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Australian F3 Championship front-runner Tandersport gets its 2009 title push off to an early start with Ben Crighton in testing at Mallala Raceway near Adelaide.

The battle for the Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 championship for the CAMS Gold Star is now closer than ever after Leanne Tander and Nathan Caratti won the two races contested at Mallala raceway, Sunday, that made up round four of the 2008 series.
27 points behind the leader before the round, Tander’s race one win [...]

One of the largest pileups in the history of the Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship has marred practice for round three of the championship at Oran Park Friday.
A five-car smash at a blind section of the racetrack badly damaged all cars involved and eliminated three competitors from the 20-car field entered this weekend.
All drivers [...]

Formula 3 Australia has announced the series will continue as normal despite the fall-out from the collapse of the stockbroking firm Opes Prime.
Opes Prime, which went into receivership last week, was one of the biggest supporters of the series, but a statement issued by the championship said it wasn’t going to be affected by the [...]

Formula 3 Australia has today announced that it is ‘business as usual’ for Australia’s premier open wheel category, the Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship for the CAMS Gold Star, irrespective of the issues surrounding Opes Prime, one of the category’s keenest supporters.
The Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship is in a sound financial position. [...]

The car that won the 2007 British F3 International Championship will make its Australian on-track debut at Oran Park Raceway this April with Astuti Motorsport.
Astuti will run the car at an Oran Park test day mid-April with former driver and multiple F3 race winner Michael Trimble in charge of the cars maiden shakedown on Aussie [...]

Lee Farrell has continued his love affair with the 3.2 kilometres of tarmac that make up the world-famous Adelaide street circuit after storming to an Opes Prime National Class victory in the opening race of this weekend’s second 2008 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship.
Though not fastest in practice, Farrell dominated qualifying yesterday and today [...]

A busy Earl Bamber will be part of a large Kiwi ‘clan’ competing at this weekend’s big Clipsal 500 motor race meeting in Adelaide.
However Bamber, the 17-year-old single-seater sensation from Wanganui, will not be driving a V8 Supercar like Shane Van Gisbergen, a Porsche GT3 Cup car like Jono Lester, or a Falcon ute like [...]

TanderSport has adjudged its first weekend as a two-car team a positive one after Leanne Tander took pole position and a rostrum finish in the opening round of the 2008 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship at Eastern Creek Raceway.
Running one car in the Championship Class and one in the Opes Prime National Class, TanderSport [...]

Leanne Tander has been left to the look to the positives after the disappointment of missing out on the 2007 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship.
Tander scored two wins and ten podiums from sixteen races this season, netting her 206 championship points – but leaving her just two behind Tim Macrow, who took the title [...]

Garth Tander will have more on his mind than winning the V8 Supercar championship when the series ventures overseas to Bahrain next weekend.
His wife, Leanne, normally never far form his side, has been left behind in Australia, so while Tander is in the Middle East she will be racing at Oran Park in Sydney.
She is [...]

Australian F3 front-runner James Winslow returned home to the UK earlier this week to receive the prestigious Royal Humane Bronze Award from HRH Princess Alexandra in London’s Royal Haberdashers Hall.
The reigning Asian Formula 3 champion received one of only nine awards handed out this year, with his award being given for his actions in the [...]

The 2007 Kumho Tyres Australian F3 championship burst into life after a day of high drama and superb racing on Phillip Island’s Grand Prix circuit produced a first-time winner and closed the gaps at the top of the table.
Four drivers are now split by just 15 points after three rounds of the Australian Drivers’ Championship, [...]

It may have taken three rounds, but British driver James Winslow has finally put his Team Opes Prime Dallara in the place he feels it deserves to be after taking a pair of stunning pole positions at Phillip Island in preparation for round three of the Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship.
After struggling for outright [...]

Oran Park Raceway’s four-year old series lap record could well be obliterated when the Kumho Tyres Australian F3 Championship returns to racing next weekend.
Pre-event testing for the second round of the season took place at the demanding Sydney circuit in near perfect conditions this week, and a number of leading competitors undercut the existing mark [...]