Formula 2 to go pre-season testing in Barcelona ahead of 2025 campaign! Official F1 Journal FIA Formula 2 pre-season testing preview

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FIA Formula 2 is back for 2025 and is set for another enthralling season of action, as this coming week the championship goes pre-season testing in Barcelona.

A three-day test awaits for the fully confirmed 2025 FIA Formula 2 grid that will take part during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as the new and returning stars will be building up to the 14-round season.

All 11 teams and 22 drivers will be hoping to get some good preparation in, during the pre-season testing, to give themselves the best chance at competing for the season ahead. All 22 drivers set to participate in pre-season testing are confirmed with their teams.

Pre-season testing for the 2025 FIA Formula 2 campaign will take place at a familiar venue, in the Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya, which has been a familiar venue for racing throughout the history of the FIA Formula 2 Championship.

The drivers and teams will go pre-season testing around the circuit with 14 corners and a total lap distance of 4.657km and has undergone a layout change since the first Formula 2 racing round at the venue, in 2017.

DRS zones around the Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya amount to two, and they are on the start/finish straight into turn 1 and down into turn 10.

There will be six sessions across the pre-season testing in total, with three morning sessions and three afternoon sessions to look forward to and to utilise for the drivers and teams.

All 11 teams will be fielding their 2025 driver lineups with a vast amount of experience and rookies making up the 2025 grid and the 22 drivers within it.

The driver lineups participating across the three days are as follows:

Invicta Racing
  1. Leonardo Fornaroli (Italy)
  2. Roman Stanek (Czech Republic)

Campos Racing
  3. Josep 'Pepe' Maria Marti (Spain)
  4. Arvid Lindblad (Great Britain)

MP Motorsport
  5. Oliver Goethe (Germany)
  6. Richard Verschoor (Netherlands)

Hitech TGR
  7. Luke Browning (Great Britain)
  8. Dino Beganovic (Sweden)

Prema Racing
  9. Sebastian Montoya (Colombia)
  10. Gabriele Mini (Italy)

DAMS Lucas Oil
  11. Jak Crawford (United States)
  12. Kush Maini (India)

ART Grand Prix
  14. Victor Martins (France)
  15. Ritomo Miyata (Japan)

Rodin Motorsport
  16. Christian Mansell (Australia)
  17. Alex Dunne (Republic of Ireland)

AIX Racing
  20. Joshua Durksen (Paraguay)
  21. Cian Shields (Great Britain)

Trident
  22. Sami Meguetounif (France)
  23. Max Esterson (United States)

Van Amersfoort Racing 
  24. John Bennett (Great Britain)
  25. Rafael Villagomez (Mexico)

Brandon Whiteside
​Writer - F1 Journal