Honesty and learning from each other: Getting to know the Van Amersfoort Racing teammates

As the season nears its end, we put the Van Amersfoort Racing trio to the test and found out how well they’ve got to know each other as teammates.

Bruno del Pino, Enzo Deligny and Hiyu Yamakoshi clear up our questions and tell us what they’ve learned being in F3 together in 2026.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR TEAMMATES?

Bruno del Pino: “Hiyu is quiet. Enzo and I are a lot more hyper, and Hiyu is more softly spoken.”

Hiyu Yamakoshi: “I cannot talk because they have so much energy. I can't match it.”

WHO IS THE FIRST AND WHO IS THE LAST TO ARRIVE?

Enzo Deligny: “Hiyu, and then I'm in the middle.”

Del Pino: “Nah we’re the same level.”

Deligny: “It's definitely not.”

Del Pino: “It's the same. It's just that I’m not ready all the time.”

“Yamakoshi: “It is - arrives on time (points to himself), arrives on time (points at Deligny), not on time (points to Del Pino).

Del Pino: “Hiyu’s on time all the time. Enzo’s on time most of the time.

Yamakoshi: “I'm the earliest one. Enzo always texts us if he's late. He was early to this, to be fair. Bruno is not. He’s always late. Today, he's late.”

Deligny: “Yesterday was the only day he was on time. Most of the time, more than 15 minutes late.”

Yamakoshi: “10 to 15 minutes late on average.”

Del Pino: “No comment.”

WHAT IS YOUR TEAMMATE’S BEST QUALITIES?

Del Pino: “Hiyu – for me, he’s very calm. Driving-wise, he impressed me too. And then Enzo, is fun to be around. It's fun to have both around. We are different personalities, but in a group, it's good.”

Yamakoshi: Racing-wise, I can learn from both of them. Many things.”

WHO’S THE FUNNIEST?

Yamakoshi & Deligny: “Bruno.”

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IF YOU HAD TO COOK A MEAL FOR THE OTHERS, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

Del Pino: “Nigiri for Mr. Hiyu.

Yamakoshi: “I love nigiri.”

Del Pino: “For Enzo…something like a burger. I don't know what you like.

Deligny: “We only talk about sushi. Sushi.”

WHO’S THE BEST LOOKING?

Deligny: “I think that's Bruno.”

Yamakoshi: “Bruno.”

Del Pino: “Bruno.”

WHO KNOWS THE MOST ABOUT CARS?

Deligny: “Racing cars or road cars?”

Del Pino: “I mean, I'm the most experienced.”

Yamakoshi: “No arguments from me.”

Deligny: “Road cars? I don't know.”

Del Pino: “Yeah, I don't know much either. I'm not a very big fan of road cars.”

Yamakoshi: “If it's Super GT, I'm a big fan of that back home.”

WHO IS ON THEIR PHONE THE LONGEST AND WHO TAKES THE LONGEST TO REPLY?

Del Pino: You're quite quick. Great at getting the reservation sorted for golf.”

Yamakoshi: “Yeah.”

Deligny: “Who's on their phone the most? Hiyu.”

Del Pino: “He's always on his phone. Always on his phone on Twitter.

Deligny: “Yeah, he's on Twitter all the time.”

WHAT IS THE BIGGEST THING YOU’VE LEARNED FROM EACH OTHER?

Del Pino: “I learned in terms of racing from Hiyu. Especially his race pace. He’s very competitive. So I learned from him a lot.

Deligny: Hiyu taught me how to play golf better. I'm pretty good at it now.”

WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU’VE WANTED TO TELL THE OTHERS BUT NOT DONE SO YET?

Deligny: “We get this a lot. By the time you’ve been teammates for like two months, you've said everything you wanted to say.

Del Pino: “I probably told them enough times that I'm the best. Nah, I don't know. We probably have said a lot of things, but Hiyu’s always quiet.”

Deligny: “Yeah. Hiyu’s building up to it.”

Del Pino: “Step by step. Maybe by Madrid.”

WHO’S IN THE GYM THE MOST AND WHO’S ON THE SIM THE MOST?

Yamakoshi: “I don't have a sim.”

Deligny: “Probably the gym. I do a lot of gym. Bruno does a lot of cardio.”

Del Pino: “I do a lot of races. Maybe it's me.”

Deligny: “Hiyu does it when we're at the workshop. That's when the team is watching, though.”

Yamakoshi: “Nah!”

Del Pino: “He does it on purpose.”

WHO WOULD WIN AN ARM-WRESTLING CONTEST?

Del Pino: “There's no chance. No chance. Look at his legs, bro.”

Deligny: “We don't talk about the legs. But it wasn't a leg-wrestling contest. It was an arm-wrestling contest.”

Yamakoshi: “I'm not very good. I feel like it’s Enzo here.”