2022 Monza Formula 3 round

The 2022 Monza Formula 3 round was a motor racing event held on 10 and 11 September 2022 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy. It was the ninth and final race of the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and was held in support of the 2022 Italian Grand Prix.

  2022 Monza Formula 3 round

Round details
Round 9 of 9 in the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship.
Location	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy
Course	Permanent Circuit 5.793 km (3.600 mi)
Sprint Race
Date 10 September 2022 Laps 18 Podium First Franco Colapinto Van Amersfoort Racing Second Oliver Bearman Prema Racing Third Caio Collet MP Motorsport Fastest lap Driver Alexander Smolyar MP Motorsport Time 1:39.160 (on lap 14)
Feature Race
Date 11 September 2022 Laps 15[a] Pole position Driver Alexander Smolyar MP Motorsport Time 1:37.559 Podium First Zane Maloney Trident Second Oliver Bearman Prema Racing Third Jak Crawford Prema Racing Fastest lap Driver Jonny Edgar Trident Time 1:38.887 (on lap 8)

Victor Martins claimed the Drivers' Championship in chaotic circumstances by achieving a fourth-place finish despite receiving a five-second time penalty. The Frenchman also took benefit of several penalties from other drivers which were given in the aftermath, ultimately securing fourth place to win the title by just five points to eventual race winner Zane Maloney, who took his third consecutive Feature Race victory. Martins was also the first driver from ART Grand Prix who took the Drivers' Championship in modern Formula 3, after drivers from Prema Racing had previously won it in the past three seasons.

However, Prema took its crown back in the Teams' Championship after losing out on Trident in the previous season, taking its third championship in their fourth F3 season.

Driver changes

Venezuelan driver Alessandro Famularo made his debut in the series driving for Charouz Racing System to replace David Schumacher who drove for the Czech squad in the previous round in Zandvoort.^[1]

This round also saw the comeback of American driver Hunter Yeany, who returned to the series for the season finale after suffering a broken wrist at the Spielberg round wherefore he was ruled out for four rounds.^[2]

Classification

Qualifying

Russian driver Alexander Smolyar took his second pole position of this season and a joint-record third pole position alongside Dennis Hauger and Logan Sargeant by a fine margin of 0.047 seconds ahead of Zane Maloney in second, with Roman Staněk nearly a further two-tenths adrift in third place.^[3]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time/Gap	R1	R2
1	11	Alexander Smolyar	MP Motorsport	1:37.559	12	1
2	3	Zane Maloney	Trident	+0.047	11	2
3	2	Roman Staněk	Trident	+0.191	10	3
4	7	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix	+0.215	9	4
5	4	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Racing	+0.386	8	5
6	6	Oliver Bearman	Prema Racing	+0.401	7	6
7	25	William Alatalo	Jenzer Motorsport	+0.464	6	7
8	5	Jak Crawford	Prema Racing	+0.472	5	8
9	1	Jonny Edgar	Trident	+0.550	4	9
10	22	Pepe Martí	Campos Racing	+0.623	3	10
11	10	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	+0.665	2	11
12	29	Franco Colapinto	Van Amersfoort Racing	+0.724	1	12
13	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	+0.476	221	13
14	17	Kaylen Frederick	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.885	13	14
15	8	Grégoire Saucy	ART Grand Prix	+0.929	14	15
16	18	Isack Hadjar	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.939	15	16
17	26	Zak O'Sullivan	Carlin	+0.941	16	17
18	20	David Vidales	Campos Racing	+1.114	17	18
19	30	Rafael Villagómez	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.123	18	19
20	16	Francesco Pizzi	Charouz Racing System	+1.255	291	20
21	27	Brad Benavides[b]	Carlin	+1.307	232	21
22	31	Reece Ushijima[c]	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.356	301	22
23	21	Hunter Yeany	Campos Racing	+1.546	19	23
24	23	Ido Cohen	Jenzer Motorsport	+1.563	20	24
25	28	Enzo Trulli	Carlin	+1.603	21	25
26	24	Federico Malvestiti	Jenzer Motorsport	+2.089	24	26
27	19	Nazim Azman	Hitech Grand Prix	+2.241	25	27
28	12	Kush Maini	MP Motorsport	+2.449	26	28
29	14	László Tóth	Charouz Racing System	+2.758	27	29
30	15	Alessandro Famularo[d]	Charouz Racing System	+3.301	28	30
Source:[8]

Notes:

• ^1 – Juan Manuel Correa, Francesco Pizzi and Reece Ushijima all received ten-place grid penalties for the Sprint race due to failing to slow under double yellow flags. Additionally, Correa got his fastest lap time deleted.^[9]
• ^2 – Brad Benavides received a three-place grid penalty for the Sprint race for causing a collision with William Alatalo at the Feature Race in Zandvoort.^[10]

Sprint race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Gap	Grid	Pts.
1	29	Franco Colapinto	Van Amersfoort Racing	18	34:09.813	1	10
2	6	Oliver Bearman	Prema Racing	18	+0.432	7	9
3	10	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	18	+2.109	2	8
4	3	Zane Maloney	Trident	18	+3.404	11	7
5	1	Jonny Edgar	Trident	18	+4.121	4	6
6	8	Grégoire Saucy	ART Grand Prix	18	+4.279	14	5
7	5	Jak Crawford	Prema Racing	18	+4.614	5	4
8	4	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Racing	18	+6.061	8	3
9	22	Pepe Martí	Campos Racing	18	+6.547	3	2
10	7	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix	18	+6.878	9	1
11	12	Kush Maini	MP Motorsport	18	+7.755	26
12	2	Roman Staněk	Trident	18	+7.983	10
13	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	18	+8.157	22
14	25	William Alatalo	Jenzer Motorsport	18	+9.252	6
15	23	Ido Cohen	Jenzer Motorsport	18	+12.316	20
16	24	Federico Malvestiti	Jenzer Motorsport	18	+12.998	24
17	16	Francesco Pizzi	Charouz Racing System	18	+13.468	29
18	27	Brad Benavides	Carlin	18	+13.7503	23
19	31	Reece Ushijima	Van Amersfoort Racing	18	+15.953	30
20	28	Enzo Trulli	Carlin	18	+17.476	21
21	19	Nazim Azman	Hitech Grand Prix	18	+18.710	25
22	14	László Tóth	Charouz Racing System	18	+22.362	27
23	15	Alessandro Famularo	Charouz Racing System	18	+30.912	28
24	21	Hunter Yeany	Campos Racing	18	+50.936	19
25	11	Alexander Smolyar	MP Motorsport	18	+1:09.799	12
26	30	Rafael Villagómez	Van Amersfoort Racing	18	+1:10.263	18
27	18	Isack Hadjar	Hitech Grand Prix	18	+1:10.409	15
DNF	17	Kaylen Frederick	Hitech Grand Prix	11	Mechanical	13
DNF	26	Zak O'Sullivan	Carlin	3	Accident	16
DNS	20	David Vidales	Campos Racing	—	Did not start4	17
Fastest lap set by Alexander Smolyar: 1:39.160 (lap 14)
Source:[8][11]

Notes:

• ^3 – Brad Benavides originally finished in fourteenth, but was later given a five-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage, demoting him to eighteenth place.
• ^4 – David Vidales stalled on the grid at the formation lap and was unable to start the race. Thus, his grid slot was left vacant.

Feature race

The Feature Race was originally scheduled to be run for 22 laps, but was later red-flagged on lap 18 after a collision between Kush Maini and Brad Benavides, that damaged the barrier. However, race direction decided that the race would not be resumed, with the final results have been taken into account from lap 15. As a consequence, Zane Maloney won the final race of the season and took his third consecutive Feature Race win, finishing ahead of both Prema drivers Oliver Bearman and Jak Crawford.^[12]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Gap	Grid	Pts.
1	3	Zane Maloney	Trident	15	28:00.288	2	25
2	6	Oliver Bearman	Prema Racing	15	+0.587	6	18
3	5	Jak Crawford	Prema Racing	15	+5.024	8	15
4	7	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix	15	+6.0615	4	12
5	4	Arthur Leclerc	Prema Racing	15	+6.086	5	10
6	2	Roman Staněk	Trident	15	+6.420	3	8
7	25	William Alatalo	Jenzer Motorsport	15	+9.6285	7	6
8	1	Jonny Edgar	Trident	15	+12.0805	9	4 (1)
9	18	Isack Hadjar	Hitech Grand Prix	15	+13.555	16	2
10	31	Reece Ushijima	Van Amersfoort Racing	15	+14.228	22	1
11	26	Zak O'Sullivan	Carlin	15	+14.696	17
12	23	Ido Cohen	Jenzer Motorsport	15	+15.613	24
13	12	Kush Maini	MP Motorsport	15	+18.031	28
14	27	Brad Benavides	Carlin	15	+18.031	21
15	29	Franco Colapinto	Van Amersfoort Racing	15	+18.031	12
16	16	Francesco Pizzi	Charouz Racing System	15	+21.196	20
17	21	Hunter Yeany	Campos Racing	15	+21.2986	23
18	24	Federico Malvestiti	Jenzer Motorsport	15	+21.807	26
19	14	Lászlo Tóth	Charouz Racing System	15	+23.790	29
20	10	Caio Collet	MP Motorsport	15	+24.3245	11
21	19	Nazim Azman	Hitech Grand Prix	15	+29.215	27
22	28	Enzo Trulli	Carlin	15	+30.145	25
23	15	Alessandro Famularo	Charouz Racing System	15	+43.109	30
24	9	Juan Manuel Correa	ART Grand Prix	15	+1:01.827	13
25	17	Kaylen Frederick	Hitech Grand Prix	15	+1:02.568	14
26	22	Pepe Martí	Campos Racing	15	+1:33.017	10
27	11	Alexander Smolyar	MP Motorsport	14	+1 lap	1	(2)
28	8	Grégoire Saucy	ART Grand Prix	13	+2 laps	15
DNF	30	Rafael Villagómez	Van Amersfoort Racing	0	Collision	19
DNF	20	David Vidales	Campos Racing	0	Collision	18
Fastest lap set by Jonny Edgar: 1:38.887 (lap 8)
Source:[8][12]

Notes:

• ^5 – Victor Martins, William Alatalo, Jonny Edgar and Caio Collet all received five-second time penalties for exceeding track limits on multiple occasions.
• ^6 – Hunter Yeany received a five-second time penalty for forcing another driver off the track.

Final Championship standings

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Victor Martins 139 3 2 Zane Maloney 134 1 3 Oliver Bearman 132 2 4 Isack Hadjar 123 2 5 Roman Staněk 117

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Prema Racing 355 2 Trident 301 3 ART Grand Prix 208 4 MP Motorsport 195 5 Hitech Grand Prix 150

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
• Note: Bold names include the Drivers' and Teams' Champion respectively.

See also

• 2022 Italian Grand Prix
• 2022 Monza Formula 2 round

Notes

1. The race was scheduled to be run for 22 laps, but was red-flagged after an accident between Kush Maini and Brad Benavides. Thus, the race distance has been shortened to 15 laps.
2. Benavides is an American-Spanish-Guatemalan driver who competed under a Spanish licence in rounds 1–3 and an American licence from round 4.^[4][5]
3. Ushijima is a Japanese-American driver competing under a British licence.^[6]
4. Famularo is a Venezuelan driver competing under an Italian licence.^[7]