Formula 3 Across The Top Of The Mountain.... Simply Brilliant. But Were The Internationals Watching?

    The recent Easter period saw the staging of the Bathurst Motor Festival at Australia's iconic Mt Panorama circuit. Categories featured included Historic Touring Cars, HQ Holdens, Production Sports Cars, Aussie Racing Cars, and Australia's fastest racing cars, Formula 3. It was a free event with a requested donation to Legacy, a fantastic charity who help the families of war veterans and receive no government assistance.
    Formula 3 is a worldwide category and Mt Panorama is globally recognised as one of the world's great motorsport challenges that has enticed overseas drivers to various events for decades. Formula 3 hadn't raced across "The Mountain" for some 30-odd years. It was impressive to witness these cars gripped up breezing across the top, then plunging down the Esses and the Dipper. Not surprisingly, the lap record was broken that weekend.
    But were the European and Japanese F3 teams keeping an eye on proceedings? Organisers have made no secret that they would love to welcome them and any other overseas F3 team to expand the grid and promote the Bathurst Motor Festival as a stand alone international F3 event rivalling the Macau F3. formulafrontrow.com believes one avenue of promotion would be for Formula 3 to push to rejoin the support bill for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix. The cars could then carry common badging (similar to tyre supplier badging) promoting the Bathurst Motor Festival. This would raise brand and event awareness through TV and online exposure.
    Let us know what you think. Leave a comment or send us an email at: [email protected]. A thoroughly enjoyable Bathurst Motor Festival. See you at next year's event.....