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Ernesto Rivera stormed to victory during the Sprint Race at the 2026 F3 Austrian GP, view the full race report here. Round 4 of the 2026 F3 season began with a quiet Free Practice session that saw Noah Strømsted top the timesheets with a 1:22.410. Qualifying, however, proved challenging with track temperatures reaching 52°C, forcing…
Campos Racing’s Ernesto Rivera claimed his maiden F3 Sprint Race victory after hard fought race in the 2026 Austrian GP Spielberg Round, full results below. James Wharton started from pole position alongside Campos Racing’s Ernesto Rivera on the front row. Pedro Clerot lined up third, with Jin Nakamura completing the second row. Wharton made a…
Van Amersfoort Racing’s (VAR) Hiyu Yamakoshi continued his strong run of form during F3 Qualifying at the 2026 Austrian GP, with the Japanese rookie claiming his maiden pole position. The VAR driver has built solid momentum over the past few rounds, emerging as one of the standout performers in the field. Fresh off his maiden…
Campos Racing’s Ugo Ugochukwu will start Sunday’s FIA Formula 3 (F3) Feature Race from the front row after converting a difficult Friday into a strong Qualifying result in the Spielberg Round. Despite losing valuable running to reliability issues in Free Practice, the American recovered to secure second on the grid, putting himself in contention for…
Tuukka Taponen qualified third for the 2026 F3 Austrian GP, missing out on pole position by just four hundredths of a second. The MP Motorsport driver set the fastest time of the session on his opening run, only for traffic to prevent him from improving on his second set of tyres. Speaking in the post-qualifying…
Jin Nakamura produced a crucial final-lap improvement to secure ninth place for Hitech in 2026 Spielberg F3 Qualifying at the Red Bull Ring. The Japanese driver recorded a 1:22.059 as the chequered flag fell, climbing into the top 10 when most of the field failed to improve. The result gives Nakamura competitive starting positions for…
Qualifying for the 2026 F3 Austrian GP got underway at the Red Bull Ring on Friday afternoon, following Free Practice earlier in the day. TRIDENT’s Noah Strømsted had topped the timesheets in the opening session, with Taito Kato and Freddie Slater completing the top three. Heading into Qualifying, Ugo Ugochukwu leads the Drivers’ Championship by…
The 2026 F3 Austrian GP Qualifying ended with Hiyu Yamakoshi securing pole. View the full provisional results for the F3 Qualifying at the Spielberg Round below. After the Free Practice session earlier Friday, Noah Strømsted, Taito Kato and Freddie Slater were the top three. However, the Qualifying session brought more chaos for the 30 F3…
Noah Strømsted made an impressive start to Round 4 of the 2026 F3 season by setting the fastest time in Free Practice at Spielberg. The TRIDENT driver produced a 1:22.410 around the Red Bull Ring to lead the field ahead of Qualifying. More importantly, the performance gave Strømsted and his team an encouraging response following…
F3 Free Practice for the 2026 Austrian GP began in warm 24°C conditions at the Red Bull Ring at 09:55. However, competitive running did not begin immediately. Instead, the entire field remained in the pit lane for the opening 10 minutes of the 45-minute session, having only recently concluded in-season testing at the Spielberg circuit…
