Lawson qualifies 7th, Piastri on top in FIA F2 finale

PREMA Racing’s Oscar Piastri capped off his final FIA Formula 2 Championship Qualifying session with a fifth successive pole position, lapping at 1:35.077 to add four points to his Championship tally and move one step closer to securing the Drivers’ title. MP Motorsport rookie Jack Doohan continued his impressive start to life in the second tier by securing a spot on the front row, ahead of UNI-Virtuosi’s Guanyu Zhou.

As they have been for much of the season, PREMA were the early pace setters, with Piastri setting 1:36.044 to head Robert Shwartzman and Jehan Daruvala under the lights in Abu Dhabi.

There were plenty of improvements as the field headed off for their second set of flyers, but there was no change to the name at the top of the timesheets, with Piastri retaining P1.

This time around, he was followed by the Campos of Ralph Boschung, who ducked into second, three tenths off the leading pace of 1:35.379. Shwartzman had to settle for third, with Daruvala and Doohan rounding out the top five.

There weren’t any improvements on the third tour of the Yas Marina Circuit as the tyre began to wane and the grid opted to head into the pits for a freshen up.

Qualifying Results