It does:
It's looking very good for FFord this year. 18 cars confirmed so far.
I wouldn't call it a step back. More an evolution.
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| Author: | kart99 [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
He wont as he has his new play thing - F4 - and I'm not sure how that's going as I've heard rumors some of the teams are struggling for drivers. With FFord looking at 28-30 cars this year it looks like the only national single seater championship in strength in Britain |
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| Author: | kart99 [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
Just looked at the F4 website and there are 7 drivers confirmed for that. |
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| Author: | kals [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
The problem F3 has globally is that drivers have too much choice for their $$ with similiar'ish speed series. GP3 and F2 for instance race on GP circuits, run a not too similar speeds and are cheaper. |
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| Author: | kart99 [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
That and the title British F3 or European F3 just dosen't have the same clout anymore like it did 5 or so years ago. |
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| Author: | RtN [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
Interesting point from someone on Atlas; both FRenault UK and British F3 are\were run by SRO. |
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| Author: | kals [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
So in the past three years SRO have managed to slowly kill off... - Formula Renault - FIA GT - British F3 That's good going. |
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| Author: | De Cesaris fan [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
So much history. That would be a real shame. I started going to F3 meetings several years ago, but more recently I've preferred the British GT part of the schedule. |
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| Author: | bigears [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
I heard somewhere that the British Formula Ford will have new wings on. A possible replacement for the British F3? But it is a bit of a step back though. |
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| Author: | kart99 [ Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
It does: It's looking very good for FFord this year. 18 cars confirmed so far. I wouldn't call it a step back. More an evolution. |
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| Author: | codename_47 [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 1:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
I call it a shame the tradition of mechanical grip was lost. This f3 situation reminds me when the European f3 was revived last time about 10 years ago. British f3 suffered then, sadly not to this extent but it suddenly the series worth watching was stuck on paychannels and the one I could see had a lot more boring races. Hope someone out there decides its worth saving. Probably not Berger |
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| Author: | kals [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
EuroF3 was only put together as entrants in Italian, French and German F3 were struggling in numbers. Similar to how European Touring Cars were formed. |
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| Author: | gd49 [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
I'm amazed at how rapidly British F3 has gone downhill, grid numbers weren't great last year but they weren't terrible. I'm surprised they've decided to reduce the calendar so drastically, I would have thought cutting out the international rounds and just following British GT around, with the reduced budget required might have been a better option - now I can't see why anyone would bother to enter the championship. |
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| Author: | hedgey666 [ Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
The good that might come from this in future might be for Brit F3 to be a proper and affordable national series again instead of trying to emulate a European series. |
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| Author: | codename_47 [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
Amazing to think only a few years ago British gt was down to a scarily few number of cars and f3 was thriving and now it's the exact opposite. Are channel 4/motors going to bother showing the british f3 lite this year? |
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| Author: | ptclaus98 [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
Meh, BF3 made their own bed. If you want to be a national championship quit having races at Spa, Zaandvort, and Pau and bring them back to Croft, Knockhill, and Pembrey/Mondello Park. They reached to far and started catering solely to Fortec and Carlin. They tried to be the Euroseries, that was never going to work. |
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| Author: | kals [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
A minor point I know, but British F3 races in Europe have dated back the past three decades. Both Zandvoort and Spa have been on the calendar in various seasons since the eighties. |
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| Author: | De Cesaris fan [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
It probably would help to keep the costs down. I have to say that I loved the racing at Monza, though... |
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| Author: | Gaara [ Sun May 26, 2013 11:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2012 British F3 Championship |
If any one's interested, live coverage about to start. http://p2pukblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04 ... aming.html |
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| Author: | Mattzel89 [ Sun May 26, 2013 11:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2013 British F3 Championship |
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| Author: | Gaara [ Sun May 26, 2013 12:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 2013 British F3 Championship |
This is so much better than that dross at Brands. |
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