The 2022 Budapest Formula 3 round was a motor racing event held on 30 and 31 July 2022 at the

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, Mogyoród,

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. It was the sixth round of the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and was held in support of the

2022 Hungarian Grand Prix The 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Aramco Magyar Nagydíj 2022) was a Formula One motor race held on 31 July 2022 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary over a distance of 70 laps. The race was the thirty-seventh ...

. With Caio Collet and Alexander Smolyar winning the Sprint Race and the Feature Race respectively,

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became the first team after

Prema Racing Prema Powerteam (competing as Prema Racing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, the FIA Formula 3 Championship and European Le Mans Series and as Prema Orlen Team in the FIA World Endurance Championship) is a motorsport team from Italy. It mainl ...

in 2019 to win both races in a Formula 3 weekend and the first non-Prema team to do so.

Driver changes

Some driver changes occurred prior to the Budapest round, with current Euroformula Open championship leader

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making his FIA Formula 3 debut for

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by replacing

Hunter Yeany Hunter Yeany (born 11 May 2005) is an American racing driver who is currently competing in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship for Rodin Carlin. He previously raced in the Indy Pro 2000 and Formula Regional Americas championships, both with V ...

, who is ruled out for the Budapest round due to a broken wrist sustained at the previous round in Spielberg. For

Charouz Racing System Charouz Racing System (CHRS, also was known as Lotus in World Series Formula V8 3.5) is a racing team from Czech Republic, created in 1985 by . History In the 1980s, Charouz participated in the European Championship of Circuit Races' 1600 ...

, the current Euroformula Open Championship runner-up Christian Mansell will be making his debut in the series by replacing Zdeněk Chovanec, who was competing in the last two rounds for the Czech squad.

Classification

Qualifying

Alexander Smolyar took his first pole position of the season to become the sixth different polesitter at the sixth weekend and he claimed pole position for the first time after 2020 at the same venue. Smolyar qualified ahead of both rookies

Zane Maloney Zane Maloney (born 2 October 2003) is a Barbadian racing driver. He was the 2019 British F4 champion and finished as runner-up in the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship, racing for Trident. In December 2022, it was announced he was joining the Red ...

and Oliver Bearman.

Sprint race

Feature race

Notes: * – Arthur Leclerc and Brad Benavides both received a five-place grid drop due to causing collisions in the Sprint Race with Jak Crawford and Ido Cohen respectively.

Standings after the event

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Teams' Championship standings * Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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