Finlay McSporran
Published: 16:34, 15th March 2025

Reigning FRECA champion Rafael Camara took a dominant first victory in Formula 3 around the streets of Albert Park today.

It was also the first time that we saw rain all weekend, which caught a lot of drivers out.

After a brief delay and several formation laps, the race got underway with a rolling start, as Camara lead from his teammate Noah Stromsted.

The racing wouldn’t last long however as the safety car was out by the end of the first lap, following a collision between Nikola Tsolov and Callum Voisin at turn nine.

When the race got back underway on lap six Camara was quick to extend his lead, building a gap of over three seconds by lap eight.

Further back in the field, multiple drivers were caught out by the wet conditions, with Luis Sharp and Niko Lacorte both having excursions off the track.

On lap 11 Alessandro Giusti was spun round by Matias Zagazeta at the final corner, which resulted in the Williams junior driver dropping right to the back of the order.

The race came to an early end on lap 18 after Christian Ho found the barriers at turn seven, scattering debris all over the track and bringing out the red flag.

With the race now having passed 75% distance, full points could be awarded to the drivers. That means that Rafael camara now leads the standings after round one with 28 points to his name.

His teammate Noah Stromsted finished todays race in second place which moves him up to third in the standings behind Theophile Nael, who took the final spot on the podium.

Race Result:

Pos	Driver	Team	Time
1	Rafael Camara	Trident	34m43.966s
2	Noah Stromsted	Trident	+0.517s
3	Theophile Nael	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.152s
4	Nikita Bedrin	AIX Racing	+1.732s
5	Tim Tramnitz	MP Motorsport	+2.298s
6	Charlie Wurz	Trident	+3.253s
7	Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak	Campos Racing	+3.734s
8	Martinius Stenshorne	Hitech GP	+4.923s
9	Roman Bilinski	Rodin Motorsport	+5.651s
10	Ugo Ugochukwu	Prema	+7.193s
11	Joshua Dufek	Hitech GP	+8.347s
12	Laurens van Hoepen	ART Grand Prix	+8.819s
13	Noel Leon	Prema	+9.962s
14	Louis Sharp	Rodin Motorsport	+11.671s
15	Javier Sagrera	AIX Racing	+12.805s
16	Santiago Ramos	Van Amersfoort Racing	+13.867s
17	Mari Boya	Campos Racing	+15.184s
18	Gerrard Xie	Hitech GP	+16.739s
19	Ivan Domingues	Van Amersfoort Racing	+18.926s
20	Tuukka Taponen	ART Grand Prix	+19.276s
21	James Wharton	ART Grand Prix	+20.297s
22	Matias Zagazeta	DAMS	+21.299s
23	Bruno del Pino	MP Motorsport	+21.380s
24	Niko Lacorte	DAMS	+22.252s
25	Alessandro Giusti	MP Motorsport	+23.020s
26	Brando Badoer	Prema	+23.648s
27	Nicola Marinangeli	AIX Racing	+25.079s
Ret	Christian Ho	DAMS
Ret	Nikola Tsolov	Campos Racing
Ret	Callum Voisin	Rodin Motorsport

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