The 2021 Formula Regional Americas Championship powered by Honda was the fourth season for the FIA Formula 3 regional series across North America, and the second season under the Formula Regional moniker after a rebrand in 2020. The series was sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing, the professional racing division of the Sports Car Club of America. Drivers competed to win a Honda-backed Super Formula seat in 2022.[1]
Kyffin Simpson took the drivers' championship at the last round at the Circuit of the Americas, while TJ Speed Motorsports secured the teams' title.
All drivers competed with Honda-powered Ligier JS F3 cars on Hankook tires.
Team | Driver | Rounds | ||
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Jay Howard Driver Development | 7 | Christian Bogle[2] | 1–3 | |
Crosslink Competition | 9 | Joshua Car[3] | All | |
14 | Dylan Tavella[4] | All | ||
Kiwi Motorsport | 15 | Kaleb Ngatoa[5] | 6 | |
Velocity Racing Development | 11 | Hunter Yeany[6] | 1–4 | |
Arias Deukmedjian[7] | 5 | |||
27 | Matt Round-Garrido[8] | 1 | ||
29 | Nick Persing | 3–6 | ||
77 | Jason Alder | 6 | ||
TJ Speed Motorsports[9] | 17 | Baptiste Berthelot[10] | All | |
19 | Varun Choksey[11] | All | ||
21 | Kyffin Simpson[12] | All | ||
99 | Logan Cusson[13] | All | ||
WISKO | 24 | Kevin Janzen | 5–6 | |
Newman Wachs Racing | 45 | Ian Rodríguez[14] | 1–4 | |
48 | Jordan Missig[15] | All | ||
Newman Wachs Racing/Abel Motorsport | 51 | Jacob Abel | 3 | |
Crosslink/Kiwi Motorsport | 78 | Ryan Yardley | 5–6 | |
91 | Cooper Becklin | 5–6 | ||
Future Star Racing | 98 | Ernie Francis Jr.[16] [17] | All |
The 2021 calendar was announced on 5 November 2020. Each round featured three races.[18] A pre-season test was held at Virginia International Raceway as well as a Winter Cup at the road course of Homestead-Miami Speedway in February.[19] [20] Two rounds at Sonoma and Laguna Seca were later replaced by Road America and Brainerd International Raceway.[21] The round at Circuit Trois-Rivières in Quebec, Canada - the planned first international event for the series - was cancelled due to border restrictions and replaced with a round at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.[22]
Points were awarded as follows:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
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| valign=top | Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — Did not finish, but classified |
Only a team's two best-finishing cars were eligible for teams' championship points.
Pos | Team | ATL | ROA | MOH | BRA | VIR | COA | Pts | ||||||||||||
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R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | |||
1 | TJ Speed Motorsports | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 529 |
3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 9 | |||
2 | Crosslink Competition | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 398 |
5 | DNS | Ret | 8 | 8 | 6† | 13† | 12 | Ret | 7 | Ret | 10 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 | |||
3 | Newman Wachs Racing | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | Ret | 5 | NC | 13 | 276 |
Ret | DNS | DNS | 3 | Ret | DNS | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | DNS | Ret | |||||||||
4 | Velocity Racing Development | 7 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 200 |
9 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 | Ret | 9 | 10 | Ret | 9 | 10 | 5 | 7 | ||||||
5 | Future Star Racing | 11 | 5 | Ret | 11 | 5 | Ret | 5 | 4 | 1 | DNS | Ret | 7† | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | NC | 4 | 160 |
6 | Jay Howard Driver Development | 8 | 10 | NC | 5 | 9 | DNS | 4 | 7 | 7 | 41 | |||||||||
8 | Kiwi Motorsport | 6 | 4 | 8 | 24 | |||||||||||||||
7 | WISKO | 11 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 5 | ||||||||||||
Pos | Driver | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | R1 | R2 | R3 | Pts |
ATL | ROA | MOH | BRA | VIR | COA |