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The 2023 GB3 Championship was a motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The 2023 season was the eighth organised by the British Racing Drivers' Club in the United Kingdom, and the third season under the GB3 moniker after rebranding from the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship in mid-2021. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers. The season was ran over eight triple-header rounds and started on 8 April at Oulton Park. Rodin Carlin driver Callum Voisin won the Drivers' Championship ahead of Alex Dunne at the final race of the season. JHR Developments, the team of third-placed driver Joseph Loake, won the Teams' Championship. Loake was named as the winner of the Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award in December, and will receive a test drive with the Aston Martin F1 team, £200,000, plus full membership of the BRDC. Teams and drivers All teams were British-registered. Race calendar and results The provisional calendar was announced on 15 October 2022. For the first time in series history, two events were held outside the United Kingdom. This also meant that the GB3 Championship became an FIA-certified international series. Race results Season report First half The 2023 GB3 Championship opened up at Oulton Park with JHR's Joseph Loake taking a pair of pole positions. The first race saw him retain his lead and hold off teammate Matthew Rees. The race was red-flagged and ended two laps before the end after a safety car restart ended in a multi-car crash, handing JHR a 1-2 ahead of Carlin's Callum Voisin. The second race began with a rain shower that delayed proceedings, but Arden's James Hedley was on the move when it started, climbing from fourth to second and pressuring Loake to take the lead. Voisin was also able to move past Loake into second, but was unable to catch up to Hedley. Hillspeed's Daniel Mavlyutov was on reverse-grid pole position for the final race. The race never really got going after a crash right at the start, with only three minutes of running under green flag conditions. Mavlyutov was therefore largely unchallenged by Elite's Ayato Iwasaki and Fortec's Edward Pearson behind him. Loake finished twelfth to take a five-point championship lead ahead of Hedley. Up next was the season's first stop at Silverstone. Douglas Motorsport's Tymek Kucharczyk took both pole positions but was disqualified, allowing Carlin's John Bennett to inherit them. In a very wet first race, Loake took the lead at the start, but Bennett repassed him and led until the end. This move was later judged to have happened off track, so Bennett was handed a one-place penalty, gifting the win to Loake, with Rees third. The second race was also decided in the steward's office: Rees came first but had jumped the start, while second-placed man Bennett was penalized for a collision with Hitech's Alex Dunne. This saw Loake inherit another win, ahead of Elite's McKenzy Cresswell and Voisin. Race three saw Arden's Noah Ping take the lead from Iwasaki at the start. He won the race as behind him Voisin and Elite's Oliver Stewart both earned track limit penalties, allowing Arden's Nico Christodoulou and CDR's Arthur Rogeon on the podium. Loake's two off-track wins saw him extend his championship lead to 31 points, with Voisin now second. The first race abroad followed a month later at Spa with Voisin claiming double pole positions. At the start of race one, Dunne in second fought off Cresswell until the latter spun. At the next restart, Dunne was free to attack Voisin, take the lead and control the race to take his maiden win, while Kucharczyk came third. The same protagonists fought for the second race, with Cresswell initially claiming the lead. Once again though Dunne was the fastest and took the lead, with him and Voisin both moving back past Cresswell as the top three were in a league of their own. Stewart had pole position for the reverse-grid race three. He initially lost the lead to Mavlyutov after a slow start, but the latter ran wide to allow Stewart back through. Loake took second and pressured Stewart all race, but was unable to steal the win, while Fortec's Jarrod Waberski completed the podium. Voisin's pair of second places saw him close the gap to Loake just two points after the latter struggled for pace all weekend. The first half of the season ended back in Britain at Snetterton, where Rees and Voisin shared pole positions. Hedley started the first race in fourth, but was already leading after turn one. Rees tried all race to get back past, but could not pressure Hedley into a mistake. Voisin and Dunne had a similar battle over third, with the Brit coming out ahead. He was able to hold on to his lead at the start of race three, before colliding with Kucharczyk and retiring. This saw the latter drop to third, allowing Ping and Dunne through. Kucharczyk was eventually disqualified for his collision with Voisin, promoting Hedley onto the podium. The reversed grid race three saw Mavlyutov start in front. The front of the field was rather calm, with the title contenders battling further down the order. This allowed Mavlyutov to manage his lead to win ahead of Rogeon and Douglas Motorsport's Lucas Staico. Voisin's race two retirement and another weekend away from the front of the field for Loake allowed Dunne to take a six-point championship lead. Second half Round five saw the series return to Silverstone, and Rees took both pole positions. He clearly was the fastest man in race one, pulling away from his pole position and building a gap to the field. He took an unchallenged maiden win four seconds ahead of Cresswell, who had Voisin in his mirrors all race, but the latter did not attempt a move for second place. Cresswell took the lead of the second race on the first lap into Copse. He then had to manage a safety car restart, but did so untroubled to lead away to become the second maiden winner of the weekend. Rees had to be content with second, while Kucharczyk completed the podium. Rain then struck the circuit ahead of the third race. The race was started behind the safety car, but red flags for the conditions were waved after three laps. The race was then abandoned and declared cancelled. Voisin was the only one of the three main championship challengers to appear on the podium all weekend. His reward was a narrow one-point lead over Dunne heading into the summer break. Brands Hatch came next, with Loake and Voisin on pole position for the two races. The pair began the first race one and two, while championship contender Dunne was spun around by Rees and was forced to retire. Loake led Voisin through two safety car periods and subsequent restarts to win, while Cresswell came home third. The top two were reversed for the start of race two, and Loake challenged Voisin for the lead for half a lap before the latter came out on top. He managed his gap from then o.... Discover the Hedley Rees popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Hedley Rees books.