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F2 2025 season preview: The new generation is here

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Formula 2 championship’s inception (then under the GP2 mantle), but there’s another reason why it represents a landmark for the series: F2 has four drivers graduating directly to Formula 1 – something that had not happened since 2010, when the F1 grid…

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The new generation of F2 drivers vying to emulate F1's 2025 rookies

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Ferrari’s British teen and the next Max Verstappen? Meet the six full-time rookies on the 2025 F1 grid

Six teams have rookie drivers this year as F1 looks to the next generation ahead of the 2025 season

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Lewis Hamilton’s big Ferrari adjustment and unusual weather: What to look out for at F1 testing in Bahrain

The official three-day pre-season test will give the first indication of which team will be quickest in 2025

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Antonelli: ‘I’m here to write my own story, not replace Hamilton’

New Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli has insisted he does not view himself as filling in for Lewis Hamilton and he is keen to write his own story in Formula 1.

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Browning's fairytale rise from racing a Saxo to an F1 practice appearance

Fairytales do happen, if you look hard enough. From Junior Saloons in a humble Citroen Saxo in 2016, no one could have guessed that, come December 2024, Luke Browning would be behind the wheel of a Williams Formula 1 car in free practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

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The fairytale rise from racing a Saxo to an F1 practice appearance

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The former F1 junior looking to rejuvenate his career in Japan

Zak O’Sullivan’s junior career makes for impressive reading. The Briton finished in the top two of every full campaign in which he has raced, save for one. His first of two Formula 3 seasons in 2022 also marked his only campaign without a victory.

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The attribute that makes Antonelli special to Mercedes

The youngest of Formula 1's rookie class, Andrea Kimi Antonelli is facing the daunting task of replacing Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, but the team is confident some of the attributes that made him stand out in karting will help him ease into the seat.

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The attribute that Mercedes feels makes Antonelli "special"

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Top 10: Ranking the best GP2 non-champions

The official start date of the Formula 2 championship is 2017, but the principal training category of future F1 drivers can be considered a continuation of the GP2 Series that ran between 2005 and 2016. After all, F2’s first modern champion Charles Leclerc was crowned after a season in the…

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Who are the 2025 F1 rookies? Antonelli, Bearman and more

The start of the 2024 Formula 1 season saw the grid entirely unchanged from the end of one season to the start of the next.

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Get to know F1's six rookies of the 2025 season

After a rookie-free season, the F1 paddock welcomes a fresh group of young talent, ready to prove themselves worthy of a seat.

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Should F2 introduce a maximum stay for drivers?

Formula 2 CEO Bruno Michel recently confirmed that the Formula 1 feeder championship has no desire to introduce a limit on the number of seasons in which a driver can compete.

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Was 2024 the best season in F2 history?

Formula 2 CEO Bruno Michel believes that the spectacular 2024 season ranks as “probably the best” in the championship’s history.

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What is the Red Bull Junior Team? A look at the unique F1 academy

Almost half of the Formula 1 grid in 2025 will have come from the Red Bull Junior Team, making it one of the most successful academy programmes in motorsport. Jack Doohan, Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Carlos Sainz, Isack Hadjar, Yuki Tsunoda, Liam Lawson and reigning world champion Max Verstappen have…

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Who is Racing Bulls' new F1 driver Isack Hadjar?

Having been signed by Racing Bulls for the 2025 Formula 1 season, Isack Hadjar had very much been in and out of the conversation as speculation surrounding Sergio Perez’s Red Bull future mounted. With Liam Lawson always viewed as the most likely candidate to step up and replace the Mexican after…

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #32 Gabriel Bortoleto

Gabriel Bortoleto continued to emulate Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Oscar Piastri in 2024, following up his rookie Formula 3 title with becoming Formula 2 champion at the first attempt.

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Inside a British F1 hopeful's record-breaking journey to F2

In his own words, the standout Formula 3 driver and Red Bull junior talks about his amazing 2024 season and where he's headed next.

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O'Sullivan considers Japan an option to continue racing career after F2 exit

Williams Formula 1 junior Zak O’Sullivan says he is considering Super Formula as an alternative for 2025 after losing his seat in Formula 2 midway through this year.

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Why hybrid power isn't in F2's future plans

Formula 2 CEO Bruno Michel has conceded it would be “impossible” for the championship to switch to a hybrid powertrain in the future.

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Alonso claims Bortoleto is F1's best rookie for 2025

Fernando Alonso has claimed new Formula 2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto is the best rookie on Formula 1’s 2025 grid.

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Prema signs Montoya to complete 2025 F2 line-up

Sebastian Montoya has earned a promotion to Formula 2 and will contest the 2025 season with Prema Racing, returning to the squad he last raced for in 2022.

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F2 Abu Dhabi: Bortoleto crowned champion as Hadjar stalls in finale

Invicta driver Gabriel Bortoleto was crowned the 2024 Formula 2 champion after finishing second to AIX driver Joshua Durksen in the Abu Dhabi finale.

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Isack Hadjar stalls at start in ‘worst moment of my life’ as Gabriel Bortoleto wins F2 title

French driver Hadjar endured a disastrous start in the Formula 2 title decider in Abu Dhabi on Sunday

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