Joshua Dufek will join Hitech GP for the team’s 2025 FIA Formula 3 challenge.
The 19-year-old Austrian will be embarking on his second full season of FIA F3, having completed a full calendar in 2024.
Joshua’s single-seater career began in 2020, when he finished fourth in the F4 Spanish Championship Drivers’ Standings. The following season he undertook a dual campaign in ADAC and Italian F4, finishing seventh in each series.
In 2022 he had his first encounter with Hitech, racing for the team in the Formula Regional Asian Championship. That same season he competed in the Formula Regional European Championship and finished as the runner-up to current FIA F3 champion Leonardo Fornaroli in the Rookie classification.
During 2023 Joshua had a brief taste of FIA F3 when he took part in a single round of the series, alongside Formula Regional European, Formula Regional Middle East, and a successful campaign in the Euroformula Open Championship that included a victory and six podiums.
Prior to single-seaters, Joshua began his racing record in karting. He won his first championship straight out of the box in 2015 and rose through the ranks in various national championships, before progressing to the FIA Karting European and World Championships in OK-Junior then OK.
Joshua Dufek commented: “Moving up to my second full season of F3 with Hitech is a fantastic next step in my career. The team is really strong and we’ve seen this year that they were always in the fight for the title. I think it will be the perfect environment for me to build on my 2024 experience and achieve some good results. I’m really excited about this opportunity and I’m looking forward to getting to work with the team and with a brand-new generation of F3 car.”
Hitech GP’s Formula 3 Team Manager, Paul Bellringer, said: “We’re very happy to welcome Joshua back to Hitech after he was part of the team’s Formula Regional Asian campaign in 2022. He knows Hitech well and that familiar environment will be of benefit to him as he embarks on his second full season in Formula 3. He drove for us in the end of season tests in October and we were very pleased with his performances. Together with Martinius Stenshorne and Gerrard Xie I think we can make another strong bid for both Championship titles.”
2025 FIA Formula 3 Championship Calendar
FIA Formula 3’s seventh season will once again feature 10 rounds on three continents, all support events of the FIA Formula One World Championship and the FIA Formula 2 Championship. The 10 teams and 30 drivers will contest a total of 20 races across three continents. Find out more about the 2025 FIA Formula 3 Calendar.
New Season, New Generation Car
The FIA Formula 3 Championship is introducing a new-look F3 car for 2025, which will be raced for the next three seasons. The design philosophy is to give young drivers who aspire to race in Formula 2 and Formula 1 the best opportunity to progress through the pyramid. Find out more about the Next Generation F3 Car.
