2011 International Formula 3 Trophy | Zandvoort F3 Masters!

Mattzel89 · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:46 pm

yup, it's on!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88646

Quote:

The FIA has announced the creation of a new Formula 3 International Trophy for the 2011 season, encompassing classic events such as the Pau and Macau street races, as predicted by AUTOSPORT magazine last month.

Drivers registered for the various national F3 series will be able to score in the new international contest, which will use the Formula 1-style 25-18-15-etc top 10 points system.

The top three drivers in the final classification will qualify for the superlicence required for F1, putting the F3 International Trophy on a par with Formula 2.

The six-round championship will include the revived Pau Grand Prix, a race at Hockenheim on a currently-unspecified date, the British F3 event supporting the Spa 24 Hours sportscar race, the traditional Zandvoort Masters, plus Macau and its new end-of-season partner event at Korean Grand Prix venue Yeongam.

An FIA statement said the series was being created "in order to further increase the appeal of Formula 3 and to help develop the careers of young aspirant racing drivers and engineers."

F3 has been hit by competition from new series such as GP3 in recent years, with grids in the F3 Euro Series rarely exceeding 13 cars this season - although the British F3 Championship attracted larger fields, and lower-level F3 series have continued in Germany Italy, Japan and Spain.

2011 FIA International Formula 3 Trophy calendar:

Date Venue
tba Hockenheim
22 May Pau
31 July Spa
14 August Zandvoort
20 November Macau
27 November Korea

Fish88 · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:58 pm

Fuck yeah, epic stuff.

Pau back + Spa, Macau and Zandvoort in 1 championship. Holy shit!

kart99 · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:32 pm

No British round? Well that's a disappointment considering it had the biggest grids of any F3 championship.

James B · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:42 pm

I'm not convinced this is going to work

All well and good doing one-off events like Macau and Zandvoort but the reason they were popular was that they were one-off events. Putting them together in a championship isn't necessarily going to make it magically work - it could put teams off. F3 is very expensive. You're asking teams who are already committed to long seasons (30 races in British F3 next year) to effectively do another season on top

Sorry for the negativity but I don't see it lasting

RtN · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:17 pm

kart99 wrote:

No British round? Well that's a disappointment considering it had the biggest grids of any F3 championship.

There is a British round.

It's at Spa.

De Cesaris fan · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:40 pm

We've just borrowed it off the Belgians for a while. Maybe we can keep it for our own.

kart99 · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:47 pm

RtN wrote:

kart99 wrote:

No British round? Well that's a disappointment considering it had the biggest grids of any F3 championship.

There is a British round.

It's at Spa.

Oh yes, that well known British racing circuit.

Gaara · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:49 pm

RtN wrote:

kart99 wrote:

No British round? Well that's a disappointment considering it had the biggest grids of any F3 championship.

There is a British round.

It's at Spa.

RtN · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:15 pm

kart99 wrote:

RtN wrote:

kart99 wrote:

No British round? Well that's a disappointment considering it had the biggest grids of any F3 championship.

There is a British round.

It's at Spa.

Oh yes, that well known British racing circuit.

You should've been more specific.

But, in all seriousness, Spa has been a part of the British F3 calendar for decades, it is a British round.

Metzo · PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:24 pm

no Norisring :C

Scirocco · PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:00 am

Metzo wrote:

no Norisring :C

yeah would of been good.

I like this idea. F3 (apart from the brtish series) is starting to get overshadowed by the new GP3 and F2 now, i think with this and the prize of being successful in it will make it attractive again.

ellis · PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:52 am

That's cool but it should have had a proper British event (Silverstone?) and the Norisring added. But great start.

da_chris · PostPosted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:24 pm

RtN wrote:

kart99 wrote:

No British round? Well that's a disappointment considering it had the biggest grids of any F3 championship.

There is a British round.

It's at Spa.

more likely it is Macau...

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:15 am

I guess it makes a kind of sense...

F3 teams used to double dip Pau and Spa anyway (if they were in British going over to do Euro for Pau and vice versa for Spa) due to the historic nature of those rounds and to give the drivers experience on street tracks and, well, Spa cos its awesome before they got to F1.

Everyone did Macau and Zaandvort Masters anyway so that's not really gonna change things

Put all these races together and you might tempt a few more teams to go to Hockenhiem and Korea to have a run at a title bid....

I doubt grid numbers will be as high as either series for ALL rounds as you'll get the title protagonists and a few "might be nice to drive here" people, but could be fun to watch.

Now, who will have TV rights? :lol:

MaskedMan · PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:08 pm

Oh it's brilliant. Only thing it needs, as said before, is a proper British round. That being said, and I'm quoting Jeremy Clarkson: "Belgium is a country invented so that the British and Germans can sort out their differences". I guess that applies to racing, too?

In all seriousness, Brands Hatch or Silverstone would do just fine. That being said, it shouldn't drop Spa off the calendar.

Slyder · PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:52 am

Fuck Brands Hatch or Silverstone.

Take them to Knockhill...

Also, Monaco should've been there, IMO.

Otherwise, it's a great idea and precisely the same type of idea I had been championing for F3 for ages.

ellis · PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:55 pm

Knockhill would be utterly hilarious. It's an awesome circuit, but imagine the amount of safety cars you'd have with a huge grid.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:35 am

No, Thruxton please....thanks.

RtN · PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:44 am

The Hockenheim round was going to be the Euroseries race at Silverstone but for scheduling clashes.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88800

Mattzel89 · PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 1:09 pm

Looks like the Pau races might be shown live on MotorsTV

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