With two more victories and three pole positions at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, James Wharton has achieved the goal he set himself when he arrived in the United Arab Emirates in January: to win the highly coveted and challenging 2023 UAE F4 Championship. The final round of the season once again demonstrated the competitiveness of the Ferrari Driver Academy driver. The 16-year-old Australian hopeful will now head to Europe and the Italian F4 Championship.

Abu Dhabi, February 19, 2023: Mercedes Formula 1 protégé Andrea Kimi Antonelli became the inaugural Formula Regional Middle East (FRMEC) champion during another thrilling weekend of action in the final round at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. The 16-year-old Italian didn’t win any races, although he did take the chequered flag first in one of them. But a penalty for a collision with main title rival Taylor Barnard as they battled for the lead in race one converted victory into no points for Antonelli, and kept things at boiling point overnight before the deciding two races on Sunday.

Ferdinand Habsburg returns to Team WRT for the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship season. 

Today, it has been announced that 16-year-old female racer, Aurelia Nobels, will join PREMA’s Italian Formula 4 driver line-up for 2023 as an Iron Dame. 

Douglas Motorsport has completed its three car GB3 line-up with the signing of Polish ace Tymek Kucharczyk. The 16-year-old is an exciting addition to the Northamptonshire team’s line-up for the new campaign, having impressed on his single-seater debut last season, following a number of successful years competing in World Series Karting. 

During the team’s official Launch Event in London for the presentation of its 2023 Formula 1 challenger, the A523, Alpine announced new developments for its Rac(H)er programme confirming its ambition to promote equal opportunities for men and women to enhance its performance.

Gabriel Bortoleto ended pre-season testing on top, setting a 1:47.417 to lead the way on the final day of running for Trident. He narrowly headed up the field from Gabriele Minì, just 0.035s off the top spot with Grégoire Saucy in the top three once again.

Australian driver Costa Toparis will complete Rodin Carlin’s GB3 line-up for the 2023 season.  The 15-year-old will make his full-season European racing debut as he takes on the eight round championship which kicks off in April. Toparis lines-up alongside already confirmed teammates Callum Voisin and John Bennett.

Rookies Gabriele Minì and Nikola Tsolov have become the newest members of the Alpine Academy, expanding the growing list of F1 academy-backed drivers announced for the 2023 Formula 3 season to eight.

Rising star Harry Burgoyne Jnr has been confirmed as Graham Brunton Racing’s first driver signing for the 2023 GB4 Championship.

12 months ago, DAMS was taken over by ex-F1 driver Charles Pic. Although he doesn’t run the team directly on a day-to-day basis, Charles’ influence has been felt throughout the squad over the past year. Ahead of the 2023 season, Charles reflects on his time at DAMS so far and looks ahead to what could be in store for the upcoming campaign and beyond.

Hillspeed has confirmed a fresh driver line-up for its 2023 GB3 Championship campaign, with Chinese F4 champion Gerrard Xie and British F4 graduate Daniel Mavlyutov.

Dubai, February 12, 2023: Thrilling racing on the Formula Regional Middle East Championship’s (FRMEC) return to Dubai Autodrome culminated in Andrea Kimi Antonelli taking an encouraging points lead into the final round next weekend at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. But such has been the unpredictable nature of the season so far, that nothing can be taken for granted. Antonelli may have shared the wins in Dubai with Pepe Martí and Nikita Bedrin, but it was Taylor Barnard who scored the biggest points total of the weekend and he is still very much in the picture for the title.

Vision for ground-breaking new ACE Championship to ‘Level Up’ Motorsport announced in Hyderabad

Race-winner Oldfield Motorsport has confirmed that American single-seater ace Jason Conzo will drive for the team in the opening two events of the 2023 GB4 Championship.

Douglas Motorsport has signed up Brazilian rising star Lucas Staico for the 2023 GB3 Championship.

JHR Developments has confirmed that multiple F4 race-winner Joseph Loake will step up to the GB3 Championship with the team for the 2023 season, becoming the second of three drivers to be confirmed at the Derbyshire squad.

American Shawn Rashid has joined Douglas Motorsport’s driver line-up for the 2023 GB3 Championship. The 26-year-old will make his slicks and wings debut with the team this year, having only started his single-seater career in 2022 with a brilliant campaign in the Avon Tyres National Formula Ford Championship with Team Ammonite.

The new ADAC Formula Junior Team lines up in French Formula 4 with three talented young drivers from Germany who are hungry for success. The ADAC’s youth programme is set for its premiere with Finn Wiebelhaus (Obertshausen) and Tom Kalender (Hamm/Sieg) from Hessen, alongside Max Reis (Ramstein) from Rhineland-Palatinate.