Spanish F3, the national championship that provides most drivers to GP2

Up to six drivers from the Spanish F3 Championship (and among them three of its champions) could be promoted to the second most prestigious category in  motor racing

The excellent form of the Spanish Formula 3 Championship could be soon confirmed by the participation, next year, of up to six of its drivers in GP2, the second category, after Formula 1, in the international motorsport hierarchy.

Two of these drivers are already certain to be in GP2: Javier Villa (Racing Engineering) and Roldán Rodríguez (Minardi-Piquet). Meanwhile, four others are about to close deals with various teams. The performances being showed in winter testing by Andy Soucek, Borja García, Ricardo Risatti (the last three Spanish F.3 Champions) and Portugal’s Alvaro Parente (4th in 2002) position them among the first options being considered by some of the major GP2 teams.  

There is no national F.3 series in the entire world that provides such a number of drivers to a key formula like GP2, the last step before Grand Prix racing. Based on currently available information, only the F3 Euroseries, a championship of continental dimension, equals that number.

GT Sport feels particularly happy with the achievements by the drivers of the Spanish F.3 and is convinced that in a near future some of them will be competing in Formula 1.