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season. It began on 24 March 2008 at

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's Easter Monday meeting and ended on 12 October at

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after 22 rounds in four countries.

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sealed the National Class championship at the

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meeting, with a third place in round nineteen. The overall championship went down to the final meeting as

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and

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all had a chance of winning the title, however it was Alguersuari that won the title, thanks to a double win at Donington.

Drivers and teams

Driver changes

*Following the departure of

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, who joined

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as the team's test driver,

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brought in 16-year-old

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driver

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as the

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n's replacement.

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remains with the team. *

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did not retain any of its drivers from the previous year, instead hiring

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backed

and

. Brit

, who has been an

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rookie driver for

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, and

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n Sam Abay, also a race winner but at

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level, take the remaining seats in the Championship Class. *Unlike the previous year, Carlin also entered two cars in the lower national class level,

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and Andrew Meyrick will drive them. *

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retained Finn

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with Henry Arundel, Alistair Jackson and John Martin taking the remaining three seats. *Both Mansell brothers,

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and

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, left the team at the end of 2007. They were replaced by

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, who won the final British Formula BMW Championship the previous year with Fortec, and fellow Formula BMW champion

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retains his spot at the team. * T-Sport retain 2007 National Class winner

who has been promoted to Championship class. Steven Guerrero and Salman Al-Khalifa, the latter having experience in the championship, take up T-Sport's vacant national class seats. *

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, the only team to use the

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chassis, retain experienced

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and Michael Devaney, both have a total of eight seasons of Formula Three between them.

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joins the team from Performance Racing.

Calendar

Standings

References

External links

The official website of the British Formula 3 Championship
{{British F3 Seasons British Formula Three Championship seasons Formula Three season

British Formula 3 Championship The British Formula Three Championship was an international motor racing series that took place primarily in the United Kingdom with a small number of events in mainland Europe. It was a junior-level feeder formula that used small single sea ...