Callum Ilott has been excluded from third place in Race 2 of the Formula 3 European Championship finale at Hockenheim.The Briton's Van Amersfoort Racing Dallara-Mercedes failed to yield the required 1kg of fuel for its post-race sample at scrutineering. Team boss Frits van Amersfoort told Autosport that the sample fell...

The Formula 3 European Championship is to relax its unpopular engine-change grid-penalty rule for 2017.Since the new generation of powerplants was introduced in 2014, drivers have been hit with three 10-place penalties for any engine change during the season as part of a cost-cutting drive by the FIA. That was...

Formula 3 European Championship race winner Callum Ilott has admitted "I felt free" after being dropped by the Red Bull Junior program at the end of 2015.The 17-year-old went straight from karts to F3 under Red Bull's wing last season, but was released after a promising but winless campaign with...

Two-time Brazilian Formula 3 champion Pedro Piquet believes he can make a big step forward in the F3 European Championship after coming close to points on his series debut at Paul Ricard.The 17-year-old son of three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson finished 11th in race one after losing 10th place...

Leading Formula 3 European Championship team Van Amersfoort Racing has switched from Volkswagen engines to Mercedes with immediate effect.The team, which ran Max Verstappen to third in the 2014 standings and Charles Leclerc to fourth place this year, is making an overnight switch during the week-long test at Valencia, where...

Formula 3 European Championship teams and FIA officials have started discussions to ban drivers from stepping to the series straight from karts. The point was raised during a meeting at the FIA's Geneva headquarters last week, called in the wake of concerns over driving standards.Max Verstappen finished third in the...

Harrison Newey, the son of Red Bull Formula 1 technical supremo Adrian Newey, is to team up with Michael Schumacher's son Mick in ADAC Formula 4 this season.The 16-year-old Newey will race with Dutch team Van Amersfoort Racing in the new series, which is Germany's FIA-approved F4 category. He will...

Mick Schumacher, the 15-year-old son of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher, will make his car racing debut this season in the ADAC Formula 4 Championship in Germany.Schumacher will race with Van Amersfoort Racing, the Dutch team that propelled Max Verstappen – son of Schumacher Sr.'s 1994 Benetton F1...

Formula Renault ALPS runner-up Charles Leclerc is to contest the Formula 3 European Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing. The 17-year-old Monaco resident, who is managed by Nicolas Todt, tested a Dallara-Volkswagen for the Dutch team at the end of the five-day Valencia test just before Christmas.His signing is a coup...

Italian karting star Alessio Lorandi is to follow in Max Verstappen's footsteps and race in the Formula 3 European Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing.Unlike Verstappen, who contested the Florida Winter Series before competing in F3, the 16-year-old Lorandi will be making his car racing debut when he lines up on...