2022 Formula 2 Championship

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The 2022 FIA Formula 2 Championship is a planned motor racing championship for Formula 2 cars that will be sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship will be the fifty-sixth season of Formula 2 racing and the sixth season run under the FIA Formula 2 Championship moniker. It is an open-wheel racing category that serves as the second tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category is scheduled to be run in support of selected rounds of the 2022 FIA Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers competing in the championship will run the same car, the Dallara F2 2018.[1][2]

Entries[]

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2022 championship.[3] As the championship is a spec series, all competitors race with an identical Dallara F2 2018 chassis with a V6 turbo engine developed by Mecachrome. Teams compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli.

Entrant No. Driver name Rounds
Italy Prema Racing 1 Norway Dennis Hauger 1
2 India Jehan Daruvala 1
United Kingdom Virtuosi Racing 3 Australia Jack Doohan 1
4 Japan Marino Sato 1
United Kingdom Carlin 5 New Zealand Liam Lawson 1
6 United States Logan Sargeant 1
United Kingdom Hitech Grand Prix 7 New Zealand Marcus Armstrong 1
8 Estonia Jüri Vips 1
France ART Grand Prix 9 Denmark Frederik Vesti 1
10 France Théo Pourchaire 1
Netherlands MP Motorsport 11 Brazil Felipe Drugovich 1
12 France Clément Novalak 1
Spain Campos Racing 14 United Kingdom Olli Caldwell 1
15 Switzerland Ralph Boschung 1
France DAMS 16 Israel Roy Nissany 1
17 Japan Ayumu Iwasa 1
Italy Trident 20 Netherlands Richard Verschoor 1
21 Australia Calan Williams 1
Czech Republic Charouz Racing System 22 Brazil Enzo Fittipaldi 1
23 Turkey Cem Bölükbaşı 1
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 24 United Kingdom Jake Hughes 1
25 Belgium Amaury Cordeel 1

Team changes[]

After having ended their commitment in FIA Formula 3 beforehand, HWA Racelab ended their Formula 2 operations at the end of the 2021 season.[4] Van Amersfoort Racing will join the series, taking over their entry.[5]

Driver changes[]

Prema Racing will compete with a new driver lineup; reigning Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri signed as a reserve driver for Alpine F1 Team and his teammate, Robert Shwartzman, exited after two years in the series to become a test driver for Scuderia Ferrari.[6][7][8] They were replaced by reigning FIA Formula 3 champion Dennis Hauger and fellow Red Bull Junior Team driver Jehan Daruvala, who switched from Carlin.[9]

Virtuosi Racing's Guanyu Zhou left the team and the series after three years to graduate to Formula One with Alfa Romeo Racing.[10] Felipe Drugovich also left the team to rejoin MP Motorsport, with whom he had raced in 2020. Their seats were filled by Marino Sato, who switched from Trident, and FIA Formula 3 runner-up and new Alpine Academy driver Jack Doohan, who contested the final two rounds of Formula 2 in the previous season with MP Motorsport.[11]

Carlin driver Dan Ticktum left the series to join NIO 333 in Formula E.[12] Carlin hired Red Bull junior and former Hitech Grand Prix driver Liam Lawson alongside FIA Formula 3 graduate and Williams Driver Academy member Logan Sargeant – who contested the penultimate round of Formula 2 in 2021 with HWA Racelab – to replace Ticktum and the departing Jehan Daruvala.[13] [14]

Hitech Grand Prix signed DAMS departee Marcus Armstrong, who left the Ferrari Driver Academy, to replace Liam Lawson.[15]

ART Grand Prix driver Christian Lundgaard left the team and the series after two seasons to join the IndyCar Series, racing for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.[16] He was replaced by FIA Formula 3 graduate and Mercedes Junior Team member Frederik Vesti.[17]

MP Motorsport partnered Felipe Drugovich with Clément Novalak, who replaced Lirim Zendeli at the team for the final two rounds in 2021 after finishing third in FIA Formula 3.[18]

Campos Racing hired new Alpine Academy member Olli Caldwell, who already competed with the team in the last two rounds of the 2021 season, on a full-time contract.[19]

DAMS signed Red Bull junior and FIA Formula 3 graduate Ayumu Iwasa, who joined Roy Nissany and replaced the departing Marcus Armstrong.[20]

Trident hired FIA Formula 3 graduate Calan Williams and Richard Verschoor, who had competed in the previous Formula 2 season with MP Motorsport and Charouz Racing System. They replaced Virtuosi-bound Marino Sato and Bent Viscaal, who left the championship to drive in the European Le Mans Series.[21][22]

Charouz Racing System signed former Formula One eSports competitor and Euroformula Open graduate Cem Bölükbaşı to replace Guilherme Samaia alongside Enzo Fittipaldi.[23][24]

New entrant Van Amersfoort Racing signed Jake Hughes, who will join the category full-time after making temporary appearances with HWA Racelab in 2020 and 2021.[25] He will be partnered by Amaury Cordeel, graduating from FIA Formula 3 after a single season in which he came 23rd.[26]

Race calendar[]

A provisional fourteen-round calendar was announced on 15 October 2021:

Round Circuit Sprint race Feature race
1 Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir 19 March 20 March
2 Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Jeddah 26 March 27 March
3 Italy Imola Circuit, Imola 23 April 24 April
4 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona 21 May 22 May
5 Monaco Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo 28 May 29 May
6 Azerbaijan Baku City Circuit, Baku 11 June 12 June
7 United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone 2 July 3 July
8 Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 9 July 10 July
9 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród 30 July 31 July
10 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot 27 August 28 August
11 Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort 3 September 4 September
12 Italy Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza 10 September 11 September
13 United Arab Emirates Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi 19 November 20 November
Source:[27]

Calendar changes[]

The championship returned to a two-race format for its race weekends, after coming under criticism during the 2021 season that the gaps between the rounds were far too large.[28]

  • The Imola Circuit will feature on the calendar; the first time it has appeared on the F2 schedule.
  • The Circuit Zandvoort will also feature on the calendar after it was cancelled in 2020 and not included in 2021.
  • The Barcelona, Red Bull Ring, Hungaroring and Spa-Francorchamps rounds return after being initially dropped in 2021.
  • The Sochi Autodrom was due to host a round on 24–25 September, but it was suspended in late February due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.[29] It was eventually cancelled the following week along with the Russian Grand Prix.[30]

Regulation changes[]

Sporting changes[]

The championship will have a reprofiled scoring format. The points for pole position and fastest lap will each be cut in half; now awarding 2 points for pole, and 1 for the fastest lap in each race. The sprint race points will be changed significantly, with 10 points being awarded for the winner, 8 points for 2nd, then 6 for 3rd, and it descends all the way to 1 point for 8th. Changes will also be applied for Formula 1’s other feeder series, the FIA Formula 3 Championship.[31]

Results and standings[]

Season summary[]

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Report
1 S Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit
F
2 S Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche Circuit
F
3 S Italy Imola Circuit
F
4 S Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
F
5 S Monaco Circuit de Monaco
F
6 S Azerbaijan Baku City Circuit
F
7 S United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit
F
8 S Austria Red Bull Ring
F
9 S Hungary Hungaroring
F
10 S Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
F
11 S Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort
F
12 S Italy Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
F
13 S United Arab Emirates Yas Marina Circuit
F

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