2026 Formula 2 Championship

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The 2026 FIA Formula 2 Championship is a scheduled motor racing championship for Formula 2 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship will be the sixtieth season of Formula 2 racing and the tenth season run under the FIA Formula 2 Championship moniker. Formula 2 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 2026 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 Dallara F2 2024.

Invicta Racing will enter the championship as the reigning Teams' Champions, having secured their title at the final race of the previous season in Abu Dhabi.

Entries

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The following teams and drivers are contracted to compete in the 2026 Formula 2 Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams will compete with an identical Dallara F2 2024 chassis using a V6 turbo engine developed by Mecachrome.[1] All teams will compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli.[2]

Team No. Driver name Rounds
United Kingdom Invicta Racing 1 Brazil Rafael Câmara TBC
2 Paraguay Joshua Dürksen TBC
United Kingdom Hitech TGR 3 United States Colton Herta TBC
4 Japan Ritomo Miyata TBC
Spain Campos Racing 5 Bulgaria Nikola Tsolov TBC
6 Mexico Noel León TBC
France DAMS Lucas Oil 7 Sweden Dino Beganovic TBC
8 Poland Roman Bilinski TBC
Netherlands MP Motorsport 9 Germany Oliver Goethe[3] TBC
10 Italy Gabriele Minì TBC
Italy Prema Racing 11 Spain Mari Boya TBC
12 Colombia Sebastián Montoya[4] TBC
New Zealand Rodin Motorsport 14 Republic of Ireland Alex Dunne[5] TBC
15 Norway Martinius Stenshorne TBC
France ART Grand Prix 16 Thailand Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak TBC
17 India Kush Maini TBC
United Arab Emirates AIX Racing 20 Brazil Emerson Fittipaldi Jr. TBC
21 United Kingdom Cian Shields[6] TBC
Netherlands Van Amersfoort Racing 22 Argentina Nicolás Varrone TBC
23 File:Flag of none.svg TBA TBC
Italy Trident 24 United Kingdom John Bennett TBC
25 Netherlands Laurens van Hoepen TBC

Driver changes

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Reigning teams' champion Invicta Racing will have an all-new driver lineup as reigning driver's champion Leonardo Fornaroli and Roman Staněk will leave the team. Invicta signed 2025 FIA Formula 3 Champion and Ferrari Driver Academy driver Rafael Câmara from Trident, and Joshua Dürksen, who leaves AIX Racing after finishing the 2025 campaign ninth to join the team for his third season in the championship.[7][8]

Hitech TGR saw Dino Beganovic move to DAMS Lucas Oil and Luke Browning leave the team.[9] They signed Cadillac F1 test driver Colton Herta for his Formula 2 debut. He moves over from the IndyCar Series, where he won nine races over eight years and ended the 2025 season in seventh driving for Andretti Global.[10] The team also signed former Super Formula champion Ritomo Miyata, who will embark on his third F2 campaign after coming 17th with ART Grand Prix in 2025.[11]

Campos Racing saw Pepe Martí graduate to Formula E with Cupra Kiro ahead of the penultimate round of the 2025 season, and Arvid Lindblad graduate to Formula One with Racing Bulls.[12][13] 2025 FIA F3 runner-up and Red Bull Junior Team driver Nikola Tsolov, who already replaced Martí for the final two rounds of the 2025 season, will stay with Campos for his full-season graduation.[14] He will be joined by Noel León, who also steps up from FIA F3 after finishing the 2025 FIA F3 season in 17th driving for Prema Racing.[15]

DAMS Lucas Oil will have a new lineup as Kush Maini moves to ART Grand Prix and Jak Crawford will leave the series to join the Aston Martin F1 Team as their third driver.[16] Ferrari Driver Academy member Dino Beganovic returns to the team where he made his F2 debut in 2024 as he departs Hitech TGR, with whom he finished seventh in 2025, and Roman Bilinski will make his series debut after finishing eleventh in FIA F3 with Rodin Motorsport.[9][17]

Richard Verschoor left MP Motorsport after spending five seasons in the category to join Duqueine Team in the European Le Mans Series' LMP2 class.[18][19] His replacement will be Gabriele Minì, who finished his first full season in F2 in 13th driving for Prema Racing.[20]

Prema Racing replaced MP-bound Minì with Aston Martin junior driver Mari Boya, who graduates from FIA F3 after finishing the 2025 season in third with Campos Racing.[21]

Amaury Cordeel will leave Rodin Motorsport. The team signed Martinius Stenshorne for his full-season debut after entering the Baku round of the 2025 season with Trident and already deputised for Cordeel during the final two rounds of 2025. He steps up from FIA F3, where he came fifth in 2025 with Hitech TGR.[22]

ART Grand Prix saw Ritomo Miyata move to Hitech and Victor Martins leave the series. The team signed Thai driver Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak, who finished seventh with Campos Racing in the 2025 FIA F3 season and already made his F2 debut in the 2025 season finale driving for Trident, and Kush Maini, who joins ART for his fourth F2 season after finishing 16th in 2025 with DAMS.[23][24]

Joshua Dürksen will leave AIX Racing after two seasons of driving for the team, to join Invicta Racing.[8] To replace him, AIX signed Emerson Fittipaldi Jr., who steps up from Eurocup-3, where he drove for MP Motorsport.[25]

Van Amersfoort Racing saw John Bennett move to Trident.[26] 2023 FIA WEC LMGTE Am champion and 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Nicolás Varrone, who last competed in single-seaters in the 2020 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, will replace him.[27]

Trident will have an all-new lineup as Max Esterson and Sami Meguetounif, who raced for the majority of 2025, will not return to the series. The team signed John Bennett, who finished his debut F2 season 22nd with Van Amersfoort Racing, and FIA F3 driver Laurens van Hoepen, who came 12th with ART Grand Prix and already raced with Trident for the last 3 rounds of 2025.[26][28]

Race calendar

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Round Circuit Sprint race Feature race
1 Australia Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne 7 March 8 March
2 Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir 11 April 12 April
3 Saudi Arabia Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Jeddah 18 April 19 April
4 Monaco Circuit de Monaco, Monaco 6 June 7 June
5 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló 13 June 14 June
6 Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg 27 June 28 June
7 United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone 4 July 5 July
8 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot 18 July 19 July
9 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród 25 July 26 July
10 Italy Monza Circuit, Monza 5 September 6 September
11 Spain Madring, Madrid 12 September 13 September
12 Azerbaijan Baku City Circuit, Baku 25 September 26 September
13 Qatar Lusail International Circuit, Lusail 28 November 29 November
14 United Arab Emirates Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi 5 December 6 December
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Calendar changes

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  • Formula 2 and Formula 3 followed Formula One in replacing the round at Imola Circuit with a second round in Spain held at the newly-built Madring.[30][31]
  • The round at Baku City Circuit will be held a day earlier in the week than usual, with the sprint race held on Friday and the feature race held on Saturday, to accommodate the country's national day.[32]

Regulation changes

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Technical regulations

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  • 2025 saw the championship use Aramco-supplied fuel containing 70% sustainable components, and a further increase in sustainability is planned for 2026 ahead of the series' goal of adopting fully synthetic fuels in 2027.[33]

Notes

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References

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