FIA Tell MSA, DMSB and more to drop the "Formula 3" name from F3 championships?

Because if they are wildly different cars, and the old cars no longer comply with Formula 3 regulations, then they are not Formula 3 cars anymore.

A smarter move would be to keep the national championships, like the British, German and Spanish series as Formula 3, and rename the Europe-wide series Formula 2. That way, there is a kind of linear progression to it all - the name reflects each step up in competition.
 
prisonermonkeys
Because if they are wildly different cars, and the old cars no longer comply with Formula 3 regulations, then they are not Formula 3 cars anymore.

A smarter move would be to keep the national championships, like the British, German and Spanish series as Formula 3, and rename the Europe-wide series Formula 2. That way, there is a kind of linear progression to it all - the name reflects each step up in competition.
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The FIA wouldn't be willing to do that though as Formula 2 was resurrected and at same time died not long ago. They could just rename the current F3 Series (F4), that would surely be more logical?
 
The old Formula 2 is long since dead. The name is free, and as the governing body, the FIA is free to authorise the name if it so pleases.

And there is already a Formula 4 series; it starts this year.
 
prisonermonkeys
The old Formula 2 is long since dead. The name is free, and as the governing body, the FIA is free to authorise the name if it so pleases.

And there is already a Formula 4 series; it starts this year.
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Correct. Formula 4 has a new car, designed last year, that they will be using. It looks quite nice.

Formula 2 was resurrected not long ago but also died at the end of 2012. The same guy that is running the new F4 business is the guy that ran the resurrected F2 series. Likely F4 will see a similar fate as F2 did come a few years time.

Doesn't really make sense to force a rename. The FIA should just control all of the different series. Obviously the main European Championship is the FIA F3 European Championship. But, where things get confusing is that there is another European Championship named F3 Euro Open. They run the same Dallara F312 chassis but, have to all use the same Toyota engine across the entire series whilst the FIA F3 European Championship is now open to Renault, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Honda, Toyota, Mugen, and TOM'S who all currently have the new 35 added HP engine. The old series that still run the older engine and older F309 and F308 chassis should still be allowed as the F3 name though. They were a F3 once, why aren't they now? That would be like telling old F1 cars that they couldn't be categorized as F1 cars now because they don't fit the current regulations.

The funny thing about the new F312 chassis is that it is actually slower than the original F309 and F308. Not sure why they decided to slow the cars down.
 
prisonermonkeys
A smarter move would be to keep the national championships, like the British, German and Spanish series as Formula 3, and rename the Europe-wide series Formula 2. That way, there is a kind of linear progression to it all - the name reflects each step up in competition.
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A series that runs F3 cars named F2 would not be quite right, it would be a confusing misnomer. It's like that one year when FIA GT1 ran GT3 cars. The FIA F3 European Championship is a fine name, it identifies the series as a regional series and properly indicates the category used (F3).

The F2 name is better left dead for now. The gap in the ladder where F2/F3000 used to sit is now filled predominantly by GP2 and FR3.5. If the FIA don't have a horse in that race, the F2 name is better left unused.
 
SagarisGTB
A series that runs F3 cars named F2 would not be quite right, it would be a confusing misnomer. It's like that one year when FIA GT1 ran GT3 cars. The FIA F3 European Championship is a fine name, it identifies the series as a regional series and properly indicates the category used (F3).
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Except that the new F3 and old F3 cars are so different that the FIA wants championships using the old cars to stop using the F3 name. If they really are that different, then the new F3 cars could just as easily be reclassified as F2.
 

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