Teixeira moved to the National Class of the British Formula 3 Championship in 2002, but did not start a race that year.

He returned to the British Championship in 2005 after taking a couple of years out for study with the Carlin Motorsport team, finishing ninth in the National Class.

The following season, he improved to seventh, despite switching teams to Performance Racing Europe part-way through the year finishing twice in the podium.

Teixeira was signed by the Trident Racing team to drive in the fifth and sixth rounds of the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season.

[1] He returned to action for the next round at Silverstone, with De Jong taking Dillmann's seat instead.