas and Finnish motorsport in 2017. Bottas joined Kimi Raikkonen and Mika Hakkinen as the only Finns to claim eight podiums in a Formula 1 season this century in Hungary, finishing third behind Raikkonen. […]
Campos Racing’s Marcos Siebert and DAMS’s Matthieu Vaxiviere have both been penalised following the GP3 sprint race at the Hungaroring. The drivers were found to have not slowed sufficiently for a virtual safety car period and were given drivethrough penalties. As these could not take effect on track, 20 seconds has been added to the […]
Ferrari Formula 1 junior – and son of ex-F1 driver Jean – Giuliano Alesi has claimed his second GP3 sprint race victory of 2017 at the Hungaroring. The Frenchman led all 17 laps to front a Trident 1-2-3-4 – the team’s best-ever result in a race – finishing ahead of Ryan Tveter by 0.6 seconds. Kevin […]
Renault academy driver Jack Aitken won the Hungarian GP3 feature race from pole position to bring himself back into drivers’ championship contention. Aitken, who started the event 40 points behind leader George Russell after his problematic weekend in Spain, cut his deficit to just nine as the Mercedes Formula 1 junior failed to start the […]
Renault academy driver Jack Aitken has taken pole position for GP3’s Hungarian feature race, setting a new record lap time. Aitken found a time of 1m31.754s to top the timesheets ahead of Mercedes protege George Russell by 0.182s. This dominantly beats the previous record set by Koiranen GP’s Aaro Vainio in 2013, a 1m32.811s. Honda-backed Nirei […]