2023 Formula 2 Championship

The 2023 FIA Formula 2 Championship is a planned motor racing championship for Formula 2 cars that is sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship will be the fifty-seventh season of Formula 2 racing and the seventh 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 will be run in support of selected rounds of the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers that compete in the championship will run the same car, the Dallara F2 2018.

2023 is scheduled to be the final season using the Dallara F2 2018 chassis and Mecachrome V634T 3.4-litre V6 single-turbocharged engine package which débuted in the 2018 season.[1] A brand new chassis and engine package will be introduced for the 2024 season onwards.[2]

MP Motorsport will enter the championship as the reigning teams' champion, having secured their title at the final round of the 2022 season in Abu Dhabi.

Entries

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2023 championship.[3] As the championship is a spec series, all competitors will race with an identical Dallara F2 2018 chassis with a V6 turbo engine developed by Mecachrome. Teams will compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli.

Entrant No. Driver name Rounds
MP Motorsport 1 Dennis Hauger TBC
2 Jehan Daruvala TBC
Rodin Carlin 3 Zane Maloney TBC
4 Enzo Fittipaldi TBC
ART Grand Prix 5 Théo Pourchaire TBC
6 Victor Martins TBC
Prema Racing 7 Frederik Vesti TBC
8 Oliver Bearman TBC
Hitech Pulse-Eight 9 Jak Crawford TBC
10 Isack Hadjar TBC
DAMS 11 Ayumu Iwasa TBC
12 Arthur Leclerc TBC
Virtuosi Racing 14 Jack Doohan TBC
15 Amaury Cordeel TBC
PHM Racing by Charouz 16 Roy Nissany TBC
17 Brad Benavides TBC
Trident 20 Roman Staněk TBC
21 Clément Novalak TBC
Van Amersfoort Racing 22 Richard Verschoor TBC
23 Juan Manuel Correa TBC
Campos Racing 24 Kush Maini TBC
25 Ralph Boschung TBC

Team changes

German Formula 4 team PHM Racing took over the entry and assets of Charouz Racing System at the end of the 2022 season, and is set to run in cooperation with the Czech squad under the PHM Racing by Charouz moniker.[4]

Carlin will compete under new ownership in 2023. The New Zealand-based car manufacturer Rodin Cars became majority shareholder of the team. With that, the team will now be called Rodin Carlin.[5]

Hitech partnered with hardware company Pulse-Eight during the offseason, changing the official name of the team to Hitech Pulse-Eight.[6]

Driver changes

Reigning team champion MP Motorsport debuts a new lineup: Reigning champion Felipe Drugovich leaves the series whilst Clément Novalak leaves the team after coming fourteenth with them. The team signed the driver lineup that competed for Prema Racing in 2022: 2021 FIA Formula 3 champion Dennis Hauger, who came tenth with Prema in his rookie season, and Jehan Daruvala, who came seventh and will embark on his fourth season in the championship.[7][8]

Carlin sees both their drivers departing the championship, with Logan Sargeant graduating to Formula One with Williams and Liam Lawson moving to the Super Formula Championship to compete with Red Bull-affiliated Team Mugen.[9][10] The team will consist of two Red Bull junior drivers in 2023: Enzo Fittipaldi will move over from Charouz and Zane Maloney will embark on his first full-time Formula 2 season after debuting in the 2022 finale with Trident.[11]

ART driver Frederik Vesti will leave the team and join Prema Racing.[12] Replacing him will be Victor Martins, stepping up to ART's Formula 2 squad after winning the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship with the same team.[13]

Prema Racing replaces their MP-bound driver pairing of Dennis Hauger and Jehan Daruvala with Ferrari Driver Academy member Oliver Bearman, who finished third in the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and Frederik Vesti, who returns to Prema after finishing ninth in his rookie season in Formula 2 with ART Grand Prix.[12][14]

Hitech Pulse-Eight is another team that will have an all-Red Bull lineup in 2023. The team signed Isack Hadjar, fourth in FIA Formula 3 in 2022 with the same outfit, and Jak Crawford, returning to Hitech after last competing for them in the 2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship and coming seventh with Prema in F3 in 2022.[15] Marcus Armstrong left the series after three seasons and moved to Chip Ganassi Racing in IndyCar.[16]

DAMS signed Ferrari Driver Academy member Arthur Leclerc, who steps up to Formula 2 after two seasons in FIA Formula 3 with Prema, with a best result of sixth in the standings.[17] He replaces PHM-bound Roy Nissany.

Virtuosi Racing did not rehire Marino Sato and instead signed Amaury Cordeel, who came 17th in his debut Formula 2 season with Van Amersfoort Racing in 2022.[18] Sato will leave the championship to join United Autosports in the European Le Mans Series.[19]

Newly formed team PHM Racing by Charouz retained none of Charouz's drivers; Carlin-bound Enzo Fittipaldi was replaced by Roy Nissany, who will start his fifth Formula 2 season after coming 19th with DAMS last season. The teams' second seat will be filled by Brad Benavides, who graduates from FIA Formula 3 after finishing the 2022 season in 23rd whilst driving for Carlin.[20]

Trident also replaced both their drivers: Clément Novalak returns to the team after last competing for the Italian squad in the 2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship.[21] He partners Roman Staněk, who graduates from Formula 3 finishing fifth in the standings, also driving for Trident.[22] Calan Williams leaves the series and joins WRT in the GT World Challenge Europe, while Richard Verschoor will join Van Amersfoort Racing for his third season.[23][24]

Partnering Verschoor at Van Amersfoort Racing will be Juan Manuel Correa, who will be making his full-time return to the championship after his injury in the crash that took Anthoine Hubert's life in 2019.[25] The pair will replace Jake Hughes, who will leave the series to join McLaren for the 2022-23 Formula E World Championship after already ending his 2022 campaign prematurely to focus on securing a Formula E seat, and Virtuosi-bound Cordeel.[26]

Campos Racing's Olli Caldwell will move to Endurance Racing to compete with the Alpine Elf Endurance team in the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship.[27] His seat will be filled by Kush Maini, who moves up to Formula 2 after a single year of FIA Formula 3 in which he came 14th.[28]

Race calendar
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 Imola Circuit, Imola 20 May 21 May
6 Circuit de Monaco, Monaco 27 May 28 May
7 Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 3 June 4 June
8 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 1 July 2 July
9 Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone 8 July 9 July
10 Hungaroring, Mogyoród 22 July 23 July
11 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot 29 July 30 July
12 Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort 26 August 27 August
13 Monza Circuit, Monza 2 September 3 September
14 Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi 25 November 26 November
Source:[29]

Calendar changes

Regulation changes

Technical regulations

Formula 2 and Formula 3 will run with 55% sustainable fuel in 2023. In a bid to decrease the championships' carbon footprint, an incremental gain in usage is planned until the 2027 season, where usage of 100% sustainable fuel is planned.[32]

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