Fabian Schiller, sponsored driver of the ADAC North-Rhine and the German Post Speed Academy is going to start at the races 19, 20 and 21 of this year’s motorsport season in Dutch Zandvoort next weekend. The Formula 3 European Championship is coming back to the 4,307km long track in the Dunes of the North Sea vacation spot after a one-year break.

The race track is said to be one of the most challenging tracks of the season and comes with numerous fast and hardly visible passages. Due to the close proximity to the North Sea, there can additionally be sand drifts from time to time, which cause changing track conditions – another added difficulty that the drivers have to deal with on the venerable race track for Formula 3 vehicles. Due to the special atmosphere of the vacation spot, the event in Zandvoort is very popular with drivers as well as spectators every year.

Fabian Schiller: “With the racing weekend in Zandvoort the second half of the season begins now and I have big plans for this. I have learned a lot during the course of the previous racing weekends and am planning to use these experiences for good results. I really want to show some highlights and am confident that I’m going to be able to do this. Hopefully already in the Netherlands.”

Race track Zandvoort

– Track length 4,307 km
– Lap record F3 EM Felix Rosenqvist 1.31,822 min (2013)
– Pole Positions 2013 Daniil Kvyat 1.30,653 min – Felix Rosenqvist 48,118 sec – Felix Rosenqvist 48,255 sec
– Winners 2012 -/Marciello – 2013 Marciello/Lynn/Rosenqvist – 2014 Verstappen/Verstappen/Verstappen

Race format & timetable

From Zandvoort on, the Formula 3 now follows its regular timetable again and the weekend 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 July 10th 2015 free trainings 1&2 10:00am– 11:25am
– Friday July 10th 2015 Qualifying 1 3:05pm – 3:25pm
– Friday July 10th 2015 Qualifying 2 6:10pm – 6:30pm
– Saturday July 11th 2015 race 1 10:35am – 11:10am
– Saturday July 11th 2015 race 2 3:40pm – 4:15pm
– Sunday July 12th 2015 race 3 10:30am – 11:05am
*all times are local times

TV-times Germany:

– F3 livestream Saturday July 11th 2015 10:35am Race 1
– n-tv Saturday July 11th 2015 10:30am Race 1
– F3 livestream Saturday July 11th 2015 3:40pm Race 2
– F3 livestream Sunday July 12th 2015 10:30am Race 3
– n-tv Sunday July 12th 2015 10:25am Race 3 (re-live)
– Eurosport Tuesday July 14th 2015 00:30am FIA F3 EC Magazine (premiere)
– Eurosport 2 Wednesday July 15th 2015 09:30am FIA F3 EC Magazine (rerun