F3: Camara seals F3 title with round to spare after dominant Feature Race victory in Budapest

Rafael Camara claimed his fourth victory of the 2025 FIA Formula 3 season in the Budapest Feature Race and with it, sealed the Drivers’ Championship with one round still to go.

The TRIDENT and Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy driver converted a record-extending fifth pole of the year into the win. He led home Campos Racing’s Mari Boya in second place, and fellow Ferrari junior Tuukka Taponen in third for ART Grand Prix.

Pre-race rain led to a rolling start which Camara dealt with to lead Boya comfortably in the opening laps, and the pair began to separate themselves from the pack in the lead battle.

While the Aston Martin Development Driver was able to apply mid-race pressure, Camara soon began to gap the Campos driver, and went on to win the race and F3 title by just under two seconds.

The victory was win number four of his rookie and now title-winning campaign in Formula 3, and marked the earliest the title has been won since 2021.

Elsewhere, Charlie Wurz earned P4 for TRIDENT after a late charge and battle with Taponen for the final podium spot.

Theophile Nael rebounded from a Sprint Race crash on Saturday to leave Budapest with a top five result for Van Amersfoort Racing, ahead of Nikola Tsolov, who fought back from P21 on the grid to sixth.

Brando Badoer was in the points in seventh for PREMA Racing, with Laurens van Hoepen eighth, Alessandro Giusti ninth for MP Motorsport and Campos’ Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak rounding out the points in 10th.

FIA Formula 3 returns for the final round of the season at Monza from September 5-7, but for an in-depth report of the Budapest Feature Race, visit the official website here.