Four seasons, a lifetime of drama
Eurocup-3 only turned on its lights in 2023, but it has already packed in more storylines than many series manage in a decade. Title fights decided by a single point. A championship settled in a courtroom three months after the chequered flag. Rookies beating seasoned rivals, and a brand-new car that rewrote the rulebook in 2026.
As the 2026 season heads to its finale at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, we look back at the races that defined Eurocup-3 so far. Some were won on the last lap. Some were lost on a restart. All of them tell you why this championship has become one of the most competitive steps on the single-seater ladder.
1. Spa-Francorchamps 2023, Race 1: a debut written in the rain
Every story needs a first chapter, and Eurocup-3’s opened in classic Spa style. Sixteen cars lined up for the series’ first-ever race in May 2023, on a track that was still damp while the whole field sat on slick tyres.
Some drivers struggled to keep the car pointing forward. Campos Racing’s Francesco Braschi did the opposite. Starting eighth, he was leading within two laps and never looked back, taking the first win in Eurocup-3 history. It was the perfect preview of what the series would become: unpredictable, close, and brutal on anyone who hesitated.
2. Estoril 2023, Race 2: the restart that reopened the title
By October 2023, Esteban Masson looked to have the inaugural crown under control. He had won from pole on the Saturday at Estoril and was leading again on Sunday after passing polesitter Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak at the start.
Then came a safety car restart. Masson weaved too much while bunching up the pack and was handed a drive-through penalty, dropping him out of the points. Mp Motorsport pounced: Mari Boya led home an all-MP podium ahead of Sebastian Øgaard and José Garfias. One race earlier the championship had looked settled. Now Masson led by just five points, with Boya only one further back.
3. Barcelona 2023: one point, one champion
The first season came down to the wire. After Boya won at home in Valencia, he arrived at Barcelona-Catalunya just a single point behind Masson. Two races, one title, no margin for error.
Masson answered with the most complete weekend of his career. Pole and a dominant win on Saturday. Pole and another controlled victory on Sunday. Boya fought hard, including a clash with Garfias that ended the Mexican’s race, but he couldn’t match the Frenchman’s pace. Masson’s clean sweep turned a one-point lead into a 30-point final margin, eight wins from 16 races, and the honour of becoming Eurocup-3’s first champion. Campos Racing took the teams’ title by just two points over MP Motorsport.
4. Spa-Francorchamps 2024, Race 1: survival of the calmest
Season two began in conditions so wet that every practice and qualifying session was cancelled. The grid was set from the pre-event test, and polesitter Owen Tangavelou couldn’t even take the start.
That left MP Motorsport’s Javier Sagrera at the front behind the safety car. Racing barely got going before retirements brought it back out, and once the field was finally released, a multi-car crash at Raidillon ended the race early. Sagrera was declared the winner ahead of Alexander Abkhazava and Kirill Smal. The second race never ran at all. It was chaotic, it was short, and it set the tone for a season in which every single point would matter.
5. Barcelona 2024: the title decided after the flag
If you want one weekend that sums up Eurocup-3, this is it. Sagrera arrived at the November finale 26 points clear of Campos Racing rookie Christian Ho. On Saturday, Emerson Fittipaldi Jr. took pole and held off Ho for the win in a tense duel, with one defensive move at the centre of it. Sagrera’s lead was down to 12.
On Sunday, Ho grabbed pole and its two bonus points, then won the race. Sagrera brought it home in fifth, enough to be crowned champion by two points. Or so it seemed. Campos protested the Saturday result, and the case went all the way to the FIA International Court of Appeal.
In late February 2025, more than three months later, the court ruled that Fittipaldi had defended outside the track limits. A five-second penalty handed Ho the Saturday win, and with it the 2024 title by five points. Ho became the first rookie champion in Eurocup-3 history. MP Motorsport, meanwhile, had already sealed its first teams’ title.
6. MotorLand Aragón 2025: level on points, winner takes all
The first Eurocup-3 Spanish Winter Championship, held in early 2025, delivered a finale scriptwriters would reject as too neat. Mattia Colnaghi arrived at Aragón with a 28-point lead over Maciej Gładysz, both driving for the Mp Motorsport family.
Gładysz took pole, won Saturday’s race from lights to flag and added the fastest-lap point. Colnaghi, meanwhile, was swallowed up at the start and later damaged his car in a collision, finishing 24th. The result left the pair dead level on points with one race to go. A poor qualifying left Colnaghi down in 23rd for the decider, and Gładysz simply followed James Egozi home in second to become the series’ first winter champion.
7. Paul Ricard 2025: a collision, then a last-lap masterclass
The early part of the 2025 season was a four-way scrap between Colnaghi, Kacper Sztuka, Ernesto Rivera and Valerio Rinicella, and Paul Ricard showed exactly why. In Saturday’s opener, Rivera spent the whole race on Colnaghi’s gearbox before launching his attack with two laps to go. Sztuka joined in, the two made contact, and Rivera then ran wide at the final corner to drop to fourth.
Sunday belonged to Sztuka. He started from pole, but Rinicella beat him into turn one. Sztuka stayed glued to his rear wing and took the lead on the very last lap. The win sent Sztuka to the top of the standings, six points clear of Colnaghi. It remains one of the best-judged victories the series has seen.
8. Jerez 2025, Race 2: a rookie champion in style
After Paul Ricard, Colnaghi took over. From his second-race win at Monza onwards he never left the podium, and by the time Eurocup-3 reached Jerez in September he needed only a handful of points to wrap up the title.
The Italian didn’t play it safe. He took pole for Sunday’s race, which meant two points would be enough, then drove a flawless lights-to-flag win to seal the championship with two races still to run. Colnaghi finished his rookie season with five wins, ten podiums and a perfect finishing record, and Mp Motorsport defended its teams’ crown on the same afternoon.
9. Jerez 2026: a new era crowns its first champion
2026 brought the biggest change in the series’ short history: a new Dallara 326 chassis powered by a TOM’S turbocharged engine based on Toyota’s three-cylinder unit. Palou Motorsport’s James Egozi adapted fastest, and Jerez in late September became his coronation weekend.
The weekend had something for everyone. Egozi won the opener for his eighth victory of the year, with Griffin Core rookie Thomas Strauven taking his first Eurocup-3 podium in second. Keanu Al Azhari won the sprint. Then, in the final race, Mp Motorsport rookie René Lammers converted pole into his maiden series win, while Egozi’s second place sealed the title with two rounds to spare. A champion crowned, a first win and a first podium for two of the grid’s brightest rookies: few weekends capture Eurocup-3’s role as a launchpad better.
The next chapter: Barcelona, 6–8 November
Four seasons in, Eurocup-3 already has a roll of honour that tells its own story.
| Season | Champion | Team | How it was decided |
| 2026 | James Egozi | Palou Motorsport | Sealed at Jerez, two rounds early |
| 2025 | Mattia Colnaghi | MP Motorsport | Sealed at Jerez as a rookie, two races early |
| 2024 | Christian Ho | Campos Racing | Confirmed on appeal, three months after Barcelona |
| 2023 | Esteban Masson | Campos Racing | Clean sweep in the Barcelona finale |
The 2026 crown is decided, but the fight behind Egozi is wide open, and the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has hosted every Eurocup-3 season finale so far. If history is any guide, the next classic could be just around the corner.
Follow every lap of the season finale live, and keep an eye on the drivers who will write the next page of Eurocup-3 history.
