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Rodin Motorsport has found its feet in FIA Formula 3 in 2025, as evidenced by the results achieved by all three of its drivers across the first three rounds of the season.
The team raced in GP3 from 2010 to ’15 under Carlin name, and won both titles in 2014. It returned to the paddock in 2019 when the championship rebranded to FIA F3, but only took four podiums across five seasons.
It began competing as Rodin last year, and after 12 races, it had only scored eight points. However, it ended 2024 with 85 points and a win, and six races into 2025 with FIA F3’s new car it already has 54 points and two podiums.
“It’s been a good weekend, it’s been due,” Louis Sharp told Formula Scout in the Imola paddock after scoring his first points in the series. “The first two rounds have been pretty tough. The pace has been really good, but we’ve just not really had the luck or had the opportunity to put it all together. So to finally get a good qualifying in P5 and then to get a good sprint race, making up a few places to finish P4, it’s definitely been a good weekend so far and a good points haul.”
He added: “The progress the team’s made over the last year or so has been amazing. Not very long ago they were probably the worst team in F3. With the new car, they’ve definitely done a good job of stepping things up. Towards the end of last year they started to find some success. So they’re definitely a very hard-working group of people and they do a good job.
“There’s still more we can all find, compared to the Tridents or MP or some other teams. There’s still a little bit more we can do. But we’re all working really hard and we’re all trying our best to close the gap.”
Roman Bilinski finished third in the season-opening sprint race in Melbourne and was in the points in both Imola races. He highlighted that “we’re always there or thereabouts [in every session] as being Rodin’s “strongest bit”. He also says that having strong drivers and technicians has been a crucial element.
“[My team-mates are] both champions and then also I was a champion last year, so having experience in the team was great. And we have a great engineering line-up. It’s changed a little bit since last year and we’ve put so much work in this post-season that it would have been a shame if we weren’t performing, with how much hard work we’ve done.
“Excellent work by the team!” Bilinski exclaimed.
Having finished second in the Bahrain feature race, Callum Voisin expressed to Formula Scout his disappointment at not fighting at the front at Imola, where a mistake in qualifying left him down in 22nd place for the races.
Nevertheless, having admitted that he had been hesitant about returning with Rodin for 2025, he is now glad that decision is paying off.