MOTORSPORT’S TEAM GB GOES FOR GOLD
What a difference a year makes. Or even four months. Back in July, had MN mentioned the ‘GB3 championship’ you probably would have thought it was a typo, referring to the former name of the Formula 1 weekend support.
Not now, as the GB3 championship is established on the UK junior single-seater scene. In earlyAugust it was announced that the BRDC British Formula 3 championship was being renamed thus, as the FIAwanted the F3 name solely for its own use.
And even though BRDC F3’s lineage didn’t lead directly to the British F3 of Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen et al, the name’s heritage value was undeniable.
“This is why we hung onto it so hard because the heritage of British F3 is enormous,” Jonathan Palmer, chief executive of GB3 organiser MotorSport Vision, tells Motorsport News, “and I didn’t agree and I don’t agree now with the FIA’s insistence that only the international FIAchampionships use the name, but ultimately they are the world governing body and we’re not in a
