2023 European regional/F3 championships

[NaBUru38]

2023 Formula Regional European by Alpine schedule:

• April 22-23: April (ACI)
• May 20-21: Barcelona (Espiritu)
• June 17-18: Hungaroring (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• June 30-July 1: Spa-Francorchamps (Spa 24h)
• July 8-9: Mugello (ACI)
• July 22-23: Paul Ricard (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• Sept 9-10: Red Bull Ring (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• Sept 16-17: Monza (ACI)
• Oct 14-15: Zandvoort (GTWC)
• Oct 21-22: Hockenheim (DTM)

2023 Euroformula Open schedule:

• April 29-30: Algarve (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• May 13-14: Pau (ETCR)
• May 27-28: Spa.Francorchamps (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• June 17-18: Hungaroring (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• July 22-23: Paul Ricard (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• Sept 9-10: Red Bull Ring (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• Sept 23-24: Monza (GT Open / TCR Europe)
• Oct 21-22: Barcelona (GT Open / TCR Europe)

2023 GB3 schedule:

• April 9-10: Oulton Park (British GT)
• May 6-7: Silverstone (British GT)
• June 2-4: Spa-Francorchamps (Spa Euro Race)
• June 17-18: Snetterton (British GT)
• July 29-30: Silverstone (standalone)
• Sept 9-10: Brands Hatch (British GT)
• Oct 14-15: Zandvoort (GTWC)
• Oct 21-22: Donington Park (British GT)

2023 Eurocup-3 schedule:

• May 5-7: Spa-Francorchamps (24h GT Series)
• May 27-28: Aragón (RFEDA)
• June 10-11: Monza (24h GT Series)
• July 15-16: Zandvoort (Summer Trophy)
• Sept 23-24: Jerez (RFEDA)
• Sept 30-Oct 1: Estoril (standalone)
• Oct 14-15: Valencia (RFEDA)
• Nov 11-12: Barcelona (RFEDA)

[NaBUru38]

Formula Regional European by Alpine teams include Arden, ART, G4, KIC, MP, Prema, R-ace GP, RPM, Saintéloc, Trident and Van Amsterfoord.

GB3 teams include Rodin Carlin, Arden VRD, Doublas, Elite, Fortec and Hitech.

Euroformula Open has BMV confirmed so far.

Eurocup-3 has MP Motorsport and Palou confirmed so far.

[peebee2]

I think you'd have to question the Euroformula.

[gomick]

What is Eurocup-3?

[peebee2]

New F4+ category based in Southern Europe. Bit like GB3.

[NaBUru38]

The FRECA has over a dozen drivers confirmed, including Charlie Wurz (son of Alex), Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Rafael Câmara and Maya Weug.

Noel León Vázquez will compete at the Euroformula Open with Motopark.

Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak will compete at the Eurocup-3 with Campos.

[NaBUru38]

Driverx will leave the Euroformula Open and join the Eurocup-3.

Vladimir Netusil will compete in the Euroformula Open with Effective.

[Alessio]

I'd expect this year to be the last of the Dallara 320 in Europe. It's hardly like the old days, but Euroformula still kind of follows the original ethos of F3 when everyone else has moved onto homogenisation. Eurocup-3 might be the nail in the coffin. It just fills the gap in the market that Euro Open sat/sits in, but with the homogenised formula instead.

Sad to see 'F3' come to this but it all makes sense - why spend £200,000 to drive a Mygale/Spiess combo that will never compete against the guy in the £350,000 brand-new 'factory' ASM F307/Mercedes? Not changed that much if you're comparing Prema and Arden, but at least the series organisers can say they're all in the 'same car' so it's fair.

[peebee2]

The Dallara is a superior product, but the best way to prepare to drive an overweight turbo barge in future is to drive a slightly slower overweight turbo barge now.

[Alessio]

Originally Posted by peebee2

The Dallara is a superior product, but the best way to prepare to drive an overweight turbo barge in future is to drive a slightly slower overweight turbo barge now.

Fair point. Conversely, 'OG' F3 was great for developing feedback. I know it didn't go much further than dampers or flaps, but it used to be the only place for juniors to hone the ability of refining a car outside of F1 test roles or factory-GT racing once F3000 was sanitised. Thought that was cool, but I guess a lot of the future F1 drivers are doing a lot of that in simulators nowadays.

[NaBUru38]

The Euroformula Open has switched to Hankook tyres.

[NaBUru38]

Eurocup-3 has 8 drivers announced:

* Campos: Francesco Braschi, Esteban Masson, Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak, Suleiman Zanfari.
* MP: Sebastian Gravlund, Sebastian Øgaard, Garfias.
* Drivex: Nick Gilkes.

Palou and GRS have not announced drivers yet.

[NaBUru38]

GB3 has 24 drivers announced so far, including Alex Dunne at Hitech, and Jarrod Waberski and Souta Arao at Fortec.

[NaBUru38]

The Formula Regional European by Alpine has 32 drivers announced so far, inculding: Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Rafael Câmara and Lorenzo Fluxá at Prema; Charlie Wurz at ART, Alessandro Giusti at G4; and Kas Haverkort at Van Amsterfoort.

[peebee2]

I hear EFO has only 5 full-time confirmed so far.

[kipper]

Originally Posted by peebee2

I hear EFO has only 5 full-time confirmed so far.

That is my understanding, although there are rumours that Juju Noda might be signing up for the year.

I do wonder whether the launch of Eurocup-3 has had an effect. It is a roughly similar level and has some of the same tracks. It has signed up a reasonable number of drivers so far.

[peebee2]

You have to wonder if EFO has had it's day. Great technology, but now quite out of step with the mainstream.

A really good calendar, and very good track-time, but overall erratic organisation and dominated by a team who cause toxicity in any series they ever take part in.

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by peebee2

You have to wonder if EFO has had it's day. Great technology, but now quite out of step with the mainstream.

A really good calendar, and very good track-time, but overall erratic organisation and dominated by a team who cause toxicity in any series they ever take part in.

Think we need to be a bit more careful about the tone used in relation to entrants and participants whether there is substance to what you say, or not.

Please bear this in mind when you post.

[v8supes]

Very poor of MP Motorsports to have all 3 cars excluded for technical irregularities. The F3 site says it was related to bodywork modifications but Alex Brundle mentioned in the race 2 broadcast that they modified something to change the suspension geometry?

[NaBUru38]

Indeed, the parts seem to have been discovered as significantly different from the spec.

https://formulascout.com/colapinto-d...ullivan/105291

[NaBUru38]

I was unaware of what was the keel. It's a bodywork piece that extends below the nose, and where some suspension arms are fixed.

It's not clear to me if this unapproved keep also had different suspension arm fixation points.

[peebee2]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

I was unaware of what was the keel. It's a bodywork piece that extends below the nose, and where some suspension arms are fixed.

It's not clear to me if this unapproved keep also had different suspension arm fixation points.

Basically if it's not true the lower arms will attach at slightly different angles to the original.

[NaBUru38]

The Formula Regional European by Alpine begins the 2023 season this weekend at Imola.

[NaBUru38]

The Euroformula Open starts this weekend at Algarve.

The entry list has 10 drivers:

* Motopark: Noel León, Jakob Bergmeister, Cian Shields, Bryce Aron.
* CryptoTower by Motopark: Enzo Trulli, Tim Tramnitz.
* BVM: Francesco Simonazzi.
* Noda: Juju Noda.
* Effective: Vladimir Netušil.
* NV: Paolo Brajnik.

[Formulahistory]

puh these series looks like game over