Irish driver, Robert Block, is to join the series at the next round to be held at the Zhuhai Circuit on June 18/19th. He will join fellow Irish drivers, Greg Murphy and Lee Farrell in the Promotions Class.

Enzo Pastor of Team TEC Pilipinas may be forced to step down after the June Zhuhai race to make way for a driver who is able to bring a budget to the team. Pastor raced his Dallara 301 Sodemo powered car for the first time at the previous Zhuhai event on May 7/8.

Rodolfo Avila is switching from Fujitsu Ten Toyota Team TOM’S to Christian Jones Motorsport for the remainder of this season. He will take over Jone’s Championship winning Dallara 301 Neil Brown Honda whilst the Team Owner will drive their new Dallara 304 car.

John O’Hara has left Fujitisu Ten Toyota Team TOM’S and joined his team from last year, Shell Helix Kinetic PSCO. He will drive the Dallara 301 Tori currently raced by Team President, Pepon Marave. The latter is in discussions with TOM’S to drive their now vacant Dallara 304 car.

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.