Campos Racing heads into the final two rounds of the 2026 FIA F3 season holding a commanding advantage in the Teams’ Championship, but the expanded Madrid finale means even a 73-point lead is not enough to make the title secure.
The Spanish team has accumulated 269 points across the opening seven rounds, with TRIDENT its closest challenger on 196. Van Amersfoort Racing sits third on 132, followed by Rodin Motorsport on 121 and ART Grand Prix on 119. MP Motorsport is sixth with 102 points, while PREMA Racing and Hitech remain mathematically alive on 50 and 41 respectively. DAMS Lucas Oil and AIX Racing are already out of contention.
Unlike the Drivers’ Championship, the Teams’ standings take the results of all three cars into account. That dramatically increases the number of points available across a race weekend and makes Madrid’s additional Feature Race particularly significant. Under the FIA regulations, all three cars score towards the Teams’ Championship, creating a theoretical 239-point maximum across Monza and Madrid.
That keeps eight teams mathematically alive.
The more important question is whether anyone can realistically stop Campos.
The 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship at a glance
Campos has built its 73-point advantage through the strongest three-car line-up in the Championship. Ugo Ugochukwu is second in the Drivers’ standings with 122 points, Théophile Naël is third on 75 and Ernesto Rivera fourth with 72. Their totals combine exactly to Campos’ 269-point Teams’ Championship score.
TRIDENT has the Drivers’ Championship leader in Freddie Slater, but its scoring distribution is considerably less balanced. Slater has contributed 130 of the team’s 196 points, with Noah Strømsted adding 59 and Matteo De Palo seven. Slater alone therefore accounts for 66.3% of TRIDENT’s total, compared with Ugochukwu contributing 45.4% of Campos’ score.
The mathematics leaves a large field of potential Champions, but the standings and scoring profiles indicate that Campos and TRIDENT remain in a different position from everyone else.
Figure 1: 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship progression
How 239 points remain available
The scale of the remaining points is substantially larger than in the Drivers’ Championship because every car can contribute to the team total. A team that finishes first, second and third in a Sprint Race collects 27 points from finishing positions alone. If one of those cars also sets the eligible fastest lap, the maximum becomes 28.
A Feature Race offers considerably more. First, second and third are worth 25, 18 and 15 points respectively, giving 58. The two points for pole and one for fastest lap increase the theoretical team maximum to 61.
Monza therefore carries a maximum of 89 Teams’ Championship points: 28 from the Sprint Race and 61 from the Feature Race. Madrid changes the calculation further. The expanded finale will feature one Sprint Race and two Feature Races, along with separate qualifying sessions for the two Feature events. That creates a maximum of 150 team points across the weekend. Combined, Monza and Madrid offer 239 points.
For context, only Campos and TRIDENT have scored more than 150 across the entire season so far.
Eight teams remain mathematically alive in the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship
Campos already has 269 points, so any team capable of reaching at least 270 remains mathematically able to surpass its existing total.
TRIDENT needs 74 points from the final 239 to reach that threshold. Van Amersfoort needs 138, Rodin 149 and ART 151. MP Motorsport requires 168, while PREMA would need 220 and Hitech 229. DAMS cannot do it. Its current 26 points plus the maximum 239 would produce only 265. AIX Racing could reach no higher than 262 from its current 23.
The Teams’ Championship is therefore mathematically open to the top eight teams.
That description needs considerable context. PREMA would have to collect 92.1% of every remaining point merely to move beyond Campos’ existing total, assuming Campos scored nothing else. Hitech would require 95.8%. Even MP needs 168 of the final 239, or 70.3%, simply to reach 270.
As with the Drivers’ Championship, mathematical survival is not the same as realistic contention.
Campos has produced the strongest three-car attack in the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship fight
Campos’ biggest advantage is not simply Ugochukwu’s position near the top of the Drivers’ Championship. It is the number of cars consistently capable of contributing significant points.
Ugochukwu’s 122 points make him the team’s leading scorer, but Naël has added 75 and Rivera 72. Campos therefore has three drivers occupying second, third and fourth in the Drivers’ standings. Ugochukwu accounts for approximately 45.4% of the team’s total. Naël has contributed 27.9%, with Rivera responsible for another 26.8%.
That distribution makes Campos considerably less vulnerable to one driver having a difficult weekend.
Spa demonstrated the value particularly clearly. Ugochukwu failed to score, but Rivera collected 28 points and Naël five, allowing Campos to leave Belgium with 33 Teams’ Championship points despite one of its leading cars contributing nothing.
That kind of depth is difficult to overcome in a Championship where all three cars score.
Figure 2: Driver contribution to the Campos and TRIDENT totals
TRIDENT remains much more dependent on Slater
TRIDENT has the advantage of fielding the Drivers’ Championship leader, but its Teams’ title challenge has depended much more heavily on one car. Slater has scored 130 of TRIDENT’s 196 points, equivalent to 66.3%. Strømsted has supplied another 59, while De Palo has seven.
That does not mean TRIDENT lacks the pace to challenge Campos. Strømsted won the Spielberg Feature Race and produced a strong Silverstone weekend, while Slater has become the most consistent Feature Race scorer in the field. The team demonstrated its ceiling across Spielberg and Silverstone, scoring 47 points at both rounds.
The problem is that Campos can absorb a difficult result from one driver more easily. If Slater encounters trouble, TRIDENT needs Strømsted and De Palo to compensate. When Ugochukwu fails to score, Campos still has two drivers currently inside the top four of the Drivers’ Championship.
With 239 points left, that distinction could prove more important than the headline 73-point gap.
TRIDENT already showed it can cut the deficit quickly
Campos’ current advantage has not developed in a straight line. After Melbourne, Campos led TRIDENT by only seven points, 27 to 20. That gap increased to 32 after Monaco and reached 70 following Barcelona, where Campos scored 51 points compared with TRIDENT’s 13.
TRIDENT responded emphatically. Across Spielberg and Silverstone, it scored 47 points at each event for a combined 94. Campos managed 30 and 36 respectively, totalling 66. In only two rounds, TRIDENT recovered 28 points and reduced a 70-point deficit to 42. That period demonstrated that the Teams’ Championship can move rapidly when two or three cars from the same team score heavily.
However, the momentum did not continue.
Campos scored 33 points at Spa and 44 in Budapest, while TRIDENT managed 19 and 27. The Spanish team therefore gained 31 points across those two weekends and rebuilt its advantage from 42 to the current 73.
TRIDENT has already proved it can close the gap. The problem is that Campos has also shown it can reopen it just as quickly.
Campos has also won the recent-form battle
Slater’s surge to the Drivers’ Championship lead could create the impression that TRIDENT has been the stronger team recently. The Teams’ Championship figures show otherwise.
Across Silverstone, Spa and Budapest, Campos has scored 113 points. TRIDENT has collected 93. ART has scored 72, MP Motorsport 70 and Rodin 42. Van Amersfoort has managed only 23 over the same period.
Campos has therefore outscored every other team across the last three rounds despite Ugochukwu’s scoreless Spa weekend.
The final two rounds have been particularly important. Campos scored 77 points across Spa and Budapest compared with TRIDENT’s 46, turning the 42-point advantage after Silverstone into the present 73-point margin.
That 31-point swing is significant because it has almost completely undone the progress TRIDENT made across Spielberg and Silverstone.
The current Championship lead is therefore not simply the product of a strong start to the season. Campos enters Monza carrying the strongest recent three-round team score as well.
Figure 3: Teams’ points scored across the last three rounds
Feature Race scoring again favours the top two in the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship Standings
The distribution of the remaining 239 points also supports the argument that Campos and TRIDENT are best placed to control the Championship.
Of those 239 points, 56 are theoretically available from the two remaining Sprint Races. The three Feature Races and their associated pole and fastest-lap points account for the other 183. That means 76.6% of the remaining maximum team score is connected to the Feature Race side of the weekend.
Campos has scored 203 of its 269 points from Feature Race columns this season, equivalent to approximately 75.5%. TRIDENT’s dependence is even greater. It has collected 154 of 196 through Feature Races, or 78.6%.
Both leading teams have therefore built their Championships in the sessions that will carry more than three-quarters of the remaining points.
For the chasing teams, that creates another obstacle. It is not enough for Campos or TRIDENT to suffer an occasional poor Sprint. Significant points need to be taken from them in the Feature Races, where both have been strongest.
The 150-point Madrid window creates a clearer dividing line in the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship
As with the Drivers’ Championship, the points available at Madrid provide a useful way of separating genuine mathematical possibilities.
Madrid alone offers a maximum of 150 Teams’ Championship points. TRIDENT trails Campos by 73 and is therefore comfortably inside that margin. Van Amersfoort is 137 behind, Rodin 148 and ART exactly 150 back. Those four teams could theoretically arrive in Madrid with their current deficits unchanged and still have enough points available to draw level with or surpass Campos, depending on results and countback.
MP Motorsport cannot. Its 167-point deficit means it already needs to gain at least 17 points relative to Campos at Monza simply to bring the gap inside Madrid’s 150-point maximum. PREMA needs a 69-point swing and Hitech 78.
That makes the top five, including Campos, the teams currently inside what can be considered the Madrid window.
Figure 4: Gap to Campos and the 150-point Madrid threshold
Van Amersfoort’s early strength in the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship has faded
Van Amersfoort Racing remains third in the Teams’ Championship, but its season has moved in the opposite direction to Campos Racing and TRIDENT. The team opened the campaign strongly, scoring 30 points in Melbourne, 17 in Monaco and an impressive 52 in Barcelona. That left Van Amersfoort on 99 points after only three rounds and firmly involved near the front of the standings.
Since then, however, its scoring rate has fallen sharply. Van Amersfoort collected 10 points at Spielberg, four at Silverstone, 18 at Spa and only one in Budapest, giving it just 33 points across the last four rounds. The team’s current third place is therefore built largely on the foundation established early in the season. Hiyu Yamakoshi has contributed 55 points, Bruno del Pino 49 and Enzo Deligny 28, giving Van Amersfoort a relatively balanced line-up, but the overall rate of accumulation has slowed considerably. At 137 points behind Campos, the team remains mathematically inside the Madrid window, but realistically it requires both an immediate return to its Barcelona-level form and significant problems for the two teams ahead.
Rodin and ART are separated by only two points in the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship
While the Teams’ Championship increasingly appears to favour Campos and TRIDENT, one of the closest battles in the standings is developing directly behind Van Amersfoort. Rodin Motorsport sits fourth on 121 points, with ART Grand Prix only two points behind on 119, while MP Motorsport remains within reach on 102.
Rodin’s total has been driven primarily by Brando Badoer’s 71 points and Pedro Clerot’s 48, with Christian Ho adding two. ART has spread its scoring more evenly across Maciej Gładysz on 54, Taito Kato on 45 and Kanato Le on 20.
Recent form currently favours ART, which has scored 72 points across the last three rounds, including 38 at Silverstone and 25 at Spa. Rodin has managed 42 during the same period. Both remain within the 150-point Madrid window relative to Campos, although their title prospects would require a major reversal at the front. Their more immediate fight for position could nevertheless become one of the most competitive battles across the final two weekends.
MP Motorsport has become the late-season mover
MP Motorsport sits sixth on 102 points, but its position does not fully reflect how rapidly its season has improved. The Dutch team had only 32 points after Silverstone and failed to score at all during that weekend, but Spa produced 33 points before Budapest delivered another 37.
That means MP has scored 70 points across the last two rounds alone, representing 68.6% of its entire Championship total. Mattia Colnaghi and Tuukka Taponen have been central to that rise, contributing 39 and 46 points respectively in the Drivers’ standings, while Alessandro Giusti has added another 17.
MP remains 167 points behind Campos and therefore sits outside the Madrid window, meaning it must gain at least 17 points on the leader at Monza simply to remain mathematically capable of overturning the gap at the finale. A title remains highly unlikely, but a major move up the Teams’ standings is considerably more realistic. Only 30 points separate MP from third-placed Van Amersfoort, making that battle a much more immediate target.
PREMA and Hitech are alive in the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship only through the mathematics
PREMA Racing and Hitech remain mathematically eligible for the title because of the extraordinary 239 points still available across Monza and Madrid, but the scenarios required bear little resemblance to a realistic Championship challenge. Notably, PREMA has 50 points and can therefore reach a maximum of 289, while Hitech sits on 41 and can reach 280. Both totals remain above Campos’ current 269, which is enough to keep them mathematically alive.
The difficulty is the scale of the points they would need to recover. PREMA requires at least 220 of the remaining 239 points simply to reach 270 if Campos scores nothing further, while Hitech needs 229. That represents 92.1% and 95.8% respectively of every point still available.
Their situation becomes even more extreme when Madrid’s 150-point maximum is considered. PREMA must gain at least 69 points on Campos at Monza simply to enter the finale within range, while Hitech requires a 78-point swing. Both remain Championship contenders according to the mathematics, but neither should realistically be considered part of the title fight.
Campos can mathematically clinch the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship title at Monza
Unlike the Drivers’ Championship, the Teams’ title can theoretically be decided at Monza. With a maximum of 150 points available at Madrid, Campos needs to leave Italy more than 150 points clear of every rival to make the Championship mathematically secure before the finale.
Its current advantage over TRIDENT is 73 points, meaning Campos would need a minimum 78-point swing against its closest challenger at Monza. With 89 points available across the weekend, that scenario is mathematically possible, although it would require an extraordinary set of results. Campos would need to score close to the maximum while TRIDENT collected very little, while also ensuring that none of the other teams remained within 150 points.
In practical terms, the title is still far more likely to continue to Madrid. Even so, the fact that Campos can mathematically clinch in Italy illustrates how strong its current position has become. Monza represents an opportunity for Campos to move the Championship towards completion, while TRIDENT’s task is to reduce the deficit enough to keep the finale genuinely competitive.
TRIDENT needs Monza to resemble Spielberg and Silverstone
TRIDENT’s route back into the Teams’ Championship is already visible in its own season. At Spielberg and Silverstone, the team scored 47 points at each round, collecting 94 across the two weekends. Campos scored 66 during the same period, allowing TRIDENT to recover 28 points and reduce what had been a 70-point deficit to 42.
A similar performance at Monza would significantly change the complexion of the finale. If TRIDENT were able to gain another 20 or 30 points on Campos in Italy, it would arrive in Madrid with a deficit much closer to the level it successfully attacked earlier in the season. With 150 points available at the final round, that would leave considerable scope for another swing.
If Campos instead maintains or extends the current 73-point advantage, TRIDENT would enter Madrid needing to recover almost half of the maximum points available simply to draw level.
For Freddie Slater, Noah Strømsted and Matteo De Palo, Monza therefore carries major significance in both Championships. TRIDENT does not need to win the Teams’ title in Italy, but it does need to make Madrid manageable.
Campos’ 2026 F3 Teams Championship advantage is built on depth as much as speed
The clearest distinction between Campos and TRIDENT remains the way their points are distributed across the three cars. Campos has three drivers inside the top four of the Drivers’ Championship and no single driver responsible for more than half of the team’s total. TRIDENT, by contrast, has the individual Championship leader in Slater, but approximately two-thirds of its Teams’ Championship points have come from him alone.
That difference matters enormously in a Championship where all three cars contribute. A poor result for Slater removes a large part of TRIDENT’s usual scoring potential unless Strømsted and De Palo compensate. A difficult weekend for Ugo Ugochukwu does not necessarily have the same impact on Campos because Naël and Rivera have repeatedly shown that they can score heavily themselves.
Campos therefore has more ways to accumulate points and more ways to take them away from TRIDENT. The Teams’ Championship is not simply an extension of the Slater-Ugochukwu battle at the top of the Drivers’ standings; it is also a comparison of the depth of the two three-car programmes. So far, Campos has held the advantage.
The mathematics says eight teams, but the 2026 F3 Teams’ Championship points to two
Eight teams remain mathematically capable of winning the 2026 FIA Formula 3 Teams’ Championship, while five, including Campos, currently sit within the 150-point margin available during the Madrid finale. MP Motorsport, PREMA and Hitech all need to make ground at Monza simply to enter that window, while Van Amersfoort, Rodin and ART remain mathematically closer but realistically require major setbacks for the leaders.
The competitive picture is therefore much narrower than the mathematics suggests. Van Amersfoort remains third but has lost much of the momentum it carried through the early rounds, while Rodin and ART are closely matched and MP has surged into their fight through its recent form. PREMA and Hitech remain alive largely because of the extraordinary number of points available at Madrid.
At the front, however, Campos and TRIDENT remain the central contest, separated by 73 points with 239 still available. TRIDENT has already shown that it can recover large portions of the deficit, while Campos has demonstrated that it can rebuild the advantage just as quickly. TRIDENT brings the Drivers’ Championship leader; Campos brings the deeper three-car scoring threat. Monza will determine whether that gap can be reduced, while Madrid will decide whether anyone can ultimately stop Campos Racing.
