The 2022 Le Castellet FIA Formula 2 round was a motor racing event held between 22 and 24 July 2022 at the Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France. It was the ninth round of the

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and was held in support of the

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Driver changes

David Beckmann David Alexander Beckmann (born 27 April 2000) is a German racing driver currently racing in the Formula 2 with Van Amersfoort Racing. Career Karting Beckmann began karting in 2008, collecting major karting wins in 2009, 2012 and 2014. He rem ...

replaced

Jake Hughes Jake Hughes (born 30 May 1994) is a British racing driver and winner of the inaugural BRDC Formula 4 Championship. He has won multiple races at Formula 3 level, and is set to compete in the 2022–23 Formula E season with Neom McLaren. Career ...

for the Le Castellet round at

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after Hughes tested positive for COVID-19.

Classification

Qualifying

Logan Sargeant took his second pole position of the season, beating out DAMS driver Ayumu Iwasa by only 0.006 seconds. Frederik Vesti qualified in P3 for the Feature Race right ahead of championship leader

Felipe Drugovich Felipe Drugovich Roncato (born 23 May 2000) is a Brazilian-Italian racing driver of Austrian descent who last competed in FIA Formula 2 Championship with MP Motorsport. He is the 2018 Euroformula Open champion and the 2022 Formula 2 champion. ...

, who later was demoted to sixth after his fastest lap time was deleted due to exceeding track limits. Notes: * –

Roy Nissany Roy Nissany ( he, רוי ניסני; born 30 November 1994) is an Israeli racing driver who is set to compete in the Formula 2 Championship with PHM Racing by Charouz. He is also currently a Formula 1 test driver with Williams Grand Prix Eng ...

originally qualified twentieth, but will be starting the Sprint Race from the back of the grid due to both re-joining the track in a dangerous manner and impeding

Olli Caldwell Oliver "Olli" Caldwell (born 11 June 2002) is a British racing driver who is competing for Alpine in the FIA World Endurance Championship. He is a race winner in the FIA Formula 3, Formula Regional European, Italian F4 and ADAC Formula 4 champ ...

at Free Practice.

Sprint race

Notes: * – Théo Pourchaire and Jüri Vips originally finished third and sixth respectively, but were later given a five-second time-penalty for both forcing

Marcus Armstrong Marcus Cornelius Armstrong (born 29 July 2000) is a New Zealand motor racing driver. He is due to compete in IndyCar on road and street courses with Chip Ganassi Racing in 2023. Previously he competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship between 2 ...

off the track. * –

originally finished ninth, but was later given a five-second time-penalty for causing a collision with

Jehan Daruvala Jehan Daruvala (born 1 October 1998) is an Indian racing driver currently serving as a reserve driver for the Mahindra Racing Formula E team. He was a protégé of the Force India F1 team, after being one of three winners of a 'One in a Billio ...

Feature race

Notes: * – Enzo Fittipaldi received a five-place grid drop for causing a collision with Roberto Merhi in the Sprint Race, demoting him to nineteenth on the grid for the Feature Race. * – Richard Verschoor retired from the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Standings after the event

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Teams' Championship standings * Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

External links

Official website
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