2026 GB3 Championship

The 2026 GB3 Championship is a motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars scheduled to be held across Europe. The 2026 season will be the eleventh organised by the British Racing Drivers' Club in the United Kingdom, and the sixth season under the GB3 moniker after rebranding from the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship in mid-2021. The championship will feature a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers. The season is scheduled to be run over eight triple-header rounds, starting in April and ending in November.[1]

Teams and drivers

After the introduction of the Tatuus MSV GB3-025 in 2025, 2026 will see another aerodynamic upgrade to the chassis package.[2] The Mountune engine, previously a two-litre unit, will be upgraded to a 2.4-litre engine, thereby providing a 25% torque increase. All cars run on Pirelli tyres.[3]

Team No. Driver Rounds
Rodin Motorsport 1 Maxim Rehm TBC
2 Martin Molnár TBC
3 Abbi Pulling[4] TBC
Hitech 4 Noah Lisle TBC
5 Yuhao Fu TBC
6 Deagen Fairclough[5] TBC
Xcel Motorsport 7 Lucas Fluxá TBC
8 Rowan Campbell-Pilling TBC
9 Ricardo Baptista TBC
Hillspeed 10 Dante Vinci TBC
11 Peter Bouzinelos TBC
12 Aurelia Nobels TBC
JHR Developments 14 TBA TBC
15 TBA TBC
16 TBA TBC
Elite Motorsport 17 TBA TBC
18 TBA TBC
19 Kyuho Lee TBC
VRD Racing 20 Nikita Bedrin TBC
21 Patricio González TBC
22 Rodrigo González TBC
Fortec Motorsports 23 Alexandros Kattoulas TBC
24 Jack Taylor TBC
25 TBA TBC
Arden Motorsport 26 TBA TBC
27 Leon Wilson TBC
28 TBA TBC
Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing 29 TBA TBC
30 TBA TBC
31 Jason Pribyl TBC

Team changes

Arden Motorsport will return to GB3 after a one-year absence.[6]

Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing, a cooperation between British Superbike Championship team Nitrous Competitions and GB4 team ADM Racing, will enter GB3 with a three-car lineup.[7]

Driver changes

Rodin Motorsport signed two new drivers after they promoted reigning champion Alex Ninovic to their newly formed Formula Regional European Championship outfit and Gianmarco Pradel joined MP Motorsport in Eurocup-3.[8][9] Maxim Rehm joined the team for his full-season debut after a race-winning guest drive for Hillspeed in the final round of 2025, together with Martin Molnár, who steps up from British F4 after coming third in 2025 with Virtuosi Racing.[10][11]

Nikita Johnson and Keanu Al Azhari leave Hitech as Johnson will compete in Indy NXT with Cape Motorsports Powered by ECR and Al Azhari joined the team's Eurocup-3 outfit.[12][13] The team signed Noah Lisle, who finished his debut GB3 seventh driving for JHR Developments, and British F4 graduate Yuhao Fu, who came 25th in 2025 driving for Xcel Motorsport.[14][15]

Xcel Motorsport enter 2026 with an all-new driver lineup after 2025 runner-up Patrick Heuzenroeder departed the series to join Campos Racing in Eurocup-3 and neither Jack Sherwood nor any of the team's three part-time drivers returned.[16] Xcel signed Rowan Campbell-Pilling, who steps up from British F4 after coming tenth in 2025 driving for JHR Developments, hired Ricardo Baptista, who graduates to GB3 from Brazilian Formula 4, where he finished the 2025 season in tenth, and saw Lucas Fluxá move over from Hillspeed after finishing the 2025 GB3 season in eighth.[17][18][19]

Hillspeed also have an all-new, all-rookie lineup after none of their eight part-time competitors returned to the team. All three of its drivers step up from Formula 4, with Aurelia Nobels departing F1 Academy after coming 13th in 2025 with ART Grand Prix, Dante Vinci graduating from Italian F4 after finishing the 2025 season in 21st driving for Van Amersfoort Racing, and Peter Bouzinelos returning to racing after a year on the sidelines following a bicycling accident.[20][21][22]

Noah Lisle and Kai Daryanani both left JHR Developments, with Lisle joining Hitech and Daryanani moving to FREC with Trident.[14][23]

Reza Seewooruthun leaves Argenti with Prema, as he will compete in FREC with Rodin Motorsport.[24]

Bianca Bustamante leaves Elite Motorsport to join Palou Motorsport in Eurocup-3, while William Macintyre stepped away from racing to focus on his cancer recovery.[25][26] The team signed Genesis Magma Racing's Trajectory Program driver Kyuho Lee, who finished 22nd with Rodin Motorsport in Spanish F4 in 2025.[27]

VRD Racing will have an all-new line up, with Hugo Schwarze leaving midway through 2025 to compete in the European Le Mans Series in the LMGT3 class with R-ace GP and Enzo Tarnvanichkul focusing on his Eurocup-3 campaign with Campos Racing.[28][29] After joining the team for the second half of 2026, siblings Patricio and Rodrigo González rejoin the team for the full 2026 season, and Nikita Bedrin joins the team for his GB3 debut after finishing the 2025 FRECA season in eleventh with Saintéloc Racing.[30][31][32]

Fortec Motorsport saw Stefan Bostandjiev join Hitech in Eurocup-3.[33] To replace him, the team signed Alexandros Kattoulas, who graduates from GB4 after finishing the 2025 season fourth driving for Elite Motorsport.[34] The team also promoted Jack Taylor from their GB4 outfit with whom he came tenth in 2025.[35]

Returning team Arden Motorsport will field Leon Wilson, promoting him from their GB4 outfit with whom he came seventh in 2025.[6]

New team Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing promoted Jason Pribyl from their GB4 outfit, with whom he came 17th in 2025.[36]

Race calendar

The provisional calendar was announced on 25 September 2025.[1] The series kept to its strategy of combining four British rounds with four rounds outside the UK, but swapped two overseas venues. The series will not return to Circuit Zandvoort, where it had been racing since 2023, and Monza Circuit will also not return after its debut in 2025. Instead, GB3 will debut at the Red Bull Ring and at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.[37]

Round Circuit Date Supporting Map of circuit locations
1 R1 Silverstone Circuit
(Grand Prix Circuit, Northamptonshire) 		25–26 April British GT Championship
GB4 Championship
R2
R3
2 R4 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
(Spa, Belgium) 		30–31 May Spa Euro Race
Formula Regional European Championship
Supercar Challenge
Britcar Endurance Championship
R5
R6
3 R7 Hungaroring
(Mogyoród, Hungary) 		4–5 July International GT Open
Euroformula Open Championship
Formula Regional European Championship
TCR Europe Touring Car Series
R8
R9
4 R10 Red Bull Ring
(Spielberg, Austria) 		11–12 July ADAC Racing Weekend Spielberg
Porsche Sports Cup Deutschland
Spezial Tourenwagen Trophy
ADAC Tourenwagen Junior Cup
R11
R12
5 R13 Silverstone Circuit
(Grand Prix Circuit, Northamptonshire) 		1–2 August GT Cup Championship
GB4 Championship
Radical Cup UK
R14
R15
6 R16 Donington Park
(Grand Prix Circuit, Leicestershire) 		5–6 September British GT Championship
GB4 Championship
TCR UK Touring Car Championship
R17
R18
7 R19 Brands Hatch
(Grand Prix Circuit, Kent) 		26–27 September British GT Championship
GB4 Championship
R20
R21
8 R22 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
(Montmeló, Spain) 		7–8 November Eurocup-3
F4 Spanish Championship
TCR Spain Touring Car Championship
R23
R24

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points will be awarded to the top 20 classified finishers in races one and two, with the third race awarding points to only the top 15. Race three, which will have its grid formed by reversing the top twelve from the qualifying order, will award extra points, up until a maximum of twelve, for positions gained from the drivers' respective starting positions.[38]

Races Position, points per race
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Races 1 & 2 35 29 24 21 19 17 15 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Race 3 20 17 15 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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