FORMULA 2
Five points separating the top five ahead of round three! Official F1 Journal Formula 2 preview18/4/2025  Credit: James Sutton FIA Formula 2 returns once again this coming weekend for the second round of the championship's first double header of the 2025 season, coming at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Formula 2 is known for it's cultivating and sheer brilliant drama that it produces every race weekend and once again in 2025 it looks set to be a brilliant championship battle, with following two rounds there are just five points separating the top five in the Drivers' Standings. This will be the third round of the 2025 season following last weekend's round in Bahrain and March's season opener at Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia. They visit the Jeddah Corniche Circuit which has been a staple to the Formula 2 calendar since its entrance to the championship in 2021. Drivers such as Liam Lawson and most famously Oscar Piastri have won here in Formula 2 and now both have seats on the current Formula One grid, with 2021 Formula 2 Champion Piastri three points off the championship lead. Leonardo Fornaroli of Invicta Racing, the reigning Formula 3 champion, leads the championship by a point coming into round three. Luke Browning of Hitech TGR and Alex Dunne of Rodin Motorsport are second and third in the standings respectively and are both just one point off the championship lead. Pepe Marti in fourth and Richard Verschoor in fifth are both within five points and find themselves in a potential fight for the Formula 2 Championship. A look at the track: Jeddah Corniche Circuit - Saudi ArabiaFollowing the brilliant Bahrain International Circuit, which has one of the oldest surfaces out of all tracks in the 2025 calendar, jumping into Jeddah we find one of the newest circuits across the season. The circuit has uniqueness for its many corners, tight twisting and flowing nature making it one of the highest average speeds circuit in the entire calendar. Add in the features of the narrowing street circuit walls and it also becomes one of the most challenging across the campaign. Formula 2 goes racing round the Jeddah Corniche Circuit and for the first time in the history of the championship, it will play host to round three. It has held round two of the championship for the last three seasons consecutively. With the circuit itself having more corners than any other on the calendar (27), the Jeddah Corniche Circuit has a lap distance of 6.174km. 20 laps to come in the Saturday Sprint Race and 28 laps to come in the Sunday Feature Race As has been the same since 2021, this tight circuit has three DRS zones which in theory gives a great prospect for overtaking on this circuit and as we have seen in previous seasons cars can make passes if the drivers are precise enough and close enough to pass. With the street circuit, there is always a threat of a Safety Car or a Red Flag which could be a headache for the strategy teams to keep a lid on due to the unexpected nature of incidents occurring in Jeddah. The lap record around the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, in FIA Formula 2, was set in 2022 by that year's champion Felipe Drugovich for MP Motorsport. His time was a 1:40.422. 2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship: Round 3 - Jeddah Session Times
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 Credit: James Sutton The FIA Formula 2 Championship returns this coming weekend to racing action, for round two of the 2025 season, which is to take place around the Bahrain International Circuit. Formula 2 is very familiar with the Bahrain International Circuit and the circuit has become a staple to the championship calendar. The track has appeared on the Formula 2 calendar every year since Formula 2's inaugural season in 2017. It will be the first time that Formula 2 has gone racing since the season opener down under in Melbourne, Australia back in March. While the action was terrific at Albert Park, Formula 2 will still be looking for its first Feature Race of 2025, after significant weather saw the one in Melbourne cancelled. Formula 2 is not exactly a stranger to the Bahrain International Circuit in recent times, with a three-day test taking place around this circuit between 26-28 March, with the drivers trying to get used to the machinery. The 22-driver and 11-team 2025 Formula 2 grid will go racing around the Bahrain International Circuit, which is situated in the Sakhir desert. The track itself is made up of 15 corners and is made up of 5.412km. Around this circuit, there are plenty of overtaking opportunities with three DRS zones which present great chances for passing into turns one, four and 11. There is opportunity for overtaking in both of this weekend's scheduled races. This coming weekend in Formula 2 the Sprint Race will last 23 laps, whereas, the Feature Race will last 32 laps. In the Feature Race, there will also be a mandatory pit stop to be served during the 32 laps. This is within the Formula 2 regulations should the race be dry - which it is supposed to be. Formula 2 has a lap record around the Bahrain International Circuit which was set in the first visit to the championship made to the venue - back in 2017. That year's champion and current Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Charles Leclerc holds the record, with a lap of 1:38.907. Despite having only one race so far in 2025, the Formula 2 Championship has a championship leader coming into the second round of the season, who is AIX Racing's Paraguayan Joshua Durksen. Durksen picked up where he left off, after ending the 2024 season with victory, by starting the 2025 season with Sprint Race success. In doing so, Durksen becomes the first Paraguayan to ever lead the Formula 2 Championship, as he beat Leonardo Fornaroli and Luke Browning to victory. It will be a proud weekend for the Hitech TGR team as during the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, their driver lineup will participate for two of the 10 teams in Free Practice 1. Browning and his teammate Dino Beganovic will participate for Williams and Scuderia Ferrari respectively. Also, former Formula 2 race winners Ayumu Iwasa and Frederik Vesti will also participate for Red Bull Racing and Mercedes. While at Aston Martin, 2022 Formula 2 Champion Felipe Drugovich will get behind the wheel of Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin. 2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship: Round 2 - Bahrain session times
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