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F2 2025 grid: Which F1 hopefuls will drive?

by Samarth Kanal
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There will be a host of driver line-up changes for the 2025 Formula 2 championship, particularly after a season in which 32 different drivers were fielded by the 11 teams.

Furthermore, Kimi Antonelli, Oliver Bearman and 2024 F2 champion Gabriel Bortoleto will all graduate to Formula 1 alongside ex-F2 driver Jack Doohan.

Here are the confirmed drivers for the 2025 F2 championship in order of the 2024 teams’ championship standings.

Invicta

Roman Stanek (Czechia, 48 F2 starts)
Leonardo Fornaroli (Italy, rookie)

Invicta, F2

An all-new line-up at 2024 teams’ champion Invicta Racing as its drivers’ champion Gabriel Bortoleto joins Sauber to make his F1 debut in 2025 and Kush Maini moves to a different F2 team.

Bortoleto had joined the team as the Formula 3 champion - and now it's secured his F3 champ successor in Leonardo Fornaroli. His team-mate will be Roman Stanek, who left Trident after the 2024 Monza F2 round.

Campos

Arvid Lindblad (Great Britain, rookie)
Pepe Marti (Spain, 28 F2 starts)

Campos, F2

Campos ran an all-Red Bull junior line-up of Isack Hadjar and Pepe Marti this year. In 2025, its F2 roster is another all-Red Bull line-up with highly-rated 17-year-old Arvid Lindblad joining returnee Marti.

Marti finished 14th in the 2023 F2 drivers' championship with a sprint race win and three other podiums.

MP Motorsport

Richard Verschoor (Netherlands, 102 starts)
Oliver Goethe (Denmark, 8 starts)

MP, F2

After Franco Colapinto left MP to replace Logan Sargeant at Williams from the 2024 Italian Grand Prix onwards, Oliver Goethe was recruited as his mid-season replacement. The Red Bull junior will continue with the team in 2025.

Richard Verschoor switched to MP Motorsport from Trident for the last two rounds of the 2024 F2 campaign and will race for the team in 2025 for his fifth season in the category.

Hitech

Luke Browning (Great Britain, 6 starts)
Dino Beganovic (Sweden, 4 starts)

Hitech, F2

Hitech has recruited Williams junior driver Luke Browning and Ferrari junior Dino Beganovic for 2025.

Browning, who finished third in the 2024 F3 championship, competed for ART Grand Prix in the final three F2 rounds of 2024.

Beganovic also ran in the closing F2 races of the season, showing eye-catching form - and scoring a podium - as a DAMS driver.

Prema

Gabriele Mini (Italy, 2 starts)
Sebastian Montoya (Colombia, rookie)

Prema, F2

Prema will field an all-new line-up for 2025 as Kimi Antonelli graduates to F1 to replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes and Oliver Bearman steps up with Haas.

F3 2024 runner-up Gabriele Mini will enter the 2025 F2 championship with Prema. The Alpine junior driver made an early F2 debut with Prema in Azerbaijan, in place of Bearman, and scored a podium.

Sebastian Montoya, son of Juan Pablo Montoya, will be Mini's team-mate after a two-year stint in F3 in which he finished 16th and 17th.

DAMS

Jak Crawford (USA, 54 starts)
Kush Maini (India, 54 starts)

DAMS, F2

Maini - an Alpine junior - will switch from Invicta to DAMS for 2025, having finished 13th in the 2024 F2 championship.

Aston Martin young driver Jak Crawford will continue with DAMS after finishing fifth for the team in 2024.

ART Grand Prix

Ritomo Miyata (Japan, 28 starts)
TBA

ART, F2

ART had a rough 2024 with Victor Martins, Zak O'Sullivan and O'Sullivan's mid-season replacement Browning - who has left for Hitech.

It has made sometime Super Formula champion Ritomo Miyata its first signing, Miyata switching over from Rodin.

Rodin

Christian Mansell (Australia, 6 starts)
TBA

Rodin, F2

Christian Mansell - no relation to Nigel Mansell - finished fifth in the 2024 F3 championship and stepped up to F2 with Trident in Azerbaijan, before now switching to Rodin.

Zane Maloney departs Rodin in 2025 to compete with Lola in Formula E.

AIX

TBA
TBA

AIX, F2

AIX (formerly PHM AIX) fielded Joshua Duerksen full-time in 2024 while Taylor Barnard graduated to Formula E with McLaren after 10 F2 rounds. Barnard was replaced by Niels Koolen and then Cian Shields.

AIX has not yet announced its 2025 line-up.

Trident

Max Esterson (USA, 4 starts)
Sami Meguetounif (France, rookie)

Trident, F2

Trident will field a new line-up in 2025. Max Esterson, who finished 21st in the 2023 F3 championship, replaced Verschoor for the final two 2024 F2 rounds, and will continue with the team in 2025.

Invicta-bound Stanek also left the team prematurely in 2024 and was replaced by Mansell - who will drive for Rodin next year.

Sami Meguetounif, who scored two wins with Trident in the 2024 F3 championship, joins the F2 squad for 2025.

Van Amersfoort Racing

TBA
TBA

Van Amersfoort Racing, F2

Van Amersfoort Racing fielded Enzo Fittipaldi until round 12 of the 2024 F2 championship, until he left and was replaced by GB3 runner-up John Bennett.

Rafael Villagomez campaigned the full 2024 F2 season and finished 24th out of 32 drivers.

VAR has not yet announced its line-up for 2025, but Villagomez and Bennett will represent it in the post-season test.

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