Gabriele Mini stormed to victory in a highly entertaining, disrupted and time-limited F2 feature race at the Miami International Autodrome, beating Dino Beganovic by nine-tenths of a second.
Rafael Camara completed the podium, with Noel Leon and polesitter Kush Maini rounding out the top five after a messy race with plenty of action, including numerous penalties. However, Mini, Camara and Maini all face post-race investigations, which could change the results considerably.
Inclement weather saw the formation lap delayed by six minutes, and it was completed behind the safety car, which was in for a busy morning amid the treacherous conditions in Florida.
F1's main support series joined the billing for the Miami Grand Prix due to the postponement of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix in April, and looked at risk of not getting its main event on the championship's first visit to North America.
However, the series was able to find a pocket of stable weather conditions to get the feature race completed, amongst the chaos and uncertainty of thunderstorms in the Sunshine State.
Once it got underway, the Formula 2 field put on an event-filled and chaotic race with multiple safety car periods.
Martinius Stenshorne — who would eventually spin into retirement, with Nico Varrone and Laurens van Hoepen held up in the incident — served a 10-second stop-go penalty for a starting procedure infringement, with team members working on his car on the grid too late.
At the standing start, Nikola Tsolov, who leads the championship standings, was tagged and forced out by Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak, who recieved a 10-second time penalty as punishment.
Maini, Camara, Mini and Oliver Goethe, who crashed out, face investigations from the stewards; the former two did not go through the pit lane behind the safety car when instructed, and the latter two realised late and entered the pit lane on the wrong side of the entrance bollard.
Alex Dunne also experienced a race-ending shunt into the barriers, triggering the second of four safety cars.
Van Hoepen will also be investigated for an unsafe release in the pit lane, and Varrone was hit with his own 10-second time penalty for causing the collision that forced Stenshorne out.
The top five were involved in an enthralling dash to the line, with the lead chopping and changing over the final couple of laps as the clock ticked down to zero.
Check out the full F2 feature race results below! Results are provisional.
2026 F2 Miami - Feature race results
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabriele Mini | MP Motorsport | 25 |
| 2 | Dino Beganovic | DAMS Lucas Oil | 18 |
| 3 | Rafael Camara | Invicta Racing | 16 (including Fastest Lap point) |
| 4 | Noel Leon | Campos Racing | 12 |
| 5 | Kush Maini | ART Grand Prix | 10 |
| 6 | Ritomo Miyata | Hitech | 8 |
| 7 | Mari Boya | Prema Racing | 6 |
| 8 | Colton Herta | Hitech | 4 |
| 9 | Sebastian Montoya | Prema Racing | 2 |
| 10 | Joshua Dürksen | Invicta Racing | 1 |
| 11 | Laurens van Hoepen | Trident | |
| 12 | Emerson Fittipaldi Jr. | AIX Racing | |
| 13 | Nicolas Varrone | Van Amersfoort Racing | |
| 14 | John Bennett | Trident | |
| 15 | Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak | ART Grand Prix | |
| OUT | Cian Shields | AIX Racing | |
| OUT | Martinius Stenshorne | Rodin Motorsport | |
| OUT | Rafael Villagomez | Van Amersfoort Racing | |
| OUT | Alex Dunne | Rodin Motorsport | |
| OUT | Oliver Goethe | MP Motorsport | |
| OUT | Nikola Tsolov | Campos Racing | |
| DNS | Roman Bilinski | DAMS Lucas Oil |
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