Leonardo Fornaroli has gained the 2025 Components 2 championship with a spherical to spare in Losail.
The Invicta driver completed second behind race winner Victor Martins. Along with his nearest championship rivals Jak Crawford ending out of the factors in eleventh and Richard Verschoor sixth, Fornaroli is the champion based mostly on the outcomes on the chequered flag.
With 39 factors accessible on the season finale subsequent week, Fornaroli has 211 to Verschoor’s 170. Nevertheless as fourth-placed Arvid Lindblad is below investigation for a Security Automobile infringement, a post-race penalty may change the ending order and re-open the championship battle.
Lindblad completed 3.6 seconds forward of Verschoor. If he falls behind the MP Motorsport driver, Verschoor would acquire two factors and turn into mathematically able to tying Fornaroli on factors in Yas Marina subsequent week and profitable the title on countback of outcomes.
If that distant situation is prevented, Fornaroli has repeated the feat of his predecessor at Invicta, Gabriel Bortoleto, who additionally gained the F2 and F3 titles in back-to-back seasons. Bortoleto made his grand prix debut with Sauber this yr, nonetheless Fornaroli doesn’t have a contract with an F1 workforce.
The pair had been workforce mates at Trident in 2023 when Bortoleto gained the F3 title. Fornaroli emulated him the next yr, albeit in uncommon circumstances, as he clinched the championship with out profitable a single race.
Fornaroli took till the fifteenth race to attain his first win this yr, although three extra have adopted since then, together with his sole characteristic race victory on the Hungaroring. He was spared a repeat of final yr’s nail-biting F3 finale as he collected second place in Losail after shedding the lead from pole place to Martins at first.
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He arrived in Qatar as one in all six drivers nonetheless in with an opportunity of profitable the F2 title. Nevertheless poor qualifying performances for Williams junior Luke Browning and Aston Martin’s Jak Crawford instantly put them at a drawback.
Verschoor, in his fifth season as an F2 driver, gained the dash race yesterday to maintain his hopes alive whereas Fornaroli collected three factors for sixth place. Verschoor made progress from tenth on the grid within the characteristic race however based mostly on the unique race end result it wasn’t sufficient to maintain him inside vary of Fornaroli.
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