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Damon Hill's son Josh joins Fortec's European Formula 3 squad

Damon Hill's son Josh will graduate to the Formula 3 European Championship with Fortec Motorsport this year

As predicted by AUTOSPORT last year, 22-year-old Formula Renault race-winner Hill will join Puerto Rican Felix Serralles and Brazilian Pipo Derani at Fortec, whose four-car squad of Dallara-Mercedes will be completed by Russian ex-GP3 racer Dmitry Suranovich.

Hill finished third with Fortec in the FRenault NEC standings last season before becoming a McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award finalist.

"It's a massive relief to get the plan for the year done and dusted," Hill told AUTOSPORT. "To be with a team like Fortec and a championship like European F3 is exciting.

"My initial goal, when I was aiming for British F3, was to go for the title in the first year because we knew it would be weaker. But looking at the grid for European F3, it's a bit like an all-star junior-driver line-up!

"I'm going to push hard straight away, but I've got to keep in mind there are a lot of second- and third-year drivers."

Both Hill and Caterham-backed Suranovich - who contested the Brazil F3 Open at Interlagos last month - get their first taste of the Dallara-Mercedes in next week's official test at Barcelona.

Fortec boss Richard Dutton said: "Josh really came on with us last year and he's ready to step up. Dmitry hasn't done any mileage with us yet but he looks the part."

Hill also hopes to contest the four British F3 rounds if he can raise the budget.

2013 European F3 Championship line-up so far:

Team               Car             Drivers
Prema Powerteam    Dallara-Merc    Lynn/Auer/Marciello/Cheever
Mucke              Dallara-Merc    Gilbert/Nissany/Wehrlein/Rosenqvist
Carlin             Dallara-VW      Mardenborough/King/Tincknell/Latifi
Ma-con Motorsport  Dallara-VW      Andre Rudersdorf/TBA
URD Rennsport      Dallara-Merc    TBA
Fortec Motorsport  Dallara-Merc    Serralles/Derani/Hill/Suranovich
Van Amersfoort     Dallara-VW      Dennis van de Laar/Mans Grenhagen/TBA
EuroInternational  Dallara-VW      Tom Blomqvist/TBA
T-Sport            Dallara-Nissan  Spike Goddard/Will Buller
Double R Racing    Dallara-Merc    Giovinazzi/Gelael/Calderon

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