Preview ROUND 2 SPIELBERG AUSTRIA IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Red Bull Ring FEATURE RACE 40 LAPS // 172.594 KM 60 min. Start/Finish Offset 4.318 KM 0.126 km SPRINT RACE 28 LAPS // 120.778 KM 45 min. AVERAGE TEMP. 23°/10° MAXIMUM SPEED LAP RECORD WHEN TO WATCH AVERAGE RAINFALL 115 mm 294.3 KM/H 1:13.396 (211.793 KM/H) ALL TIMES LOCAL (GMT +2) SPEED Nyck de Vries (Rapax) in 2017 Charles Leclerc (PREMA Racing) in 2017 3 FRIDAY 10TH JULY DRS TRAP DETECTION DRS ACTIVATION POLE POSITION 2019 12:55 Practice Session . 45 min. ZONE 2 4 ZONE 2 1:14.143 (209.659 KM/H) 17:00 Qualifying Session . 30 min. Nyck de Vries (ART Grand Prix) * SECTOR 1 18:15 Press Conference 2 6 5 COUMPOUND ALLOCATION SATURDAY 11TH JULY DRS ACTIVATION 9 DRS SECTOR 2 DETECTION 16:45 Feature Race . 40 laps • 60 min. 8 ZONE 3 18:05 Press Conference* MEDIUM SUPERSOFT ZONE 1 7 TH 10 SUNDAY 12 JULY ZONE 3 2019 FEATURE RACE 11:10 Sprint Race . 28 laps • 45 min. DRS ACTIVATION TYRE WINNING STRATEGY * SECTOR 3 12:15 Press Conference 6 laps Supersoft >> 34 laps Soft *Note: The FIA F2 press conference takes place in the F1 press conference room. 1 DRS DETECTION ZONE 1 Nobuharu Matsushita (Carlin) from P4 Grid Position The story so far FROm THE GRID Mick Schumacher PREMA Racing The thrill and spills of last weekend’s home ahead of 2019 F3 Vice-Champion “Tyre degradation is Turns 1, 3 and 4 is at relatively high speed. opening round saw two new names Marcus Armstrong in second, after relatively low here. Most overtaking moves happen at Turn 3 etched into the annals of Formula 2 a superb call by ART to pit the New That allows you to because you have a long straight with history. Callum Ilott took his maiden F2 Zealander early. Reigning F3 Champion push hard during the DRS zone followed by a slow hairpin. win in an incredible Feature Race, while Robert Shwartzman finished third. the race which is Turn 1 is interesting, especially after the rookie Felipe Drugovich stunned on much better than If Drugovich was disappointed with start, and we’ll probably also see some Sunday in a lights-to-flag victory. having to slow Saturday, he turned it around in the Sprint battling through Turn 4. down and look after It was another F2 newcomer in Carlin’s Race. Starting from reverse pole, the MP the tyres all the time. It’s a pretty high- “It’s important to get the tyres to temperature Yuki Tsunoda that initially set the pace in Motorsport man masterfully survived speed track with all of the corners being quickly. We saw last weekend that the practice, but 2019’s top rookie Guanyu three safety car restarts to maintain quick except Turn 3. That gives us a harder compound takes about two laps to Zhou used every ounce of his experience position and take the chequered flag. good rhythm and it’s fun to drive. get to temperature. Fortunately, you don’t to grab his second career pole in Louis Delétraz and Dan Ticktum joined have to watch out for the tyres too much as Qualifying. The Renault-backed driver the Brazilian on the podium. “I had a great weekend here in there’s relatively little degradation, which was almost half a second quicker than the 2018 FIA Formula 3 European is good for the racing and the on-track Drugovich who joined him on the front Championship when I won two of three action. You still have to make sure you get row. races and finished 2nd in the third race. That’s definitely a great memory! Last the tyres to temperature and within their Zhou battled hard for the Feature Race year’s F2 Sprint Race was also pretty perfect working window. lead with UNI-Virtuosi teammate Ilott and good when I started 19th and finished Mick Schumacher, only for mechanical “I think our race pace last weekend was 4th. gremlins to cruelly prevent what looked really strong and I hope that we can keep likely to be a maiden victory. Ilott came “Braking is where you can win or lose or maybe even improve that. Our results a lot of time, so the challenge is to hit didn’t reflect our true potential, so I hope the braking-point exactly, which can we’ll be able to finish among the front The CHALLENGERS be tricky sometimes as the braking for runners this time.” Ilott (27 pts) is out in front of the Drivers’ points further back, four points ahead of STAT PACK Championship after the first two races MP Motorsport (27). PREMA Racing (25) of the season, ahead of trio of rookies. and DAMS (20) occupy fourth and fifth. > The F2 race lap record at the Red > Drugovich’s Sprint Race victory Shwartzman (23) is four points behind With the first weekend of the new Bull Ring is 1:15.854, set by means that the last two F2 Sprint the Briton, with Drugovich (21) and campaign in the books, this weekend Nobuharu Matsushita with ART Races held at the Red Bull Ring have Ticktum (20) just a point apart in third provides an instant opportunity for teams Grand Prix in 2017. been won by Brazilian drivers. and fourth. Delétraz (18) rounds out the and drivers to stamp their mark on the top five. young season, or to correct any mistakes > This weekend marks the first time the ART Grand Prix (36) lead the pack in the if necessary. A switch to Pirelli’s medium FIA Formula 2 Championship will Team’s Championship after solid hauls for and supersoft tyre compounds should add hold back-to-back race weekends at both Armstrong and Christian Lundgaard. another interesting dynamic in the Styrian the same circuit. Second-placed UNI-Virtuosi (31) are five Alps. > Guanyu Zhou’s pole position last weekend moves him level with Nobuharu Matsushita and Luca Ghiotto for the most career poles on the current grid – with two each. > If Artem Markelov wins a race this weekend he will surpass 2019 champion Nyck De Vries as the driver with the highest number of wins in the modern era of Formula 2. > A win for DAMS or ART Grand Prix this weekend would see them move to 15 wins in F2, becoming the team > Drugovich became the first driver to with the most wins in the win on their F2 debut weekend since Championship. Two wins for PREMA Charles Leclerc won the first Sprint Racing would put the three teams Race of the 2017 season in Bahrain. level at 14 wins apiece. CONTACT Alexa Quintin - Head of Media and Communications [email protected] +33 (0)6 23 900 777 • Matt Deacon - Press Officer [email protected] +44 (0)7787 154 637 For more information please visit www.fiaformula2.com Follow us @FIA_F2 @fiaf2championship @F2FIA ROUND 2 Preview SPIELBERG AUSTRIA ON-BOARD 2020 ENTRY LIST CAMERAS SEASOn STATS DAMS 1 Sean Gelael GEL IDN 23 y/o Callum Ilott and Felipe Drugovich became the 19th and 20th drivers respectively to win in 2 Dan Ticktum TIC FIA Formula 2. GBR 21 y/o Rookie 20 UNI-Virtuosi 3 Guanyu Zhou ZHO CHN 21 y/o Four of the seven 2019 FIA Formula 3 graduates scored points during the opening 4 Callum Ilott ILO weekend. GBR 21 y/o 4 ARM ART Grand Prix 5 Marcus Armstrong Six different teams made the podium during NZL 19 y/o Rookie the opening weekend of the season, the first 6 Christian Lundgaard LUN time that has happened. DNK 18 y/o Rookie 6 Carlin 7 Yuki Tsunoda TSU JPN 20 y/o Rookie Lap 33 of Saturday’s Feature Race will be the F2’s 2000th lap. 8 Jehan Daruvala DAR IND 21 y/o Rookie 2000 Campos Racing 9 Jack Aitken AIT After 2 RACES GBR 24 y/o 2020 CLASSIFICATIONS 10 Guilherme Samaia SAM drivers’ standings teams’ standings BRA 23 y/o Rookie POS. DRIVER FEATUREM SPRINTM PTS SHUFFLE POS. TEAM FEATUREM SPRINTM PTS SHUFFLE DEL Charouz Racing Sytem 11 Louis Delétraz 1. Callum Ilott .......................1M.................. 27 . 1. ART Grand Prix ...........................................36 . CHE 23 y/o Rookie 2. Robert Shwartzman ....................... 23 . 2. UNI-Virtuosi ........................ 1M ...................31 . PIQ 12 Pedro Piquet R M BRA 22 y/o Rookie 3. Felipe Drugovich ..................... 1M ...... 21 . 3. MP Motorsport .............................. 1 ........27 . 4. Dan Ticktum R ........................................... 20 . 4. PREMA Racing .............................................25 . MP Motorsport 14 Nobuharu Matsushita MAT JPN 26 y/o 5. Louis Delétraz .......................................... 18 . 5. DAMS.............................................................20 . R 15 Felipe Drugovich DRU 6. Marcus Armstrong ............................... 18 . 6. Charouz Racing System ............................18 . BRA 20 y/o Rookie R 7. Christian Lundgaard ............................ 18 . 7. BWT HWA RACELAB .................................. 8 . MAR BWT HWA RACELAB 16 Artem Markelov 8. Giuliano Alesi ............................................8 . 8. Campos Racing ............................................. 1 . RUS 25 y/o 9. Nobuharu Matsushita ..............................6 . 9. Trident .............................................................. 1 . ALE Alesi 17 Giuliano 10. ............................................. 10. Hitech Grand Prix ......................................... 0 . FRA 20 y/o Guanyu Zhou 4 11. Mick Schumacher ......................................2 . 11. Carlin ............................................................... 0 . PREMA Racing 20 Mick Schumacher SCH DEU 21 y/o 12. Jack Aitken ..................................................1 . 21 Robert Shwartzman SHW 13. Roy Nissany ................................................1 . RUS 20 y/o Rookie 14. Nikita Mazepin .........................................0 . Trident 22 Roy Nissany NIS 15. Yuki Tsunoda R.............................................0 . ISR 25 y/o R 16. Jehan Daruvala ........................................0 . SAT R 23 Marino Sato 17. Pedro Piquet .............................................0 . JPN 21 y/o 18. Guilherme Samaia R ..................................0 . Hitech Grand Prix 24 Nikita Mazepin MAZ RUS 21 y/o 19.