F2 Feature Race Highlights | 2026 Italian Grand Prix

To the left of screen is Joshua Dirksen, to the right is Rafa Kamara, and we are go for the feature race here at Monza. A fairly even start off the front row. Dirksen, in fact, leapfrogging his teammate Kamara. So he's going to lead us down towards the Retafilo chicane in the Alpine colours. That is Alex Dunne in third place. Intrapuvozac trying to go around the outside. And Kamara has gone wide and straight over the first chicane. And Dirksen will help himself to the lead. Kamara rejoins in second. Another good start for Intrapuvozac. Don't need to be steering arms at dawn, do they, down in Turn 1? Because they know Intrapuvozac is close and he's met the magic number now. 0.9 seconds for Kamara to the inside of his teammate. Down he goes and that's going to be a change of lead and Dirksen will not fight that one. It will be damage limitation as the top two charge towards the Retafilo chicane. Kamara leading Dirksen. But Dirksen will be looking to try and take that lead back. We're getting towards the pit stop range and there goes Dirksen. Just as we hit the braking zone, Dirksen goes by. So the two teammates duking it out. And Intrapuvozac right with them now, along with Alex Dunne. They might as well just keep on rotating through and get themselves to the pit window, where we are now with no pit callers present. Kamara back into the lead ahead of Dirksen. So Invicta here, we'll see if they choose to double stack. I doubt it. They're going to bring in Dirksen, the rearmost driver first, indicative of the reality of Formula 2, which is the tax in a pit stop includes getting the tyre up to speed. The overcut is more powerful than the undercut in general because of that difficulty. And so they're not putting Kamara under pressure from Dirksen. Rafa Kamara, though, has taken advantage of having a clear road ahead, hasn't he? Driving away, how front turned. He's now going to come into the pit lane on lap 8. You can see the average time lost. We'll see where he comes out in comparison to Joshua Dirksen and more drivers struggling to get it slowed down. It's getting very busy down in pit lane now. So this is the second tranche then. Formula 2 pit stops taking longer than Formula 1, making double stacking even worse for the drivers. And Kamara's got in and out into the queue very nicely there. That was a moment of danger for him. But they found him a gap beautifully in Victor. Yeah, really good start. Let's see where he is in comparison to Dirksen, who's heading down the start finish straight now. There he is. And Kamara has got a gap over him. It's just a case of getting the tyres up to temperature. This is going to be very close between them into the first braking zone. Dirksen right behind and he's going to go by. Joshua Dirksen into the lead of the race. Kamara drops back. He will have slightly younger tyres and it's getting busy. Behind, isn't it? That's John Bennett fighting off Noel Leon. And Noel Leon will now try and get the run round Curva Grande. It's worked out beautifully for Dirksen. He's actually done a brilliant job of getting the soft tyre up and ready in a lovely gap on the racetrack as these two go side by side down towards the Roja chicane. And so Leon, he makes his way around the outside of John Bennett. But now will also be able to compound his advantage over Kamara. Leon, that's the inside of Intropuvozac. He's just come out of the pit lane. So you've got drivers on hot tyres here making their way through those who are escaping the pit lane with a massive advantage. Kontenherter appears to have come in as well. I thought he would be going longer in the race as he started on the soft tyre. Damage on the front wing. Ah, yes. Solov going by. Is that Rotomo Miata? Let's have a look. He's behind Rotomo Miata now because he's gone by Martinez Stenshorn. So Nikola Solov making a place. And the gap is 2.3. It's now down to 2.1. It was 2.7 just a couple of laps ago. Talking about the advantage available at the end as Intropuvozac. Oh, that's very tight. Solov then under pressure, all managing to get through. Intropuvozac having to go defensive from Stenshorn and Solov on the way down to the first chicane. Yellow flag out on track. Let's find out what happened to Herter. We saw what happened at the end. That shot tells us who went in the gravel. That shot tells us he's in the gravel and we'll find out why in a minute. It's the standard accident, isn't it? Really in the middle of Parabolica, loss of the rear. Back green here at Monza in the feature race for Round 10. On to lap 17 of 30. We head now and Dirksen straight away trying to break the toe. But he's done an absolutely superb job on that restart. And now it's put Rafa Kammerer under huge amounts of pressure. And Alex Dunne is going to try and go into second place. A little bit deep on the brakes is Kammerer there, but holding on to second place. And Stenshorn in the white and black road and in the background fighting away with Goethe. It was deep from Solov down towards turn one as well. Goethe is under pressure. This is Alex Dunne, though, looking down the outside of Kammerer into the Roger chicane. Wow, side-by-side, just about enough room for the Alpine Junior. But a huge lock-up and he's going to have to go straight on. Race director's instructions complete there for Dunne, but he's going to lose a place to Noel Leon, who's trying to get past Kammerer in towards the first Lesmo. So Dunne dropping back to P4 and his tyres won't like that at all. Protonin Miata sits in seventh place, just ahead of Nikola Solov. But what he's working on at the moment is trying to make a move on to Zinepol Intrepuvozac with the DRS open down the retifilo. Yeah, he's going to have to keep an eye in his mirrors here. Alex Dunne seems to have settled now in fourth and Intrepuvozac is going by Miata there, side-by-side, going into the corner. In fact, Miata taking back that place, having lost it to Intrepuvozac. Noel Leon just behind now and then it is Stenshuld. Gravel all over the road as well, through the exit of the Roger chicane as they make their way through. It looks like Solov has had a difficult run through the chicane and that's a bit of Stenshuld's front wing that's come off as a result of contact there, getting very rough through the Roger. Yeah, and it was Stenshuld trying to get by Solov for P8. Let's have a look at what happened to Villa-Gomez fighting with Maini. Yeah, so Villa-Gomez is a bit of a half move down the inside and just clobbers the rear of the car and did well to get away with that did Maini. There's the exit. So Solov's really not got out well, has he? And Stenshuld then has been unable to react. Down the start-finish straight and we prepare for the three drivers currently in the podium positions about to duke it out going into the final five laps for the win here at Monza. And then looking down the outside of Alex Dunne. Inside, I should say, easy overspeed there. Dunne, limited defense. And I wonder if these two are just thinking, if we keep it neat and tidy here, there might be an opportunity for a podium because that was not the defense I expect to see from Alex Dunne. That was a choice and not a victimhood down towards Turn 1. Yeah, it's let's use DRS sensibly and work together. And that is exactly what they're looking to do on the final lap. Gotta get a good exit through Ascari here. No mistakes can be made from Joshua Dirks and Camara is right there. Out of Ascari now and it's the final DRS zone down towards Parabolica and Camara is getting closer. Will he be able to go for a move here? He has to be very close to do it. Otherwise, it will not be worth the risk. And I don't think he's going to try. It's going to be Joshua Dirksen taking a record equaling eighth win and doing the double in the process at the Temple of Speed. What a weekend for Invicta Racing. They get a double win and a one-two finish at the Temple of Speed. Joshua Dirksen, an absolutely superb performance. Joining Nikola Solov as one of the drivers to do the double. He's just the fifth driver to take the double in the modern era of Formula 2. Invicta Racing cannot believe it. They've made a big swing in the championship today with Rafa Camara. A big move in the team's championship and they've won both races. What a weekend. Understandable delight. Outstanding restart and he drove it to the line with a lot of pressure from his teammates. So easy to make a mistake. Joshua Dirksen kept his head. Here's a look at the results in full. A great fight between the two teammates out front. But it's Joshua Dirksen who hangs on to the win ahead of Rafa Camara. Noel Leon in third. The Temple of Speed belongs to Joshua Dirksen. He has done the double here at Monza. What a weekend for the Invicta Racing driver and a 1-2 finish for the team here at Monza.