PREMA Racing is the defining force of the modern FIA Formula 2 and Formula 3 era — an Italian operation from the village of Grisignano di Zocco that has turned the junior ladder into a championship production line. No other team has won more in the F2/F3 generation: seven combined teams' titles and a roll call of drivers' champions who went on to Formula 1. If there is a single name that the F1 grid passes through on its way up, it is PREMA's.
Origins
Founded in 1983 by Angelo Rosin (alongside Giorgio Piccolo), PREMA grew from Italian and European junior categories into the dominant graduate school of single-seater racing. Its pedigree was forged in the feeder series that preceded the modern ladder: PREMA contested the GP2 Series — debuting in 2016 with a 1–2 finish for Pierre Gasly and Antonio Giovinazzi — and the European F3 ranks, before those championships were rebranded as FIA Formula 2 and FIA Formula 3. In its early F2 seasons the team raced under the Theodore Racing partnership banner, entered for 2018 as "Pertamina Prema Theodore Racing," before settling under the PREMA Racing identity.
The F2/F3 dynasty
Across the FIA F2 (from 2017) and FIA F3 (from 2019) eras, PREMA has been the team to beat. It claimed the FIA Formula 2 Teams' Championship in 2020 and 2021, and built an even longer run of dominance in Formula 3, taking the Teams' title in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 — five F3 teams' crowns in six seasons. Seven teams' titles across the two categories make it the most successful outfit of the modern junior-formula age, the benchmark against which rivals like ART, Carlin and Hitech are measured.
Champions it built
PREMA's true currency is champions. In Formula 2 it carried Charles Leclerc to the inaugural 2017 title with a season of seven wins, then Mick Schumacher to the 2020 crown and Oscar Piastri to the 2021 championship. In Formula 3 it produced a hat-trick of drivers' champions in consecutive seasons: Robert Shwartzman in 2019, Piastri again in 2020 — a rare back-to-back F3-then-F2 double — and Dennis Hauger in 2021. Other graduates honed at PREMA include Frederik Vesti, Oliver Bearman and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, underlining the team's role as the primary supply line to Formula 1.
Identity
PREMA's identity is precision married to ambition: a family-run Italian team, deep ties to manufacturer junior programmes (Ferrari, Mercedes and others have placed their prospects there), and a culture that treats every season as a title campaign. It is not merely a participant in F2 and F3 — it is the standard the championships are built around.