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AIX Racing has completed its 2025 FIA Formula 3 Championship driver line-up, but only for the Melbourne season opener as Nikita Bedrin stays in the team’s ranks.
“What news! Very unexpected, but super happy to be back,” said the Russian racer. “It will be for sure a challenge to get used to everything again, but I will make the best out of it. Can’t wait to get started.”
Bedrin drove for the German team in 2022 when it was known as PHM Racing, coming fourth in Formula 4 United Arab Emirates, fourth in ADAC F4 and 12th in Italian F4.
He stepped up to Formula Regional with PHM the year after, winning twice in the Middle East championship and coming eighth in the standings. Later in 2023 he joined two other teams for outings in the European championship, and also joined Jenzer Motorsport for another step up the ladder to F3.
In his rookie FIA F3 campaign, Bedrin only scored three times but was on the podium twice and that was enough to put him 18th in the points table. Last year he returned to what was now known as PHM AIX Racing, but moved back down the single-seater ladder to F4 UAE and came fifth in the standings with three wins from three rounds.
That preceded his sophomore FIA F3 season with AIX, in which he improved to five points finishes and claimed a maiden victory in the Hungaroring sprint race. However he slipped to 19th in the standings.
Bedrin’s focus for 2025 is FRegional, having signed with Sainteloc Racing. He contested two FRME rounds, picking up a win and three other podiums with some tyre-saving masterclasses, then will do the full FREC season.
Racing for AIX in Melbourne, and the rest of the year, will be Eurocup-3 runner-up Javier Sagrera and International GT Open race-winner Nicola Marinangeli. He has F3-level experience from racing in Euroformula back in 2022.