Is 2025 the year Rodin Motorsport make their mark in F3?

The signs were there in 2024 and ahead of the new campaign getting underway, Rodin Motorsport may well be preparing for their finest year yet in FIA Formula 3.

The team have previously struggled to match their F3 form to their successes in other categories but were race winners at last at this level last year, with Callum Voisin victorious at Spa-Francorchamps.

This time around, Voisin is joined by two rookies in Roman Bilinski and Louis Sharp, both of whom have earned their own plaudits in recent years ahead of their promotion up to F3. The question now is, can they all put it together and build on Rodin’s momentum from last year?

Leading the way, Voisin has the experience of a full F3 season under his belt, one in which he earned his maiden pole and victory in the Championship. Coming late in the year at the penultimate round of the season at Spa, it proved that Rodin had built performance levels throughout the year to contend at the front rather than making fortune count on an unpredictable day.

Voisin’s uptick in form actually began at Silverstone, where he crossed the line first in the Feature Race but ultimately lost the win to a time penalty, dropping him to third. It followed a P4 finish the previous day and was part of a streak of six-consecutive points finishes.

The Briton missed out on a scoring result across the final race weekend of the year in Monza, but his progression as a rookie was obvious. He will now enter year two in F3 full of confidence that he can hit the ground running and be a factor throughout the year.

Roman Bilinski enters the F3 Championship after a turbulent 2024 season. He secured the Formula Regional Oceania Championship title in style, earning six race wins and six other podium results en route to P1 before entering the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine.

After a maiden pole and podium result in the second race weekend of the year at Spa, a road accident left him on the sidelines and requiring surgery to repair two broken vertebrae he’d sustained. However, he returned to action before the year was out and secured points in six of the final eight races of the year to mark his comeback to racing.

Now, Bilinski steps up to F3 with Rodin for 2025 and he’ll be hoping that the team’s improved performances coincide with a strong adaptation to the Championship and new car. Despite missing four rounds of the ’24 season it was Bilinski’s best FRECA campaign, and with experience of all but two venues on the 2025 F3 calendar, he’s set to press on this year.

Louis Sharp has already achieved plenty of success with Rodin, winning the 2023 British F4 and 2024 GB3 Championships driving for the team. The New Zealander’s impressive junior career has been with the team for the majority of his races, earning 15 wins in the team’s various guises since 2022.

After a dominant ’23 season that included four poles, six wins and 14 podiums in total, he continued in that vein of form last year. Five poles, five wins and 10 podiums made it two racing titles in a row, and he arrives in F3 for his sternest test yet.

With a team he already knows well, his adaptation to the Championship will be aided by a familiar environment, even if the car at his disposal is brand new. Along with Bilinski and Voisin, the Rodin trio are aiming to capitalise on what was a strong campaign last year for the New Zealand team.

After operational changes ahead of 2022 were made, the team is beginning see their efforts and hard work pay off as a leap in performance and strong results finally arrived in 2024.

Continuing that momentum will be the target for Rodin in 2025, and there is perhaps no better time to capitalise with the reset putting all teams right back to square one.