# March 803 (F3)

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/march-803/
- Publisher: Racing Car Network (racingcarnetwork.com), the race car marketplace
- Type: car · Brand: March
- Discipline: formula, historic-racing
- Series: f3
- Era: 1980s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06
- For sale on RCN: https://racingcarnetwork.com/for-sale/march-803/ (0 live listings right now)

The 803 is the F3 retreat's last stand: March's 1980 junior — the ground-effect class's Ralt-dominated years — the marque's final volume F3 form before the surrender.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 2.0 F3-era units |
| Power | ~175 hp |
| Era | Ground-effect F3 (Ralt years) |
| House | March (last F3 stand) |
| Ledger | 1980 campaigns |
| Diligence | Register law + venturi originality |
| Years | 1980 |
| Class | Historic F3 last stand |

## History

March's F3 line made its last stand with the 803 (1980): the retreat's final form — the ground-effect F3 era (the venturi generation's junior maturity the class's 1980 window), the Ralt-dominated context (the RT3's conquest the commercial war's verdict — the March share shrinking season by season), and the resource reality (the marque's F2-and-Indycar successes drawing the investment the junior line lost) — racing the surrender years: the 1980 British-and-European campaigns (the customer careers against the conqueror's grids), the national-series lives the fleet ran, and the line's end (the F3 catalogue closing as the eighties opened — the junior-volume decade's finish) that left the type the marque's last F3 volume page.

The class's economics sharpened the verdict: by 1980 an F3 customer bought on wind-tunnel results and championship tables, and Ralt's works-supported development pipeline delivered both faster than a house whose engineering bandwidth was winning F2 titles and Indy 500s could match — the commercial arithmetic that closed the line having nothing to do with the 803's honest engineering.

The last-stand economics frame the type: the market-verdict context (the Ralt takeover's completion), the venturi-era development costs the junior tier carried, and the small-late-run scholarship the closing production keeps.

The final-form identity structures the market: the register documentation law, the ground-effect originality per car, and the last-page charm (the March-catalogue completists' angle — the F3 story's closing entry).

The present is historic-F3 custody: register law, venturi-era originality, and the last-stand story throughout.

## Palmarès

The 1980 F3 campaigns — the last stand's honours against the Ralt tide — the closing entry of the marque's junior-volume decade.

## What to check before you buy

Last-stand law: register scholarship first (the 803 run's identities and period campaigns — the closing production's documentation), ground-effect originality (the venturi hardware's authenticity the era's checkpoint), era-engine economics per the two-litre window, and market-history realism (the Ralt-verdict context pricing the type on catalogue completion rather than period dominance). Historic-F3 eligibility structures the racing life; the last-page charm prices the collector angle — the decade the 703 opened closing here, at accessible-classic stakes.

## Did you know

- The verdict was commercial: the RT3's conquest ending the March junior decade.
- The winners drew the money: F2 crowns and Indy wins absorbing the marque's investment.
- The catalogue closed a rung: the 803 the last volume page of the F3 story.

## Related entries

- March 793 (F3) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/march-793/
- March 783 (F3) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/march-783/
- Ralt RT3 (Formula 3) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/ralt-rt3/
- Ralt RT1 (F3/F2/Atlantic) — https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/ralt-rt1/