Photo: Bianca Bustamante
GB3 teams have begun testing with the new Tatuus MSV GB3-025 car that will be introduced to the series this season.
Most teams collected their chassis last week from GB3 promoter MotorSport Vision, with 10 cars having been shipped from Tatuus’s headquarters in Italy over to the United Kingdom. Further shipments will be taking place later this month.
The first few chassis to be built were used for development running at Cremona, Vallelunga and Varano in Italy, Navarra in Spain, then at MSV’s Bedford Autodrome base last month.
Elite Motorsport wasted little time before heading out on track to sample its new car once it got hold of it, and went to Spain to test at Jerez.
At the wheel of the car for the team over the last two days have been Bianca Bustamante and Will Macintyre, who form part of its driver line-up for 2025.
Bustamante, who graduates from the all-female and Formula 4-spec F1 Academy series, said “the car looks and feels amazing” after testing it.
She also announced her departure from the McLaren Driver Development Programme, which she joined in October 2023 at the end of her rookie season in F1 Academy. That year she won two races and came seventh in the standings, a position she repeated in 2024 despite only making the podium once. She already has experience at a higher level of single-seaters, having some in 15th in all-female and FRegional-spec W Series back in 2022.
Tatuus announced last week that it has made Leonardo Galante its new chief technical officer. He previously worked in the technical departments of Ferrari and Lamborghini, and joins Tatuus to work on non-motorsport projects as well as its range of junior single-seater cars.