Championship standings before the round

Driver changes

Trident driver Calan Williams parted ways with his team before the Yas Marina season finale.^[7] He was replaced by 2022 FIA Formula 3 vice champion Zane Maloney, who made his FIA Formula 2 Championship debut.^[8]

Van Amersfoort Racing driver David Beckmann was replaced by Juan Manuel Correa, who returned to Formula 2 for the first time since his accident in 2019.^[9]

Qualifying

Qualifying was red-flagged twice. The first red flag was deployed seven minutes into the session, after Virtuosi driver Marino Sato spun out at Turn 14.^[10] Sato was unable to set a qualifying time within the 107% rule, but was granted permission by the stewards to start the race after setting acceptable times in practice.^[11] The session was green-flagged after a five-minute delay.^[12]

Despite having an earlier lap time deleted for track limits, Ayumu Iwasa qualified on pole with a lap time of 1:36.290. His teammate, Roy Nissany, locked out the front row for DAMS with a time which was 0.036 seconds slower. Carlin finished qualifying as the only other team with two drivers inside the top ten.^[10] Shortly after Iwasa's pole position lap, a second, session-ending red flag was deployed following Zane Maloney's spin at Turn 9.^[12]

Sprint race

Richard Verschoor started the sprint race from pole, but was overtaken by eventual sprint race winner Liam Lawson on Lap 10. Felipe Drugovich made up four places from seventh place on the grid to finish in third. Dennis Hauger finished in fourth, while Amaury Cordeel secured his best Formula 2 finish in fifth place. Logan Sargeant held on to his starting position of sixth, despite dropping down to ninth on the opening lap; a red flag, deployed after Enzo Fittipaldi and Jehan Daruvala collided at Turn 3, enabled Sargeant to return to his original starting position for the rolling restart. Jack Doohan finished in seventh, unable to overtake Sargeant despite the American driver having a flat-spotted left front tyre. Roy Nissany was the final points finisher in eighth place.^[13][14]

Feature race

Ayumu Iwasa won the feature race from pole position after battling Felipe Drugovich, whose second-place finish secured the 2022 Teams' Championship title for MP Motorsport. Liam Lawson finished in third, leapfrogging Carlin ahead of ART Grand Prix to finish second in the teams' standings. A virtual safety car was deployed on the opening lap after Ralph Boschung made contact with Juan Manuel Correa before spin out at Turn 9. Boschung retired from the race, having been unable to recover his car. Théo Pourchaire made the first overtake after racing resumed on Lap 3, demoting Dennis Hauger down to third. Drugovich followed soon after with a move on Roy Nissany to take second.^[15]

A marginally quicker pit stop allowed Lawson to overtake Hauger in the pit lane on Lap 8, allowing the Carlin driver to assume a net position of third, behind Iwasa and Drugovich. Jack Doohan pit on Lap 26, having been one of the few drivers starting on medium compound tyres; however, his front left tyre detached following his pit stop, forcing him to retire from the race and triggering another virtual safety car.^[16] Théo Pourchaire suffered a terminal mechanical issue after hitting a bird with four laps to go, causing him to retire from the race. Hauger and Logan Sargeant finished fourth and fifth respectively, with Amaury Cordeel, Richard Verschoor, Jüri Vips, Marcus Armstrong and Nissany the rest of the points finishers. Nissany received a five-second time penalty for track limits, dropping him down from his on-track finishing position of seventh.^[15]

Qualifying

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Pos.	No.	Driver	Entrant	Time	Grid SR	Grid FR
1	17	Ayumu Iwasa	DAMS	1:36.290	10	1
2	16	Roy Nissany	DAMS	+0.036	9	2
3	10	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	+0.082	8	3
4	11	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	+0.192	7	4
5	3	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	+0.220	6	5
6	6	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	+0.224	5	6
7	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	+0.260	4	7
8	25	Amaury Cordeel	Van Amersfoort Racing	+0.288	3	8
9	5	Liam Lawson	Carlin	+0.298	2	9
10	20	Richard Verschoor	Trident	+0.298	1	10
11	7	Marcus Armstrong	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.329	11	11
12	2	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Racing	+0.340	12	12
13	22	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	+0.390	13	13
14	15	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	+0.395	171	14
15	8	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	+0.504	14	15
16	9	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	+0.733	15	16
17	12	Clément Novalak	MP Motorsport	+0.755	16	17
18	24	Juan Manuel Correa	Van Amersfoort Racing	+0.794	18	18
19	21	Zane Maloney	Trident	+0.810	19	19
20	14	Olli Caldwell	Campos Racing	+0.918	20	20
21	23	Tatiana Calderón	Charouz Racing System	+1.538	21	21
107% time: 1:43.030 (+6.740)
—	4	Marino Sato	Virtuosi Racing	+23.455	22	22
Source:[17]

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Notes

• ^1 – Ralph Boschung originally qualified fourteenth, but received a three-place grid drop for the next race he participates in (Sprint Race) for both rejoining the track in an unsafe manner and causing a collision with Théo Pourchaire at the previous round in Monza.^[18]

Sprint race

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Pos.	No.	Driver	Entrant	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Liam Lawson	Carlin	23	1:11:53.868	2	10 (1)
2	20	Richard Verschoor	Trident	23	+7.943	1	8
3	11	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	23	+8.803	7	6
4	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	23	+14.937	4	5
5	25	Amaury Cordeel	Van Amersfoort Racing	23	+15.449	3	4
6	6	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	23	+15.938	5	3
7	3	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	23	+16.501	6	2
8	16	Roy Nissany	DAMS	23	+17.313	9	1
9	10	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	23	+17.579	8
10	7	Marcus Armstrong	Hitech Grand Prix	23	+17.968	11
11	9	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	23	+19.213	15
12	8	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	23	+22.031	14
13	17	Ayumu Iwasa	DAMS	23	+24.162	10
14	12	Clément Novalak	MP Motorsport	23	+27.095	16
15	21	Zane Maloney	Trident	23	+33.860	19
16	14	Olli Caldwell	Campos Racing	23	+34.034	20
17	15	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	23	+36.430	17
18	24	Juan Manuel Correa	Van Amersfoort Racing	23	+38.1641	18
19	4	Marino Sato	Virtuosi Racing	23	+58.710	22
20	23	Tatiana Calderón	Charouz Racing System	23	+1:14.890	21
DNF	2	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Racing	0	Collision	12
DNF	22	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	0	Collision	13
Fastest lap set by Liam Lawson: 1:39.292 (lap 7)
Source:[17][19]

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Notes:

• ^1 – Juan Manuel Correa originally finished fifteenth, but later received a five-second time penalty for causing a collision with Marino Sato, dropping him down to eighteenth place.^[20]

Feature race

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Pos.	No.	Driver	Entrant	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	17	Ayumu Iwasa	DAMS	33	57:02.908	1	25 (2)
2	11	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport	33	+0.830	4	18
3	5	Liam Lawson	Carlin	33	+1.348	9	15
4	1	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	33	+13.440	7	12
5	6	Logan Sargeant	Carlin	33	+14.064	6	10
6	25	Amaury Cordeel	Van Amersfoort Racing	33	+15.719	8	8
7	20	Richard Verschoor	Trident	33	+18.162	10	6
8	8	Jüri Vips	Hitech Grand Prix	33	+20.279	15	4
9	7	Marcus Armstrong	Hitech Grand Prix	33	+20.684	11	2
10	16	Roy Nissany	DAMS	33	+22.181	2	1
11	9	Frederik Vesti	ART Grand Prix	33	+22.732	16
12	12	Clément Novalak	MP Motorsport	33	+23.489	20
13	2	Jehan Daruvala	Prema Racing	33	+24.298	12
14	22	Enzo Fittipaldi	Charouz Racing System	33	+27.616	13
15	4	Marino Sato	Virtuosi Racing	33	+28.246	22
16	21	Zane Maloney	Trident	33	+31.754	18
17	24	Juan Manuel Correa	Van Amersfoort Racing	33	+32.446	17
18	23	Tatiana Calderón	Charouz Racing System	33	+45.116	21
19	10	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix	31	Gearbox	3
20	14	Olli Caldwell	Campos Racing	29	Driveshaft	19
DNF	3	Jack Doohan	Virtuosi Racing	25	Wheel nut	5
DNF	15	Ralph Boschung	Campos Racing	0	Spun off	14
Fastest lap set by Clément Novalak: 1:39.146 (lap 24)
Source:[17][21]

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