With just two rounds of the Formula 2 season remaining, drivers and teams are finalising their plans for the 2025 season. Here’s everything we know about who’s going where next year.

By Martin Lloyd

At the end of an unpredictable first year with a new car, F2 heads to Qatar and Abu Dhabi with Gabriel Bortoleto leading the drivers’ championship. Bortoleto, Ollie Bearman and Andrea Kimi Antonelli have all been announced as 2025 F1 drivers for Sauber, Haas and Mercedes, while others from the 2024 grid may yet join them.

While F3’s 2025 driver market has been exceptionally premature, with 70 per cent of the grid already announced, news about the F2 grid has been slower to roll in. Four drivers’ seats have been publicly announced, and while a number more have been signed, the picture will not become fully clear until the post-season test in Abu Dhabi from 11 to 13 December.

Invicta Racing

In what has been a stellar 2024 season so far, Invicta are looking to take their first teams’ championship title in F2 since the Russian Time squad they operated won the 2017 crown. Bortoleto’s form, which has yielded a season-high 169.5 points so far, has provided the foundation for the team’s charge, while Kush Maini’s contribution of 74 points has helped them to head to Qatar with a 35.5-point lead over Campos. 

With Bortoleto moving to F1, Leonardo Fornaroli was the first confirmed F2 driver for 2025, having been announced by Invicta two days after his F3 triumph at Monza. The Italian managed to secure the title without winning a single race, though he took six podiums and beat second-placed Gabriele Mini by 23 points. Fornaroli demonstrated impressive consistency by scoring 18 top-10 finishes in 20 races, which made his lack of wins less relevant. 

Fornaroli’s teammate at Invicta is set to be a highly experienced returning driver in the form of Roman Staněk. The Czech driver left Trident after the Monza round, ending a three-year association with the Italian team that stretches back to his 2022 F3 season. At the time, he was not expected to return to the series, but since September, Staněk has found a lifeline at Invicta. After a disappointing 18th-place finish in 2023, the 20-year-old only scored on three occasions in 2024, including his victory in the Melbourne sprint race. In 2025, he will look to return to the form that carried him to fifth in F3 in 2022. 

If he remains where he is in the standings, Bortoleto would become the first driver since 2021 F2 champion Oscar Piastri to win the F3 and F2 titles in back-to-back seasons. The Brazilian will leave the McLaren junior programme and join Nico Hülkenberg at Sauber, which is set to become Audi’s F1 project in 2026. A return to Invicta for Kush Maini was on the table, but he is not expected to continue with the Norfolk-based team in 2025. 

Campos Racing

Campos led the teams’ championship for much of the 2024 season thanks to Isack Hadjar’s exceptional form in his second F2 season. The Frenchman is just 4.5 points behind Bortoleto in the drivers’ championship battle and has contributed 79.32 per cent of the team’s points total to date. While a race seat at RB is possible, Hadjar is more likely to take on an F1 reserve role within the Red Bull family. 

The remaining 43 points of Campos’ 208-point total have been scored by Hadjar’s rookie teammate Pepe Martí, who is expected to remain with the team next season. Despite a strong showing at the opening round in Bahrain, where he finished on the podium in both races, the Spaniard has endured a difficult season and sits 16th in the drivers’ standings. The team’s partnership with the Red Bull Junior Team is deepening, and Martí – who joined the programme while in F3 in 2023, his third year at Campos – will have a second chance to prove his talent to Helmut Marko, just as Hadjar did after a disappointing 2023. 

Confirmed 12 September as the team’s new driver will be Arvid Lindblad, another Red Bull prospect. Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner has often spoken unprompted about the 17-year-old’s talent, who now has a highly impressive F3 season under his belt. Lindblad had previously taken eight F4 wins across three separate championships in 2023 before taking four more in F3 with Prema. That total includes a double win at Silverstone and a victory in the opening sprint race at Bahrain, where he became F3’s youngest-ever winner at 16 years and 206 days old. He is believed to have signed his F2 deal around then, and while a failure to score afterwards in the final six races poses concerns, Lindblad’s potential is evident. 

MP Motorsport

MP Motorsport have experienced an unusual 2024 campaign, with neither of their two drivers from the start of the year finishing out the season. While the team have struggled for regular strong results since Dennis Hauger’s early-season podium streak, consistent results from both cars put them third in the teams’ championship. They lead fourth-placed Prema by 12 points ahead of the end-of-year double-header. 

MP are all but certain to field an all-new line-up in 2025, one half of which has already started with the team. Oliver Goethe replaced Franco Colapinto from Monza onwards after the latter was promoted to Williams’ F1 outfit, and he is expected to return for a full campaign in 2025. The 20-year-old has a long history with MP, having raced for the team during his first full season of car racing in 2020 in Spanish F4 and in 2021 in FRegional Europe. In 2024, the German driver achieved three podium finishes, including a win at Imola, and finished seventh in his second full season of F3 with Campos, scoring double the points tally of both his teammates and leading Campos to fourth in the teams’ championship. He is currently a Red Bull Junior Team member, but he is not thought to enjoy as much funding from the Austrian energy drinks company as the team’s other prospects. 

The other mid-season switch at MP concerns Richard Verschoor, who will run the final two races of 2024 with the team ahead of a fifth full season in the series in 2025. The Dutchman raced for MP in 2021 before leaving midway through the season after hitting budget trouble. While he has never fought for championships, Verschoor has battled for wins on multiple occasions this season. Were it not for two disqualifications from sprint victories and a mechanical failure while leading the Monaco feature race, Verschoor could hold a position far higher than his current 10th place in the drivers’ standings.

Verschoor replaces Dennis Hauger, who entered a second season with the team needing to dominate to keep any faint hopes of an F1 move alive. But inconsistency and mistakes mean that he sits a lowly ninth in the championship, and the Norwegian has switched his focus stateside, with a move to Andretti in Indy NXT confirmed for 2025. Given his F1 promotion, Colapinto – who took his sole F2 win in the Imola sprint race – is highly unlikely to return to F2 even without a place on the F1 grid confirmed for 2025. 

Prema Racing

Junior single-seater powerhouse Prema were widely expected to enjoy further success in 2024 with a formidable lineup consisting of the returning Bearman and the 2023 FR Europe champion, Antonelli. While both drivers have impressed on occasion, the team have largely struggled to get to grips with the new car. They have only taken six podiums, their lowest total since 2019. 

For 2025, the team are believed to have signed Alpine junior Gabriele Minì, who made his F2 debut for Prema in Baku when Bearman deputised for Haas in F1 in place of the banned Kevin Magnussen. Despite a late-race crash in the feature race, Minì impressed, qualifying eighth and finishing on the podium in the sprint race. After a strong sophomore F3 campaign in which Minì finished second to Fornaroli, the Italian will complete his third season in Prema colours, having also won the Italian F4 Championship with them in 2020. 

Minì’s teammate is expected to be Sebastián Montoya, who raced for Prema from 2020 and 2022 and whose family is understood to have had deeper ties to Prema in prior years. The 19-year-old son of F1 race winner Juan Pablo Montoya has shown glimpses of quality during his two seasons of F3 but has been unable to score consistent results. Across those two seasons, he has scored two podiums, often showing strong race pace in recovering from lowly grid spots. The Colombian has more potential than his 16th- and 17th-placed finishes in F3 would suggest but will be under pressure to prove his speed at one of the most successful teams on the grid. 

Both Bearman’s and Antonelli’s moves to F1 were confirmed earlier in the year. Antonelli had long been favoured to replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes since the Briton’s departure was announced 1 February, while Ferrari junior Bearman has joined Haas, for whom he has already competed in two races after making his F1 debut for Ferrari in March. 

Rodin Motorsport

Rodin’s first season after David Dicker’s full takeover of the former Carlin team has brought starkly different fortunes for the team’s two drivers. Zane Maloney has stepped up to the role of team leader, leading the championship during the opening rounds and achieving seven podium finishes overall. Conversely, rookie Ritomo Miyata has struggled to adapt to the Dallara F2 car. The reigning Super Formula and Super GT champion sits a lowly 19th in the standings, with a best finish of fifth in both races at Melbourne. 

A familiar face is expected to form one half of Rodin’s 2025 pairing in Christian Mansell, who is set to compete in his first full F2 season. The Australian competed with Carlin in British F4 and GB3 in 2020 and 2021 respectively, finishing third in the latter championship. He joins the team after a strong second season in F3 in which he finished fifth in the standings and was in contention for the title until the final round. He has also joined Trident for the final three F2 rounds of 2024 in place of Staněk, providing him with extra experience before he launches a full assault on the championship next season.

The identity of Mansell’s teammate is currently unclear, with rumours abounding that longtime Carlin driver Zak O’Sullivan could return to the series for 2025. But funding issues persist for the British driver, so it seems that McLaren junior Alex Dunne is a more likely candidate for the seat. The Irishman competed in his debut F3 season in 2024, finishing 14th in the standings with two podiums. Despite a mixed season with MP Motorsport, Dunne is looking to move immediately to F2, with Rodin the most likely destination. This year was the first time since 2021 that the McLaren junior finished outside the top six in a full season of a series in single-seaters, but he will want to prove that his F3 stint was the exception rather than the rule. 

After a strong 2024 season in which he currently lies third in the drivers’ standings, Maloney will join Lola Yamaha Abt in Formula E. The all-electric series’ first round in São Paulo clashes with the final F2 round in Abu Dhabi, meaning that Rodin will have to draft in a replacement. Miyata is expected to move elsewhere as Toyota, his primary backers, begin a new affiliation of their own with Haas. 

Hitech GP

Hitech fielded a lineup of Paul Aron and Amaury Cordeel for 2024. F2 rookie Aron led the championship from Monaco through Silverstone and scored in 13 of the first 14 races, but a combination of bad luck and mid-summer mistakes means that he is an outsider in the championship battle, now 36.5 points away from leader Bortoleto. On the other side of the garage, Cordeel is 18th in the standings, with a best result of fourth in the Imola sprint race. 

For a fourth successive season, Hitech are not expected to retain either driver. Instead, the British team are set to plump for a pair of newcomers, although Luke Browning – whose status at the team for 2025 is essentially an open secret – is competing in the final three races of the 2024 season for ART. The 22-year-old has a long history with Hitech, having won the GB3 title with the Silverstone-based outfit in 2022. Browning then continued with the team in F3, finishing 15th in 2023 before challenging for the 2024 title and eventually finishing third. He also won last year’s Macau Grand Prix with the team.

Dino Beganovic is expected to line up alongside Browning as he graduates to F2, though whether he will remain with the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy is less certain. The Swede entered F3 with great fanfare in 2023, having won the FR Europe title in the previous season, but he struggled to make his mark on championship battles during a two-year stint in the category with Prema. There were bright moments, including a podium in his first feature race at Sakhir and two wins in 2024, but the Ferrari junior has only a pair of sixth-place finishes in the championship to show for his efforts. After a solid but unspectacular spell in F3, Beganovic will begin his F2 career with DAMS in the final two races as the replacement for Juan Manuel Correa.

Paul Aron said over the summer that he lacked the funding necessary to continue in F2 in the 2025 season. Rumours abound that he could become Alpine’s reserve driver in F1 under longtime Hitech boss Oliver Oakes’ leadership of the French team. Cordeel’s plans are currently unknown, but he may return to F2 for a fourth campaign. 

ART Grand Prix 

Following a clean sweep of the drivers’ and teams’ titles in 2023, ART Grand Prix were expected to fight at the front again, but the team have struggled immensely to adapt to the new car. They have three wins, but regular scoring has proved challenging. With just 156 points to date, the French team are on course to finish seventh in the points, their worst finishing position since the inception of F2 predecessor GP2 in 2005. 

ART are set to opt for experience in 2025, with Victor Martins expected to return to the team for a third season after some doubt about whether he would do so. The Alpine junior recently participated in a WEC Hypercar rookie test but will continue to pursue his goal of an F1 seat rather than seek an immediate professional drive outside of single-seaters. Were it not for ART’s annus horribilis in 2024, Martins – the top rookie of F2’s 2023 class – could have contended for the Alpine seat left vacant by Esteban Ocon, but he sits a lowly eighth in the drivers’ standings. Drivers competing in a third year of F2 rarely step up to F1, a list that is increasingly likely to include 2023 F2 champion Théo Pourchaire, Martins’ former teammate. 

Ritomo Miyata is set to move from Rodin to ART for his second season in F2. Much was expected of the Japanese driver following his 2023 Super Formula and Super GT triumphs, but he has struggled to adapt to F2, with a best finish of fifth in Melbourne and a current championship position of 19th. The 25-year-old will hope for a change in fortunes with a new environment and a year of experience in European single-seaters. 

While Martins gambles on a must-win season, Zak O’Sullivan faces a different quandary: whether he will be on the grid at all. After leaving ART in September, the British driver sought a seat elsewhere on the F2 grid, but it now seems unlikely that the Williams junior will return to F2 for a second season as funding continues to be an issue. 

DAMS

DAMS’ 2024 season has been a rollercoaster. After bringing Ayumu Iwasa to fourth in the 2023 standings, the French team adopted a distinctly American flair with its 2024 line-up and in its signing of title sponsor Lucas Oil. One half of that pairing will return for 2025 as the team seeks to improve on eighth in the standings.

It was confirmed in October that Jak Crawford would remain at DAMS for 2025 for his third season in the series. After a 13th-place finish in his debut F2 season with Hitech, Crawford had a much better 2024 and currently sits fifth in the drivers’ standings, with his feature race win at Barcelona a particular highlight. While he has achieved one less podium finish this season, with four compared to five in 2023, the American has scored points more consistently and doubled his 2023 tally with two rounds still to go.

The identity of DAMS’ second driver remains unknown. Beganovic will replace the departing Correa for the final two rounds of this season, but he is expected to join Hitech for 2025. Instead, Alpine junior Kush Maini is the favourite to take the seat. The Indian driver has not hit the heights of his Invicta teammate Bortoleto this season and has not scored in the last three rounds, during which time the Brazilian stole the points lead. Despite taking his maiden F2 victory in the Budapest sprint race, Maini is on course for a second successive 11th-place finish in the drivers’ standings, while rumours of a broader reform of the Alpine Academy also put his continued status there in doubt. 

Correa scored points on five occasions in 2024 and took a poignant podium in Barcelona alongside Crawford, but he is not expected to return to F2, with endurance racing his most likely destination. The Ecuadorian-American made a remarkable comeback to the series at the end of 2022 after he suffered horrific injuries in a 2019 crash at Spa that claimed the life of Anthoine Hubert. The 25-year-old has placed 19th and 17th in his two full seasons in the series since his accident and, in 2022 and 2023, combined single-seater racing with LMP2 duties at Prema. 

Trident Motorsport

Another team to experience a turbulent 2024 season was Trident. The team could have occupied a higher position in the standings were it not for Verschoor’s streak of failures and disqualifications while in promising positions. Despite having five podiums, including two wins, the Italian team sit a lowly ninth in the teams’ championship. None of their 2024 drivers – which also include Roman Staněk and replacement Christian Mansell – are expected to return to the team even if they continue in the series. 

Trident are likely to field at least one of their 2024 F3 drivers, with Sami Meguetounif believed to have gotten the nod. The French driver finished eighth in his debut season in F3 and clearly aimed for a step up to F2 while in Monza. Though Meguetounif could not match the performances of teammate Fornaroli, he soundly beat teammate Santiago Ramos, scoring 40 more points than the Mexican. 

There are a number of contenders for the second Trident seat, with Max Esterson the current favourite. The American will race for the team for the final two rounds of 2024 in place of the MP-bound Verschoor. Esterson raced for Jenzer in their final F3 season, finishing 21st in the championship with 11 points. He was ahead of both his teammates, Charlie Wurz and Matías Zagazeta, in the standings and was the only Jenzer driver to score points on more than one occasion. 

While he is looking to move on from F3, Esterson is not a certainty at Trident for 2025. Another possibility is Santiago Ramos, but it seems most likely that the Mexican will not continue with the Italian team after his F3 campaign, instead moving to Van Amersfoort. 

AIX Racing

Little was expected from AIX in 2024 following a disastrous 2023 season in which the team failed to score a point. But they have stepped up remarkably since then with two wins, their first under the AIX Racing identity. The renaming from PHM Racing came about in May after a buyout by the Emirati AIX Investment Group, once the title sponsor of all PHM outfits and from whom PHM’s FR and F4 teams have now split fully. Being 10th in the teams’ standings belies their strong progress from a scoreless 2023. 

Joshua Dürksen is expected to remain with the team next season. Little was expected from the Paraguayan after he finished 19th with Arden in FR Europe and made the same sort of jump that Antonelli did by skipping F3. But he has outperformed expectations of a difficult year with three podiums, including a sprint win at Baku, and sits 13th in the drivers’ standings, level on points with the much more experienced Enzo Fittipaldi. Even without scoring in the first three rounds of the season, Dürksen has proven a key factor in the team’s resurgence from being the first second-tier team not to score in a season since DPR in 2009. 

The identity of the driver on the other side of the garage is less clear, but it is believed to be Cian Shields. The Scotsman endured a difficult year in F3 with Hitech, finishing as the lowest-placed full-time competitor in the series and failing to score a point. Shields will hope, just as Dürksen did ahead of his 2024 campaign, that the move to a different championship will result in a change of fortunes. 

Taylor Barnard was slated to complete the full season but left over the summer after signing for McLaren’s Formula E team for the 2024–25 season. His replacement, Niels Koolen, struggled in two appearances at Monza and Baku, understood to have been exploratory in nature. The Dutchman has since joined Chip Ganassi Racing for the 2025 Indy NXT season. 

Van Amersfoort Racing

Van Amersfoort’s 2024 season could prove their least successful since they joined the championship in 2022. Having finished seventh in 2023, the team looked to continue their upward trajectory but have only 74 points to show for their efforts. An impressive double podium for Enzo Fittipaldi at Jeddah, capped off by a feature race win, marked the team out as one that had adapted well to the new car, but they have since failed to score regular points. The points from that weekend in Saudi Arabia now represent 46 per cent of the team’s total to date. 

Rafael Villagómez is all but certain to return to Van Amersfoort in 2025. The Mexican rookie has scored on three occasions since stepping up from F3 and sits 22nd in the current standings. He will look to improve his form with a new teammate in 2025. 

That driver’s identity is not certain, with Sophia Floersch once rumoured for the seat but now less likely to move up. The most probable option at the moment is for F3 graduate Santiago Ramos to join Villagómez and form an all-Mexican line-up. Ramos lacked consistency in 2024 and finished 16th in his rookie F3 season, losing out to Trident teammates Fornaroli and Meguetounif, but  showed promise with pole at Imola and a second-place finish in the Monza sprint race. 

Fittipaldi is very unlikely to compete in a fourth season of F2 as he explores options in other championships. Though the team’s race line-up for 2025 is set, he will take part in an IndyCar test later this month with McLaren, the team for whom his grandfather Emerson Fittipaldi drove when he won the 1974 F1 world title. The 23-year-old also completed a test with Dale Coyne Racing in October 2023 and drove for Jaguar in a Formula E rookie test in May of this year. 

Date	Driver	Team
3 September 2024	Leonardo Fornaroli	Invicta Racing
12 September 2024	Arvid Lindblad	Campos Racing
9 October 2024	Jak Crawford	DAMS
9 November 2024	Richard Verschoor	MP Motorsport
19 November 2024	Christian Mansell	Rodin Motorsport
4 December 2024	Max Esterson	Trident Motorsport
5 December 2024	Oliver Goethe	MP Motorsport
9 December 2024	Roman Staněk	Invicta Racing
9 December 2024	Luke Browning	Hitech GP
9 December 2024	Kush Maini	DAMS
9 December 2024	Gabriele Minì	Prema Racing
9 December 2024	Sami Meguetounif	Trident Motorsport
10 December 2024	Ritomo Miyata	ART Grand Prix
10 December 2024	Dino Beganovic	Hitech GP
10 December 2024	Sebastián Montoya	Prema Racing
10 December 2024	Pepe Martí	Campos Racing
14 December 2024	Joshua Dürksen	AIX Racing
20 December 2024	John Bennett	Van Amersfoort Racing
18 January 2025	Cian Shields	AIX Racing
5 February 2025	Alexander Dunne	Rodin Motorsport
17 February 2025	Rafael Villagómez	Van Amersfoort Racing
17 February 2025	Victor Martins	ART Grand Prix

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