First track action for FIA Formula 3 in 2025 to take place in Barcelona! Official F1 Journal FIA Formula 3 pre-season testing preview

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The FIA Formula 3 Championship is set to kick off a brand new era in 2025, and the first track action is to get underway with pre-season testing in Barcelona over the next few days.

Formula 3 will be using a new car in its championships going forward which has never seen track action before, as the previous spec of machinery was used in the 2024 post-season testing. 

With 29 of the 30 drivers confirmed to be participating in the 2025 FIA Formula 3 Championship, heading into the three-day test in Barcelona and all will be hoping to impress their employers and to get to grips with their machinery ahead of the season opener in March.

While Jonas Reid testing for AIX Racing and without a confirmed seat for the 2025 campaign, he could use the pre-season testing as a chance to impress the team and potentially earn himself a drive in the 2025 FIA Formula 3 Championship season.

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Pre-season testing in Barcelona will last over three days beginning on Wednesday February 19 and ending on Friday February 21, with a morning and afternoon session across each day. Therefore, six sessions in total with each session lasting three hours long.

The testing itself will take place at what is a familiar venue to the FIA Formula 3 Championship, the Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya, which has played host to many days of testing in the past but it has also hosted many racing rounds including the very first round in the championship's history back in 2019.

In Barcelona, was where Formula 3 last had on track action as it rounded out post-season testing, following an enthralling 2024 season which saw the championship celebrate its 100th race in the 2024 feature race at the circuit.

Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya is a circuit that the drivers will be familiar with and is one of 14 corners and it has a lap distance of 4.657km. Two DRS zones are also situated on the Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya which run into turns 1 and 10.

The race weekend lap record around the famous Spanish circuit was set by Josep 'Pepe' Maria Marti in 2023. Pepe Marti's time was a 1:27.587 and the now Formula 2 racer will be hoping that lap time will remain unbeaten throughout 2025 and beyond.

30 drivers across 10 teams will compete in the post-season testing that will commence on Wednesday morning and end on Friday afternoon. The driver lineup for the 2025 FIA Formula 3 Championship pre-season testing is as follows:

Prema Racing
  1. Brando Badoer (ITA)
  2. Noel Leon (MEX)
  3. Ugo Ugochukwu (USA)

Trident
  4. Noah Stromsted (DNK)
  5. Rafael Camara (BRA)
  6. Charlie Wurz (AUT)

ART Grand Prix
  7. Laurens Van Hoepen (NLD)
  8. Tuukka Taponen (FIN)
  9. James Wharton (AUS)

Campos Racing
  10. Mari Boya (ESP)
  11. Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak (THA)
  12. Nikola Tsolov (BGR)

Hitech TGR
  14. Martinius Stenshorne (NOR)
  15. Joshua Dufek (AUT)
  16. Gerrard Xie (CHN)

MP Motorsport
  17. Tim Tramnitz (GER)
  18. Bruno Del Pino (ESP)
  19. Alessandro Giusti (FRA)

Van Amersfoort Racing
  20. Theophile Nael (FRA)
  21. Santiago Ramos (MEX)
  22. Ivan Domingues (POR)

Rodin Motorsport
  23. Callum Voisin (GBR)
  24. Louis Sharp (NZL)
  25. Roman Bilinski (POL)

AIX Racing
  26. Javier Sagrera (ESP)
  27. Nicola Marinangeli (ITA)
  28. Jonas Reid (DEU)

DAMS Lucas Oil
  29. Nicola Lacorte (ITA)
  30. Matias Zagazeta (PER)
  31. Christian Ho (SGP)

Brandon Whiteside 
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