2022 Le Castellet Formula 2 round

The 2022 Le Castellet FIA Formula 2 round was a motor racing event held between 22 and 24 July 2022 at the Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France. It was the ninth round of the 2022 FIA Formula 2 Championship and was held in support of the 2022 French Grand Prix.

  2022 Le Castellet Formula 2 round

Round details
Round 9 of 14 in the 2022 FIA Formula 2 Championship.
Layout of the Circuit Paul Ricard
Location	Circuit Paul Ricard Le Castellet, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Course	Permanent racing circuit 5.842 km (3.630 mi)
Sprint Race
Date 23 July 2022 Laps 21 Podium First Liam Lawson Carlin Second Jehan Daruvala Prema Racing Third Felipe Drugovich MP Motorsport Fastest lap Driver Liam Lawson Carlin Time 1:47.984 (on lap 21)
Feature Race
Date 24 July 2022 Laps 30 Pole position Driver Logan Sargeant Carlin Time 1:43.871 Podium First Ayumu Iwasa DAMS Second Théo Pourchaire ART Grand Prix Third Frederik Vesti ART Grand Prix Fastest lap Driver Felipe Drugovich MP Motorsport Time 1:46.901 (on lap 29)

Driver changes

David Beckmann replaced Jake Hughes for the Le Castellet round at Van Amersfoort Racing after Hughes tested positive for COVID-19.^[1]

Classification

Qualifying

Logan Sargeant took his second pole position of the season, beating out DAMS driver Ayumu Iwasa by only 0.006 seconds. Frederik Vesti qualified in P3 for the Feature Race right ahead of championship leader Felipe Drugovich, who later was demoted to sixth after his fastest lap time was deleted due to exceeding track limits.^[2][3]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Entrant	Time	Grid SR	Grid FR
1	6	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	1:43.871	10	1
2	17	Ayumu Iwasa	DAMS	+0.006	9	2
3	9	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	+0.029	8	3
4	3	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	+0.163	7	4
5	10	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	+0.290	6	5
6	11	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	+0.370	5	6
7	8	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.437	4	7
8	7	Marcus Armstrong	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.506	3	8
9	5	Liam Lawson	Carlin	+0.612	2	9
10	2	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Racing	+0.755	1	10
11	20	Richard Verschoor	Trident	+0.887	11	11
12	4	Marino Sato	Virtuosi Racing	+0.968	12	12
13	21	Calan Williams	Trident	+1.047	13	13
14	22	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	+1.164	14	14
15	15	Roberto Merhi	Campos Racing	+1.230	15	15
16	12	Clément Novalak	MP Motorsport	+1.246	16	16
17	24	David Beckmann	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.432	17	17
18	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	+1.526	18	18
19	25	Amaury Cordeel	Van Amersfoort Racing	+1.634	19	19
20	16	Roy Nissany	DAMS	+1.871	221	20
21	14	Olli Caldwell	Campos Racing	+1.872	20	21
22	23	Cem Bölükbaşı	Charouz Racing System	+1.902	21	22
Source:[4]

Notes:

• ^1 – Roy Nissany originally qualified twentieth, but will be starting the Sprint Race from the back of the grid due to both re-joining the track in a dangerous manner and impeding Olli Caldwell at Free Practice.^[5]

Sprint race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Entrant	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Liam Lawson	Carlin	21	41:22.995	2	10 (1)
2	2	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Racing	21	+3.206	1	8
3	11	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	21	+4.835	5	6
4	3	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	21	+5.709	7	5
5	9	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	21	+7.948	8	4
6	17	Ayumu Iwasa	DAMS	21	+8.260	9	3
7	10	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	21	+9.5521	6	2
8	6	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	21	+9.654	10	1
9	4	Marino Sato	Virtuosi Racing	21	+10.586	12
10	24	David Beckmann	Van Amersfoort Racing	21	+10.979	17
11	8	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	21	+12.0871	4
12	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	21	+12.477	18
13	21	Calan Williams	Trident	21	+12.530	13
14	7	Marcus Armstrong	Hitech Grand Prix	21	+14.4332	3
15	23	Cem Bölükbaşı	Charouz Racing System	21	+15.861	21
16	16	Roy Nissany	DAMS	21	+16.536	22
17	12	Clément Novalak	MP Motorsport	21	+16.643	16
18	14	Olli Caldwell	Campos Racing	21	+17.338	20
DNF	15	Roberto Merhi	Campos Racing	17	Collision damage	15
DNF	20	Richard Verschoor	Trident	16	Engine	11
DNF	22	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	8	Collision	14
DNF	25	Amaury Cordeel	Van Amersfoort Racing	8	Collision damage	19
Fastest lap set by Liam Lawson: 1:47.984 (lap 21)
Source:[4][6]

Notes:

• ^1 – Théo Pourchaire and Jüri Vips originally finished third and sixth respectively, but were later given a five-second time-penalty for both forcing Marcus Armstrong off the track.^[7]
• ^2 – Marcus Armstrong originally finished ninth, but was later given a five-second time-penalty for causing a collision with Jehan Daruvala.^[7]

Feature race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Entrant	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	17	Ayumu Iwasa	DAMS	30	57:54.568	2	25
2	10	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	30	+8.649	5	18
3	9	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	30	+9.887	3	15
4	11	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	30	+10.253	6	12 (1)
5	3	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	30	+16.050	4	10
6	5	Liam Lawson	Carlin	30	+19.080	9	8
7	2	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Racing	30	+27.558	10	6
8	12	Clément Novalak	MP Motorsport	30	+32.852	15	4
9	16	Roy Nissany	DAMS	30	+36.514	20	2
10	22	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	30	+37.686	191	1
11	21	Calan Williams	Trident	30	+40.214	13
12	8	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	30	+45.584	7
13	14	Olli Caldwell	Campos Racing	30	+46.476	21
14	24	David Beckmann	Van Amersfoort Racing	30	+48.501	16
15	25	Amaury Cordeel	Van Amersfoort Racing	30	+49.092	18
16	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	30	+1:25.136	17
DNF	20	Richard Verschoor	Trident	28	Engine2	11
DNF	23	Cem Bölükbaşı	Charouz Racing System	24	Retired	22
DNF	6	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	11	Clutch	1	(2)
DNF	15	Roberto Merhi	Campos Racing	9	Retired	14
DNF	7	Marcus Armstrong	Hitech Grand Prix	0	Collision damage	8
DNF	4	Marino Sato	Virtuosi Racing	0	Spin	12
Fastest lap set by Felipe Drugovich: 1:46.901 (lap 29)
Source:[4][8]

Notes:

• ^1 – Enzo Fittipaldi received a five-place grid drop for causing a collision with Roberto Merhi in the Sprint Race, demoting him to nineteenth on the grid for the Feature Race.^[7]
• ^2 – Richard Verschoor retired from the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Felipe Drugovich 173 1 2 Théo Pourchaire 134 1 3 Logan Sargeant 118 4 Jehan Daruvala 94 5 5 Liam Lawson 79

Teams' Championship standings Pos. Team Points 2 1 ART Grand Prix 209 1 2 MP Motorsport 199 1 3 Carlin 197 4 Prema Racing 161 5 Hitech Grand Prix 136

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also

• 2022 French Grand Prix