2020 Formula 2 Championship
The 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship was the fifty-fourth season of Formula 2 racing. Nyck de Vries was the drivers’ champion, having won the title at the penultimate round of the 2019 championship in Russia. DAMS were the reigning teams’ champions, having secured their first Formula 2 title in Abu Dhabi. It was the first season that the championship was run as part of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, having been part of it for the previous three seasons. The season was also the first in which the championship has been run as a spec series.
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The 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship was the fifty-fourth season of Formula 2 racing. Nyck de Vries was the drivers’ champion, having won the title at the penultimate round of the 2019 championship in Russia. DAMS were the reigning teams’ champions, having secured their first Formula 2 title in Abu Dhabi. As the championship is a spec series, all competitors race with an identical Dallara F2 2018 chassis with a V6 turbo engine developed by Mecachrome. Teams compete with tyres supplied by Pirelli. Hitech Grand Prix joined the championship, bringing the total number of teams up to eleven. The championship was due to be the final season with the Dallaras which debuted in 2018 with a new chassis introduced for 2021. This was delayed for another three seasons, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2020 championship. The category was run in support of selected rounds of the2020 FIA Formula One World Championship. It is an open-wheel racing category that serves as the second tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The championship is sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile and is the fourth season run under the FIA Formula 2 Championship nomenclature. It was the first season that the championship was run as part of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, having been part of it for the previous three seasons.
The season was also the first in which the championship has been run as a spec series. The final round was held in Bahrain, with Prema Racing clinching the teams’ title for the first time, after the finish of the feature race in the Outer layout of the Bahrain International Circuit. The team also became the first team to clinch the championship as a result of the victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The title was won by DAMS, who became the second team to win the title in a row after they won it in 2013. The teams’ championship was also won by Carlin and HWA Racelab, who were the first teams to do so in the championship’s first two seasons. Carlin signed two new drivers for 2020. Louis Delétraz left the team to rejoin Charouz Racing System, the team he had competed with in 2018, and Nobuharu Matsushita moved to MP Motorsport. Red Bull juniors Jehan Daruvala and Yuki Tsunoda joined the team having finished third and ninth respectively in the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship. The new drivers were replaced by Marcus Armstrong and Christian Lundgaard. Sérgio Sette Câmara and Nicholas Latifi graduated to Formula One with Williams.
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