2019 Barcelona Formula 3 round

Following the 2018 GP3 Series, the series became the FIA Formula 3 Championship after merging with the FIA Formula 3 European Championship.

The round saw the début of the new Dallara F3 2019 chassis. The new chassis uses the same Mecachrome 3.4 litre (207 cu in) naturally-aspirated V6 engine that powered its predecessor, the GP3/16, but the power output is slightly reduced. The chassis also uses Pirelli tyres, as its predecessor GP3 did, and features the "halo" device used for cockpit protection.

Ten teams were listed to compete in the inaugural season; Reigning GP3 champions ART Grand Prix, Campos Racing, Jenzer Motorsport, MP Motorsport and Trident were chosen from the GP3 Series teams, while Carlin, Hitech Grand Prix, and reigning European F3 champions Prema Racing were chosen from the Formula 3 European Championship. Both Carlin and Prema Racing had entries in the championship's sister series Formula 2, as did Charouz Racing System, who later formed a partnership with former Formula 1 team Sauber. The final entry went to HWA Racelab, who joined the championship after Mercedes-Benz left the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters touring car championship to focus on their Formula E entry.

Prema Racing's and Ferrari Driver Academy member Robert Shwartzman became the first pole sitter of the series, ahead of ART's Christian Lundgaard and Prema teammate Marcus Armstrong.

At the start, Christian Lundgaard took the lead into turn one from Robert Shwartzman, with Marcus Armstrong in third place. Lundgaard led for the entire race and became the first race winner of the new championship, with Shwartzman and fellow Ferrari junior Marcus Armstrong completing the podium in third, giving Prema a double podium finish. However, on the cool-down lap, Lundgaard would be awarded a penalty for exceeding the Full Course Yellow speed limit, which would hand the win to Russian driver Shwartzman.

The only retirement of the race was Campos Racing's Alessio Deledda, who spun off on lap 14 at turn 12. Liam Lawson would also not be classified following a late pit-lane start having suffered a mechanical failure on the warm-up lap.

Niko Kari, who returned to the championship with Trident after racing for MP Motorsport in GP3 and Formula 2 in 2018, qualified in reverse grid pole after finishing eighth in the first race. He was immediately overtaken at the start by the third Prema driver Jehan Daruvala, who competed in both GP3 and European F3 in 2018. The start saw four drivers eliminated following a collision at turns 1 and 2; Raoul Hyman, Ye Yifei, Jake Hughes, and Artem Petrov, which brought out the safety car. On lap 9, Fabio Scherer made contact with Bent Viscaal at turn 2 and Simo Laaksonen and Alex Peroni collided at the same turn, putting an end to both the Charouz and MP Motorsport drivers' respectively.

As Lundgaard did in the first race, Daruvala led the entire race and brought home a victory for Prema, with Red Bull Junior Jüri Vips in second and Kari third for Trident. The result gave Prema a 32 point lead over ART in the teams' championship, and Robert Shwartzman a 13 point lead over Lundgaard in the drivers' championship.

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	28	Robert Shwartzman	Prema Racing	22	37:42.312	1	25
2	3	Christian Lundgaard	ART Grand Prix	22	+2.5291	2	18
3	26	Marcus Armstrong	Prema Racing	22	+3.426	3	15
4	1	David Beckmann	ART Grand Prix	22	+4.432	7	12
5	2	Max Fewtrell	ART Grand Prix	22	+10.300	8	10
6	21	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+14.536	11	8
7	27	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Racing	22	+14.928	4	6
8	19	Niko Kari	Trident Racing	22	+16.132	12	4
9	5	Simo Laaksonen	MP Motorsport	22	+17.807	6	2
10	14	Yuki Tsunoda	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+22.913	10	1
11	30	Felipe Drugovich	Carlin Racing	22	+25.576	20
12	23	Alex Peroni	Campos Racing	22	+25.9321	9
13	10	Bent Viscaal	HWA Racelab	22	+29.348	16
14	7	Lirim Zendeli	Sauber Junior Team by Charouz	22	+30.237	14
15	31	Logan Sargeant	Carlin Racing	22	+31.386	5
16	25	Sebastián Fernández	Campos Racing	22	+31.926	16
17	11	Jake Hughes	HWA Racelab	22	+32.207	29
18	15	Artem Petrov	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+32.743	26
19	6	Richard Verschoor	MP Motorsport	22	+33.624	15
20	20	Leonardo Pulcini	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+33.756	18
21	9	Raoul Hyman	Sauber Junior Team by Charouz	22	+38.164	25
22	22	Ye Yifei	Hitech Grand Prix	22	+40.024	22
23	17	Devlin DeFrancesco	Trident Racing	22	+40.474	24
24	29	Teppei Natori	Carlin Racing	22	+42.7171	28
25	16	Andreas Estner	Jenzer Motorsport	22	+43.385	27
26	18	Pedro Piquet	Trident Racing	22	+45.055	13
27	8	Fabio Scherer	Sauber Junior Team by Charouz	22	+50.378	17
28	12	Keyvan Andres	HWA Racelab	22	+1:07.412	21
NC	4	Liam Lawson	MP Motorsport	14	+8 Laps	19
Ret	24	Alessio Deledda	Campos Racing	13	Spun out	30
Fastest lap set by Christian Lundgaard: 1:35.209
Source:[2]

^1 Driver awarded a five-second penalty for exceeding the VSC delta.