AF3 to become one make engine Formula in 2006

The Asian Formula Three Corporation has made a policy decision that effective 2006 the series will specify a single make, identical specification Formula Three engine and ECU system in a bid to reduce costs for the competitor and therefore maintain the growth of the series.

“Predictably costs have began to escalate with the introduction of several later specification engines and the need for dedicated ECU programmers” reported Eddie Pena, Chairman of the AF3 Corporation. “It is simply not viable for a series in this region to require budgets beyond a certain level and we are already dangerously close to that level. It is just good common sense to make the one make engine decision.”

AF3 will announce which engine will be used in 2006 and beyond by July of this year.