Freddie Slater, one of the UK’s most highly rated and hotly tipped racing drivers for a potential future in Formula One, will contest selected rounds of the GB3 Championship this year with Hillspeed.
The 16-year-old, from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, will join the Markham Vale team for a part-campaign of GB3 Championship events and, additionally, will conduct some GB3 testing with Hillspeed during the year.
Slater, who is supported by ADD Management, has already confirmed a full 2025 season in the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine (FRECA) with Prema Racing this year, but has opted to dovetail some GB3 outings.
For 2025, the brand new Tatuus MSV GB3-025 car is introduced into the UK’s premier single-seater category, in which Hillspeed – now entering its 55th year of active motorsport competition – is a multiple race winner.
Following a magnificent career in karts, where he won no fewer than nine titles including the 2020 OK Junior World Championship and 2021 OK Junior FIA Karting European Championship, Slater stepped-up to cars in the Ginetta Junior Winter Series at the end of 2022.
Becoming the youngest ever winner of the title at just 14-years-of-age, winning three of the four races, he then went on to dominate the main Ginetta Junior Championship the following year – excelling on his way to taking the crown with 13 victories from 18 races contested.
Debuting in single-seaters midway through 2023 in British F4, setting a fastest lap on his maiden weekend, Slater also raced in the Euro 4 Championship, taking a win, and made a couple of outings in the Italian F4 Championship as well as a podium finishing appearance in F4 at the Macau Grand Prix.
In addition to winning the FIA European KZ2 Karting Championship that year as well, Slater’s successes and popularity among race fans also delivered the youngster the Autosport National Driver of the Year Award.
Winning his third car racing crown, and first in single-seaters, in the Formula 4 UAE Championship in the Middle East in early 2024, this preceded a full campaign in Italian F4 where he starred once again. Sealing the coveted title in style, Slater scorched to 15 race wins – a new record – qualified on pole 11 times and set 10 fastest laps. Notably, he also won the crown with the biggest ever points margin.
Slater gained GB3 Championship experience last year, during an outing with Rodin Motorsport in the penultimate event of the season at Donington Park Grand Prix Circuit, which saw him finish sixth, fourth and fifth in the three encounters.
Career history
2024
Italian F4 Championship - champion with 15 wins, 16 podiums, 11 pole positions and 10 fastest laps
F4 United Arab Emirates Championship - champion with two wins, six podiums and four fastest laps
Euro 4 Championship - runner-up with two wins, four podiums, two pole positions and one fastest lap
GB3 Championship - three races
Macau Grand Prix
2023
Ginetta Junior Championship - champion with 13 wins, 15 podiums, 10 pole positions and five fastest laps
F4 UAE Trophy Round - one podium
F4 Macau Grand Prix - ninth
Euro 4 Championship - 10th overall with one win, one podium one pole position
Italian F4 Championship - six races
British F4 Championship - six races, one fastest lap
Karting - FIA Karting European Championship - KZ2 - champion
Karting - WSK Champions Cup - KZ2 - runner-up
Karting - WSK Super Master Series - KZ2 - sixth overall
Karting - WSK Open Series - KZ2
2022
Ginetta Junior Winter Championship - champion with three wins, three podiums, one pole position and two fastest laps
Ginetta Junior Championship - nine races
Karting - Italian ACI Karting Championship - OK - runner-up
Karting - FIA Karting World Championship - OK - fifth
Karting - FIA Karting European Championship - OK
Karting - Champions of the Future - Winter Series - OK
Karting - Champions of the Future - OK
2021
Karting - 26° South Garda Winter Cup - OK Junior - champion
Karting - FIA Karting European Championship - OK Junior - champion
Karting - Champions of the Future - OK Junior - champion
Karting - WSK Open Cup - OK Junior - third
Karting - WSK Euro Series - OK Junior - third
Karting - WSK Super Master Series - OK Junior - fourth
Karting - WSKI Champions Cup - OK Junior - eighth
Karting - WSK Final Cup - OK Junior
2020
Karting - FIA Karting World Championship - OK Junior - champion
Karting - WSK Open Cup - OK Junior - champion
Karting - WSK Euro Series - OK Junior - eighth
Karting - 25° South Garda Winter Cup - OK Junior - runner-up
Karting - WSK Super Master Series - OK Junior - eighth
Karting - IAME Winter Cup - X30 Junior - fourth
Karting - WSK Champions Cup - OK Junior
2019
Karting - SKUSA Pro Tour - X30 Junior - champion
Karting - IAME Euro Series - X30 Mini - champion
Karting - IAME Winter Cup - X30 Mini - champion
Karting - IAME International Final - X30 Mini - runner-up
Karting - SKUSA Supernationals XXIII - X39 Junior - fifth
2018
Karting - MSA British Kart Championship - IAME Cadet - fourth
Karting - IAME International Final - X30 Mini - runner-up
Karting - LGM Series - IAME Cadet - runner-up
Karting - Kartmasters British GP - IAME Cadet - third
Karting - SKUSA Supernationals XXII - Mini Swift - 11th
2017
Karting - LGM Series - IAME Cadet - fourth
Karting - SKUSA Supernationals XXI - Mini Swift - 10th
Karting - Super 1 National Championship - IAME Cadet - fifth
Karting - Kartmasters British GP - IAME Cadet - 6th
2016
Karting - SKUSA Supernationals XX - Micro Swift - runner-up
Karting - SKUSA Pro Tour - Micro Swift
Karting - Florida Winter Tour - Micro ROK - fourth
