The FIA Formula 2 Championship heads to the city of Baku in Azerbaijan for the sixth round of the 2022 season. Kiwi Liam Lawson sits in eighth position on the overall standings with 28-points while fellow Kiwi Marcus Armstrong lies in fourth spot on 50-points.
“It is a street circuit but it is quite unique,” commented Lawson. “We reach our highest speed at this track but it doesn’t have high speed corners, a lot of 90 degree corners, big braking zones, so it’s really heavy on the brakes. Then Sector 2 is very very twisty through the castle section so it’s a very unique circuit, less bumpy than Monaco.”
Lawson put his car on pole position for the 2021 F2 round in Baku. After a DNF in the first Sprint race, he finished seventh in the second and improved to sixth in the Feature Race.
“It’s very long lap so in Qualifying for example, to put the complete lap together it’s a little bit more tricky than most tracks because you have so many corners to get right. It’s very easy obviously to make small mistakes, and there is a lot of time in those big braking zones to put it all together in a nearly 2 minute lap.”
“Judging on how the year has gone so far, speed wise I have no doubt we will be up there, the car’s been good all year. We should be right there but obviously we’ve been in the wars a little bit so hoping to strike some luck this weekend.”
FIA F2 Track times – NZ
Free Practice – Friday 8:35pm
Qualifying – Saturday 12:30am
Sprint Race – Saturday 9:30pm
Feature Race – Sunday 7:00pm
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