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ART Grand Prix has promoted Kanato Le to its FIA Formula 3 Championship line-up for next year.
The 18-year-old will be stepping up to the Formula 1 support paddock after racing in various Formula Regional championships with the team since 2024, and has several of car racing experience preceding that.
He is ART GP’s second signing for 2026, following the announcement that Eurocup-3 winter series champion Maciej Gladysz would be joining the team.
“I’m super excited to be racing in FIA F3 next season with ART GP,” said Le. “I am really grateful for the opportunity they have given me to be able to race in this championship.”
“It’s been a good year working with the team in FRegional European Championship this season and I look forward to getting started in F3. I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me get to this point and trusting me. I will work hard with the team to achieve good results so I’m really looking forward to it.”
When Le graduated from karting in 2022, his manager Mark Blundell placed him in the Ginetta Junior sportscar series where he came seventh in the points table with two wins and was the second top rookie.
He made one single-seater outing before a full-time switch to Formula 4 in 2023, winning twice en route to seventh in the British F4 standings and coming 17th in F4 United Arab Emirates.
Le then stepped up the ladder, coming 18th in FREC with one podium and 22nd in FRegional Middle East as a part-timer. In late 2024 he joined ART GP for the FIA FRegional World Cup-awarding Macau Grand Prix.
The partnership continued into 2025, which kicked off with Le taking a race win in FRME and coming eighth in the standings. He is currently 14th in FREC with one round to go, and was 14th in GB3 where raced part-time with Hillspeed and won.
“Kanato’s move to F3 is the natural continuation of his journey with ART GP,” said the team’s principal Sebastien Philippe.
“After two seasons in FREC, he will now discover an even more demanding category, where every detail makes the difference. Kanato already knows the team and how it operates, which will help him integrate smoothly and focus fully on his driving. This continuity is important both for him and for us, and we are looking forward to the next stages of his development.”