17 drivers made their full-time
FIA Formula 3 Championship debut, with only
Jenzer driver
Federico Malvestiti having had experience in the category before. The other rookies were
Formula Renault Eurocup champion
Oscar Piastri and
Formula Regional European champion
Frederik Vesti at
Prema Racing,
Italian F4 champion Dennis Hauger at
Hitech Grand Prix,
ADAC F4 Championship winner
Théo Pourchaire and
Aleksandr Smolyar at
ART Grand Prix,
Olli Caldwell at
Trident,
Enzo Fittipaldi and
Jack Doohan at
HWA Racelab,
Lukas Dunner at
MP Motorsport,
Calan Williams and
F4 UAE champion
Matteo Nannini,
Roman Staněk,
David Schumacher and
2020 Toyota Racing Series winner
Igor Fraga at
Charouz,
BRDC F3 champion
Clément Novalak,
Enaam Ahmed and
Cameron Das at
Carlin Buzz Racing, and
Sophia Flörsch at
Campos Racing.
Logan Sargeant switched from Carlin to Prema,
Max Fewtrell and
Liam Lawson moved to Hitech from ART Grand Prix and MP Motorsport respectively,
Sebastián Fernández went from Campos to ART, meanwhile
Lirim Zendeli and
David Beckmann came to
Trident from Charouz and ART respectively, and
Bent Viscaal made a move to
MP Motorsport from HWA. The other drivers, namely
Jake Hughes (HWA),
Richard Verschoor (MP),
Alex Peroni and
Alessio Deledda (both Campos) returned to their previous year's team respectively. ==Classification==