What changes can be made?

Contrary to some misconceptions, you can make pretty much as many adjustments to an F2 car as you can in F3, GP3, WSR or GP2. The following are all free to adjust:

• Front springs
• Rear springs
• Front ARB (from cockpit)
• Rear ARB
• Ride height
• Camber
• Tracking
• Front wing flap (from cockpit)
• Rear wing
• High & low-speed bump & rebound damping
• 3rd element (heave spring) spring-rate (front)
• 3rd element (heave spring) packer gap (front & rear)
• Engine map via steering wheel control
• Tyre Pressures

Before each event a Set-Up Sheet will be produced by the F2 Chief Engineer and approved by the FIA Technical Delegate. The Set-Up Sheet will specify the base line set up with which the F2 car will leave the workshop by default.

In F2 there is a limitation on what parts can be actually changed, in order to keep your drive price down. Spring changes front and rear are limited to two options each. There are two options of rear anti-roll bar. The front antiroll bar has an extensive range of adjustment, via a cockpit control.

What you won't be able to change are the gear ratios, which are optimally selected by F2 for each circuit. An advantage of this is that data is always comparable by all drivers and you don't have to worry that some other driver may have an advantage here. Differential settings are also fixed. However the reality is that running time pressures make such changes rare in other formulae anyway.