Formula 2 is back for 2025 with plenty of new and returning faces. Four members of the 2024 grid will be in F1 this year, with a fifth – Franco Colapinto – having made his F1 bow last season. Could a rookie follow in Gabriel Bortoleto’s footsteps to win the championship, or will a returning driver make the leap to a title win? In this guide, Feeder Series tells you everything you need to know about the 2025 F2 season.

By Martin Lloyd and Calla Kra-Caskey

After a chaotic 2024 season that defied all expectations, F2 returns for its second season with the Dallara F2 2024 car. Invicta were the class of the field last year and took both championships, while pre-season title hopefuls Prema and ART struggled to adapt to the new machine.

The grid is vastly different from last season’s, with 12 drivers competing in their first full season in the championship. All teams bar ART and DAMS field at least one rookie, with Prema and Trident selecting all-rookie line-ups.

Teams’ champions Invicta will field the reigning F3 champion for a second consecutive year as Leonardo Fornaroli joins the team in the wake of Bortoleto’s 2024 title success. Meanwhile, Gabriele Minì, who pushed Fornaroli for the F3 title until the final race of the season, moves up to F2 with Prema. Other highly rated rookies include Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic, who impressed in two cameo rounds at the end of 2024 and joins Hitech, as well as Red Bull junior Arvid Lindblad. 

The returning drivers are also of high calibre. Victor Martins looks for redemption in 2025 after a torrid second season in the championship, while his new ART teammate Ritomo Miyata looks to rediscover the form that propelled him to the 2023 Super Formula title. Richard Verschoor enters his fifth season in the series with MP Motorsport and is primed to set a new record for F2 race starts. 

There are no major regulation changes for 2025 compared with 2024. 

The calendar

The 2025 calendar consists of 14 rounds, visiting the same tracks as in 2024 albeit in a modified order. For the first time, the series will visit Albert Park in Australia for the season opener, with Sakhir and Jeddah becoming the second and third rounds respectively. Meanwhile, Spa will swap places with Budapest, which moves from the third weekend of July to the first weekend of August as the new 10th round.

The series is packed between mid-March and early September. Jeddah, Barcelona and Budapest are each followed by a month-long break, while a two-month gap remains between the Baku event in September and the Qatar Grand Prix in late November.

• Round 1: Albert Park Circuit (14–16 March)
• Round 2: Bahrain International Circuit (11–13 April)
• Round 3: Jeddah Corniche Circuit (18–20 April)
• Round 4: Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari (16–18 May)
• Round 5: Circuit de Monaco (22–25 May)
• Round 6: Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (30 May–01 June)
• Round 7: Red Bull Ring (27–29 June)
• Round 8: Silverstone Circuit (4–6 July)
• Round 9: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps (25–27 July)
• Round 10: Hungaroring (1–3 August)
• Round 11: Autodromo Nazionale Monza (5–7 September)
• Round 12: Baku City Circuit (19–21 September)
• Round 13: Lusail International Circuit (28–30 November)
• Round 14: Yas Marina Circuit (5–7 December)

The format

F2’s format remains unchanged for 2025. Each weekend features a 45-minute practice session followed by a 30-minute qualifying session on Friday. (In Monaco, the practice session takes place on Thursday.) Saturday features a sprint race in which the top 10 drivers from qualifying are reversed on the grid, meaning whoever qualifies 10th will start from pole position. The feature race is held on Sunday, and the results from qualifying determine its grid. 

The feature race uses the standard FIA system of 25 points for first place down to one point for 10th place. In the sprint, only the top eight finishers earn points on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 scale. Additionally, two points are awarded for earning pole position, and one point is given out for setting the fastest lap in each race.

Where to watch

Coverage of F2 varies based on your region. This page on the F2 website outlines which networks will broadcast coverage in each country. Additionally, in some countries, coverage of F2 will be available on F1TV. Details of F1TV’s availability in each country can be found on this page.

Teams and drivers

Invicta Racing

Last season, Invicta enjoyed their most successful season since their 2017 title-winning campaign, then run under the Russian Time name. With three wins and remarkable consistency in the second half of the season, the Norfolk-based outfit became teams’ champions, and their driver Bortoleto won the drivers’ title. For 2025, Invicta fields an all-new line-up consisting of the reigning F3 champion and an F2 veteran. The team also has new executive leadership in team principal James Robinson and team manager Geoff Spear. 

Leonardo Fornaroli (#1) may not have won a race in 2024, but his stunning consistency meant he took the F3 title by an eventual margin of 23 points. In his second F3 season, the Italian achieved seven podiums en route to glory with Trident and was announced by Invicta just two days after winning the championship in Monza. Expectations will be high for the 20-year-old, who takes the very same route to F2 as Bortoleto did. While taking a second consecutive title may be a tall order, Invicta have proven that their environment is conducive to success.

Partnering Fornaroli will be Roman Staněk (#2), who returns to F2 after he missed the last three rounds of last season. The 21-year-old Czech driver raced for Trident for the last three years, finishing fifth with the team in the 2022 F3 season and 18th and 22nd in F2 in 2023 and 2024 respectively. His highlight last season was a sprint race win at Melbourne – a rare high point in a difficult year. While he may not have tasted much success in F2, Staněk has a point to prove and a chance to lead a frontrunning team with his experience. He will face pressure to deliver in his third F2 season – if from nobody else than himself.

Campos Racing

In 2024, Campos had their best results in series history. They took second in the drivers’ and teams’ championships, with both going down to the final round. The end result may have been disappointing considering they’d led both for most of the second half of the season, but team leader Isack Hadjar took a series-leading four wins and earned an F1 seat for his efforts. Campos housed both Red Bull juniors in F2 last year, and their ties to the F1 team remain strong as Lindblad replaces Hadjar. 

Spaniard Pepe Martí (#3) remains with Campos for his fifth consecutive year with the team. Prior to last year, the 19-year-old had finished third for them in the 2021 Spanish F4 Championship and 26th and fifth in two years of F3. Although Hadjar finished second in the standings in 2024, Martí could only manage 14th in a quiet rookie season, one much like Hadjar’s in 2023. He took 62 points and four podiums across the season, with his first and only F2 victory coming during the Abu Dhabi sprint race. He would do well to carry over that winning momentum into the first races of 2025 in a make-or-break year. 

Joining Martí, and already earmarked for F1 seat within the Red Bull stable, is Arvid Lindblad (#4). The Briton made strides towards that goal over the winter by taking the FR Oceania title in style with six wins and six more podiums, securing the 40 points needed for an FIA Super Licence. Since graduating from karts in 2022, Lindblad, 17, has rocketed through the single-seater ladder. He came third in Italian F4 in 2023 despite appearing certain for the title halfway through the season. In 2024, he became F3’s youngest-ever winner in the sprint in Bahrain and added a feature race victory in Barcelona and a double win in Silverstone to his tally later in the year, though he again struggled late in the season and failed to score in the final three rounds. 

MP Motorsport

MP returned to form in 2024 after a difficult 2023 season. Colapinto, Dennis Hauger and Verschoor found great consistency to help the Dutch team to third in the teams’ standings. The team even coped with mid-season driver changes after Colapinto was called up to F1 by Williams before the Monza round and Hauger left two rounds early to focus on his 2025 Indy NXT campaign. 

Replacing Colapinto was Oliver Goethe (#5), who has shown promise in single-seaters for a number of years. MP previously ran Goethe in F4 in 2020 and FRegional Europe in 2021. While those years brought limited headline results, the German-Danish driver won the Euroformula Open title in 2022 and finished eighth and seventh respectively in full-time F3 campaigns in 2023 and 2024, taking one victory each year. The 20-year-old missed the final round at Monza after his F2 call-up but was still in outside title contention at the time after having finished outside of the points only twice in his entire 2024 F3 campaign. His best F2 result was fourth in the feature race in Qatar.

Richard Verschoor (#6) is also no stranger to MP, having raced with them between 2016 and 2021. Verschoor competed with MP in F4, FRenault Eurocup, F3 and F2, and he now makes a full-time return with a formidable reputation in the F2 paddock. With 102 starts under his belt, the 24-year-old brings important experience to the team as Goethe has made only eight race starts. The Dutchman has spent the last three seasons with Van Amersfoort and Trident, soundly beating his teammates in all three seasons, before returning to MP for the final two rounds of 2024. He finished on the feature race podium in Abu Dhabi and will be expected to lead the team to victories in 2025.

Hitech

A mid-season bombshell unofficially tied Hitech to the Alpine F1 Team as founder and longtime team principal Oliver Oakes was announced as team principal for the Enstone-Viry squad as well. On track, their season was slightly less dramatic. Fourth in the teams’ standings was a disappointing finish considering their Estonian rookie Paul Aron had led the drivers’ championship for much of the first half of the season. Aron, now Alpine’s reserve driver, eventually finished third in the drivers’ championship, but teammate Amaury Cordeel could only manage 17th place. With both departing the team, Silverstone-based Hitech – formally renamed from Hitech GP – now rest their hopes on an exciting and balanced line-up of pair of F3 graduates. 

Luke Browning (#7), the winner of the 2023 Macau Grand Prix, will compete in his first full season in F2, although his three-round appearance at the end of 2024 means he will not be officially classified as a rookie. The 23-year-old Williams junior has been with Hitech since 2022, the year he won the GB3 title. Browning spent two F3 seasons with the team, placing 15th in 2023 and third in 2024, when he remained in contention for the title until the final race. While racing with ART Grand Prix in the final three F2 rounds of 2024, the Briton scored points at Baku and Abu Dhabi. 

Joining Browning is Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic (#8). The 21-year-old Swede, who has driven for Prema since 2020, had a disappointing second F3 season by his own admission. He was the lowest-placed Prema driver in sixth, equalling his finishing position from his rookie season the year prior. Beganovic made up for the disappointment, however, with an impressive F2 debut in the final two rounds, taking points in three of the four races he ran and scoring a podium in the Abu Dhabi sprint race. In January, Beganovic completed his first test in a Ferrari F1 car.

Prema Racing

Prema were expected to make their usual bid for the F2 title in 2024. Instead, they could only muster one feature race victory and finished fifth, their worst result in the teams’ standings since 2019. With both Ollie Bearman and Kimi Antonelli departing for F1, the Italian team have elected to field an all-rookie F2 line-up for the first time since 2017 as they attempt to rebuild their reputation as the best destination for young talent entering F2.

Sebastián Montoya (#9) makes the step up to F2 after two difficult years in F3, which he finished 16th and 17th with Hitech and Campos respectively. Qualifying in the top 10 in only three of the 10 rounds in 2024 limited his points-scoring potential, though he made a habit of charging through the field, most notably from 23rd on the grid in the Imola feature race to a finishing position of 10th. Montoya was faster than his F3 results showed, but he will need to make a sizeable step up in performance if he is to meet Prema’s usual standards.

Expected to spearhead Prema’s revival in 2025 will be Gabriele Minì (#10). The 19-year-old Italian driver came tantalisingly close to taking the 2024 F3 title from his countryman Fornaroli but had to settle for second after a dramatic final race. Despite this disappointment, Minì’s strong performances in his sophomore F3 season with Prema made him an obvious choice for promotion to F2 with the team. The Alpine Academy member took five F3 podiums last year, including a peerless run to a second consecutive Monaco feature race victory. He already stepped up to F2 for the Baku round in place of Bearman, who was racing in F1, and finished on the sprint race podium on debut.

DAMS

DAMS’ 2024 was a tale of two opposing fortunes, as Jak Crawford finished fifth in the standings while Juan Manuel Correa was 18th. This year, they’ve again opted for experience, fielding two drivers who each enter their third years in F2.

The returning Jak Crawford (#11) finished 13th in his first F2 season with Hitech and improved to fifth last year with DAMS, taking one victory in each season. In his first season, the American took five total podiums, while in his second he had six. One point in Crawford’s favour is his consistency; in 2024, he never went more than two races without scoring a point. That trait, along with his experience and growth over the years, make the 19-year-old Aston Martin junior a favourite to contend for the title entering the season. 

Joining him at DAMS is Alpine junior Kush Maini (#12). The French team’s newly announced F1 reserve driver, 24, was a member of teams’ champions Invicta last year, but he only managed 13th in the drivers’ championship, a step down from his 11th-place finish with Campos the year prior. Maini started out the year strong, taking the first pole position of 2024 in Sakhir before being disqualified, and won the Hungary sprint. But the Indian driver had a difficult run of form after that breakthrough victory, going scoreless in the final five rounds.

ART Grand Prix

ART are looking to recover from an annus horribilis in 2024. Seventh place in the teams’ standings represented the French squad’s lowest-ever finishing position since the inception of F2 predecessor GP2 in 2005, but the team showed signs of progress by season’s end. They have chosen an experienced duo for their 2025 line-up with a combined three prior F2 seasons under their belts.

Continuing for his fourth successive season with ART is Victor Martins (#14), though he will do so without Alpine backing for the first time. Having won the 2022 F3 title with the team and finished fifth in F2 in 2023 after his promotion, the Frenchman was expected to mount a title challenge in 2024. He finished only seventh in the standings, however, with one win in the Barcelona sprint race and four other podiums. Nonetheless, Martins’ talent is clear, and if ART can find consistent performance with the 2024 Dallara F2 car, a title charge from the 23-year-old cannot be discounted. 

Alongside Martins is 25-year-old Ritomo Miyata (#15), who comes with backing from Toyota. The 2023 Super Formula and Super GT champion is another who was expected to impress in 2024, but he struggled in his first season of European competition, finishing 18th in the standings with Rodin Motorsport. In 2024, Miyata combined his F2 commitments with a programme in the European Le Mans Series, though he will focus on single-seaters this year. With a reduced schedule and a year of F2 experience under his belt, the Japanese driver will look to improve on his best race result to date of fifth, achieved in both Melbourne races.

Rodin Motorsport

Like DAMS, Rodin fell down the championship order in 2024 largely because of the gap in points between their drivers. While Zane Maloney finished fourth in the championship with two victories, Miyata struggled in his first year of European single-seaters. With Maloney departing for Formula E and Miyata moving to ART, Rodin have an all-new line-up for 2025. 

Rodin initially announced two F3 graduates, but after Christian Mansell withdrew last week for personal reasons, the team replaced him with the more experienced Amaury Cordeel (#16). The 22-year-old was set to leave F2 after finishing 17th for Hitech last year, but he will instead return for his fourth season in the championship with his fourth F2 team. In 2022 he finished 17th for Van Amersfoort Racing, which he followed with a 20th-place championship finish for Virtuosi in 2023. Having missed pre-season testing and last year’s post-season test, the Belgian driver will start off the year with something of a mileage deficit. 

McLaren junior Alex Dunne (#17) was confirmed for the other Rodin seat last month as one of the final drivers on the grid to be announced. The 19-year-old has risen quickly through single-seaters, winning British F4 in 2022 and finishing second in both Italian F4 in 2022 and GB3 in 2023. He had an up-and-down year in F3 last year, finishing 14th with two podiums. Ireland’s Dunne is one of just four drivers without any F2 race experience, so he will need to work quickly to catch up to the pack. 

AIX Racing

In 2024, AIX enjoyed one of their best campaigns in team history across their various identities. Having failed to score a point in 2023, the team returned to form with three wins last season, earning them a ninth-place finish in the teams’ standings. For 2025, AIX have opted to continue with the line-up with which they ended the 2024 season, featuring a mix of youth and experience. 

The undisputed team leader will be Joshua Dürksen (#20). The 21-year-old Paraguayan was a two-time race winner for the team in 2024 and one of the surprise packages overall considering he had occupied the midfield of the FR Europe championship for the previous two years. He finished 10th in the drivers’ standings with 87 points, and he will remain at the forefront of the team’s efforts in 2025. His knowledge and racecraft will benefit AIX in 2025 with a relatively inexperienced teammate joining him. 

That driver is Scotsman Cian Shields (#21), who raced in F3 with Hitech in 2024 after previously winning races in Euroformula Open and GB3. The season was difficult for 20-year-old Shields, who finished 30th with AIX and failed to score a point. He moved up to F2 with AIX for the final two rounds of the season, finishing with a best result of 11th in the feature race at Lusail. He will look to emulate his teammate’s surprising rise to F2 success and surpass expectations at an AIX team on the rise. 

Trident Motorsport

Last year, the pairing of Verschoor and Staněk made Trident one of the most experienced teams on the grid before rookies Max Esterson and Mansell replaced them for the final rounds. At season’s end, however, the team finished 10th in the teams’ standings for the fifth time in eight years. Continuing with Esterson and adding F3 graduate Sami Meguetounif, Trident have become one of the least experienced F2 teams, with only two rounds of prior experience courtesy of Esterson. 

While Sami Meguetounif (#22) is new to F2, he is no stranger to Trident, having finished the 2024 F3 season with them in eighth. The 20-year-old Frenchman took 84 points and a feature race victory on each of the two Italian circuits for the Italian team. Meguetounif struggled with consistency last year, scoring points in only nine of 20 races, but told Feeder Series he believes he can compete with the top F2 drivers once he improves on that front. 

Remaining with Trident, Max Esterson (#23) will aim to improve on his best result of 14th from his end-of-year cameo. Having begun his career in sim racing, the 22-year-old American has continued his rapid ascent up the single-seater ladder to join Giacomo Ricci’s outfit on a full-time basis. In his F3 campaign last year, Esterson finished 21st with just 11 points. His results don’t tell the full story, however: he drove for backmarkers Jenzer Motorsport and outscored both of his teammates while also qualifying on the front row at a rain-affected Silverstone.

Van Amersfoort Racing

Van Amersfoort endured a torrid campaign in 2024. The team only achieved four top-five finishes across the entire season, including Enzo Fittipaldi’s win in the Jeddah feature race, en route to 11th and last in the teams’ standings. The Dutch team can only improve from there as they head into 2025 with the pairing with which they finished 2024. 

Hoping to continue where he left off will be John Bennett (#24), who replaced Enzo Fittipaldi for the final two F2 rounds last year. The British-Irish racer secured the ride on short notice and impressed the team, with a best finish of eighth on debut at the Lusail feature race. Those results were all the more notable for Bennett considering his steep learning curve. The 21-year-old had spent the last three seasons competing in GB3, in which he finished second to Louis Sharp in 2024, before his promotion to F2 off the back of a strong showing in F3’s post-season tests with the team. 

Completing Van Amersfoort’s line-up is Rafael Villagómez (#25), who has raced for the team since 2021 in Euroformula Open, F3 and F2. The 23-year-old Mexican experienced a difficult rookie season in 2024, scoring 13 points with a best finish of seventh in the Melbourne feature race. Given Bennett’s inexperience, he will now be expected to take on a leading role within the line-up as they aim to lift the Zeewolde-based outfit from the foot of the F2 teams’ standings. 

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