F3 Feature Race Highlights | 2026 Belgian Grand Prix

To the right of screen is Tuka Tapanen. To the left, your pole sitter, Freddy Slater. And we are go for the round six feature race here at Spa. Not a good launch at all for Freddy Slater off pole position. And he's having to defend from the Red Bull Juniors, Ernesto Rivera and Mateo Colnaghi. It's going to be Tuka Tapanen who goes straight through into the lead of the race. And Hiyu Yamakoshi there in second place for Van Amersfoort. We've got the two Red Bull Juniors side by side. The number three of Rivera and then Colnaghi. Two is outside as they head through Erugen. Already on an almost contact between the Red Bull Juniors there. It looks like Rivera has just held on to fourth position. And now Freddy Slater is on the fight back in third place. He knows he can take the championship lead today. We are four wide in the middle of the pack. And Freddy Slater is going to go three wide into Lake Combe. Hiyu Yamakoshi around the outside to take the lead away from Tapanen. Slater in third. It's all going off as they head through Malmedy. Oh, and we've got the Williams Junior. Giusti off, comes into the path of the Rodin's and one of the Campos. White Campos cars is off and it's our championship leader, Ugo Ugochukwu. Oh, not a good start for Ugochukwu. Slater as well, that terrible start somehow managed to salvage it. Top three reverse. Yamakoshi to first, second is, of course, Tapanen and Slater down to third. And there was so much going on further down the order. And that is why we have a safety car. Terfelnal, he's got a broken front wing and a puncture. He's surely going to have to come into the pit lane. Third in the championship. He's already dropping back in terms of points to the top two. This could be really costly for Terfelnal. So Slater had a terrible launch of the line to watch. The car just bogs down. You can see him lurch forward and then go slow, had to re-pull in the clutch. I thought Slater was going to drop tens of positions. Aggressive defense to the inside on Konnagi, then stuffed it back down the inside. It was three, nearly four abreast down towards turn one. Here, Yamakoshi, a lift into Eau Rouge to put himself the perfect distance back. Really good racecraft. Heads up driving. Very smart, very high IQ driving there from Yamakoshi. Stayed a bit further back, so he got more of a slingshot to the outside. He went of Tukutapanen and then brave on the brakes. Just about getting it stopped. Now, who went off here at Malmedy? Giusti goes wide and then one of the... Ah, it was up ahead, wasn't it? Was that actually... It was Ugo, wasn't it, who went off there? So here comes the contact on Kato ahead. Oh, just a misjudgment. So, so close. That was just a minor touch, wasn't it, Chris? But at that speed, you know, 160 miles an hour, I think they go into there at Le Combe. And then, oh, it was contact to contact. Yeah, I think that was because Niles Frumping was already damaged. On board, we're going uphill. We've just gone through Eau Rouge and Radeon. DRS open under the rear wing. Using the toe, Christian Haud defends. Ugo Ciuccu goes to the outside. Every position that Ugo Ciuccu makes in this race is a point or two closer to Slater in terms of championship. Side by side down to Eau Rouge for the second time in this race, shall we? It's Giusti versus one of the Van Amersfoort's there of Del Pino. Oh, and Giusti going off, coming up the climb through Radeon there. Rejoins on the Kemmel straight. And now Freddy Slater is going to get one step closer to retaking the lead of the race as he goes by Tapanen. This looks very close. This looks like a really good opportunity for Slater. The first one he'll get to retake that lead. He's closing in with the DRS. Hiyu Yamakoshi has left the door open and Freddy Slater will step right through it and into the lead of the race. Thank you very much, says the Audi Junior. He's gone through. Hiyu Yamakoshi not appearing to fight that one too hard. I wonder if there's some tactics there from Yamakoshi. So you can see Yamakoshi, he stays on the racing line, lifts off a little early actually, just to allow Slater an easy pass so that then later on he can continue to fight. It's losing the battle to win the war there. Behind there's going to be a change in the podium positions because Ernesto Rivera in the number three has gone down the inside at Lecombe and he's picked up front wing damage there on Hiyu Yamakoshi. It looked like he'd gone just a little bit too deep going down the inside and things just bunched up all of a sudden. Brief yellow flag to clear up that debris and Tapanen's gone wide on the exit of La Source and Kulnagy is going to sneak through on the inside there as they head down to Eau Rouge. Good driving from Kulnagy but that's a really costly mistake. And is this going to break up the lead pack? I wonder. Tapanen right behind Kulnagy. If it does, it will be the podium finishers all ahead and we'll have a battle for fourth. Once again up towards Lecombe and he's going to go through Hiyu Yamakoshi who doesn't fight it hard. Whoa! Kulnagy sends it on Tapanen there. Aggressive move and he's gone through to fourth. Noah Stromstedt would have enjoyed that one from behind. Oh, well, I say that. He's just been passed by Maciej Głodzisz. What an opportunist move from Maciej Głodzisz on the inside of Malmedy. We saw side by side Tapanen and Kulnagy and that was the first attempt from Głodzisz. Watch Głodzisz here. Watch Głodzisz in the ART, the black ART. Stromstedt in the white and blue. Whoa, what a move! Round the outside of the left-hand side of Lecombe. Up the Kemmel straight now, but look to the two leaders. Slater is having to defend. Here comes Ernesto Rivera to the outside. Is he going to fight it round the outside? No, doesn't have the opportunity this time. But in the background, the black and red ART of Głodzisz has gone by Tapanen. We've actually got a challenge for the lead already. Rivera alongside for the lead. Yeah, Ernesto Rivera using the DRS to go by Freddy Slater, who's similar to Hiro Yamakoshi, did not do anything in defense there. It was the overspeed for Rivera that took him through. Let's find out what happened to Ugo. So Ugo had to go defensive down towards the source, potentially a poor exit out of the bus stop. Who's on his inside? That is Jin Nakamura and the 16 of Bruno Del Pino. So that's how we lost those two positions. Frustration for Ugo Chiku. He knows his championship rival up the front of the field is scoring big points. As it stands, Freddy would take the lead of the championship, but he'll lose three points if he loses a place to Hiro Yamakoshi. And that's exactly what is going to happen. Yamakoshi makes the move down the inside. And Ugo will retain the championship lead as it stands. But what a drive it has been from Ernesto Rivera. We've seen him on the top step of the podium once this season when he took victory earlier at the sprint race at the Red Bull Ring. But this will be his first win on a Grand Prix Sunday as he wins the feature race here at Spa. Brilliant drive from the Campos driver. Hiro Yamakoshi on the podium in second place. And Freddy Slater will move to within one point behind Ugo Ugo Chiku, the championship leader. And that fight will continue as we go to Hungary next weekend. But Campos Racing can celebrate their driver. Red Bull Junior Ernesto Rivera has taken his first feature race win. Yes, boy, yes. There is third time things that are meant to be. And you winning a feature race is one of them. Well done Ernesto Rivera taking his first feature race win. We saw him win the sprint race back at Red Bull Ring, but this one will feel very good winning on Grand Prix Sunday. It's a first feature race win for Ernesto Rivera and one that makes a big difference for him. He climbs to fifth place in the championship with that Hiro Yamakoshi. Another podium for him. Podium number six for Slater. Kornagi replicates his fourth place. And Gwadysh, Kato, Tapanen, Nakamura, Giusti and Badouette. Champagne celebrations for round six. Rivera, impressive, put himself in a genuine opportunity to take third in the championship. He's now in that fight with 10 drivers all in that fight for third. Two at the front of the field, romping away. 104 points, 103 for Slater and Ugo Chiku. And then Niall, 65 points in third.