Components 3 runner-up and Audi Components 1 junior Freddie Slater will step as much as Components 2 with Invicta Racing in 2027.
The 2024 Italian F4 and 2025 Components Regional European champion was signed by Audi to spearhead its new Driver Growth Programme in 2026, whereas he moved to F3 with Trident.
4 consecutive feature-race podiums meant Slater snatched the lead of the championship away from sophomore Ugo Ugochukwu going into the summer time break, however he solely scored 15 extra factors throughout the final 5 races of the season and was surpassed by the Campos driver within the title battle.
Slater nonetheless was the very best rookie of the season – although he did participate in two rounds in 2025. Eight podiums together with one victory in Hungary meant the 18-year-old Briton comfortably took the runner-up spot forward of second-year Tuukka Taponen and fellow debutant Taito Kato.
“I’m actually excited to be stepping as much as Components 2 with Invicta Racing subsequent yr,” Slater stated. “I realized lots in Components 3 this season, and I really feel I’ve developed as a driver and as an individual over the course of the yr.
“Invicta has an important file in Components 2, and I can not wait to get began with the workforce and put together for our marketing campaign collectively. I’m additionally very grateful for the continued help from the Audi Driver Growth Programme. There’s nonetheless lots for me to be taught, and I’m actually trying ahead to taking up this new problem.”
Rafael Camara, Invicta Racing
Picture by: Clive Mason / Getty Pictures
The Trident-to-Invicta pipeline has been extraordinarily profitable lately with a number of situations of back-to-back titles.
Gabriel Bortoleto, Leonardo Fornaroli and Rafael Camara earned the earlier three F3 crowns with the Italian squad, earlier than switching to the Norfolk-based outfit in F2 – the place Bortoleto and Fornaroli turned champions as rookies. Presently a detailed second within the 2026 standings, Camara has a good probability of emulating them.
Though he narrowly did not prevail in F3, these are the examples Slater will purpose to comply with in 2027.
“The transfer to Components 2 is the pure subsequent step for Freddie, and an vital new section of his growth as a driver,” stated Audi Driver Growth Programme director Allan McNish.
“He loved a powerful Components 3 season, preventing for the title till the ultimate spherical – exhibiting his velocity, racecraft and progress all year long. We’re very pleased with what Freddie has achieved this season and the way he has developed alongside the way in which.
“Invicta Racing has had a superb file lately, and we’re delighted to be working with them. We imagine it’s the preferrred setting for him, and we sit up for supporting him as he takes on this new problem in 2027.”
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