Formula 3 post-season testing gets underway in Jerez this week

On 21 September FIA Components 3 automobiles hit the observe as soon as once more for post-season testing as groups put together for the 2023 season.

Every day of the three-day check will include a morning and a day session, with eighteen hours of observe time accessible to the drivers to collect knowledge throughout the three days. All automobiles might be supplied with eight units of slick tyres and three units of moist Pirelli tyres throughout the check, and groups will check on the exhausting compound tyres.

The primary day of testing will see a complete of sixteen drivers who’ve by no means pushed a Components 3 automobile get behind the wheel, as they’re joined by fourteen drivers with not less than one Components 3 race below their belt.

Of those fourteen drivers, ten are returning drivers who competed within the 2022 Components 3 championship, together with race winner Franco Colapinto and podium sitters Zak O’Sullivan, Reece Ushijima and Gregoire Saucy.

Nevertheless, of the ten returning drivers solely three, Gregoire Saucy, Josep Maria Marti and Rafael Villagomez will be part of again up with the identical staff they accomplished the 2022 Components 3 season with.

PREMA will take to the Jerez observe with a very new look lineup, Paul Aaron, Dino Beganovic and final season’s main Carlin driver Zak O’Sullivan occupying the PREMA automobiles for the three-day check.

Paul Aaron expressed his emotions on getting this testing alternative, “Tremendous joyful and proud to announce that I’ll take part within the post-season F3 check with PREMA. They’ve proved themselves as a staff yr after yr, and I’m joyful to have the ability to study with the perfect. It is going to be essential to collect as a lot data and information as doable through the 3-day Jerez check.”

Dino Beganovic added, “I’m actually joyful to affix the F3 check, particularly with the PREMA staff as I’ve been with them for 3 years now. I can’t wait to drive a Components 3 automobile for the primary time. We can have a very good quantity of days to drive, get used to the staff once more and have a style of what may be coming for the longer term.”

The grid will lineup on the primary day of testing on Wednesday 21 September as follows: