2025 Formula 2 Championship


The 2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship was a motor racing championship for Formula 2 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. The championship was 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 was run in support of selected rounds of the 2025 Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers who competed in the championship ran the same car, the Dallara F2 2024.
Reigning Teams' Champions Invicta Racing defended their title, securing it at the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi. Leonardo Fornaroli became the 2025 Drivers' Champion in the penultimate round of the season in Qatar. By winning the title, Fornaroli became the fifth rookie driver to be crowned Formula 2 Drivers' Champion. Furthermore, he is the fifth driver after Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Oscar Piastri and Gabriel Bortoleto to win both the Formula 2 and FIA Formula 3 Championship titles in consecutive seasons as well as the first Italian Formula 2 champion since the series' introduction in 2017. This is the second year in succession that Invicta Racing provided the Drivers' Champion and won the Teams' Championship, becoming the first team after Prema Racing to repeat this feat.

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The following teams and drivers competed in the 2025 Formula 2 Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams competed with an identical Dallara F2 2024 chassis using a V6 turbo engine developed by Mecachrome. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli.

Team changes

and Toyota Gazoo Racing's TGR-DC junior programme formed a new collaboration in 2025, with the team entering under the Hitech TGR guise.
The Invicta Watch Group took full control over Invicta Racing, which split from Virtuosi Racing and underwent management changes.
AIX Racing now competed under an Emirati racing licence for the 2025 season following the use of a German racing licence in 2024. This marked the first time in the championship's history that a Middle Eastern team competed on the grid.

Driver changes

Reigning Teams' Champions Invicta Racing had an all-new driver lineup as reigning Drivers' Champion Gabriel Bortoleto graduated to Formula One with Sauber, and Kush Maini moved to DAMS. 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.
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.
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. 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.
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. The team's lineup consisted 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 in 2024 with DAMS Lucas Oil.
Prema Racing were another team with an all-new driver lineup after both Oliver Bearman and Kimi Antonelli graduated to Formula One with Haas and Mercedes, respectively. 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 Campos Racing and returned to the team he raced for in FRECA in 2022.
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.
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. 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.
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. 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. 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.
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. 2023 Euroformula Open runner-up Cian Shields, who had already filled Barnard's cockpit during the last two rounds of the 2024 season, replaced him for his full-season debut in 2025.
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. 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.
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. 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.

In-season changes

fielded a new driver lineup from round twelve onwards as both Sami Meguetounif and Max Esterson parted ways with the team. FIA Formula 3 driver Laurens van Hoepen joined the team for the rest of the season and McLaren junior driver Martinius Stenshorne competed in the Baku round, making their debuts in the championship.
Ahead of the penultimate round in Qatar, Pepe Martí departed Campos Racing in preparation for his step up to Formula E with Cupra Kiro. He was replaced by 2025 FIA F3 runner-up Nikola Tsolov, who joined Campos' F2 outfit ahead of his full-season graduation in 2026. Amaury Cordeel also left the series, and was replaced by 2026 Rodin Motorsport driver Martinius Stenshorne. FIA F3 driver James Wharton made his Formula 2 debut as he replaced Stenshorne at Trident.
FIA F3 race winner Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak made his Formula 2 debut at the final round in Abu Dhabi, replacing Wharton at Trident ahead of a full-time step up with ART Grand Prix in 2026.

Race calendar

Calendar changes

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.

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. 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.
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. At the end of the round, Dürksen's sprint race victory left him with a two-point advantage over Fornaroli in the Drivers' Championship.