The 2025 FIA Formula 3 season came to a dramatic close at Monza with a race full of safety cars, gravel traps, and surprising moves. Amid the chaos, Campos Racing delivered a 1–2 finish with Inthraphuvasak and Tsolov to clinching the Constructor’s Championship in style. For the first time since new F3 championship concept was introduced in 2019, the title goes to a non-Italian team.
Clean Getaway Before Chaos
The season finale at Monza began under warm conditions and just like yesterday – with a current champion, Camara, starting from the last place. Despite a few lock-ups into the tight Turn 1 chicane, the field avoided contact. Pole-sitter Benavides held onto the lead, followed by Ugochukwu and Inthraphuvasak.
The calm start didn’t last. Almost immediately, a yellow flag turned into a full safety car when Wurz pulled over with front-wing damage. Yesterday’s winner (before his penalty) Tramnitz was also forced into the pits, while Xie retired after going wide and sustaining damage through the grass.
Safety Cars and Chaos
The race restarted with Benavides momentarily letting Ugochukwu past as per the team’s instructions only to retake the lead a few corners later with slipstream. Their battle was quickly neutralised by another safety car on lap 4 after Barrichello spun into the gravel at Variante Ascari.
Benavides aced the restart again, but drama followed when Ugochukwu lost control on debris left from Barrichello’s car, sliding into the gravel and out of the race. By lap 8, the safety car returned for the second time, with the leaders barely having a chance to stretch their legs.
The Battle For Slipstream
When green flags flew once again, the slipstream effect around Monza’s long straights kept the racing tight. Benavides defended hard, while further back, Johnson spun but managed to rejoin without triggering another race neutralisation.
Campos and Trident drivers intensified their fight for the Teams’ Championship. For now, Campos had the upper hand, with Tsolov and Inthraphuvasak both running inside the top four.
Mayham in Midfield
The midfield was chaos. Zagazeta went through the gravel, losing his front wing, before beaching his car at the next chicane. In a domino effect, multiple drivers spun into Turn 1, and van Hoepen stalled briefly before managing to restart. Both van Hoepen and Domingues were forced to pit with damage, with Domingues retiring his car.
Trident’s hopes dimmed further when their last two drivers in the race, Camara and Stromsted, still ran further down than Campos drivers. Camara, however, showed his trademark determination, climbing from P30 at the start up into the top 10 by the final laps.
Campos Seals the Deal
With six laps remaining, the turning point arrived. Inthraphuvasak caught Benavides off-guard into the first chicane to take the lead, immediately followed by teammate Tsolov, who snatched P2. With both Campos drivers now in control, even Camara’s remarkable charge up to P6 wasn’t enough for Trident to take the title.
The final laps resembled more of a rally stage than a single-seater race, as gravel covered much of the track from earlier incidents. Benavides slipped to P4, while Camara and Stromsted overtook Bilinski to secure P5 and P6.
On the last lap, a yellow flag for Lacorte’s stricken car prompted race control to disable DRS, ensuring no further changes at the end.
Historic Finish For the Spanish Team
As the chequered flag fell, Inthraphuvasak led home teammate Tsolov in a Campos 1–2, with Leon completing the podium. Benavides had to settle for fourth, ahead of Camara and Stromsted.
For Campos, it was a historic moment: not only did they seal the Teams’ Championship, but they did so with a double podium in the season’s final race. The celebrations grew louder knowing this marked the first time in FIA Formula 3’s modern era (since its 2019 rebranding) that a non-Italian team clinched the title.