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The 2025 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 is the fifty-ninth season of Formula 2 racing and the ninth season run under the FIA Formula 2 Championship moniker.
While Formula 2 cars can accelerate extremely quickly and have a high top speed of around 335 km/h (in their lowest-downforce configuration), the key difference between F2 cars and road-registerable Supercars or production-based touring car racing vehicles and lower-tier feeder categories such as Formula 3 is their cornering and braking ...
The Formula 2 Championship returned to Imola after the round in 2023 was cancelled as a result of mass flooding which affected the region. [45] Formula 2 made its debut in Qatar, supporting the Qatar Grand Prix at the Lusail International Circuit. The round at Circuit Zandvoort, supporting the Dutch Grand Prix, was removed from the calendar.
Connaught Engineering, often referred to simply as Connaught, was a Formula One, Formula Two and other sports car divisions constructor from the United Kingdom. [1] Their cars participated in 18 Grands Prix, entering a total of 52 races with their A, B, and C Type Formula 2 and Formula 1 Grand Prix Cars.
2025 Sri Lanka blackouts. A nationwide blackout occurs in Sri Lanka. Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody says a monkey triggered the mass power outage after "coming into contact" with a grid transformer at a substation near Colombo. One person is killed and at least 28 others are missing in a landslide in a village near Yibin, Sichuan, China.
Nyck de Vries driving an F2 2018 at the 2019 Spielberg Formula 2 round. The Dallara F2 2018 (originally known as the Dallara F2/18) [2] was an open-wheel racing car developed by Italian manufacturer Dallara for use in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, a feeder-series for Formula One until being replaced by the Dallara F2 2024 from the 2024 season onwards.
The cars fell between Formula One and Formula Three in performance, and cost each driver £195,000 for a season. [5] The 2009 championship comprised eight events in Europe between the months of May and November. There were two races per weekend – each 110 km long (around 40 minutes).
1 January – The "Clean Sri Lanka" national initiative commences under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. [1]16 January – The government announces an agreement with Chinese state oil company Sinopec valued at $3.7 billion to construct a "state-of-the-art oil refinery" with a capacity of 200,000 barrels in Hambantota.