The 2022 Yas Island FIA Formula 2 round was a motor racing event held between 18 and 20 November 2022 at the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It was the final race of the 2022 Formula 2 Championship and was held in support of the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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| Round 14 of 14 in the 2022 FIA Formula 2 Championship. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course | Permanent Circuit 5.281 km (3.281 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After winning the Drivers' Championship with Felipe Drugovich, MP Motorsport also secured its first Teams' Championship in Formula 2 history after Drugovich finished runner-up in the Feature Race.[1] Logan Sargeant ensured he had sufficient FIA Super License points to be promoted to a 2023 Formula One seat with Williams Racing by finishing fourth in the Drivers' Championship.[2]
Report
editChampionship standings before the round
editDrivers' Championship
editBrazilian racing driver Felipe Drugovich had already won the 2022 FIA Formula 2 Drivers' Championship in Monza, having extended an unassailable 77-point lead over his closest rival, Théo Pourchaire.[3]
During the weekend of the 2022 United States Grand Prix, former Williams Racing Team Principal and CEO Jost Capito announced that Logan Sargeant would be promoted from the Williams Driver Academy to a Formula One race seat in 2023 if he finished high enough in the standings to qualify for an FIA Super Licence.[4] Having already accumulated 29 Super Licence points, Sargeant would need to finish at least fifth in the Drivers' Championship (or sixth, without receiving any penalty points); Sargeant was in third place ahead of the Yas Island Formula 2 round.[5]
Teams' Championship
editMP Motorsport, ART Grand Prix, and Carlin were in contention for the 2022 FIA Formula 2 Teams' Championship. Both MP Motorsport and ART Grand Prix were level on points; however, MP Motorsport was ahead on countback due to having won more races. Carlin were third in the standings, twenty-three points behind the two other title contenders.[6]
Driver changes
editTrident driver Calan Williams parted ways with his team before the Yas Marina season finale.[7] He was replaced by 2022 FIA Formula 3 vice champion Zane Maloney, who made his FIA Formula 2 Championship debut.[8]
Van Amersfoort Racing driver David Beckmann was replaced by Juan Manuel Correa, who returned to Formula 2 for the first time since his accident in 2019.[9]
Qualifying
editQualifying was red-flagged twice. The first red flag was deployed seven minutes into the session, after Virtuosi driver Marino Sato spun out at Turn 14.[10] Sato was unable to set a qualifying time within the 107% rule, but was granted permission by the stewards to start the race after setting acceptable times in practice.[11] The session was green-flagged after a five-minute delay.[12]
Despite having an earlier lap time deleted for track limits, Ayumu Iwasa qualified on pole with a lap time of 1:36.290. His teammate, Roy Nissany, locked out the front row for DAMS with a time which was 0.036 seconds slower. Carlin finished qualifying as the only other team with two drivers inside the top ten.[10] Shortly after Iwasa's pole position lap, a second, session-ending red flag was deployed following Zane Maloney's spin at Turn 9.[12]
Sprint race
editRichard Verschoor started the sprint race from pole, but was overtaken by eventual sprint race winner Liam Lawson on Lap 10. Felipe Drugovich made up four places from seventh place on the grid to finish in third. Dennis Hauger finished in fourth, while Amaury Cordeel secured his best Formula 2 finish in fifth place. Logan Sargeant held on to his starting position of sixth, despite dropping down to ninth on the opening lap; a red flag, deployed after Enzo Fittipaldi and Jehan Daruvala collided at Turn 3, enabled Sargeant to return to his original starting position for the rolling restart. Jack Doohan finished in seventh, unable to overtake Sargeant despite the American driver having a flat-spotted left front tyre. Roy Nissany was the final points finisher in eighth place.[13][14]
Feature race
editAyumu Iwasa won the feature race from pole position after battling Felipe Drugovich, whose second-place finish secured the 2022 Teams' Championship title for MP Motorsport. Liam Lawson finished in third, leapfrogging Carlin ahead of ART Grand Prix to finish second in the teams' standings. A virtual safety car was deployed on the opening lap after Ralph Boschung made contact with Juan Manuel Correa before spin out at Turn 9. Boschung retired from the race, having been unable to recover his car. Théo Pourchaire made the first overtake after racing resumed on Lap 3, demoting Dennis Hauger down to third. Drugovich followed soon after with a move on Roy Nissany to take second.[15]
A marginally quicker pit stop allowed Lawson to overtake Hauger in the pit lane on Lap 8, allowing the Carlin driver to assume a net position of third, behind Iwasa and Drugovich. Jack Doohan pit on Lap 26, having been one of the few drivers starting on medium compound tyres; however, his front left tyre detached following his pit stop, forcing him to retire from the race and triggering another virtual safety car.[16] Théo Pourchaire suffered a terminal mechanical issue after hitting a bird with four laps to go, causing him to retire from the race. Hauger and Logan Sargeant finished fourth and fifth respectively, with Amaury Cordeel, Richard Verschoor, Jüri Vips, Marcus Armstrong and Nissany the rest of the points finishers. Nissany received a five-second time penalty for track limits, dropping him down from his on-track finishing position of seventh.[15]
Classification
editQualifying
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Notes
- ^1 – Ralph Boschung originally qualified fourteenth, but received a three-place grid drop for the next race he participates in (Sprint Race) for both rejoining the track in an unsafe manner and causing a collision with Théo Pourchaire at the previous round in Monza.[18]
Sprint race
editNotes:
- ^1 – Juan Manuel Correa originally finished fifteenth, but later received a five-second time penalty for causing a collision with Marino Sato, dropping him down to eighteenth place.[20]
Feature race
editFinal championship standings
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
- Note: Bold names include the Drivers' and Teams' Champion respectively.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hambly, Ashley (2022-11-20). "Iwasa wins final F2 Feature Race as MP Motorsport wins Teams' Championship". Motorsport Week. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "Logan Sargeant confirmed as Williams F1 driver for 2023". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "AMENDED F2 Driver Championship - Monza 2022" (PDF). FIA. 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
- ^ "Williams boss Capito says Logan Sargeant will race for Williams in 2023 if he secures Super Licence points | Formula 1". www.formula1.com. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "F1 EXPLAINED: How does the FIA's Super Licence points system work? | Formula 1". www.formula1.com. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "F2 Preview - Round 14 - Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE" (PDF). FIA Formula 2 Championship. 2022-11-20. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "Trident and Williams part ways ahead of Abu Dhabi season finale". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ MotorSport, Trident. "Zane Maloney will compete in the last round of the Yas Marina season with Trident Motorsport". Trident Motorsport (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-07.
- ^ "Van Amersfoort Racing confirms Juan Manuel Correa for Yas Marina F2 finale". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
- ^ a b "QUALIFYING: Iwasa leaves his best to last as DAMS take Yas Marina 1-2". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "DECISION - Car 4 - start permission" (PDF). FIA. 2022-11-18. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ a b White, Megan. "F2 Abu Dhabi: Iwasa leads DAMS 1-2 in truncated qualifying". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ White, Megan (2022-11-19). "F2 Abu Dhabi: Lawson wins red-flagged sprint race". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ "SPRINT RACE: Lawson breezes to fourth victory of 2022 campaign in Yas Marina". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. 2022-11-19. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ a b "FEATURE RACE: Iwasa holds off Drugovich in last-lap battle". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. 2022-11-20. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ White, Megan (2020-11-20). "F2 Abu Dhabi: Iwasa wins finale as Sargeant secures superlicence". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
- ^ a b c "Formula 2 2022 Result for Round 14: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 18–20 November 2022". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ "Iwasa disqualified from Monza Feature Race". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ "SPRINT RACE: Lawson breezes to fourth victory of 2022 campaign in Yas Marina". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Correa penalised following Yas Marina Sprint Race". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "FEATURE RACE: Iwasa holds off Drugovich in last-lap battle". FIA_F2 - The Official F2 Website. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
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