Does F2 have any engineering advantages over other series?

It certainly does. The greatest advantage is that every driver knows that he has exactly the same opportunity as any other driver to achieve a race winning set up - all he has to do is work with his engineer to establish the optimum settings. No car has any "trick" bits on it. No car has any different preparation, such as wheel bearings, differential settings or lubricants.

A major advantage of the F2 cars is that they have a steering wheel adjustable front wing, so you can balance your car aerodynamically as you drive. This enables you to make more changes faster and gain better experience of what is the optimum aero balance - probably the most important thing to achieve with a single seater. In every other formula you need to pit to do this, losing valuable track time, which is a big handicap in short 30 minute sessions.

In F2 you have much more practice time than most comparable series too - a full 90 minutes - and then two separate qualifying sessions. So lots of time to make set up changes and learn how to make your car quick.

All drivers can see the data and onboard video footage of the fastest driver from each session, as well as video from their own sessions - a unique concept that has yielded huge gains in performance for many drivers in F2.