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The2023 FIA Formula 2 Championship was amotor racing championship forFormula 2 cars sanctioned by theFédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship was the fifty-seventh season of Formula 2 racing and the seventh season run under theFIA Formula 2 Championship moniker. It was anopen-wheel racing category serving as the second tier offormula racing in theFIA Global Pathway. The category was run in support of selected rounds of the2023 Formula One World Championship. As the championship was aspec series, all teams and drivers competing in the championship ran the same car, theDallara F2 2018.
Despite winning one race all season,Théo Pourchaire clinched the drivers' championship on the final round inAbu Dhabi forART Grand Prix, who took its first teams' title in F2 history.Prema Racing'sFrederik Vesti was runner-up, followed byInvicta Virtuosi Racing'sJack Doohan.
After all 26 races were completed in this season (the round inImola being cancelled due to the2023 Emilia-Romagna floods), 13 different drivers won races: Vesti took six victories, while his teammateOliver Bearman took four.Ayumu Iwasa and Doohan each won three races, whileDennis Hauger won twice. Aside from Pourchaire,Ralph Boschung took his sole victory on his 96th race start in thesprint race in Bahrain. Other drivers having one victory to their name this season areJak Crawford andRichard Verschoor who took their and their teams' maiden wins respectively inAustria, andVictor Martins inSilverstone despite receiving a five-second time penalty.Enzo Fittipaldi became a Formula 2 race winner for the first time when he won thesprint race in Belgium, whileIsack Hadjar also took his first ever race win in the championship, winning theZandvoort sprint race, where no points were awarded due to less than two racing laps being completed.Clément Novalak also took his first ever victory in Formula 2 at Zandvoort.
2023 was the final season using theDallara F2 2018 chassis which debuted in the2018 season.[1] Starting in2024, a new chassis will be introduced.[2]
The following teams and drivers were under contract to compete in the 2023 Formula 2 Championship.[3] As the championship was aspec series, all teams competed with an identicalDallara F2 2018 chassis with aV6 turbo engine developed byMecachrome. All teams competed with tyres supplied byPirelli.[4]
| Entrant | No. | Driver name | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|
 MP Motorsport | 1 |  Dennis Hauger | All |
| 2 |  Jehan Daruvala | 1–12 | |
 Franco Colapinto | 13 | ||
 Rodin Carlin | 3 |  Zane Maloney | All |
| 4 |  Enzo Fittipaldi | All | |
 ART Grand Prix | 5 | Théo Pourchaire | All |
| 6 | Victor Martins | All | |
 Prema Racing | 7 |  Frederik Vesti | All |
| 8 | Oliver Bearman | All | |
| Hitech Pulse-Eight | 9 |  Jak Crawford | All |
| 10 | Isack Hadjar | All | |
| DAMS | 11 |  Ayumu Iwasa | All |
| 12 |  Arthur Leclerc | All | |
| Invicta Virtuosi Racing | 14 |  Jack Doohan | All |
| 15 |  Amaury Cordeel | All | |
 PHM Racing byCharouz (1–12)PHM Racing (13)[5] | 16 |  Roy Nissany | All |
| 17 | Brad Benavides | 1–9 | |
| Josh Mason | 10–13 | ||
| Trident | 20 |  Roman Staněk | All |
| 21 | Clément Novalak | 1–12 | |
 Paul Aron | 13 | ||
| Van Amersfoort Racing | 22 | Richard Verschoor | All |
| 23 | Juan Manuel Correa | All | |
 Campos Racing | 24 | Kush Maini | All |
| 25 |  Ralph Boschung | All | |
| Source:[4] | |||
GermanFormula 4 teamPHM Racing took over the entry and assets ofCharouz Racing System at the end of the 2022 season, and ran in cooperation with the Czech squad under thePHM Racing by Charouz moniker.[6]
Carlin competed under new ownership in 2023. The New Zealand-based car manufacturer Rodin Cars became majority shareholder of the team. With that, the team's name changed to Rodin Carlin.[7]
Hitech partnered with hardware companyPulse-Eight during the off-season, changing the official name of the team to Hitech Pulse-Eight.[8]
Virtuosi Racing and theInvicta Watch Group announced a multi-year strategic partnership which saw the name of the team change to Invicta Virtuosi Racing.[9]
PHM Racing parted ways withCharouz Racing System starting from round 13, losing its support from the Czech team. From then on, the team operated independently of them.
Reigning Teams' ChampionsMP Motorsport started the season with a completely new driver lineup: Reigning Formula 2 ChampionFelipe Drugovich left the series, whilstClément Novalak left the team, finishing fourteenth with them in last year's Drivers' Championship. The team opted for the two drivers who competed for Prema Racing last season:2021 FIA Formula 3 ChampionDennis Hauger, who came tenth with Prema in his rookie season, andJehan Daruvala, who came seventh and embarked on his fourth season in the championship.[10][11]
Rodin Carlin saw both their drivers departing the championship, withLogan Sargeant graduating to Formula One withWilliams Racing andLiam Lawson moving to theSuper Formula Championship to compete withRed Bull-affiliatedTeam Mugen.[12][13] The driver line-up consisted of twoRed Bull Junior Team drivers in 2023:Enzo Fittipaldi moved over from Charouz Racing System andZane Maloney embarked on his first full Formula 2 season after debuting in the 2022 finale withTrident.[14]
ART Grand Prix driverFrederik Vesti left the team and joinedPrema Racing.[15]Victor Martins replaced him, stepping up to ART's Formula 2 squad after winning the2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship with the same team.[16]
Prema Racing replaced their MP-bound driver pairing of Dennis Hauger and Jehan Daruvala withFerrari Driver Academy memberOliver Bearman, who finished third in the2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship standings, andFrederik Vesti, who returned to Prema Racing after finishing ninth in the standings as a rookie in Formula 2 withART Grand Prix.[15][17]
Hitech Pulse-Eight was another team having a Red Bull junior driver lineup in 2023. The team signedIsack Hadjar, who came fourth in FIA Formula 3 in 2022 with the same outfit, andJak Crawford, who returned to Hitech after last competing for them in the2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship and coming seventh with Prema Racing in FIA Formula 3 in 2022.[18]Marcus Armstrong left the series after three seasons and moved toChip Ganassi Racing inIndyCar.[19]
DAMS signedFerrari Driver Academy memberArthur Leclerc, who stepped up to Formula 2 after two seasons in FIA Formula 3 with Prema Racing, with a best result of sixth in the Driver's Standings.[20] He replacedRoy Nissany.
Invicta Virtuosi Racing did not rehireMarino Sato and instead signedAmaury Cordeel, who came 17th in his debut Formula 2 season withVan Amersfoort Racing in 2022.[21] Sato left the championship to joinUnited Autosports in theEuropean Le Mans Series.[22]
Newly formed teamPHM Racing byCharouz retained none of Charouz's drivers from 2022; Carlin-boundEnzo Fittipaldi was replaced byRoy Nissany who started his fifth Formula 2 season after finishing 19th withDAMS last season. The second seat was filled byBrad Benavides, who graduated from FIA Formula 3 after finishing the 2022 season in 23rd, driving forCarlin.[23]
Trident also replaced both of their drivers:Clément Novalak returned to the team after last competing for the Italian squad in the2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship.[24] He partnersRoman Staněk, who graduated from FIA Formula 3, finishing fifth in last year's standings, also driving for Trident.[25]Calan Williams left the series and joined WRT in theGT World Challenge Europe, whileRichard Verschoor joinedVan Amersfoort Racing for his third season.[26][27]
Partnering Verschoor at Van Amersfoort Racing wasJuan Manuel Correa, who made his full-time return to the championship after his injury in the crash which tookAnthoine Hubert's life in2019.[28] The pair replaced Jake Hughes, who left the series to joinMcLaren for the2022–23 Formula E World Championship after already ending his 2022 campaign early to focus on securing a seat inFormula E, and Virtuosi-bound Cordeel.[29]
Campos Racing'sOlli Caldwell moved toendurance racing to compete with theAlpine Elf Matmut team in theLMP2 class of theFIA World Endurance Championship.[30] His seat was filled byKush Maini who moved up to Formula 2 after a single year of FIA Formula 3, in which he came 14th.[31]
Euroformula Open driverJosh Mason replacedBrad Benavides at PHM Racing by Charouz from the round at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps onwards.[32]
Two drivers made their debut in the final round at Yas Marina Circuit.Franco Colapinto replacedJehan Daruvala atMP Motorsport ahead of a full-time graduation in 2024, whilePaul Aron joinedTrident, replacingClément Novalak.[33][34]
| Round | Circuit | Sprint race | Feature race |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bahrain International Circuit,Sakhir | 4 March | 5 March |
| 2 |  Jeddah Corniche Circuit,Jeddah | 18 March | 19 March |
| 3 | Albert Park Circuit,Melbourne | 1 April | 2 April |
| 4 |  Baku City Circuit,Baku | 29 April | 30 April |
| 5 | Circuit de Monaco,Monaco | 27 May | 28 May |
| 6 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya,Montmeló | 3 June | 4 June |
| 7 |  Red Bull Ring,Spielberg | 1 July | 2 July |
| 8 | Silverstone Circuit,Silverstone | 8 July | 9 July |
| 9 |  Hungaroring,Mogyoród | 22 July | 23 July |
| 10 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps,Stavelot | 29 July | 30 July |
| 11 | Circuit Zandvoort,Zandvoort | 26 August | 27 August |
| 12 | Monza Circuit,Monza | 2 September | 3 September |
| 13 |  Yas Marina Circuit,Abu Dhabi | 25 November | 26 November |
| Source:[35] | |||
The first feature race pole position of the season was claimed by ART Grand Prix driverThéo Pourchaire in qualifying at theBahrain International Circuit.Campos Racing'sRalph Boschung started first in the reverse-grid sprint race, having qualified tenth. Boschung held the lead for the entire race, finishing ahead of second-placedDennis Hauger, who had started sixth. This marked Boschung's first race win since entering the category in2017.
Collisions on the opening lap of the feature race necessitated the deployment of the safety car and eliminatedFrederik Vesti,Victor Martins andRoman Staněk from the race, whilst Boschung took advantage of the retirements to improve from tenth at the start to second place by lap four, a position he kept for the remainder of the race.Zane Maloney, who had started eighteenth, made numerous overtakes in the closing laps to complete the podium in third place. Pole-sitter Pourchaire won the race to claim his sixth victory in Formula 2 and the lead of the Drivers' Championship, four points ahead of Boschung.
ART Grand Prix's Victor Martins qualified fastest at theJeddah Corniche Circuit with Hitech Pulse-Eight driverJak Crawford starting first in the sprint race. Crawford lost the lead toDAMS driverAyumu Iwasa on the second lap and would ultimately drop outside of the points positions by the end of the race. The safety car was deployed twice, firstly when Zane Maloney spun and stalled on track and secondly when championship leader Pourchaire collided withOliver Bearman during a botched overtake attempt. Iwasa took the victory, his third in Formula 2, having fought off challenges for the lead from Martins, who started tenth, andJehan Daruvala.
Pole-sitter Martins lost the lead of the feature race to Bearman immediately at the start. Sixth-place Frederik Vesti gained two places at the start and gained third place fromJack Doohan during the pit stops. Bearman and Martins continued to fight for the lead and Martins reclaimed the position on lap eleven; the battle soon allowed Vesti to gain second place from Bearman, who spun a few laps later and would ultimately finish tenth. Martins then spun and was unable to restart his car, allowing Vesti to claim his second Formula 2 race win. Round 2 ended with Ralph Boschung leading the Drivers' Championship by one point over Pourchaire.
Ayumu Iwasa set the fastest time in a rain-affected qualifying session at theAlbert Park Circuit. Dennis Hauger was on pole position for the sprint race, whichEnzo Fittipaldi and championship leader Boschung failed to start after accidents on the way to the grid. Hauger kept the lead at the start despite challenges from second-placed Jak Crawford. The safety car was deployed with eight laps remaining to recover Jack Doohan's car, which had stalled after being spun round. Rain now began to fall and some, including both ART Grand Prix drivers, opted to switch to wet-weather tyres. The safety car period was extended whenBrad Benavides crashed, leaving only two racing laps at the end and preventing the wet tyre runners from having time to recover positions. Hauger claimed victory, his third in the category.
Pole-sitter Iwasa, Théo Pourchaire and Victor Martins held their positions in the top three at the start of the feature race. Jack Doohan and Jak Crawford collided whilst battling for tenth place, beaching Crawford in the gravel and bringing out the safety car on lap seven. Drivers who started on the soft-compound tyre used this opportunity to make their pit stops.Isack Hadjar and Oliver Bearman collided in the pit lane, and despite both exiting the pits ahead of Martins, Bearman received a puncture and was forced to pit again and Hadjar later lost positions after contact with Pourchaire. The safety car was deployed for a second time with seven laps remaining whenRoy Nissany crashed. Enzo Fittipaldi then crashed on the same piece of track, narrowly missing Nissany's stationary car. Martins collided with Dennis Hauger shortly before racing resumed, dropping both to the back of the field and allowingArthur Leclerc to complete the podium behind Iwasa and Pourchaire. With his second race win of the year, Iwasa took the lead of the Drivers' Championship by eight points over Pourchaire.
Oliver Bearman took pole position for the feature race in qualifying at theBaku City Circuit.Richard Verschoor claimed reverse-grid pole for the sprint race. Verschoor and Zane Maloney made contact at the exit of the first turn which gave Verschoor front wing damage and Maloney a puncture, ultimately causing both drivers to retire. This promoted Dennis Hauger, who had made up places from sixth on the grid, into the lead. The race was interrupted by two safety car periods as Ralph Boschung and Roy Nissany were involved in separate incidents. As racing resumed with three laps remaining, six drivers failed to make the first corner, either hitting the wall or running wide and stopping. This included leader Hauger and second-placed Victor Martins. Frederik Vesti inherited the lead, but was overtaken by teammate Bearman seconds before the safety car was deployed, under which the race ended. Bearman had started from ninth on the grid and claimed his first win and podium finish in Formula 2.
In the early laps of the feature race, pole-sitter Bearman traded the lead with Théo Pourchaire, who had started third and passed Enzo Fittipaldi for second. Bearman reclaimed the lead and held the position through the pit stops to take both race wins of the round. Fittipaldi re-passed Pourchaire in the closing laps, with the two drivers completing the podium. Championship leader Ayumu Iwasa failed to score points in Azerbaijan, dropping him to third place in the standings. With his podium finish, Pourchaire reclaimed the championship lead, three points ahead of Vesti, who finished fourth in the feature race.
Frederik Vesti set the fastest time in qualifying at theCircuit de Monaco to claim feature race pole position. Isack Hadjar started the sprint race from first place, and maintained his lead at the race start.Kush Maini was spun around byClément Novalak on the first lap, forcing drivers behind to stop on track. This resulted in the retirements of Ralph Boschung and Roy Nissany and brought out the first safety car. As racing resumed, leader Hadjar slowed and later retired with engine problems, allowing Ayumu Iwasa into the lead. Despite challenges from Jehan Daruvala and a second safety car due toAmaury Cordeel's crash, Iwasa maintained the lead to win for the third time in 2023.
Vesti, Martins and Pourchaire maintained their top three positions at the start of the feature race. Fourth-placed Jack Doohan crashed on lap 24, bringing out the safety car and subsequently thered flags to replace a section of barrier. The race resumed with a rolling start. Dennis Hauger and Roman Staněk were able to make their mandatory tyre change during the red flag, promoting them from their positions towards the back of the grid into the top ten. Shortly after the restart, second-placed Martins was issued a drive-through penalty for failing to slow sufficiently foryellow flags, promoting Zane Maloney to third place behind Pourchaire. Vesti took his second win of the season and claimed the lead of the Drivers' Championship, five points clear of Pourchaire.
Oliver Bearman claimed his second feature race pole position in qualifying at theCircuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Amaury Cordeel started the reverse-grid sprint race from pole position, which began with a rolling start due to wet conditions. On the opening lap, Frederik Vesti and Jak Crawford made contact battling for second place, sending Crawford into retirement. Vesti soon passed Cordeel, who would ultimately drop outside the points positions. The track gradually dried and most drivers opted to change to slick tyres when the safety car was deployed to recoverJuan Manuel Correa's stranded car. Vesti crossed the finish line first to take his third win of the year, followed by championship rival Théo Pourchaire, who had started ninth.
Pole-sitter Bearman resisted challenges for the lead from Enzo Fittipaldi, Ayumu Iwasa and Pourchaire on the opening lap of the feature race. Some drivers including Victor Martins and championship leader Vesti, who started seventh and eighth respectively, elected to start on the harder compound of tyres and run long. In the closing laps, their new softer tyres and the traffic encountered by their rivals allowed them to gain positions, with Martins finishing on the podium. Bearman and Fittipaldi quickly overtook multiple drivers after pitting and were able to hold their positions, with Bearman taking his third victory of the year. Vesti finished fifth to extend his championship lead over Pourchaire to 11 points.
Victor Martins achieved his second feature race pole position of the season at theRed Bull Ring. Jak Crawford started from pole in the sprint race, which began in damp conditions; some drivers started on wet-weather tyres and some, including Crawford, on slicks. The cars on wet tyres had the advantage on the opening lap and Crawford soon dropped to sixth place, allowing Arthur Leclerc into the lead. Two safety car periods took place in the early laps to recover the cars of Jehan Daruvala and Richard Verschoor, during which the track quickly began drying and the wet tyre runners pitted for slicks. This allowed Crawford to regain the lead and gave an advantage to the original slick runners; Clément Novalak and Isack Hadjar, who started 20th and 21st respectively, finished third and fourth. Crawford held the lead to take his first Formula 2 victory. Novalak was later disqualified for a technical infringement and Hadjar inherited the place on the podium.
Feature race pole-sitter Martins had a poor start and dropped behind Frederik Vesti and Théo Pourchaire off the start line. Vesti kept the net race lead after the drivers running the softer tyres at the start had made their pit stops, and was followed by Jack Doohan, who had made up places. With 12 laps remaining, the safety car was deployed to recover Leclerc's stranded car, whose wheel had detached. This allowed the drivers running the harder tyres to gain an advantage by making their pit stops. This included Verschoor and Ayumu Iwasa, who used their fresh tyres to pass Vesti and Doohan for the top two positions, having started 11th and 16th, respectively. Verschoor's victory was the first for Van Amersfoort Racing in Formula 2. Vesti's podium finish increased his championship lead to 20 points over Pourchaire. Verschoor dedicated his third victory in his career to his deceased countrymanDilano van 't Hoff, who lost his life the day before during aFRECA race after a collision with three other drivers in wet conditions atCircuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
Victor Martins set the fastest qualifying time atSilverstone Circuit, his third pole position of the year. The sprint race began with championship leader Vesti at the front of a rolling start in wet conditions. Racing was interrupted when Brad Benavides and Clément Novalak collided, sending Benavides into the barriers. Oliver Bearman, who started fifth, quickly made overtakes and improved to second, but a spin dropped him outside the podium positions. Isack Hadjar then spent much of the race in second place but fell back in the closing laps. Vesti led the entire race distance to take his fourth win of the season.
Martins and Ayumu Iwasa traded the lead at the start of the feature race. Martins reclaimed the position later in the lap and soon built a gap to second place. A safety car deployment on lap seven, to recover the stalled car of Amaury Cordeel, prompted the soft tyre runners to make their pit stops. Racing was paused again almost immediately after the restart when a collision involving Dennis Hauger, Roman Staněk and Frederik Vesti eliminated the latter two. Soon after racing resumed, Martins was issued a five-second time penalty as his lap one pass on Iwasa was judged to have been performed off-track. Later in the race, a crash between teammates Kush Maini and Ralph Boschung caused the safety car to be deployed for a third time, and the hard tyre runners responded by making their pit stops. Arthur Leclerc used his new soft tyres to improve to third place, but was unable to overtake Zane Maloney and his tyre advantage soon faded. Martins was able to extend his lead to seven seconds over Maloney, keeping his position despite his penalty and taking his first Formula 2 race win. Théo Pourchaire's podium finish and Vesti's retirement resulted in Vesti's lead in the championship being cut to six points at the conclusion of the round.
Feature race pole position at theHungaroring was taken by Jack Doohan, his first of the season and his fourth in Formula 2. Kush Maini started from the front in the sprint race, but lost the lead to Dennis Hauger at the first turn and was passed by Ayumu Iwasa shortly afterwards. Hauger led the rest of the race to win for the second time in 2023. Maini held third place for much of the race but lost the podium position to Théo Pourchaire, who was himself soon passed by Oliver Bearman.
Doohan led the entirety of the feature race and claimed the fastest lap for his first victory of the year. He was followed by championship leader Vesti, who had passed Victor Martins for second place on the opening lap. Vesti's podium extended his lead in the standings to 11 points over Pourchaire, who had challenged Martins for the podium in the feature race but ultimately dropped to sixth place.
Prema Racing claimed a 1–2 in qualifying at theCircuit de Spa-Francorchamps; Oliver Bearman achieved his third pole of the year followed by Vesti in second. Jehan Daruvala started in first place for the sprint race, but was forced to retire in the early laps when his headrest loosened and fell out of the car, handing the lead to Richard Verschoor. In the closing laps, Enzo Fittipaldi caught up to Verschoor and passed him to achieve his first victory in the championship. Verschoor was later disqualified from the results for using a non-approved throttle map.[41]
Polesitter Bearman maintained his lead at the beginning of the feature race. First-lap contact between Ayumu Iwasa and Dennis Hauger ended both drivers' races and brought out the safety car; Iwasa retired with damage and Hauger wasblack-flagged for receiving apush start from themarshals. Race leaders Bearman and Pourchaire pitted together with ten laps remaining. ART Grand Prix performed the quicker pit stop and Pourchaire rejoined the track ahead of Bearman. The safety car was deployed shortly after to recover the car of Jak Crawford, which had stalled after contact with Juan Manuel Correa. Jack Doohan, who had started 11th on the harder tyre compound and now led the race after others had pitted, made his own pit stop for softer tyres and emerged closely behind Pourchaire in second place. Doohan overtook Pourchaire with two laps remaining to take his second victory of the season. Fittipaldi inherited the final podium place after Bearman and Victor Martins both received time penalties. Pourchaire's podium finish promoted him to the lead of the Drivers' Championship, 12 points ahead of Vesti, who had qualified second but failed to start the feature race after crashing on his way to the grid.
Jak Crawford claimed pole position atCircuit Zandvoort in a qualifying session interrupted by red flags. Pourchaire was due to start the sprint race from first place, but mechanical issues prior to the start forced him to start from the pit lane. Isack Hadjar instead led a rolling start in wet conditions. A first-lap collision involving Crawford, Kush Maini and Ralph Boschung brought out the red flags. The race was resumed behind the safety car, but the poor weather conditions were judged to be too unsafe and the race was red-flagged and not restarted. As two laps of racing had not occurred, no points were awarded.
Crawford led a rolling start for the feature race on a damp track. Frontrunners Vesti, Doohan and Bearman spun on the opening lap and Martins took to the gravel to avoid collisions. Doohan's spin caused his retirement before he could cross the start line. Ayumu Iwasa then collided with Kush Maini as racing resumed, dropping him down the field. This left sixth-placed Pourchaire as the only title contender near the front. He made his pit stop a lap later than most of the drivers ahead and emerged in front of all of them, including Crawford, but crashed out of the race shortly afterwards. Clément Novalak, who started 13th and now led the race by virtue of having not made a pit stop, entered the pit lane seconds before the deployment of the safety car and retained his lead upon exiting.[42] Vesti, who had recovered to the points positions, then retired under safety car conditions when both his rear wheels detached having been fitted improperly during his pit stop. Martins and Bearman, who had also recovered to the top ten, collided at the restart, ending Bearman's race and earning Martins a penalty. Zane Maloney then passed Crawford for second place but was unable to catch Novalak, who claimed his first Formula 2 victory. The top four drivers in the standings all failed to score points at Zandvoort, leaving Pourchaire's lead at 12 points over Vesti.
Championship leader Pourchaire took feature race pole atMonza Circuit and Ralph Boschung started first in the sprint race. A first-corner mistake from Boschung allowed third-placed starter Vesti into the lead. The safety car was called shortly afterwards to recover Amaury Cordeel's car after he spun and stalled on track. Victor Martins, who started sixth, made overtakes and took second place from Richard Verschoor before the second safety car was deployed to clear Roy Nissany's stalled car. Martins attacked Vesti at the restart setting a string of fastest laps but Vesti held off theART driver to claim his fifth win of the season with Verschoor taking third place. Championship leader Théo Pourchaire finished fourth leaving the gap between him and Vesti at nine points.
In the opening lap of the feature race, Oliver Bearman took the lead from pole-sitter Pourchaire, while Vesti was eliminated in a crash after being forced off-track by Roman Staněk. Arthur Leclerc spun and stalled on lap seven, causing another safety car, during which the drivers on the softer tyre compound (all but four) made pit stops. At the restart, contact from Nissany on the pit straight caused Zane Maloney to crash at high-speed, resulting in a third safety car. A collision between Kush Maini and Jak Crawford brought out a fourth safety car with seven laps remaining, allowing the drivers who had not yet made pit stops to do so without disadvantage. One of these drivers, Ayumu Iwasa, emerged in third place and passed Pourchaire for second before the race ended under a fifth safety car when Crawford stopped close to the track. Pourchaire's podium finish and Vesti's retirement meant Pourchaire ended the penultimate round with a 25-point lead in the championship.
Jack Doohan claimed the final pole position of the season atYas Marina Circuit. This meant that Ayumu Iwasa was eliminated from championship contention whilst remaining contenders Vesti and Pourchaire qualified ninth and 14th respectively. Enzo Fittipaldi started the sprint race from first place and battled for the lead with Vesti, Richard Verschoor and Isack Hadjar on the opening lap. Fittipaldi regained the position and Vesti dropped to fourth place. Vesti later overtook Verschoor and Hadjar and passed Fittipaldi with three laps remaining to claim his sixth victory of the year. Pourchaire gained seven places in the race and scored points, but Vesti's victory closed the gap to 16 points between the two going into the final race.
Doohan led the feature race from pole position as Vesti and Pourchaire gained places before the first round of pit stops. The two drivers ran on alternate tyre strategies; Pourchaire pitted first and Vesti did so later in the race. Vesti emerged from the pits in seventh place behind Pourchaire and the two traded positions a number of times in the following laps. Vesti, with the fresher tyres, ultimately stayed ahead and went on to finish third despite a final-lap collision with Zane Maloney. Doohan won his third race of the season, promoting him to third in the Drivers' Championship in front of Iwasa.
Pourchaire finished fifth, which was enough to win the championship by 11 points over Vesti. He became the first ART Grand Prix driver to win the championship sinceNyck de Vries in2019. The feature race result also allowed ART Grand Prix to clinch their first Teams' Championship title in Formula 2, and their first in the second tier since winning theGP2 Series in2015.
Points were awarded to the top eight classified finishers in the sprint race, and to the top ten classified finishers in the feature race. The pole-sitter in the feature race also received two points, and one point was 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 was classified outside the top ten, the point was given to the driver who set the fastest lap of those inside the top ten. No extra points were awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race as the grid for it was set by reversing the top ten qualifiers.[44]
Points were awarded to the top eight classified finishers, excluding the fastest lap point which was given to the top ten classified finishers.[44]
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | FL |
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| Points | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers. Bonus points were awarded to the pole-sitter and to the driver who set the fastest lap and finished in the top ten.[44]
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole | FL |
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| Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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