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[HistoryFan]

HWA out, Van Amersfoort in.

 

https://formulascout...-for-2022/85108

 

First guess:

Trident:

Prema: Paul Aron (?), Leonardo Fornaroli (?), David Vidaldes (?)

ART: Grégoire Saucy (?), Gabriele Mini (?)

MP: Franco Colapinto (?)

Charouz: Tim Tramnitz (?)

Hitech:

Campos:

Jenzer:

Carlin: Zak O'Sullivan (?), Christian Mansell (?)

Van Amersfoort: Oliver Bearman (?), Casper Stevenson (?), Cem Bölükbasi (?)

[A.Fant]

Haven't read up on any rumors, but I thought Leclerc would do another season with Prema for sure.

[Viryfan]

From what i hear, Mercedes is not impressed with Aron progress this year.

I would be a few quid with Hadjar at Hitech thanks to his 2022 red bull backing.

Edited by Viryfan, 12 October 2021 - 15:39.

[ezequiel]

Colapinto's manager has confirmed they are aiming for F3 next year but didn't disclose the team. The difficulty is in finding the money, of course. It seems they have until early November to secure the seat they are negotiating now. There's a possibility too to run with an Italian team but that team wants Colapinto to race as an Italian (he has that nationality too) but he wants to keep on racing under the Argentine flag. The problem is he has zero sponsorship from Argentina, all his sponsors are European.

[ezequiel]

Entry list for FIA F3 post season test at Valencia

 

No Hadrien David is the biggest surprise to me, I think

Edited by ezequiel, 31 October 2021 - 17:21.

[Viryfan]

Entry list for FIA F3 post season test at Valencia

 

No Hadrien David is the biggest surprise to me, I think

 

money is not wet enough for David

 

depends a lot on bouiller

Edited by Viryfan, 31 October 2021 - 17:38.

[William Hunt]

Also no Iwasa in that test and he was the best Red Bull Junior rookie in F3 this season. Will he already move to F2? (that would be quite soon, it's just his 2nd year in Europe) or will he return to Japan to contest Super Formula? A second season in F3 would be best for him imho.

Also no Alex Quinn and no sign of Michael Belov (who showed great speed on occasion). 

This testing field is not exactly the quality injection I was hoping for but then the most interesting drivers in F. Regional (Mini, Beganovic, Bortoletto, Rosso, Pizzi,Haverkort. Hadjar seems like the only rookie who will move up and with Red Bull backing now) were the rookies and they moved to F. Regional after just one season of F4 so it makes sense that they would do another season in that class before moving to FIA F3.

Also no Louis Foster who deserves a shot in F3.

 

Correa (wasn't he planning to move to F2 again?), van der Helm, Toth, Villagomez, Benavides, Azman, Cohen, Faria or Ushijima are not exactly drivers I'm excited about. And Rasmussen has been very underwhelming (never saw him as a big talent to be honest, he was underwhelming in F4 too). I guess Kaylen Frederick deserves a second shot because he missed several race weekends this year but he isn't going to be that competitive anyway.

 

Olie Bearman will be the most interesting rookie to watch in that test. And Paul Aron (Mercedes Jr.) & Isac Hadjar (Red Bull Jr.) off course since they're in F1 development programs. 

Then there are Zane Maloney and Franco Colapinto: two drivers I rate very highly and Colapinto has in the meantime shown that he can also be very quick in an LMP2. They are, along with Bearman, Aron & Hadjar certainly quality additions so is highly rated Spaniard David Vidales but he doesn't have that much backing behind him and is testing with Campos, one of the lesser teams although Colombo has shown that you can win in that car. 

Pepe Marti has shown some nice things in Spanish F4 this year but he was also dominated by van 't Hof and this seems like quite a big step up with just one year of racing in cars under his belt but he's certainly not a bad driver.

 

Victor Martins is imho the best driver of this field but I'm not sure if ART is the team that can give him the title, they were clearly trailing Prema & Trident this year and I think you better be at one of those two teams to win the title.

 

Arthur Leclerc has no more excuses in 2022 if he is (as is assumed) staying for a second year with Prema in F3. He just had to mount a title challenge and with a second year at the best team he has to deliver the goods and win the title so the pressure is on him.

Red Bull duo Crawford & Edgar should also be title contenders if they manage to secure a seat at Prema & Trident. Both are promissing but I rate Crawford a bit above Edgar. Stanek could be a dark horse for the title considering he has quite a bit of experience now and even Bearman or Maloney could be title challengers in their rookie season and then there is Caio Collet off course who is quite a spectacular driver and very fast but his Alpine Jr. stablemate Martins is more regular.

Edited by William Hunt, 31 October 2021 - 21:33.

[Francesc]

Very weak field.

[HistoryFan]

So updated with test line-up

 

Trident: Johnny Edgar (?), Roman Stanek (?), Zane Maloney (?)

Prema: Jak Crawford (?), Ollie Bearman (?), Paul Aron (?),

ART: Grégoire Saucy (?), Gregoire Saucy (?), Juan Manuel Correa (?)

MP: Franco Colapinto (?), Caio Collet (?), Tijimen van der Helm (?)

Charouz: Oliver Rasmussen (?), Lorenzo Colombo, Laszlo Toth (?)

Hitech: Jonathan Hoggard (?), Isack Hadjar (?). Kaylen Frederick (?)

Campos: David Vidaldes (?), Hunter Yeany (?), Pepe Marti (?)

Jenzer: Nazim Azman (?), Roberto Faria (?). Filip Ugran (?)

Carlin: Ido Cohen (?), Brad Benavides (?), Zak O'Sullivan (?)

Van Amersfoort: Jack Doohan (?), Reece Ushijima (?), Raffael Villagomez (?)

[Anja]

Is Saucy going to drive two cars at once or alternate between them? 

[A.Fant]

Sargeant will do days 2 and 3 for Carlin, which sends a strong signal he'll drive for them in F2

[BRG]

Sargeant will do days 2 and 3 for Carlin, which sends a strong signal he'll drive for them in F2

I thought he was off to Indycars?

[Anja]

I thought he was off to Indycars?

 

In a last minute plot twist he got signed as a development driver for Williams, so he's staying in the F1/F2/F3 world. 

[markpenske]

Any testing times/results posted?

[Frood]

No times I've found yet (apart from the fastest being a 1:23.349) but the top 10 this morning was:

 

Doohan

Martins

Frederick

Stanek

Rasmussen

Leclerc

Collet

Colapinto

Maloney

 

Timing is currently on for the afternoon session: http://circuit.cronometrajes.es/

[jals99]

Enzo Trulli will test for next 2 days for Jenzer)

[William Hunt]

day 1 FIA F3 testing Valencia, 01.11.2021:

 

1 Jack Doohan Van Amersfoort Racing 1m23.349s   29 laps

2 Victor Martins ART Grand Prix 1m23.541s +0.192s 38

3 Kaylen Frederick Hitech GP 1m23.546s +0.197s 30

4 Roman Stanek Trident 1m23.580s +0.231s 31

5 Jak Crawford Prema 1m23.668s +0.319s 38

6 Oliver Rasmussen Charouz Racing System 1m23.747s +0.398s 19

7 Arthur Leclerc Prema 1m23.756s +0.416s 38

8 Caio Collet MP Motorsport 1m23.838s +0.489s 42

9 Franco Colapinto MP Motorsport 1m23.847s +0.498s 47

10 Zane Maloney Trident 1m23.863s +0.514s 33

11 Gregoire Saucy ART Grand Prix 1m23.883s +0.534s 38

12 Filip Ugran Jenzer Motorsport 1m23.886s +0.537s 31

13 Lorenzo Colombo Charouz Racing System 1m23.961s +0.612s 21

14 Jonny Edgar Trident 1m23.964s +0.615s 30

15 David Vidales Campos Racing 1m24.088s +0.739s 32

16 Juan Manuel Correa ART Grand Prix 1m24.124s +0.775s 37

17 Ollie Bearman Prema 1m24.205s +0.856s 37

18 Pepe Marti Campos Racing 1m24.461s +1.112s 44

19 Rafael Villagomez Van Amersfoort Racing 1m24.481s +1.132s 32

20 Johnathan Hoggard Hitech GP 1m24.483s +1.134s 37

21 Tijmen van der Helm MP Motorsport 1m24.504s +1.155s 39

22 Roberto Faria Jenzer Motorsport 1m24.606s +1.257s 42

23 Brad Benavides Carlin 1m24.876s +1.527s 34

24 Ido Cohen Carlin 1m24.892s +1.543s 42

25 Zak O’Sullivan Carlin 1m24.998s +1.649s 34

26 Hunter Yeany Campos Racing 1m25.091s +1.742s 40

27 Reece Ushijima Van Amersfoort Racing 1m25.114s +1.765s 28

28 Laszlo Toth Charouz Racing System 1m25.805s +2.456s 20

29 Nazim Azman Jenzer Motorsport 1m26.077s +2.728s 42

30 Isack Hadjar Hitech GP no time  0 laps *

 

* Hadjar missed the session because he arrived too late from the F. Regional weekend in Monza. Hadjar will be part of the Red Bull Jr. Academy starting from 2022.

 

Source: Formula Scout

Edited by William Hunt, 01 November 2021 - 19:32.

[Viryfan]

Hadrien David rates at 90% the chances he misses on a seat FIA F3 for 2022 due to the lack of budget

[ezequiel]

day 1 FIA F3 testing Valencia, 01.11.2021:

 

1 Jack Doohan Van Amersfoort Racing 1m23.349s   29 laps

2 Victor Martins ART Grand Prix 1m23.541s +0.192s 38

3 Kaylen Frederick Hitech GP 1m23.546s +0.197s 30

4 Roman Stanek Trident 1m23.580s +0.231s 31

5 Jak Crawford Prema 1m23.668s +0.319s 38

6 Oliver Rasmussen Charouz Racing System 1m23.747s +0.398s 19

7 Arthur Leclerc Prema 1m23.756s +0.416s 38

8 Caio Collet MP Motorsport 1m23.838s +0.489s 42

9 Franco Colapinto MP Motorsport 1m23.847s +0.498s 47

10 Zane Maloney Trident 1m23.863s +0.514s 33

11 Gregoire Saucy ART Grand Prix 1m23.883s +0.534s 38

12 Filip Ugran Jenzer Motorsport 1m23.886s +0.537s 31

13 Lorenzo Colombo Charouz Racing System 1m23.961s +0.612s 21

14 Jonny Edgar Trident 1m23.964s +0.615s 30

15 David Vidales Campos Racing 1m24.088s +0.739s 32

16 Juan Manuel Correa ART Grand Prix 1m24.124s +0.775s 37

17 Ollie Bearman Prema 1m24.205s +0.856s 37

18 Pepe Marti Campos Racing 1m24.461s +1.112s 44

19 Rafael Villagomez Van Amersfoort Racing 1m24.481s +1.132s 32

20 Johnathan Hoggard Hitech GP 1m24.483s +1.134s 37

21 Tijmen van der Helm MP Motorsport 1m24.504s +1.155s 39

22 Roberto Faria Jenzer Motorsport 1m24.606s +1.257s 42

23 Brad Benavides Carlin 1m24.876s +1.527s 34

24 Ido Cohen Carlin 1m24.892s +1.543s 42

25 Zak O’Sullivan Carlin 1m24.998s +1.649s 34

26 Hunter Yeany Campos Racing 1m25.091s +1.742s 40

27 Reece Ushijima Van Amersfoort Racing 1m25.114s +1.765s 28

28 Laszlo Toth Charouz Racing System 1m25.805s +2.456s 20

29 Nazim Azman Jenzer Motorsport 1m26.077s +2.728s 42

30 Isack Hadjar Hitech GP no time  0 laps *

 

* Hadjar missed the session because he arrived too late from the F. Regional weekend in Monza. Hadjar will be part of the Red Bull Jr. Academy starting from 2022.

 

Source: Formula Scout

Those seem to be the morning times only. Afternoon times were quicker

 

1. Doohan (VAR) - 1m22.402

2. Martins (ART) +0.131

3. Maloney (Trident) +0.306

4. Stanek (Trident) +0.337

5. Saucy (ART) +0.361

6. Colombo (Charouz) +0.444

7. Leclerc (Prema) +0.491

8. Crawford (Prema) +0.565

9. Rasmussen (Charouz) +0.669

10. Colapinto (MP) +0.670

[markpenske]

Fastest this past session:

Crawford (Prema) 1m21.368

[BRG]

Enzo Trulli will test for next 2 days for Jenzer)

We need another Enzo with E. Fittipaldi moving on to F2.

 

And who knows?  Maybe this 'son of' will prove a bit better.

[Risil]

Greg Saucy, possessor of the best name in the junior formulae, tops the times at Valencia in the F3 post-season test. Quite a few series veterans below him in the timesheets, so sounds like some impressive work. Star of the future? Is he aligned with one of the F1 junior programmes?

 

https://www.autospor...esting/6741436/

[Viryfan]

Greg Saucy, possessor of the best name in the junior formulae, tops the times at Valencia in the F3 post-season test. Quite a few series veterans below him in the timesheets, so sounds like some impressive work. Star of the future? Is he aligned with one of the F1 junior programmes?

 

https://www.autospor...esting/6741436/

 

nope, but he is also a fair bit older than the rest of the competition 

[ANF]

We need another Enzo with E. Fittipaldi moving on to F2.
 
And who knows?  Maybe this 'son of' will prove a bit better.

Maybe he could use a season of FRECA or something before moving up to FIA F3? He's only done one year of car racing and neither F4 UAE nor Euroformula Open is very competitive.

[Ross Stonefeld]

nope, but he is also a fair bit older than the rest of the competition 

 

I expected him to be at least 25, god is 21 old for FIA F3? 

[noikeee]

I expected him to be at least 25, god is 21 old for FIA F3? 

 

For a F3 rookie these days yes.

 

He looked great in FREC but he was racing 16 year olds.

[HistoryFan]

First driver confirmed:

 

Trident: Johnny Edgar (?), Roman Stanek (?), Zane Maloney (?)

Prema: Jak Crawford (?), Ollie Bearman (?), Paul Aron (?),

ART: Grégoire Saucy, Victor Martins, Juan Manuel Correa (?)

MP: Franco Colapinto (?), Caio Collet (?), Tijimen van der Helm (?)

Charouz: Oliver Rasmussen (?), Lorenzo Colombo, Laszlo Toth (?)

Hitech: Jonathan Hoggard (?), Isack Hadjar (?). Kaylen Frederick (?)

Campos: David Vidaldes (?), Hunter Yeany (?), Pepe Marti (?)

Jenzer: Nazim Azman (?), Roberto Faria (?). Filip Ugran (?)

Carlin: Ido Cohen (?), Brad Benavides (?), Zak O'Sullivan (?)

Van Amersfoort: Jack Doohan (?), Reece Ushijima (?), Raffael Villagomez (?)

[HistoryFan]

Trident: Johnny Edgar (?), Roman Stanek (?), Zane Maloney (?)

Prema: Jak Crawford (?), Arthur Leclerc, Ollie Bearman

ART: Grégoire Saucy, Victor Martins, Juan Manuel Correa (?)

MP: Franco Colapinto (?), Caio Collet (?), Tijimen van der Helm (?)

Charouz: Oliver Rasmussen (?), Lorenzo Colombo, Laszlo Toth (?)

Hitech: Jonathan Hoggard (?), Isack Hadjar (?). Kaylen Frederick (?)

Campos: David Vidaldes (?), Hunter Yeany (?), Pepe Marti (?)

Jenzer: Nazim Azman (?), Roberto Faria (?). Filip Ugran (?)

Carlin: Ido Cohen (?), Brad Benavides (?), Zak O'Sullivan (?)

Van Amersfoort: Jack Doohan (?), Reece Ushijima (?), Raffael Villagomez (?)

[HistoryFan]

Trident: Johnny Edgar, Roman Stanek (?), Zane Maloney (?)

Prema: Jak Crawford, Arthur Leclerc, Ollie Bearman

ART: Grégoire Saucy, Victor Martins, Juan Manuel Correa

MP: Franco Colapinto (?), Caio Collet (?), Tijimen van der Helm (?)

Charouz: Oliver Rasmussen (?), Lorenzo Colombo, Laszlo Toth (?)

Hitech: Jonathan Hoggard (?), Isack Hadjar. Kaylen Frederick (?)

Campos: David Vidaldes (?), Hunter Yeany (?), Pepe Marti (?)

Jenzer: Nazim Azman (?), Roberto Faria (?). Filip Ugran (?)

Carlin: Ido Cohen (?), Brad Benavides (?), Zak O'Sullivan (?)

Van Amersfoort: Reece Ushijima (?), Raffael Villagomez (?), Alexander Smolyar (?)

Edited by HistoryFan, 16 January 2022 - 20:10.

[sportyskells]

Well, with doohan heading to f2 therefore he can not do both

[HistoryFan]

you're right. Fixed it.

[BRG]

Saucy (rookie) Collet and Martins (experienced) look to be the contenders, but who else might challenge?

[balage06]

Bearman maybe? Prema seat, Ferrari backing and reigning double F4 champion, that certainly sounds like a good package.

[noikeee]

I agree Bearman looks very good. Also don't discount Crawford challenging for the title now he's got a year of experience and is on a Prema.

[ezequiel]

Crawford and Leclerc, whoever drives for Trident too

[HistoryFan]

Trident: Johnny Edgar, Roman Stanek (?), Zane Maloney

Prema: Jak Crawford, Arthur Leclerc, Ollie Bearman

ART: Grégoire Saucy, Victor Martins, Juan Manuel Correa

MP: Alexander Smolyar, Franco Colapinto (?), Caio Collet (?),

Charouz: Oliver Rasmussen (?), Lorenzo Colombo, Laszlo Toth (?)

Hitech: Jonathan Hoggard (?), Isack Hadjar. Kaylen Frederick (?)

Campos: David Vidaldes (?), Hunter Yeany (?), Pepe Marti (?)

Jenzer: Nazim Azman (?), Roberto Faria (?). William Alatalo (?)

Carlin: Ido Cohen (?), Brad Benavides (?), Zak O'Sullivan (?)

Van Amersfoort: Reece Ushijima (?), Raffael Villagomez (?), Filip Ugran (?)

[William Hunt]

Lorenzo Colombo drives LMP2 this year (for Prema with Kubica & Delétraz)

Edited by William Hunt, 24 January 2022 - 13:42.

[sportyskells]

Toth is with charouz confirmed today

[HistoryFan]

update:

 

Trident: Johnny Edgar, Roman Stanek, Zane Maloney

Prema: Jak Crawford, Arthur Leclerc, Ollie Bearman

ART: Grégoire Saucy, Victor Martins, Juan Manuel Correa

MP: Alexander Smolyar, Franco Colapinto (?), Caio Collet (?),

Charouz: Oliver Rasmussen (?), Laszlo Toth, Francesco Pizzi

Hitech: Jonathan Hoggard (?), Isack Hadjar. Kaylen Frederick (?)

Campos: David Vidaldes (?), Hunter Yeany, Pepe Marti

Jenzer: Nazim Azman (?), Roberto Faria (?). William Alatalo (?)

Carlin: Ido Cohen (?), Brad Benavides (?), Zak O'Sullivan (?)

Van Amersfoort: Reece Ushijima, Raffael Villagomez, Filip Ugran (?)

[William Hunt]

Oliver Rasmussen won't do F3 this year, he has signed with Jota to do WEC LMP2 (with Jonathan Aberdein & Ed Jones as his team mates).

 

Roberto Faria won't do FIA F3 either, he will stay in GB3.
 

Filip Ugran has signed for Van Amersfoort but for the Euroformula Open Series (not impossible to combine that with FIA F3 though, Crawford did that last year but that's an expensive option).

 

On David Vidales: there is still some doubt whether he will stay another year in F. Regional or if he will move up with Campos to FIA F3 (if he finds the budget, personally I think it's better that he stays in F. Regional and moves up in '23 with a better team as Campos, he's a talented driver).

Edited by William Hunt, 12 February 2022 - 19:52.

[ezequiel]

Colapinto joins VAR

[balage06]

Do we know if the VAR takeover comes with personnel changes at the ex-HWA team?

[ezequiel]

No idea but I've read somewhere that Rafael Villagomez's dad has bought a part of the team (which seems to be a tendency these days)

[HistoryFan]

Trident: Johnny Edgar, Roman Stanek, Zane Maloney

Prema: Jak Crawford, Arthur Leclerc, Ollie Bearman

ART: Grégoire Saucy, Victor Martins, Juan Manuel Correa

MP: Alexander Smolyar, Franco Colapinto (?), Caio Collet (?),

Charouz: Nazim Azman (?), Laszlo Toth, Francesco Pizzi

Hitech: Jonathan Hoggard (?), Isack Hadjar. Kaylen Frederick

Campos: David Vidaldes (?), Hunter Yeany, Pepe Marti

Jenzer: Nazim Azman (?), Roberto Faria (?). William Alatalo (?)

Carlin: Ido Cohen (?), Brad Benavides (?), Zak O'Sullivan

Van Amersfoort: Reece Ushijima, Raffael Villagomez, Franco Colapinto

[Gambelli]

I feel a Crawford/LeClerc/Martins championship battle coming.

 

Martins looks seriously good, Both Crawford and LeClerc showed days of great speed.  If ART can produce a car week in week out as good as Prema then Martins gets my vote...

[Muppetmad]

Leclerc has the speed; he just needs to hook it all up consistently, which is easier said than done of course.

[William Hunt]

Don't forget Oliver Bearman: he will also be in the title battle. Trident has also got a good line-up. Smolyar has experience, Collet is extremely quick as well. Saucy will also be in the mix. Pizzi is also very talented and Marti is quick as well but they are in lesser teams. Hadjar will be competitive as well but probably not in the title battle at MP. Martins is the most talented driver of the field imho, Collet is not far of him.

Edited by William Hunt, 07 February 2022 - 15:37.

[sportyskells]

Well, Cohen is racing for Jezner confirmed today

[sportyskells]

Alatalo is racing for Jenzer confirmed today and now only 9 seats left

[HistoryFan]

Trident: Johnny Edgar, Roman Stanek, Zane Maloney

Prema: Jak Crawford, Arthur Leclerc, Ollie Bearman

ART: Grégoire Saucy, Victor Martins, Juan Manuel Correa

MP: Alexander Smolyar, Tijmen van der Helm (?), Caio Collet (?),

Charouz: Nazim Azman (?), Laszlo Toth, Francesco Pizzi

Hitech: Jonathan Hoggard (?), Isack Hadjar. Kaylen Frederick

Campos: David Vidaldes (?), Hunter Yeany, Pepe Marti

Jenzer: Nazim Azman (?), William Alatalo, Ido Cohen

Carlin: ???, Brad Benavides (?), Zak O'Sullivan

Van Amersfoort: Reece Ushijima, Raffael Villagomez, Franco Colapinto

Edited by HistoryFan, 13 February 2022 - 07:52.