Roman Stanek has been handed the victory in the Formula 2 Feature Race at Spa-Francorchamps after Alex Dunne received a post-race time penalty and Arvid Lindblad was disqualified following technical checks.
The decisions made by the stewards reshuffled the order following an intense battle under tricky wet-weather conditions.
Dunne led from start to finish but came under investigation by the stewards for allegedly failing to engage the start set-up procedure at the beginning of the formation lap.
He was deemed guilty of the infringement and handed a 10-second time penalty, bumping him down the order to 10th.
A document released by the FIA stated: “According to the Report of the Technical Delegate, the data from Car 17 shows that the driver did not engage the start set-up procedure for the formation lap as required by the F2 2025 System User Manual.
“The team manager stated that the race director had announced that the formation laps will be behind the Safety Car and the start of the Race will be rolling start.
“Based on this information, they had decided not to activate the set-up procedure. The driver said that he had asked the team for confirmation, and team told him not to engage the
start set-up procedure.
“Having considered the matter extensively, the Stewards determined that Car 17 was in breach of Article 1.6.1 of the FIA Formula 2 Technical Regulations and Article 11.15 of the F2 2025 System User Manual, and impose a 10 second time penalty in accordance with the 2025 FIA F2 penalty guidelines.”
Lindblad disqualified over technical breach as Fornaroli claims F2 championship lead
Lindblad would have taken the Feature Race victory, but he was punished for having too low tyre pressures in all four tyres.
A document stated: “The Team accepted the FIA Technical Delegate’s measurements and acknowledged that it followed that Article 10.4.3 of the Technical Regulations had been breached in this case.
“The Team Representative also stated that he was present during the tyre checking and had no objections with the measurements. Having considered the matter extensively, the Stewards determined that Car 4 was found to be technically non-conformant with the F2 Technical Regulations, and, consistent with the established precedent, disqualify Car 4 from Race 2.”
Stanek claimed the second victory of his F2 career, while Ritomo Miyata secured his maiden podium in the series with an impressive drive to second place.
Luke Browning completed the podium amid the post-race chaos, rewarded for a strong charge through the field.
The Hitech driver started 12th on the grid and secured his sixth podium of the season, further boosting his championship hopes.
The final classification saw several drivers promoted due to the penalties, including Leonardo Fornaroli, who moved up to fifth.
That result was enough to hand the Italian the championship lead by just three points over Richard Verschoor.
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