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...

A new Formula 3 car from Russia will aim to break Dallara's domination of the category in 2015. The ArtTech P315, designed and built by Moscow-based ArtLine Engineering, is intended for the F3 European Championship plus a program in the lower-level German series.ArtLine's last car competed in the German F3...

The British Formula 3 Championship will not happen in 2015, according to the man who runs the series' teams' group FOTA.Peter Briggs told AUTOSPORT that the championship, which has run continually since 1979, has been scrapped for 2015 after all avenues of reviving it failed.The most recent plan was to...

American Santino Ferrucci has joined the grid for this weekend's British Formula 3 Championship round at Brands Hatch. He will line up in a Fortec Motorsport Dallara-Mercedes, alongside championship leader Matt Rao and runner-up Martin Cao.Ferrucci has raced in the Formula 3 European Championship this season, but missed the opening...

The British Formula 3 Championship could link up with the German F3 Cup to create a joint calendar in 2015 designed to encourage teams to compete in both series.The idea has been proposed by Peter Briggs, boss of British F3 teams' association FOTA, in the face of a grid that...

Anglo-Swedish Formula 3 team Performance Racing is ready to return to the British F3 International Series this season.The Silverstone-based team, which is playing a leading role in the new Formula Acceleration 1 series, will not be represented in the German F3 Cup this year.Team chief Bobby Issazadhe partly put the...

National Formula 3 championships in Europe have been warned by the FIA that they may not be able to use the "F3" name. The move follows the FIA F3 European Championship's switch to engines conforming to the international governing body's new regulations for 2014.The only national championship to use new-spec...