2023 Formula 2 Championship

Other drivers having one victory to their name this season are Jak Crawford and Richard Verschoor who took their and their teams' maiden wins respectively in Austria, and Victor Martins who won in Silverstone despite receiving a five-second time penalty.

[15] Prema Racing replaced their MP-bound driver pairing of Dennis Hauger and Jehan Daruvala with Ferrari Driver Academy member Oliver Bearman, who finished third in the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship standings, and Frederik Vesti, who returned to Prema Racing after finishing ninth in the standings as a rookie in Formula 2 with ART Grand Prix.

[25][26] Partnering Verschoor at Van Amersfoort Racing was Juan Manuel Correa, who made his full-time return to the championship after his injury in the crash which took Anthoine Hubert's life in 2019.

[30] Euroformula Open driver Josh Mason replaced Brad Benavides at PHM Racing by Charouz from the round at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps onwards.

[32][33] The first feature race pole position of the season was claimed by ART Grand Prix driver Théo Pourchaire in qualifying at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Pole-sitter Pourchaire won the race to claim his sixth victory in Formula 2 and the lead of the Drivers' Championship, four points ahead of Boschung.

ART Grand Prix's Victor Martins qualified fastest at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit with Hitech Pulse-Eight driver Jak Crawford starting first in the sprint race.

Crawford lost the lead to DAMS driver Ayumu Iwasa on the second lap and would ultimately drop outside of the points positions by the end of the race.

The safety car was deployed twice, firstly when Zane Maloney spun and stalled on track and secondly when championship leader Pourchaire collided with Oliver Bearman during a botched overtake attempt.

Dennis Hauger was on pole position for the sprint race, which Enzo Fittipaldi and championship leader Boschung failed to start after accidents on the way to the grid.

The safety car period was extended when Brad Benavides crashed, leaving only two racing laps at the end and preventing the wet tyre runners from having time to recover positions.

Martins collided with Dennis Hauger shortly before racing resumed, dropping both to the back of the field and allowing Arthur Leclerc to complete the podium behind Iwasa and Pourchaire.

In the early laps of the feature race, pole-sitter Bearman traded the lead with Théo Pourchaire, who had started third and passed Enzo Fittipaldi for second.

Despite challenges from Jehan Daruvala and a second safety car due to Amaury Cordeel's crash, Iwasa maintained the lead to win for the third time in 2023.

Fourth-placed Jack Doohan crashed on lap 24, bringing out the safety car and subsequently the red flags to replace a section of barrier.

Dennis Hauger and Roman Staněk were able to make their mandatory tyre change during the red flag, promoting them from their positions towards the back of the grid into the top ten.

Shortly after the restart, second-placed Martins was issued a drive-through penalty for failing to slow sufficiently for yellow flags, promoting Zane Maloney to third place behind Pourchaire.

Vesti crossed the finish line first to take his third win of the year, followed by championship rival Théo Pourchaire, who had started ninth.

This allowed Crawford to regain the lead and gave an advantage to the original slick runners; Clément Novalak and Isack Hadjar, who started 20th and 21st respectively, finished third and fourth.

Verschoor dedicated his third victory in his career to his deceased countryman Dilano van 't Hoff, who lost his life the day before during a FRECA race after a collision with three other drivers in wet conditions at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

Later in the race, a crash between teammates Kush Maini and Ralph Boschung caused the safety car to be deployed for a third time, and the hard tyre runners responded by making their pit stops.

Kush Maini started from the front in the sprint race, but lost the lead to Dennis Hauger at the first turn and was passed by Ayumu Iwasa shortly afterwards.

Jehan Daruvala started in first place for the sprint race, but was forced to retire in the early laps when his headrest loosened and fell out of the car, handing the lead to Richard Verschoor.

Pourchaire's podium finish promoted him to the lead of the Drivers' Championship, 12 points ahead of Vesti, who had qualified second but failed to start the feature race after crashing on his way to the grid.

[41] Vesti, who had recovered to the points positions, then retired under safety car conditions when both his rear wheels detached having been fitted improperly during his pit stop.

In the opening lap of the feature race, Oliver Bearman took the lead from pole-sitter Pourchaire, while Vesti was eliminated in a crash after being forced off-track by Roman Staněk.

Arthur Leclerc spun and stalled on lap seven, causing another safety car, during which the drivers on the softer tyre compound (all but four) made pit stops.

A collision between Kush Maini and Jak Crawford brought out a fourth safety car with seven laps remaining, allowing the drivers who had not yet made pit stops to do so without disadvantage.

One of these drivers, Ayumu Iwasa, emerged in third place and passed Pourchaire for second before the race ended under a fifth safety car when Crawford stopped close to the track.

Enzo Fittipaldi started the sprint race from first place and battled for the lead with Vesti, Richard Verschoor and Isack Hadjar on the opening lap.