Formula Three racing started in this country during the 1960s. The list of Champions includes many great names, while many of its graduates have made their way to the highest levels in motor racing around the world.

During the 1970s, for a period there were two, and on one occasion three, different titles to be won, starting in 1970 when Tony Trimmer and Dave Walker both won titles, until 1978 when Nelson Piquet and Derek Warwick were both crowned champion.
From 1979 onwards the BRDC and the BARC, which had been running the separate Championships, merged them into the single British Formula 3 Championship (the chassis and engine used are shown in following table).

A host of former British F3 drivers, several of them champions, are now established as the very best sports prototype and GT drivers in the world – JJ Lehto, Johnny Herbert, Andy Wallace, James Weaver, David Brabham, Jan Magnussen, Oliver Gavin, Guy Smith and Jamie Davies amongst them. They feature regularly in the Le Mans Endurance Series and the FIA GT Championship.

The new FIA European Touring Car Champion, Andy Priaulx, is a British F3 graduate, as are the likes of Rickard Rydell, Alain Menu (who still runs a team in British F3), Peter Kox, Anthony Reid and Jason Plato from the Touring Car world.

After Nelson A. Piquet 2004, the latest name to be added to the list of Champions was that of Alvaro Parente.

Who will follow him in 2006?