2024 Formula 2 Championship
ART Grand Prix entered the championship as the reigning Teams' Champions, having secured their title at the final race of the 2023 season in Abu Dhabi.
Champion Gabriel Bortoleto won two races, as did Zane Maloney, Zak O'Sullivan, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, and Joshua Dürksen.
Paul Aron took one win during the season, as well as Dennis Hauger, Enzo Fittipaldi, Roman Staněk, Franco Colapinto, Taylor Barnard, Victor Martins, Jak Crawford, Kush Maini, Richard Verschoor, and Pepe Martí.
[7] Reigning champion Théo Pourchaire left ART Grand Prix and the series to move to Japan to compete in the Super Formula Championship with Team Impul.
[8] Williams Driver Academy member Zak O'Sullivan replaced him, having finished second in the previous year's FIA Formula 3 season with Prema Racing.
[22] Both Van Amersfoort Racing drivers moved to other teams, with Juan Manuel Correa signing for DAMS and Richard Verschoor joining Trident.
[23] He replaced Clément Novalak, who had already left the team ahead of the last round of 2024 to focus on competing in the 2024 European Le Mans Series with Inter Europol Competition.
He was replaced by Joshua Dürksen, who mirrored Antonelli in stepping up directly from the Formula Regional European Championship, albeit after competing there for two seasons and taking a single podium.
[29] Franco Colapinto was promoted to the Williams F1 Team ahead of the Italian Grand Prix to replace Logan Sargeant for the rest of the season,[30] ending his rookie Formula 2 campaign with four rounds to go.
He was replaced at MP Motorsport by Oliver Goethe, a Red Bull Junior Team driver graduating from the FIA Formula 3 Championship.
[42] Zane Maloney departed Rodin Motorsport ahead of the final round at Yas Marina as he moved to Lola Yamaha ABT in Formula E, which started its 2024–25 season at the same weekend.
[49] Kush Maini set the fastest qualifying time for the opening round at Bahrain International Circuit, but was later disqualified from the results for a technical infringement.
ART Grand Prix drivers Victor Martins and Zak O'Sullivan gained places to run second and third in the opening laps, but would later drop outside the podium positions.
Oliver Bearman set the fastest qualifying time at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, but later withdrew from the round to replace Carlos Sainz Jr. at Ferrari for the remainder of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Verschoor crossed the line first, but was later disqualified from the results along with Trident teammate Roman Staněk for a technical violation, promoting Hauger to victory and Enzo Fittipaldi to the podium.
Most of the top ten then made pit stops to shed their soft-compound tyres, with the exception of Maini, who started on the harder compound, and eighth-placed Hadjar.
After three consecutive race retirements, Gabriel Bortoleto took pole position at Imola Circuit ahead of Oliver Bearman and Isack Hadjar.
A virtual safety car came with two laps remaining when Joshua Dürksen collided with Maloney whilst exiting the pits, allowing O'Sullivan to change tyres and emerge ahead of Hadjar to claim his first Formula 2 victory.
Paul Aron, the championship leader at the time, achieved his first Formula 2 pole position in qualifying at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, followed by Jak Crawford and Franco Colapinto.
Off the start line, Maini dropped positions and allowed Victor Martins into the lead, and Ritomo Miyata improved from fourth to second.
Miyata received a time penalty during the race for track limit violations, demoting him from the podium and promoting Maini and Juan Manuel Correa to second and third, respectively.
Post-race, seven more drivers, including Correa, were issued track limit penalties, allowing Aron to take the final podium place.
Dennis Hauger set his second pole position of the season in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring, ahead of Joshua Dürksen and Gabriel Bortoleto.
Maini, Jak Crawford and pole-sitter Hauger stalled on the formation lap prior to the feature race, leaving Dürksen as the first driver on the grid.
Later in the race, another safety car was brought out due to Amaury Cordeel hitting the barrier, which gave Antonelli another chance to pit for fresh tyres.
Mansell held on to the lead until lap seven, when he lost it to Gabriele Minì, the temporary replacement for Oliver Bearman; the latter once again having to make a substitution in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Formula One.
Martins and Andrea Kimi Antonelli followed behind Verschoor, while Gabriel Bortoleto in fourth took the championship lead away from Isack Hadjar, who failed to score after locking up during the race.
Martí took his first win in the series with Bortoleto second, meaning that Aron was eliminated from the championship fight; he was eventually disqualified after coming in third.
Beganovic inherited his first podium in the series after a time penalty for fourth-placed Bearman, and Hadjar could only salvage fifth, expanding the gap to four points.
At the start of the feature race, Hadjar immediately stalled on the grid and rejoined two laps down, abruptly ending most of his chances for winning the championship.
