Whilst all information provided in this website is believed to be correct, the final information will be subject to FIA approval before being included in the final FIA Sporting and Technical Regulations.

F2 chassis

The F2 car is designed by Williams F1 featuring ground effect aerodynamics and includes a sophisticated composite survival cell complying with the 2005 F1 safety regulations. The transmission is a 6 speed Hewland unit with paddle shift.

All F2 cars will include standard components that will be identical within specified tolerances and all F2 cars will be of identical weight +/- 2kg and ballasted to a standard Driver weight of 80kg (including all race wear and Driver safety equipment).  The positioning of any ballast will be determined exclusively by F2 with the objective of minimising any weight distribution change from the norm for drivers who require no ballast.  In any event no F2 car shall have a weight distribution that differs by greater than +/- 0.5% from the average.

F2 engine

The F2 car is powered by an Audi 1.8 litre turbo engine with a target 400bhp on standard boost and 450bhp on overboost.  The engines on all cars will have identical power within 1.5% of the target. The overboost facility is actuated by a steering wheel button which increases maximum power by 50bhp for a duration as specified on the set-Up sheet, typically six seconds.  Overboost may not be used except in the second practice session and in each of the races, when the number of shots will be specified on the set-up sheet but typically eight shots are available for races and four available for tests.

Maintaining engine parity within a very close tolerance that will make no significant difference to the cars’ performance throughout the season is one of the most important criteria of the championship.

There may be occasions during the season when a car’s engine needs to be replaced. If so, it will be replaced by one that has been subject to a similar level of use so as to maintain parity with the other cars. To achieve this, a pool of spare engines will be rotated through the F2 cars after each event or every other event (depending on the event schedule). This will ensure that that there is minimal difference in usage levels between those engines in the F2 cars and the spare engines at any given time.

In the event that additional spare engines are required, which will not have been rotated through the field, other methods will be employed to ensure engine parity within tolerance.  No driver, for example, will benefit from a higher performing new engine to replace their own engine at any stage in the season.

Tyres

All F2 cars will use identical specification tyres and at each event a total of four sets of dry weather tyres may be used.

For the first day of the event, drivers will have the following tyres available:

(a) Two used sets, as chosen by the driver from the final pool of three sets of dry tyres chosen at the previous event or test, whichever is the most recent
(b) One new set

At the end of the first day of the event the driver must discard one set of used tyres.  For the remainder of the event, he or she will then have available:

(c) One used set from the first day of the event
(d) One set that was new for the first day of the event which the driver may or may not have used
(e) One new set

At each Event wet weather tyres will be available as follows:

For the first and second day the driver will have available and may use:

(a) One used set, selected by the driver from the final pool of two sets of wet weather tyres used at the previous event, or if no wet weather tyres were used at the previous Event, the previously nominated used set will be carried forward
(b) One new set

For the third day the driver will have available and may use:

(c) Tyres as permitted for the first and second day, or
(d) If the new set of wet weather tyres was used in race 1 the driver shall have a second new set of wet weather tyres for race 2 and these shall replace four tyres of the driver’s choice from the used and new sets permitted for the first and second day

In the unlikely event that the driver has no used wet weather tyres that, in the opinion of the F2 Chief Engineer, are in a satisfactory condition to be safely used for the following Event, the F2 Chief Engineer will select substitute used wet weather tyres from the F2 stock to be the used set to be carried forward.
 
Wet weather tyres may not be used in any practice session, qualifying session or race unless that session is officially declared wet.

All dry weather tyres will be of the same compound and construction as will wet weather tyres, unless any change is necessary in which case it will be implemented fairly to all drivers.  If any change of tyre specification occurs, the new specification must be used exclusively from that point forward.  The arrangements in relation to used tyres will be specified in such circumstances.

All tyres will be allocated at random to drivers by the FIA Technical Delegate.

In the event of any tyre damage requiring replacement, the tyre must be replaced with another from the driver’s currently nominated three sets at the choice of the driver and his F2 Race Engineer, except that on one occasion in every two race events a driver may be supplied with one new tyre subject to the FIA Technical Delegate accepting the F2 Race Engineer’s recommendation that it should be replaced.

Fuel

All F2 cars will use fuel supplied by F2.  At each event there will be a designated identical batch of fuel from which fuel to all F2 cars will be supplied.

Prior to each practice session, qualifying session and race all F2 cars will be refuelled to exactly the same level to promote equal operating weights.

No refuelling will be permitted during any session.