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Motor racing championship currently held in 2025 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship is an ongoing motor racing championship for Formula 2 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship is the fifty-ninth season of Formula 2 racing and the ninth season run under the FIA Formula 2 Championship moniker. Formula 2 is an open-wheel racing category serving as the second tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category is run in support of selected rounds of the 2025 Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers competing in the championship run the same car, the Dallara F2 2024.
Richard Verschoor, driving for MP Motorsport, is the current Drivers' Championship leader. Campos Racing currently lead the Teams' Championship.
Invicta Racing entered the championship as the reigning Teams' Champions, having secured their title at the final race of the 2024 season in Abu Dhabi.
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The following teams and drivers compete in the 2025 Formula 2 Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams compete with an identical Dallara F2 2024 chassis using a V6 turbo engine developed by Mecachrome. All teams compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli.
Team changes
Hitech Grand Prix and Toyota Gazoo Racing's TGR-DC junior programme formed a new collaboration in 2025, with the team entering under the Hitech TGR guise.[2][3]
The Invicta Watch Group took full control over Invicta Racing, which split from Virtuosi Racing and underwent management changes.[4]
AIX Racing now compete under an Emirati racing licence for the 2025 season following the use of a German racing licence in 2024.[5] This marked the first time in the championship's history that an Emirati team has competed on the grid.
Driver changes
Reigning Teams' Champions Invicta Racing have an all-new driver lineup as reigning Drivers' Champion Gabriel Bortoleto graduated to Formula One with Sauber, and Kush Maini moved to DAMS.[6][7] Invicta recruited 2024 FIA Formula 3 Champion Leonardo Fornaroli, who made the full-time step up to Formula 2 after having already raced in the 2024 finale with Rodin Motorsport, and Roman Staněk, who joined the team for his third season in the championship after ending his 2024 campaign with Trident early.[8][9]
Campos Racing replaced one Red Bull junior with another as Arvid Lindblad, fourth in FIA F3 with Prema Racing in 2024, graduated to F2 to replace 2024 runner-up Isack Hadjar, who graduated to Formula One with Racing Bulls.[10][11]
MP Motorsport saw both Franco Colapinto and Dennis Hauger depart the team during the 2024 season, with Colapinto leaving ahead of the Monza round to compete in Formula One with Williams Racing for the rest of the 2024 season, and Hauger leaving the team after the Baku round to move to Indy NXT with Andretti Global.[12][13] The team resigned the two drivers that substituted for Colapinto and Hauger in 2024 for the full 2025 season: Red Bull junior Oliver Goethe, who came seventh in FIA F3 with Campos Racing, and Richard Verschoor, who returned to the team he competed with in 2021 to embark on his fifth season in the championship.[14][15]
Hitech TGR also entered 2025 with an all-new driver lineup, with Paul Aron joining Alpine F1 Team as a reserve driver and Amaury Cordeel moving to Rodin Motorsport.[16] The team's lineup consists of two FIA F3 graduates who were already able to collect F2 experience through part-time outings in 2024: Williams Driver Academy member Luke Browning, who finished the FIA F3 season in third also driving for Hitech before a three-round F2 stint for ART Grand Prix, and Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic, who came sixth in FIA F3 with Prema Racing and entered two F2 rounds with DAMS Lucas Oil.[17][18]
Prema Racing are another team with an all-new driver lineup after both Oliver Bearman and Andrea Kimi Antonelli graduated to Formula One with Haas and Mercedes, respectively.[19][20] The team promoted FIA F3 runner-up Gabriele Minì to its F2 outfit, where the Italian already deputised for Bearman for one round in 2024, and Sebastián Montoya, who finished seventeenth in FIA F3 with Hitech, with him returning to the team he raced for in FRECA in 2022.[21][22]
DAMS Lucas Oil signed Kush Maini, who left Invicta Racing after coming 13th in his second F2 season, to replace Juan Manuel Correa, who had already left the team ahead of the final two rounds of the 2024 season.[7]
ART Grand Prix saw Zak O'Sullivan, who already left the team after the eleventh round of the 2024 season, move to Super Formula with Kondo Racing.[23] The team signed 2023 Super Formula Champion Ritomo Miyata, who finished his rookie F2 season 19th in the standings with Rodin Motorsport, to replace him.[24]
Rodin Motorsport also fully renewed their lineup as Zane Maloney graduated to Formula E with Lola Yamaha ABT, and Ritomo Miyata moved to ART Grand Prix.[25][24] The team originally signed two FIA F3 graduates in Christian Mansell, who finished fifth in FIA F3 in 2024 with ART Grand Prix and debuted in F2 with Trident during the final three rounds of 2024, and McLaren junior driver Alex Dunne, who made his F2 debut after finishing fourteenth in his FIA F3 campaign with MP Motorsport, becoming the first Irish national to compete in Formula 2.[26][27] However, Mansell vacated his seat indefinitely for personal reasons ahead of the start of the season, and was replaced by Amaury Cordeel, who finished 17th with Hitech in 2024.[28][29]
AIX Racing driver Taylor Barnard left the championship after ten rounds of the 2024 season and moved to Formula E to race with NEOM McLaren Formula E Team.[30] 2023 Euroformula Open runner-up Cian Shields, who had already filled Barnard's cockpit during the last two rounds of the 2024 season, replaces him for his full-season debut in 2025.[31]
Trident saw both Verschoor and Staněk leave the team during the 2024 season, with Verschoor joining MP Motorsport ahead of his full-time switch in 2025 and Staněk sitting out the rest of the season before joining Invicta Racing in 2025.[15][9] The team signed two FIA F3 graduates in Max Esterson, who came 21st with Jenzer Motorsport and already deputised for Verschoor during the final two rounds of 2024, and Sami Meguetounif, who made his F2 debut after finishing eighth with Trident's FIA F3 outfit.[32][33]
Enzo Fittipaldi left Van Amersfoort Racing and the championship ahead of the final two rounds of the 2024 season to move to the European Le Mans Series with LMP2 team CLX Motorsport.[34] 2024 GB3 runner-up John Bennett, who replaced Fittipaldi for the final two rounds of 2024, remained at the team for his full-time debut.[35]
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- The Albert Park Circuit was the season opener for the first time in Formula 2 history, a consequence of Formula One's Australian Grand Prix holding the opening round of the championship for the first time since 2019.
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A pre-season test was held over three days from 24–26 February at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. During the test, DAMS, Rodin Motorsport and Trident were found to have illegally modified their cars by drilling into the diffusers to attach sensors. As a result, all six drivers driving for the three teams received ten-place grid penalties for both races of the opening round in Australia.[37]
Round 1: Australia
The season began at Albert Park Circuit, where Gabriele Minì set the fastest qualifying time. However, he was later penalised for impeding during the session, promoting Victor Martins to feature race pole position. Jak Crawford and Alex Dunne were demoted from their top-five qualifying positions by their penalties from testing, meaning Martins would be followed by Richard Verschoor and Roman Staněk on the feature race grid.[38] Leonardo Fornaroli qualified tenth, therefore starting the reverse-grid sprint race from first place, but was overtaken by Joshua Dürksen at the race start. Martins crashed on the opening lap, and the race was later interrupted by two safety car periods when Trident drivers Max Esterson and Sami Meguetounif spun into the gravel in separate incidents. Dürksen maintained his lead at the restarts to claim victory, his third in the category, followed by Formula 2 debutant Fornaroli in second place and Luke Browning in third.[39]
The feature race was cancelled due to heavy rain. Two attempts were made to start the race, with drivers following the safety car over a number of formation laps, however the session was ultimately red-flagged and not resumed.[40] At the end of the round, Dürksen's sprint race victory left him with a two-point advantage over Fornaroli in the Drivers' Championship.
Round 2: Bahrain
Leonardo Fornaroli was fastest in qualifying at Bahrain International Circuit, taking feature race pole position, followed by Victor Martins in second and Luke Browning in third.[41] Joshua Dürksen started the sprint race from first place and maintained his lead through the start and through the first safety car interruption to recover Sebastián Montoya's spun car. Dürksen was overtaken by Dino Beganovic on lap 11 but reclaimed the lead at the second safety car restart on lap 19. Battling between the two drivers allowed Richard Verschoor and Pepe Martí to enter the fight for the lead, with Martí passing Verschoor and Beganovic on the penultimate lap and taking first place from Dürksen on the final lap. Martí, who started the race 11th, achieved his second Formula 2 victory, followed over the line by Dürksen and Verschoor.[42] Dürksen was later disqualified from the race for a technical infringement, promoting Beganovic to the podium and Verschoor to the lead of the championship.[43]
Pole-sitter Fornaroli kept his place at the start of the feature race, but was later overtaken on lap seven by Alex Dunne, who started fourth. Luke Browning had qualified third but lost places at the start to drivers who had started on the soft tyre compound. After making his pit stop and changing to the soft compound, he recovered places and overtook Fornaroli and Martins for second place. Fornaroli had lost a position to Martins during the pit stops but later passed him in the closing laps, then held off a challenge by Martí on the final lap, to claim third place. Dunne crossed the line to take victory, his first podium finish in Formula 2. The round ended with Fornaroli leading the championship by one point over Dunne.[44]
Round 3: Saudi Arabia
Qualifying at Jeddah Corniche Circuit saw Jak Crawford take his first feature race pole position since 2023, with Victor Martins and Leonardo Fornaroli qualifying second and third respectively.[45] Roman Staněk qualified tenth but was demoted by a penalty for impeding, putting Richard Verschoor on sprint race pole position.[46] Gabriele Minì, who started second, dropped out of the podium positions in the opening laps of the sprint race. Pepe Martí briefly took the lead but was soon overtaken by Verschoor and later fell behind Arvid Lindblad, who had gained places from sixth on the grid. During his battle for the lead with Martí, Verschoor was judged to have forced Martí off the track and was issued a five-second time penalty. The safety car was briefly deployed in the closing laps to recover Crawford's spun car, and the leading drivers maintained their positions when racing resumed. Verschoor crossed the finish line first, but was demoted to fourth place by his penalty. Thus, Lindblad claimed his first Formula 2 victory and became the youngest race winner in the championship's history. Martí and Alex Dunne completed the podium.[47]
Pole-sitter Crawford maintained his lead at the start of the feature race. He lost a position to Martins during the pit stops, but soon recovered the place. Verschoor, who started in ninth place, elected for the alternate tyre strategy by starting on the harder compound. He inherited the lead when the front-runners pitted and gained enough time to emerge ahead of Martins when he made his pit stop in the closing laps. Verschoor overtook Crawford on the final lap to claim his fifth victory in Formula 2. This result promoted him to the lead of the championship, 12 points ahead of second-placed Martí.[48]
Round 4: Italy (Imola)
Dino Beganovic took feature race pole position with the fastest qualifying time at Imola Circuit, followed by Sebastián Montoya and Victor Martins, whilst championship leader Verschoor qualified 19th. Ritomo Miyata started the sprint race from first place, but was overtaken by Jak Crawford off the line and later fell to sixth. Crawford led the rest of the race distance to achieve his third victory in Formula 2. Arvid Lindblad improved from fifth on the grid to finish second, followed by Luke Browning in third.
Beganovic was unchallenged at the start of the feature race as Montoya and Martins both stalled their cars—Montoya on the formation lap and Martins off the start line—which promoted Leonardo Fornaroli to second place. The front-runners made their pit stops in the early laps, during which Alex Dunne took advantage of a delay for Fornaroli to gain a position from him. Luke Browning, who started seventh, pitted a lap later and emerged as the lead runner on that strategy, ahead of Beganovic. Beganovic's failed attempt to overtake Browning allowed Dunne through, after which Dunne overtook Browning as well. Dunne took the victory, his second of the year, with Browning and Beganovic completing the podium. Dunne ended the round as championship leader, six points ahead of Browning.
Round 5: Monaco
Qualifying at the Circuit de Monaco uses a split group system, where drivers are arranged into Groups A and B with each group of eleven cars conducting their qualifying separately. Championship leader Dunne, in Group B, set the fastest overall time to claim his first Formula 2 pole position. Victor Martins set the fastest time in Group A to qualify second, and Leonardo Fornaroli was third.[49] Kush Maini started the sprint race from pole position. Luke Browning started second, but a slow start dropped him behind Gabriele Minì, Arvid Lindblad and Jak Crawford. Crawford and Lindblad then collided; Lindblad was found at fault and issued a time penalty. Minì followed closely behind Maini for most of the race but was unable to pass, and Maini crossed the finish line to take his second race win in Formula 2. Lindblad slowed down to back up the cars behind him, before speeding up in the closing laps in an attempt to build a gap behind and mitigate the effects of his penalty. The penalty ultimately demoted him to eighth place and promoted Browning to the podium.
Feature race front-row starters Dunne and Martins collided at the first corner, causing a pile-up that eliminated five other drivers and caused the race to be red-flagged. The race later restarted behind the safety car with Fornaroli, Sebastián Montoya and Lindblad as the top three. A crash for Joshua Dürksen on lap seven briefly caused a virtual safety car to be deployed. Dino Beganovic crashed out on lap 14, causing another virtual safety car. The top three drivers had passed the pit lane entry when this was upgraded to a full safety car, allowing fourth-placed Crawford to make his pit stop and emerge ahead of the top three when they pitted one lap later. The race was then red-flagged for a second time on lap 18 due to barrier damage from Beganovic's accident, but was not restarted; reduced points were awarded due to less than 50% of the scheduled race distance being completed. Crawford achieved his fourth win in the category, followed by Fornaroli in second place. Lindblad crossed the line in third, but received a penalty for speeding in the pit lane, promoting Montoya to his first Formula 2 podium finish. Browning, who finished fourth, became the new championship leader at the round's conclusion, three points ahead of Dunne.[50]
Round 6: Spain
Arvid Lindblad took pole position at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, his first in the category, with Sebastián Montoya and Kush Maini qualifying second and third respectively.[51] Leonardo Fornaroli started the reverse-grid sprint race from the front, but was overtaken by Luke Browning and Jak Crawford at the start, with Crawford going on to take the lead. Teammates Montoya and Gabriele Minì later collided, causing Minì's retirement from the race and prompting a safety car period. A number of drivers including Richard Verschoor, Alex Dunne (who started 19th) and Rafael Villagómez (who started 22nd) opted to pit for fresh soft-compound tyres. These drivers quickly overtook the frontrunners during the final six laps of the race, allowing Verschoor to take his second victory of the season, followed by Dunne in second and Villagómez with his first Formula 2 podium in third.
Lindblad and Montoya held their top two places at the start of the feature race, whilst a poor start from Maini allowed Verschoor to take third place. The top three stayed in the same positions through the pit stops despite an undercut attempt by Montoya. Late in the race, Fornaroli encountered a mechanical issue and retired in the gravel, prompting a safety car, behind which the race finished. Lindblad achieved his second victory of the year with the podium completed by Montoya and Verschoor. Dunne, who finished the race fifth, reclaimed the lead of the championship, three points ahead of Verschoor.
Round 7: Austria
Leonardo Fornaroli claimed pole position at the Red Bull Ring, the first driver to do so more than once in 2025. Victor Martins and Richard Verschoor qualified second and third respectively. John Bennett started the sprint race from first place, but was overtaken by Joshua Dürksen off the start line. The race was red-flagged on lap four after a collision between Sami Meguetounif, Arvid Lindblad and Luke Browning that resulted in Meguetounif's car rolling over the top of the other two. The drivers were uninjured and the race continued after a 40-minute stoppage. At the restart, a collision between Oliver Goethe and Dino Beganovic caused Beganovic's retirement and the deployment of the safety car. When racing was resumed, Pepe Martí, who had started fifth, caught up to Dürksen and soon passed him for the lead. On the final lap, fourth-placed Amaury Cordeel spun, causing the three cars behind him (Gabriele Minì, Fornaroli and Bennett) to crash into his stationary car. Martí achieved his second race win of the season, followed by Dürksen in second and Roman Staněk in third.
The top three positions in the feature race went unchanged at the start until the pit stops, when pole-sitter Fornaroli lost positions to Martins and Verschoor having pitted later. Verschoor then overtook Martins for the net race lead. Seventh-place starter Alex Dunne had gained positions at the start and later also passed Martins, but was unable to challenge Verschoor. Martins was later overtaken by Martí, but contact during the pass resulted in Martí receiving a time penalty and allowed Fornaroli to pass both drivers for third place. Verschoor took his third victory of the year, followed over the line by Dunne and Fornaroli. However, Dunne was later disqualified for excess plank wear, promoting Jak Crawford, who started the race 14th, to the podium. Verschoor's victory promoted him to the championship lead, 24 points ahead of second-placed Dunne.
Round 8: United Kingdom
Feature race pole position at Silverstone Circuit was taken by Victor Martins, with Alex Dunne qualifying second and Jak Crawford third. Leonardo Fornaroli started the sprint race on pole position and battled with Kush Maini for first place. Fornaroli reclaimed the lead and then built a gap ahead of second place. Maini dropped back in the closing laps, losing positions to Sebastián Montoya and Roman Staněk. Fornaroli went on to take his first race victory in over four years, having not won a race during his championship-winning FIA Formula 3 campaign the previous year, with Montoya and Staněk completing the podium.
The feature race began in wet conditions. Pole-sitter Martins had a slow start and dropped behind Dunne and Crawford, with Crawford taking the lead. Luke Browning, who started 12th, quickly gained places and overtook Martins for third before the pit stops. The track then dried out enough for the drivers to start changing to slick tyres. Crawford and Browning made their stops and began to gain time relative to Dunne. However, the safety car was then deployed to recover Staněk's car, which had spun and stalled. This allowed Dunne to pit and keep his position between Crawford and Browning. Joshua Dürksen then spun and stalled when racing resumed, triggering another safety car and causing the race to finish behind it. Crawford took his third victory of the year, followed by Dunne and Browning on the podium. Crawford's victory promoted him to second in the championship, six points behind Richard Verschoor, who finished seventh in both Silverstone races.
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Points are awarded to the top eight classified finishers in the sprint race, and to the top ten classified finishers in the feature race.[h] The pole-sitter in the feature race also receives two points, and one point is given to the driver who set the fastest lap in both the feature and sprint races, provided that driver finished inside the top ten. If the driver who set the fastest lap is classified outside the top ten, the point is given to the driver who set the fastest lap of those inside the top ten. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race as the grid for it is set by reversing the top ten qualifiers.
- Sprint race points
Points are awarded to the top eight classified finishers, excluding the fastest lap point which is given to the top ten classified finishers.
- Feature race points
Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers. Bonus points are awarded to the pole-sitter and to the driver who set the fastest lap and finished in the top ten.
Drivers' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings
Rows are not related to the drivers: within each team, individual race standings are sorted purely based on the final classification in the race (not by total points scored in the event, which includes points awarded for fastest lap and pole position).
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Notes
- Gabriele Minì set the fastest time in qualifying, but later received a three-place grid penalty for impeding another driver. Victor Martins was promoted to pole position in his place.
- The feature race was cancelled due to heavy rain.[52]
- Kush Maini set the fastest lap but did not finish in the top ten, so he was ineligible to score the point for it. Oliver Goethe scored the point for setting the fastest lap among those finishing in the top ten.
- Gabriele Minì set the fastest lap but did not finish in the top ten, so he was ineligible to score the point for it. Arvid Lindblad scored the point for setting the fastest lap among those finishing in the top ten.
- Victor Martins set the fastest lap but did not finish in the top ten, so he was ineligible to score the point for it. Alex Dunne scored the point for setting the fastest lap among those finishing in the top ten.
- Dino Beganovic set the fastest lap but did not finish in the top ten, so he was ineligible to score the point for it. Oliver Goethe would have scored the point for setting the fastest lap among those finishing in the top ten, but as less than 50% of the scheduled race distance was completed, he was not awarded the point for it.
- Kush Maini set the fastest lap but did not finish in the top ten, so he was ineligible to score the point for it. Roman Staněk scored the point for setting the fastest lap among those finishing in the top ten.
- The feature race was cancelled due to heavy rain. Only points for pole position were awarded.[52]
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