page_title: Van Amersfoort Racing
section_title: FIA Formula 3 European Championship (2012-2018)
hierarchical_section_title: Van Amersfoort Racing / History / FIA Formula 3 European Championship (2012-2018)
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context_page_description: Van Amersfoort Racing is an auto racing team based in The Netherlands. In 2020, the team will compete in the Formula Regional European Championship, Euroformula Open Championship, Italian F4 Championship and the German ADAC Formula 4 Championship.
  Notable past drivers for the team include Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Anthoine Hubert, Callum Ilott, Mick Schumacher, Giedo van der Garde, Jos Verstappen, Christijan Albers, Richie Stanaway, Marcel Albers, Tom Coronel, Renger van der Zande, Joey Alders and Dennis Hauger.
context_section_description: After two races in 2012 with Auer and van de Laar, the team moved to the FIA Formula 3 European Championship on the full-time basis in 2013. They kept van de Laar and signed Måns Grenhagen. The team had tough start, with just one podium finish of Sven Müller, who took Grenhagen's car for the last three rounds of the season. The team remained in the German F3 with Gustavo Menezes and Jordi Weckx as their drivers. Both of them wasn't able to give the fight to Lotus drivers, who occupied the top step of the podium in the races with the full-points distribution.			
  			
  2014 was the last year of the German Formula Three Championship, Sam MacLeod and Weiron Tan were the teams' drivers. But once again they were overscored by Lotus drivers Markus Pommer and Nabil Jeffri. While in the European Championship the team signed with Gustavo Menezes, Jules Szymkowiak and Max Verstappen. Verstappen, who made his Single-seaters debut in the championship, had the longest winning streak in the championship with six consecutive wins, that he scored at Spa and Norisring. He finished the season in third place with 10 wins, one more than champion Esteban Ocon.			
  			
  For 2015 the team signed Charles Leclerc, Alessio Lorandi and Arjun Maini. Leclerc was the only driver who had race wins and finished the season in top-five of the standings. The team also expanded to the new-for-2015 ADAC Formula 4. Harrison Newey, Joey Mawson and Mick Schumacher were the team drivers. Mawson had five race wins and finished the season third, while Schumacher had one race win and completed the top-ten in the standings.			
  The team completely changed their line-up in the 2016 FIA Formula 3 European Championship with signing of Anthoine Hubert, Callum Ilott, Harrison Newey and Pedro Piquet. Ilott and Hubert were the only race winners for the squad. The team retained Mawson in ADAC F4, while Schumacher moved to another team. They had a championship battle, which was won by Mawson. But in the teams' championship Van Amersfoort Racing lost just by 4.5 points to Prema Powerteam.			
  In 2017 the team remained in the European Championship with Newey and Piquet, adding to their squad David Beckmann and the ADAC F4 champion Mawson. It was the worst season in the championship for the team as none of drivers have visited the top step of the podium and they were last in the teams standings. Their drivers for the 2017 ADAC Formula 4 Championship were Felipe Drugovich, Kami Laliberté, Frederik Vesti and Louis Gachot. Drugovich was the title contender till the last race of the season, but lost the battle to Prema drivers Jüri Vips and Marcus Armstrong. The team title was again claimed by Prema, who outscored Van Amersfoort Racing by 71 points.			
  For the final 2018 FIA Formula 3 European Championship campaign, the Dutch team signed with Keyvan Andres and Artem Petrov, with Sophia Flörsch a later addition to the team. While in 2018 ADAC Formula 4 Championship the squad were represented by Joey Alders, Liam Lawson, Lucas Alecco Roy, Frederik Vesti and Charles Weerts, with Lawson finishing runner-up in the championship.
caption: Max Verstappen, driving for Van Amersfoort Racing during FIA Formula 3 European Championship race at Hockenheim in 2014.
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