What engineering support does F2 have?

There is extensive engineering expertise within the F2 team. Our Chief Engineer, James Goodfield, is permanently based at our Bedford team headquarters and has outstanding experience and ability. Having worked at Jaguar F1, in DTM, and with Team GB in A1GP as a race engineer, he has an excellent racing and engineering pedigree. James is constantly working to develop the car and optimise setups for the drivers.

James oversees the team of F2 race engineers at events. Our F2 engineers are all carefully recruited and have experience of race engineering some or all of F3, FR3.5, Le Mans, DTM and GP2 cars, as well as F2 and even F1 experience.

Each F2 race engineer looks after three cars at a race weekend. Their time is equally spread across their three drivers. In reality, all drivers have more than enough time with their engineers and extra time with race engineers is always available. Partly to ensure this, the sessions for practice, qualifying and races are spread evenly across the three days, allowing plenty of time between each.

F2 race engineers work with the same group of three drivers for a test and race event. After each event race engineers move to another driver group on a rotating basis. This preserves equality, puts the emphasis on driver ability and trains drivers to improve their communication and relationship -building skills whilst making them more adaptable.

Engineering support between events is available to all drivers either directly from the F2 Chief Engineer or from the F2 Race Engineer with whom the driver will work at the next event.