The FIA Formula 3 and GT World Cups will headline the 70th anniversary running of the Macau Grand Prix meeting on the weekend of 18/19 November following three years during which travel restrictions into China resulting from the COVID pandemic precluded an international presence.
The F3 fixture, which also carries the Macau GP title and is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and the GT race were respectively replaced by a round of the China Formula 4 Championship and the Macau GT Cup in 2020-22.
It will be the second time that the new FIA one-make F3 formula for the Dallara F3 2019 chassis based on the GP3/16 and powered by a 3.4-litre Mecachrome V6 has raced at Macau after 2019.
Macau’s race for GT3 machinery gained FIA status in 2015 and ran for five years up to 2019.
The Stephane Ratel Organisation, the world’s premier promoter of GT3 racing, has again been retained to put together the entry for the race.
Confirmation of the return of F3 follows comments from FIA single-seater strategy director Francois Sicard in March that the governing body was working on bringing the category back to Macau.
Plans to revive the two fixtures last year had to be abandoned as a result of the quarantine period that remained in force before entry into China.
The FIA-sanctioned races are returning to the Macau Guia circuit as part of a three-year agreement between the governing body and the Macau national sporting authority (the Automobile General Association Macao-China) and the Macau Grand Prix Organizing Committee.
Source: Autosport