The 2026 FIA Formula 3 Championship is a scheduled motor racing championship for Formula 3 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship will be the seventeenth season of Formula 3 racing and the eighth season run under the FIA Formula 3 Championship moniker. FIA Formula 3 is an open-wheel racing category serving as the third tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category will be run in support of selected rounds of the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers competing in the championship will run the same car, the Dallara F3 2025.
Campos Racing will enter the season as the reigning Teams' Champions, having secured their inaugural title at the final race of the 2025 season at Monza Circuit.
The following teams and drivers are scheduled to compete in the 2026 FIA Formula 3 Championship. [1] As the championship is a spec series, all teams will compete with an identical Dallara F3 2025 chassis with a 3.4 L (207 cu in) naturally-aspirated V6 engine developed by Mecachrome. [2] All teams will compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli.
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Campos Racing will have an all-new lineup after left the team, all Nikola Tsolov, Mari Boya and Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak graduating to FIA F2, with Tsolov remaining with Campos, Boya to Prema Racing and Inthraphuvasak joining ART Grand Prix. [6] [7] [8] The team signed two sophomore drivers in 2025 Macau Grand Prix winner Théophile Naël, who leaves Van Amersfoort Racing after finishing eighth with the team in 2025, and Ugo Ugochukwu, who left Prema Racing after ending the 2025 season 16th. [9] [10] Red Bull Junior driver Ernesto Rivera will complete Campos' lineup on his graduation from their Eurocup-3 outfit. [11]
Reigning champion Rafael Câmara will step up to Formula 2 with Invicta Racing, while Charlie Wurz left Trident. [12] The team signed Formula Regional European Championship champion Freddie Slater and promoted runner-up Matteo De Palo for their full-season debut after Slater already deputized for two rounds for AIX Racing and Hitech TGR in 2025. [13] [14]
Both Tim Tramnitz and Bruno del Pino left MP Motorsport, with the latter joining Van Amersfoort Racing. [15] To replace them, the team signed reigning Eurocup-3 champion Mattia Colnaghi, who also joined the Red Bull Junior Team, as well as Ferrari junior driver Tuukka Taponen, who departs ART Grand Prix after coming ninth in 2025. [16] [17] [18]
ART Grand Prix renewed their lineup as Tuukka Taponen joined MP Motorsport, James Wharton joined Prema Racing and Laurens van Hoepen left the team. [18] [19] The team signed Eurocup-3 winter series champion Maciej Gładysz, who finished tenth in Eurocup-3, and promoted 2024 French F4 Champion Taito Kato and Kanato Le from their FRECA outfit, where they finished the 2025 season in seventh and 14th, respectively. [20] [21] [22]
Van Amersfoort Racing will have an all-new line-up, as Théophile Naël moved to Campos Racing while Santiago Ramos and Ivan Domingues left the team. [9] VAR promoted Hiyu Yamakoshi from its FRECA outfit, who finished ninth and signed Bruno del Pino, who leaves MP Motorsport after finishing the 2025 season in 23rd, and Jesse Carrasquedo Jr., who deputized for Hitech TGR for two rounds in 2025. [23] [15] [24]
Rodin Motorsport also have three new drivers with Louis Sharp move to Prema, Callum Voisin to compete in Porsche Carrera Cup GB and Roman Bilinski to Formula 2 with DAMS. [25] [26] [27] They signed Brando Badoer, who in turn left Prema after finishing his debut season with the team in 25th, 2024 Eurocup-3 champion Christian Ho, who departed DAMS after coming 22nd in 2025, and Pedro Clerot will graduate from FRECA, where he raced with Van Amersfoort Racing, who finished fourth. [28] [29] [30]
Brando Badoer, Ugo Ugochukwu, and Noel León all left Prema Racing as Badoer and Ugochukwu moved to Rodin Motorsport and Campos Racing respectively while León stepped up to Formula 2 with Campos Racing. [28] [10] [31] Prema signed Enzo Deligny from FRECA, where he finished third with R-ace GP. James Wharton returns to Prema, departing ART Grand Prix after finishing his full-time debut season in 18th. [32] [19] 2024 GB3 champion Louis Sharp will complete Prema's lineup for his sophomore season after a 26th place with Rodin Motorsport in 2025. [25]
Hitech TGR also renewed their lineup after Martinius Stenshorne stepped up to Formula 2 with Rodin Motorsport and neither Gerrard Xie nor any of the team's four part-time competitors returned. [33] Hitech signed a returnee and two championship debutants: Michael Shin made his FIA F3 debut in 2023 with PHM Racing by Charouz and has since been competing in Euroformula Open with Team Motopark where he finished 3rd, TGR Junior driver Jin Nakamura steps up from FRECA, where he finished 10th with R-ace GP, and Fionn McLaughlin enters FIA F3 after winning the 2025 F4 British Champion with Hitech's outfit in that series. [34] [35] [36]
AIX Racing will have two new drivers as neither James Hedley nor Nicola Marinangeli returned to the team. To replace them, AIX signed two Euroformula Open graduates: Yevan David, the series runner-up who will become the first Sri Lankan driver to compete in Formula 3, and 7th place Fernando Barrichello, who already deputized for Hedley at the team in the last round of the 2025 season. [37] [38]
DAMS Lucas Oil saw Christian Ho leave the team as he moves to Rodin Motorsport. [29] To replace Ho, the team signed Thai driver Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi from FRECA, where he finished 16th with Trident. [39]
| Round | Circuit | Sprint race | Feature race |
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| 1 | | 7 March | 8 March |
| 2 | | 11 April | 12 April |
| 3 | | 6 June | 7 June |
| 4 | | 13 June | 14 June |
| 5 | | 27 June | 28 June |
| 6 | | 4 July | 5 July |
| 7 | | 18 July | 19 July |
| 8 | | 25 July | 26 July |
| 9 | | 5 September | 6 September |
| 10 | | 12 September | 13 September |
| Source: [40] | |||
Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers in both races. [b] The pole-sitter in the feature race will also receive two points, and one point will be given to the driver who set the fastest lap in both the feature and sprint races, provided that driver finished inside the top ten. If the driver who set the fastest lap is classified outside the top ten, the point will be given to the driver who set the fastest lap of those inside the top ten. No extra points will be awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race as the grid for it will be set by reversing the top twelve qualifiers.
Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers. A bonus point will be awarded to the driver who set the fastest lap and finished in the top ten. [42]
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Points will be awarded to the top ten classified finishers. Bonus points will be awarded to the pole-sitter and to the driver who set the fastest lap and finished in the top ten.
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |