FIA Formula 2

Rapax sign Cecotto and De Vries for FIA F2 season

Rapax team is pleased to announce the agreement reached with Johnny Cecotto and Nyck De Vries to enter the 2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship. Together they make a very strong line-up that combines two...

Merhi to make Formula 2 test debut with Campos Racing

Roberto Merhi will join Campos Racing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the traditional venue of collective preseason testing, next week. The Castellon-born driver will team up with Ralph Boschung to complete a three-day two-car...

Boschung joins Campos for 2017 FIA F2 season

Campos Racing is pleased to announce that Ralph Boschung will join the Alzira-based team to contest the full season in the renamed FIA Formula 2 Championship. Boschung will make his debut with Campos Racing...

Official: GP2 Series becomes FIA F2

After months debating the possibility, GP2 Series is finally going to change its name from this season. Formula 1's previous series is now going to be known as FIA Formula 2 Championship. World Motor Sport...

Prema shows his new livery for FIA F2

Before the pre-season test days, the GP2 Series champion team has shown his new livery for the series that changed the name today. The main feeder series of Formula 1 today changed the name from...

Jeffri joins Trident for 2017 Season

Malaysian driver moves to italian Team for second year. Team Trident is proud to announce one of the key elements in their 2017 GP2 Series assault. The Italian squad will be joining forces with 23-year-old...

Leclerc: “Prema & ART GP are similar to a F1 team”

In the second week of testing in Barcelona, FormulaRapida.net met Charles Leclerc, member of the Ferrari driver Academy and involved in F1 with Ferrari and Haas F1 Team. Here is the exclusive Q&A realised...

Norris joins and leads McLaren Junior Program

McLaren-Honda is pleased to announce the recruitment of another exciting talent to its Young Driver Programme, following Stoffel Vandoorne’s successful graduation to a Formula 1 race seat for the 2017 season alongside Fernando Alonso.  Lando...

Alexander Albon steps up to GP2

GP3 Series runner-up Alexander Albon has been promoted to upper series in GP2 with ART Grand Prix. Despite an already dense single-seater career, Alexander Albon was the revelation of 2016 in GP3 Series by winning...

Ghiotto joins Markelov in Russian Time

RUSSIAN TIME heads into the 13th GP2 season with a new line-up comprising 22-year-old Russian Artem Markelov and Italian 21-year-old Luca Ghiotto. Markelov and Ghiotto were both top 10 championship finishers in the 2016 series,...

Jordan King joins MP Motorsport

The British driver, Jordan King, joins the dutch team MP Motorsport to dispute his third season in GP2 Series. After two successful years in F3 and one title in British F3 in 2013, Jordan King...

Matsushita goes for a third year with ART GP

Japanese driver Nobuaru Matsushita continues his partnership with ART Grand Prix for a third year in GP2 Series. After a first year overshadowed by Stoffel Vandoorne in 2015, Matsushita gained consistency in 2016 with less...

Latifi and Rowland confirmed with DAMS

DAMS confirms the arrival of Oliver Rowland and Nicholas Latifi’s re-signing within the team for the 2017 GP2 Series season. In 2016, Nicholas Latifi went through a bitter-sweet season, just like the team in...

Arden teams up with Jagonya Ayam in GP2

  After Carlin in F3 and Campos in GP2, it is now Arden’s turn to team up with Jagonya Ayam for the 2017 GP2 Series season with Sean Gelael and Norman Nato as their drivers. Arden...

GP2 Series 2017 season calendar revealed

The GP2 Series organisers have confirmed the 2017 season calendar. Once again, it will consist of eleven rounds in total, including ten support events of the Formula One World Championship. Seven rounds will be held in...

Delétraz completes Racing Engineering’s 2017 driver line-up

Racing Engineering are pleased to announce that Louis Delétraz will be driving alongside Gustav Malja for the 2017 GP2 Series, the 19-year-old Swiss will driving for the Spanish team for his first full season...

Malja to join Racing Engineering for the 2017 GP2 Series

Racing Engineering are pleased to announce that Gustav Malja will be joining the Racing Engineering team for the 2017 GP2 Series. The 21-year-old Swede will be driving for the Spanish team in his second...

Latifi fastest overall during three days test

Nicholas Latifi concluded his GP2 season on top at Yas Marina Circuit: the Canadian driver from DAMS set the fastest overall laptime over the past three days of post-season testing with a 1:49.929. Johnny...

Albon ends on top on day 2

Alexander Albon topped the second day of post-season testing at Yas Marina: at the wheel of an ART Grand Prix car, the Thai clocked in a laptime of 1:49.062. Raffaele Marciello and Charles Leclerc...

Marciello tops Day 1 session at Abu Dhabi

Raffaele Marciello set the best laptime in today’s post-season test session at the Yas Marina Circuit. The Italian lapped the track in a 1:49.937 at the wheel of a Trident car during the afternoon...

Champions’ thoughts

For the first time of GP2 and GP3 history, both titles were decided on the last week-end of the season in Abu Dhabi, claiming Pierre Gasly and Charles Leclerc as their champions. FormulaRapida.net asked...

Sergio Sette Camara graduates into GP2 with MP Motorsport

Multiple podium finishing GP2 Series team MP Motorsport is absolutely delighted to today, Sunday, 27th November, announce its first high-profile driver signing for the 2017 season – exciting Brazilian 18-year-old Sérgio Sette Câmara. Mere days...

Gasly is crowned GP2 Champion as Lynn wins in Abu Dhabi

Alex Lynn won the sprint race in Abu Dhabi after dominating from pole. Johnny Cecotto and Sergey Sirotkin completed the podium in a race which has crowned Pierre Gasly as the new GP2 Champion. Lynn...

Gasly wins and takes championship momentum

Pierre Gasly takes the win in Abu Dhabi ahead of Nobuharu Matsushita and Artem Markelov. Giovinazzi ending fifth, the Frenchman takes a twelve-points championship lead.   Pierre Gasly started from pole position ahead of Sergey Sirotkin...

Two-day GP2 test for Ilott in Abu Dhabi

British driver Callum Ilott will have his first experience of GP2 machinery at the upcoming GP2 test in Abu Dhabi on December 1st and 2nd. Ilott, 18, who recently confirmed he would drive for...

Gasly above everyone in qualifying

Abu Dhabi- Pierre Gasly set a stellar lap in qualifying session in Abu Dhabi and gets to 5 points to Giovinazzi in the championship. Sergey Sirtokin and Artem Markelov complete the top 3. All the drivers...

Giovinazzi : « I am feeling really positive »

Abu Dhabi -  This week-end, Antonio Giovinazzi has the opportunity to become the first rookie GP2 Series champion of the Pirelli era. We met him ahead of the week-end. All smiling in the paddock, Antonio Giovinazzi...

Gasly leads the way in Abu Dhabi

Pierre Gasly got his Abu Dhabi weekend started to plan after topping the timesheets in this morning's Free Practice session in the emirate, grabbing P1 late in a busy session ahead of former teammate...

Hilmer wants to get back in GP2 in 2017

The period of Hilmer Motorsport’s abstinence is over. The German GP2 team heads towards new tasks and goals with a new, streamlined structure in the organisation and management departments. The objective of the only German...

GP2 preview : a title for F1

This week-end takes place the eleventh and last round of GP2 series of the season. It has been a few years since the last time the championship had to be decided on the last...

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