2024 Budapest Formula 3 round

The 2024 Budapest Formula 3 round was a motor racing event held between 19 and 21 July at the Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Hungary. It was the eighth round of the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship and was held in support of the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix.

  2024 Hungaroring Formula 3 round

Round details
Round 8 of 10 in the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship.
Location	Hungaroring Mogyoród, Hungary
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.381 km (2.722 mi)
Sprint Race
Date 20 July 2024 Laps 18[a] Podium First Nikita Bedrin AIX Racing Second Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak AIX Racing Third Dino Beganovic Prema Racing Fastest lap Driver Joseph Loake Rodin Motorsport Time 1:35.669 (on lap 16)
Feature Race
Date 21 July 2024 Laps 23[b] Pole position Driver Laurens van Hoepen ART Grand Prix Time 1:33.935 Podium First Nikola Tsolov ART Grand Prix Second Noel León Van Amersfoort Racing Third Leonardo Fornaroli Trident Fastest lap Driver Sami Meguetounif Trident Time 1:35.293 (on lap 18)

Classification

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on 19 July 2024, at 15:05 local time (UTC+2).

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time/Gap	Grid SR	Grid FR
1	24	Laurens van Hoepen	ART Grand Prix	1:33.935	12	1
2	25	Nikola Tsolov	ART Grand Prix	+0.233	11	2
3	4	Leonardo Fornaroli	Trident	+0.238	10	3
4	20	Noel León	Van Amersfoort Racing	+0.239	9	4
5	6	Santiago Ramos	Trident	+0.247	8	5
6	5	Sami Meguetounif	Trident	+0.589	7	6
7	7	Tim Tramnitz	MP Motorsport	+0.596	6	7
8	23	Christian Mansell	ART Grand Prix	+0.647	5	8
9	29	Callum Voisin	Rodin Motorsport	+0.672	4	9
10	26	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak	AIX Racing	+0.750	3	10
11	27	Nikita Bedrin[c]	AIX Racing	+0.762	2	11
12	1	Dino Beganovic	Prema Racing	+0.870	1	12
13	2	Gabriele Minì	Prema Racing	+0.937	13	13
14	10	Oliver Goethe	Campos Racing	+1.003	14	14
15	14	Luke Browning	Hitech Pulse-Eight	+1.0161	15	15
16	18	Max Esterson	Jenzer Motorsport	+1.107	16	16
17	31	Joseph Loake	Rodin Motorsport	+1.126	17	17
18	17	Charlie Wurz	Jenzer Motorsport	+1.152	18	18
19	12	Mari Boya	Campos Racing	+1.170	19	19
20	19	Matías Zagazeta	Jenzer Motorsport	+1.175	20	20
21	3	Arvid Lindblad	Prema Racing	+1.290	21	21
22	15	Martinius Stenshorne	Hitech Pulse-Eight	+1.451	22	22
23	30	Piotr Wiśnicki	Rodin Motorsport	+1.453	23	23
24	16	Cian Shields	Hitech Pulse-Eight	+1.582	24	24
25	9	Alex Dunne	MP Motorsport	+1.723	25	25
26	8	Kacper Sztuka	MP Motorsport	+1.815	26	26
27	21	Sophia Flörsch	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.916	27	27
28	22	Tommy Smith	Van Amersfoort Racing	+2.558	28	28
107% time: 1:40:510 (+6.575)
—	11	Sebastián Montoya	Campos Racing	+16.220	292	29
DSQ	28	Joshua Dufek	AIX Racing	Disqualified3	30	30
Source:[2][3]

Notes:

• ^1 – Luke Browning originally qualified in seventh place, but his best lap time was deleted after causing a red flag. With his laptime removed from the results, Browning drops from seventh in the original Qualifying order down to P15, moving each driver behind him up one position each.^[4]
• ^2 – Sebastián Montoya failed to set a time within the 107%-rule, but was later given permission by the stewards to start both races from the back of the grid.
• ^3 – Joshua Dufek originally qualified in sixth place, but was later disqualified from the results as it was found that his car had been below the minimum weight required, contravening Art. 5.1 of the FIA Formula 3 Championship Technical Regulations.^[4]

Sprint Race

The Sprint race was held on 20 July 2024, at 09:50 local time (UTC+2).

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Gap	Grid	Pts.
1	27	Nikita Bedrin	AIX Racing	18	29:41.355	2	10
2	26	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak	AIX Racing	18	+1.560	3	9
3	1	Dino Beganovic	Prema Racing	18	+2.189	1	8
4	7	Tim Tramnitz	MP Motorsport	18	+2.629	6	7
5	23	Christian Mansell	ART Grand Prix	18	+3.483	5	6
6	29	Callum Voisin	Rodin Motorsport	18	+3.980	4	5
7	4	Leonardo Fornaroli	Trident	18	+4.398	10	4
8	14	Luke Browning	Hitech Pulse-Eight	18	+4.909	15	3
9	24	Laurens van Hoepen	ART Grand Prix	18	+5.488	12	2
10	5	Sami Meguetounif	Trident	18	+5.814	7	1
11	10	Oliver Goethe	Campos Racing	18	+6.511	14
12	20	Noel León	Van Amersfoort Racing	18	+7.183	9
13	15	Martinius Stenshorne	Hitech Pulse-Eight	18	+8.174	22
14	2	Gabriele Mini	Prema Racing	18	+8.905	13
15	3	Arvid Lindblad	Prema Racing	18	+9.367	21
16	18	Max Esterson	Jenzer Motorsport	18	+11.259	16
17	17	Charlie Wurz	Jenzer Motorsport	18	+11.890	18
18	12	Mari Boya	Campos Racing	18	+12.434	19
19	11	Sebastián Montoya	Campos Racing	18	+12.888	29
20	9	Alex Dunne	MP Motorsport	18	+13.440	281
21	16	Cian Shields	Hitech Pulse-Eight	18	+13.885	23
22	28	Joshua Dufek	AIX Racing	18	+17.716	30
23	21	Sophia Flörsch	Van Amersfoort Racing	18	+18.100	24
24	30	Piotr Wiśnicki	Rodin Motorsport	18	+19.032	252
25	22	Tommy Smith	Van Amersfoort Racing	18	+19.562	26
26	31	Joseph Loake	Rodin Motorsport	18	+32.830	17
27	8	Kacper Sztuka	MP Motorsport	18	+59.688	272
28	6	Santiago Ramos	Trident	18	+1:00.617	8
29	25	Nikola Tsolov	ART Grand Prix	18	+1:10.224	11
DNF	19	Matías Zagazeta	Jenzer Motorsport	0	Collision damage	20
Fastest lap set by Joseph Loake: 1:35.669 (lap 16)
Source:[2][5]

Notes:

• ^1 – Alex Dunne was handed a ten-place grid-penalty after the Silverstone round for re-joining the track in an unsafe manner.^[6]
• ^2 – Piotr Wiśnicki and Kacper Sztuka both received a three-place grid penalty after qualifying for impeding Dino Beganovic and Sebastián Montoya. As a consequence, both started the Sprint race from P25 and P27 respectively.^[4]

Feature Race

The Feature race was held on 21 July 2024, at 08:25 local time (UTC+2).

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Gap	Grid	Pts.
1	25	Nikola Tsolov	ART Grand Prix	23	38:54.231	2	25
2	20	Noel León	Van Amersfoort Racing	23	+1.114	4	18
3	4	Leonardo Fornaroli	Trident	23	+1.439	3	15
4	23	Christian Mansell	ART Grand Prix	23	+1.781	8	12 (1)
5	6	Santiago Ramos	Trident	23	+2.091	5	10
6	29	Callum Voisin	Rodin Motorsport	23	+2.497	9	8
7	27	Nikita Bedrin	AIX Racing	23	+2.751	11	6
8	10	Oliver Goethe	Campos Racing	23	+3.304	14	4
9	1	Dino Beganovic	Prema Racing	23	+4.008	12	2
10	12	Mari Boya	Campos Racing	23	+4.443	19	1
11	2	Gabriele Minì	Prema Racing	23	+5.040	13
12	14	Luke Browning	Hitech Pulse-Eight	23	+5.139	15
13	15	Martinius Stenshorne	Hitech Pulse-Eight	23	+5.786	22
14	26	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak	AIX Racing	23	+6.785	10
15	18	Max Esterson	Jenzer Motorsport	23	+7.190	16
16	9	Alex Dunne	MP Motorsport	23	+7.748	18
17	16	Cian Shields	Hitech Pulse-Eight	23	+8.206	24
18	8	Kacper Sztuka	MP Motorsport	23	+9.211	26
19	11	Sebastián Montoya	Campos Racing	23	+9.453	29
20	7	Tim Tramnitz	MP Motorsport	23	+9.850	7
21	30	Piotr Wiśnicki	Rodin Motorsport	23	+10.377	23
22	28	Joshua Dufek	AIX Racing	23	+11.456	30
23	21	Sophia Flörsch	Van Amersfoort Racing	23	+11.792	27
24	22	Tommy Smith	Van Amersfoort Racing	23	+16.104	28
25	5	Sami Meguetounif	Trident	23	+38.783	6
26	31	Joseph Loake	Rodin Motorsport	22	+1 lap	17
271	19	Matías Zagazeta	Jenzer Motorsport	20	Collision	20
281	3	Arvid Lindblad	Prema Racing	20	Collision	21
DNF	17	Charlie Wurz	Jenzer Motorsport	1	Collision damage	18
DSQ	24	Laurens van Hoepen	ART Grand Prix	23	Disqualified2	1	(2)
Fastest lap set by Sami Meguetounif: 1:35.293 (lap 18)
Source:[2][7]

Notes:

• ^1 – Matías Zagazeta and Arvid Lindblad collided with each other and retired, but they were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.
• ^2 – Laurens van Hoepen originally finished second, but was later disqualified as it was found that his car had not met the minimum weight requirement, a breach of Article 5.1 of the 2024 FIA Formula 3 Technical Regulations. Thus, all drivers behind him have been moved up one position each, with Leonardo Fornaroli taking over the final spot on the podium in third.^[8]

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Gabriele Minì 119 1 2 Luke Browning 115 1 3 Arvid Lindblad 113 4 Leonardo Fornaroli 112 2 5 Christian Mansell 97

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 1 Prema Racing 322 2 ART Grand Prix 225 3 Trident 183 4 Campos Racing 146 5 Hitech Pulse-Eight 141

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also

• 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix
• 2024 Budapest Formula 2 round

Notes

1. The race was scheduled to be run for 19 laps, but an incident involving Joseph Loake caused a start abortion, which consequently led to an extra formation lap. Thus, the race distance has been shortened to 18 laps.
2. The race was scheduled to be run for 24 laps, but the first start attempt was aborted, which consequently led to an extra formation lap. Thus, the race distance has been shortened to 23 laps.
3. Bedrin is a Russian driver competing under an Italian licence.^[1]