Taponen Wins F3 Finale as Ugochukwu Finishes Second to Take Title
Ugochukwu finished 11 points ahead after Slater failed to gain ground in the last-lap shootout, while Campos also won the teams' championship.
- On Sunday, American driver Ugo Ugochukwu secured the 2026 Formula 3 championship in Madrid, winning by 11 points to become the first American F3 champion.
- Slater arrived at the final round with a 15-point lead, but qualifying 17th and eighth proved costly, allowing Ugochukwu to erase the deficit.
- During Sunday's feature race, Ugochukwu held second place behind Tuukka Taponen, stating he focused on keeping it clean until the finish line.
- Campos Racing also clinched the teams' championship, securing a season double. Ugochukwu credited the squad, saying, "I just want to thank my team, Campos."
- This victory marks redemption for Ugochukwu, who finished 16th last year after leaving the McLaren junior programme and now adds F3 to his Formula Regional Oceania, Macau Grand Prix, and Euro 4 titles.
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Taponen wins F3 finale as Ugochukwu finishes second to take title
Photo: Formula Motorsport Ltd Tuukka Taponen took an untroubled lights-to-flag victory in FIA Formula 3’s final round at the Madring as Ugo Ugochukwu followed him home to claim the drivers’ title. Fittingly, local team Campos Racing added the drivers’ title to the teams’ championship at their home race in Madrid. Speaking after the race, Ugochukwu talked of a “superclinical weekend, with no mistakes the whole weekend and a perfect way to end the…
Madrid, 13 Sep (EFE).- The Madring circuit, which premiered this weekend, proclaimed its first champion, in the Formula 3 category in which the American Ugo Ugochukwu (Campos Racing) was imposed after completing its retrace to the British Freddie Slater (Trident). Slater arrived in Madrid as a great favorite to [...] La entrada Madring crowns its first champion: Ugo Ugo Ugochukwu in Formula 3 was first published in HolaNews.
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The last act of the Formula 3 World Championship on the new MadRing track in Madrid has consecrated Ugo Ugochukwu as the new champion of the category. The 18-year-old American of the Campos Racing team, second at the finish line, won the title at the end of a high intensity season finale, completing an iridated comeback that projects it directly into the elite of the prospects towards Formula 1. Here its history and curiosity about its 'atypical…
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