At the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, one race track highlight is currently following the next. Next weekend Fabian Schiller and his 35 driving colleagues are going to fight for points and positions in Spa-Francorchamps. In the context of the ADAC GT Masters, another high speed Formula 1 track and thereby the second of three “home races” of the German Post Speed Academy young star from the neighboring Rhineland is on the calendar.

The infamous rollercoaster in the Belgian Ardennes is the longest track on this year’s FIA Formula 3 European Championship racing calendar (7,004km). Due to its track passages Eau Rouge or Blanchimont it’s without a doubt one of the most spectacular and fastest race tracks in the world. Additionally during the summer months the weather is often quite unsettled, which gives the races something extra special and poses extremely high challenges for the drivers.

Fabian Schiller: “Spa is a really great track that is fascinating to almost every driver. I’m going to drive on familiar ground for the second time this year, because I’ve already driven on this track at the Formula ADAC in 2012. Even though it doesn’t look like it from the outside due to the missing results, we’ve been able to considerably improve as a team and especially regarding the vehicle calibration during the past events. I hope that we can now increase this progress and shake off the bad luck in the end.”

Race track Spa-Francorchamps

Race format & timetable

Like most of the racing weekends the F3 in Spa-Francorchamps begins on Friday morning with two consecutive free trainings, each lasting 40 minutes. On Friday afternoon the two 20-minutes rounds of qualifying of the weekend are going to follow. The result of the first qualifying is going to set the starting positions for the first race while after the second qualifying, the fastest as well as second-fastest times of the drivers are going to be assessed in order to set the starting positions for the second and third races. On Saturday the first two of the three races are going to take place. There is going to be one race in the morning and one in the afternoon. In the meantime the drivers can attend team meetings with their engineers as well as media events and autograph sessions.

The final race of the weekend is then going to take place on late Sunday morning. The racing distance of each race is about 100km and lasts a maximum of 35 minutes. Championship points are going to be administered the same way as in the Formula 1:
P1 = 25, P2 = 18, P3 = 15, P3 = 12, P4 = 10, P5 = 8, P6 = 6, P7 = 4, P8 = 2, P10 = 1.

• Friday June 19th 2015 – free trainings 1&2 10:50am– 11:30am
• Friday June 19th 2015 – Qualifying 1 2:05pm – 2:25pm
• Friday June 19th 2015 – Qualifying 2 5:35pm – 5:55pm
• Saturday June 20th 2015 – race 1 10:40am – 11:15am
• Saturday June 20th 2015 – race 2 3:40pm – 4:15pm
• Sunday June 21st 2015 – race 3 10:40am – 11:15am

*all times are local times

TV-times Germany:

• F3 livestream – Saturday June 20th 2015 10:40am Race 1
• n-tv – Saturday June 20th 2015 11:10am Race 1 (re-live)
• F3 livestream – Saturday June 20th 2015 3:40pm Race 2
• F3 livestream – Sunday June 21st 2015 10:40am Race 3
• n-tv & F3 livestream – Sunday June 21st 2015 11:10am Race 3 (re-live)
• Eurosport – Tuesday June 24th 2015 00:30am FIA F3 EC Magazine (premiere)
• Eurosport 2 – Wednesday June 25th 2015 08:00am FIA F3 EC Magazine (rerun)