The 2024 FIA Formula 2 Championship is a planned motor racing championship for Formula 2 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship will be the fifty-eighth season of Formula 2 racing and the eighth season run under the FIA Formula 2 Championship moniker. It is an open-wheel racing category serving as the second tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category will be run in support of selected rounds of the 2024 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 2024 season will see the debut of a new chassis and engine package.[1]

ART Grand Prix will enter the season as the reigning team champions, having secured their title at the final race of the 2023 season in Abu Dhabi.

Entries

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2024 Formula 2 Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams will compete with an identical chassis with a V6 turbo engine developed by Mecachrome. All teams will compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli.

Entrant No. Driver name Rounds
France ART Grand Prix 1 TBA TBC
2 United Kingdom Zak O'Sullivan TBC
Italy Prema Racing 3 United Kingdom Oliver Bearman TBC
4 Italy Andrea Kimi Antonelli TBC
United Kingdom Rodin Motorsport 5 Barbados Zane Maloney TBC
6 Japan Ritomo Miyata TBC
France DAMS 7 United States Jak Crawford TBC
8 United States Juan Manuel Correa TBC
United Kingdom Invicta Racing 9 India Kush Maini TBC
10 Brazil Gabriel Bortoleto TBC
Netherlands MP Motorsport 11 Norway Dennis Hauger TBC
12 Argentina Franco Colapinto TBC
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 14 TBA TBC
15 Brazil Enzo Fittipaldi TBC
United Kingdom Hitech Pulse-Eight 16 Estonia Paul Aron TBC
17 Belgium Amaury Cordeel TBC
Spain Campos Racing 20 France Isack Hadjar TBC
21 Spain Pepe Martí TBC
Italy Trident 22 Netherlands Richard Verschoor TBC
23 TBA TBC
Germany PHM AIX Racing 24 Paraguay Joshua Dürksen TBC
25 TBA TBC
Source: [2]

Team changes

Following the partnership that saw Invicta Watch Group become Virtuosi Racing's title sponsor in 2023, the company purchased an ownership stake in the team and entered the 2024 season under the Invicta Racing guise.[3]

After Rodin Cars became Carlin's majority shareholder in 2023 and rebranded it as Rodin Carlin, the Carlin family departed the team, with Rodin taking full ownership and renaming the team Rodin Motorsport.[4]

Ahead of the season, PHM Racing also announced the AIX Investment Group as a new title sponsor, changing the team's name to PHM AIX Racing.[5]

Driver changes

Reigning champion Théo Pourchaire left ART Grand Prix and the series, moving to Japan to compete in the Super Formula Championship with Team Impul.[6] Williams Driver Academy member Zak O'Sullivan will replace him, having finished second in the previous year's FIA Formula 3 season.[7]

Frederik Vesti left Prema Racing after becoming the vice-champion the previous year. He will join Cool Racing to compete in the LMP2 class of the European Le Mans Series and will be replaced by Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who secured the Formula Regional European Championship title in 2023.[8][9]

Rodin Motorsport will replace VAR-bound Enzo Fittipaldi with reigning Super Formula Champion Ritomo Miyata, who switched to racing in Europe to prepare for his endurance racing efforts with Toyota.[10][11]

DAMS will field an all-American driver lineup in 2024, after both Ayumu Iwasa and Arthur Leclerc left the team, with the former returning to Japan to compete in Super Formula with Team Mugen.[12] The team signed Jak Crawford, who will move over from Hitech Pulse-Eight after coming 13th in the championship in 2023, and Juan Manuel Correa, who will leave Van Amersfoort Racing after coming 19th in his first year since returning after his accident in 2019.[13][14]

Invicta Racing will have an all-new driver lineup, after Amaury Cordeel and Jack Doohan departed the team, with the former joining Hitech Pulse-Eight.[15] Their lineup will consist of reigning FIA Formula 3 champion and McLaren junior Gabriel Bortoleto, partnered by Alpine junior Kush Maini, who switches from Campos Racing after coming eleventh with the team last season.[16]

Williams Driver Academy member Franco Colapinto, who graduates from FIA Formula 3 after coming fourth with the team in 2023 and debuting in the final round of last year's Formula 2 season, joins MP Motorsport for the full season.[17] He replaces Jehan Daruvala, who left the series after four seasons to join Maserati MSG Racing for Season 10 of the Formula E World Championship having already ended his 2023 campaign early.[18]

Van Amersfoort Racing signed Enzo Fittipaldi, who leaves Rodin to embark on his third full season in the championship, to replace DAMS-bound Juan Manuel Correa.[10][14]

Hitech Pulse-Eight saw both their drivers switch teams, with Jak Crawford joining DAMS and Isack Hadjar switching to Campos Racing.[13][19] They will be replaced by Paul Aron, who already made his debut at the final round of 2023 with Trident, and Amaury Cordeel, who will leave Invicta Racing to embark on his third season in the championship.[15]

Campos Racing will have an all-Red Bull junior lineup in 2024. Ralph Boschung and Invicta-bound Kush Maini will be replaced by Pepe Martí, who graduates from the outfit's Formula 3 team after coming fifth in 2023, and Isack Hadjar, who moves over from Hitech Pulse-Eight after coming 14th in 2023.[16][19]

Richard Verschoor returned to Trident for his fourth campaign in the championship after last racing for the team during the 2022 season.[20]

PHM AIX Racing signed Joshua Dürksen, who will step up to Formula 2 after two seasons in the Formula Regional European Championship, where he took one podium.[21]

Race calendar

Round Circuit Sprint race Feature race
1 Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir 1 March 2 March
2 Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Jeddah 8 March 9 March
3 Australia Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne 23 March 24 March
4 Italy Imola Circuit, Imola 18 May 19 May
5 Monaco Circuit de Monaco, Monaco 25 May 26 May
6 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 22 June 23 June
7 Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 29 June 30 June
8 United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone 6 July 7 July
9 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród 20 July 21 July
10 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot 27 July 28 July
11 Italy Monza Circuit, Monza 31 August 1 September
12 Azerbaijan Baku City Circuit, Baku 14 September 15 September
13 Qatar Lusail International Circuit, Lusail 30 November 1 December
14 United Arab Emirates Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi 7 December 8 December
Source:[22]

Calendar changes

Regulation changes

Technical regulations

  • The season will see the introduction of a brand new chassis and engine package. The Dallara F2 2018 chassis, which had been used by Formula 2 since 2018 season, will be replaced by a new chassis adapted to the current concept of a Formula One car. Like last season, a turbocharged 3.4-litre V6 Mecachrome engine will be used, albeit being an evolution of the previous one.[24]
  • Formula 2 ran with 55% sustainable fuel supplied by Aramco in 2023.[25] An increase in sustainability is planned for 2024 to continue working towards usage of a 100% sustainable fuel by 2027.[26]

Sporting regulations

From this season new rules will be brought in both the Formula 2 and Formula 3 championships in order to try and prevent drivers benefitting from causing red flags during qualifying sessions. Thus, if stewards deem a driver to be the sole cause for the issuing of a red flag, then the driver responsible will have their fastest lap time of that session deleted as well as being prevented from taking any further part in that session.[27]

References

  1. ↑ Wood, Ida (27 April 2022). "New Cars For Formula 2 and Formula 3 From 2024". raceweek.com.au. raceweek.com.au. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  2. ↑ "Teams & Drivers - Formula 2". FIA_F2® - The Official F2® Website. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  3. ↑ White, Megan (20 December 2023). "Invicta Watch Group buys ownership stake in Virtuosi Racing". Autosport. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Leading junior motorsport team Rodin Carlin to rebrand as Rodin Motorsport". Rodin Motorsport. 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Overkamp, Marc (10 January 2024). "PHM Racing becomes PHM AIX Racing". PHM AIX Racing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  6. ↑ CORPORATION, TOYOTA MOTOR. "TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Presents its 2024 motorsport team setups in Japan | PRESS RELEASE". TOYOTA GAZOO Racing. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "Zak O'Sullivan makes the move to Formula 2". Williams Racing. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  8. ↑ "Andrea Kimi Antonelli Moves Up to Formula 2 for 2024". mercedesamgf1.com. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  9. ↑ Klein, Jamie (11 January 2024). "Vesti, Habsburg Added to Second Cool LMP2 Entry – Sportscar365". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  10. 1 2 Wood, Ida (7 December 2023). "Enzo Fittipaldi joins Van Amersfoort Racing for fourth year in F2". Formula Scout. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  11. ↑ Wood, Ida (28 November 2023). "Zane Maloney joined by Ritomo Miyata at Carlin for 2024 F2 season". Formula Scout. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  12. ↑ "Red Bull junior Iwasa gets 2024 Mugen Super Formula seat". motorsport.com. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  13. 1 2 Wood, Ida (27 November 2023). "Jak Crawford moves to DAMS for second Formula 2 season". Formula Scout. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  14. 1 2 Wood, Ida (21 December 2023). "Juan Manuel Correa moves to DAMS in F2". Formula Scout. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  15. 1 2 Wood, Ida (30 November 2023). "Hitech GP signs Paul Aron and Amaury Cordeel for 2024 F2". Formula Scout. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  16. 1 2 Racing, Virtuosi (27 November 2023). "Invicta Virtuosi Racing announces its 2024 Formula 2 line-up". Virtuosi Racing. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  17. ↑ "Franco Colapinto steps up to Formula 2". Williams Racing. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  18. ↑ "Maserati MSG Racing reveals Season 10 Formula E driver lineup | Maserati MSG Racing". www.maseratimsgracing.com. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  19. 1 2 Wood, Ida (28 November 2023). "Red Bull juniors Hadjar and Marti form Campos's 2024 F2 line-up". Formula Scout. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  20. ↑ Wood, Ida (20 December 2023). "Verschoor makes a return to Trident for his fourth F2 season". Formula Scout. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  21. ↑ Gascoigne, Roger (10 November 2023). "PHM Racing signs Joshua Duerksen to its F2 line-up for 2024". Formula Scout. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  22. ↑ "FIA Formula 2 Championship 2024 season calendar announced". FIA_F2® - The Official F2® Website. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  23. ↑ "Update on the 2023 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola | Formula 1®". www.formula1.com. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  24. ↑ Wood, Ida (31 August 2023). "Formula 2 unveils its new-for-2024 car designed by Dallara". Formula Scout. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  25. ↑ "Formula 2 and Formula 3 partner with Aramco to pioneer low-carbon fuels from 2023". aramco.com. Aramco. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  26. ↑ "F2, F3 to run with 55% sustainable fuels from 2023 season". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  27. ↑ https://www.racefans.net/2023/12/20/penalties-drivers-cause-red-flags-introduced-f2-f3-before-f1/
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