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Races
1 12 Apr Oulton Park
2 13 Apr Oulton Park
3 25 Apr Donington
4 26 Apr Donington
5 3 May Silverstone
6 4 May Silverstone
7 30 May Rockingham
8 31 May Rockingham
9 6 Jun Hockenheim
10 7 Jun Hockenheim
11 4 Jul Snetterton
12 5 Jul Snetterton
13 24 Jul Spa-Francorchamps
14 25 Jul Spa-Francorchamps
15 15 Aug Silverstone
16 16 Aug Silverstone
17 29 Aug Bucharest
18 30 Aug Bucharest
19 19 Sep Brands Hatch
20 20 Sep Brands Hatch

Confirmed Drivers

Carlin
Daniel Ricciardo
Max Chilton
Oliver Oakes

Fortec
Victor Garcia

Raikkonen-Robertson (Double R)
Carlos Huertas

Roll of Honour
1979 - Chico Serra
1980 - Stefan Johansson
1981 - Jonathan Palmer
1982 - Tommy Byrne
1983 - Ayrton Senna
1984 - Johnny Dumfries
1985 - Mauricio Gugelmin
1986 - Andy Wallace
1987 - Johnny Herbert
1988 - JJ Lehto
1989 - David Brabham
1990 - Mika Hakkinen
1991 - Rubens Barrichello
1992 - Gil de Ferran
1993 - Kelvin Burt
1994 - Jan Magnussen
1995 - Oliver Gavin
1996 - Ralph Firman
1997 - Jonny Kane
1998 - Mario Haberfeld
1999 - Marc Hynes
2000 - Antonio Pizzonia
2001 - Takuma Sato
2002 - Robbie Kerr
2003 - Alan van der Merwe
2004 - Nelson Piquet Jr
2005 - Alvaro Parente
2006 - Mike Conway
2007 - Marko Asmer
2008 - Jaime Alguersuari

Full list

No Thruxton
This is BRITISH F3! Leave the European tracks for the European series!

And they've cut Monza, which was the always the best European round, and often the round of the year! Don't think Hockenheim is a very good replacement

No Croft either

I can't understand why British F3 should go abroad

Hockenheim? Bucharest? Is that the best they could do?

Bucharest is the city street race, so at least that's a bit different to the other races.

No idea why they aren't going to Croft, there was the big crash there last year which broke a marshal's leg, but safety's never been mentioned as a concern before.

Hockenheim's just dangerous in F3 cars.

Add in national-level drivers and someone's going to need reshelling by the end of that weekend.

Lucas di Grassi, Jon Lancaster and James Jakes agree with you.

aswell as Farbio Carbone, Stephane Richelmi and the drivers who were involved in a Kristensen 07 like Crash back in 2003.

The only non British track they should be allowed to go to is Spa. That's been a long tradition.

I've said it countless times that they have to remember that this is British F3 not Euro F3.

Perhaps they should merge the British championship and the Euroseries but keeping a British F3 championship as a national series like the German/ATS F3 Cup

Take the best teams from both - Carlin, Mucke, Signature, ART, Double R, Hitech, T-Sport etc - and then take the Euroseries and make it more pan-European, because the DTM schedule is largely German-centric. A calendar which includes 2 German rounds, 2 British rounds, Spa, Bucharest, a round or 2 in France (Pau being one), a round or 2 in Spain (Valencia streest?), Zandvoort, Monaco, a Portuguese round (Algarve presumably) and a round or 2 in Italy, plus the Masters - long calendar but higher standard. Then it would also keep British F3 as British, although it would effectively end up a stepping stone further down - the drivers that would otherwise probably compete in the National Class would find themselves in better machinery

... making it all even more expensive.

there is enough interest to fill both Euroseries and British F3, so I don't see the point in merging them, it will mean there would be less places for young talent to race in

Yeah but the races at Monza have been awesome enough to warrant it's inclusion IMO
Techincally I'd agree with you 100% and be against it, but the racing there has been 200% awesome which outweighs that...

Bloody Ratel and his GT package....the F3 boys should've really gone for the free BTCC spot...not this quasi international calender
No Thruxton is unforgiveable (and added to dropping monza=no true high speed test this year ) and I still miss the fact they can't go to Castle Coombe any more, even though that has been a couple of years since they were forced out by NIMBYS

Monza seems to be losing all its top series right now for some reason - WTCC and FIA GT/F3. Perhaps there have been changes to the noise restrictions

Oliver Oakes will rejoin Carlin, his former FBMW team

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72770

Daniel Ricciardo for the win. Got it in the bag.

I agree 100% that British F3 should stay home.Please don't destroy the most competitive series for young drivers (apart from GP2) anywhere in the world.I've watched Brit F3 for years and the racing is always exciting-far better than Euro F3.What can the series gain by racing in Bucharest?If they wanted a street race they could simply make something like Birmingham street circuit in the past and everything would be just fine.

The Birmingham street race required an act of British Parliament, and it is the only city in the UK where street racing is allowed to be held. If they wanted to do another one somewhere else Parliament would need to pass a new bill specifically for it.

I didn't know that.Is the same rule in Ireland?It's much closer than Romania.