Championship standings before the round Drivers' Championship Brazilian racing driver
Felipe Drugovich had already won the 2022
FIA Formula 2 Drivers' Championship in
Monza, having extended an unassailable 77-point lead over his closest rival,
Théo Pourchaire. During the weekend of the
2022 United States Grand Prix, former
Williams Racing Team Principal and CEO
Jost Capito announced that
Logan Sargeant would be promoted from the
Williams Driver Academy to a
Formula One race seat in
2023 if he finished high enough in the standings to qualify for an
FIA Super Licence. Having already accumulated 29 Super Licence points, Sargeant would need to finish at least fifth in the Drivers' Championship (or sixth, without receiving any penalty points); Sargeant was in third place ahead of the Yas Island Formula 2 round.
Teams' Championship MP Motorsport,
ART Grand Prix, and
Carlin were in contention for the 2022
FIA Formula 2 Teams' Championship. Both MP Motorsport and ART Grand Prix were level on points; however, MP Motorsport was ahead on countback due to having won more races. Carlin were third in the standings, twenty-three points behind the two other title contenders.
Driver changes Trident driver
Calan Williams parted ways with his team before the Yas Marina season finale. He was replaced by
2022 FIA Formula 3 vice champion
Zane Maloney, who made his
FIA Formula 2 Championship debut.
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.
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. 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. The session was green-flagged after a five-minute delay. 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.
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. 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. 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. == Classification ==