F2 Sprint Race Highlights | 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

21 laps of sprint race action coming up this round 12 of the season. To the right of screen is Lorenz Vanhoefen. To the left, your pole sitter and championship leader, Nikola Solov. And we are go for the sprint race and a good start there from Solov. That'll be enough to hang on to the race lead. Dino Mikanovic going round the outside there of Vanhoefen to go into second place. Montoya is next. Then his teammate, Mari Boya, the Aston Martin Junior, who's been tagged round there by Rafa Kamara. And that is the end of the race for Mari Boya. Rafa Kamara locking up, going into the corner there and going straight into the back of Mari Boya. Will we see an early safety car, Alex? Let's have a look at it again then. So we're coming out of turn one, down towards turn two. And for me there, Kamara has just missed his braking point and run to the back of him. Now we're on board with Kamara. I think we're just going to get in just a little bit too deep and lock the inside front. And that's all you need. Cold brakes, cold tires, just a little bit of a misjudgment. Will there be any afters from that, from race control? You would have thought there would, because it's a clear misjudgment that has ended a driver's race. Here's the move from Alex Dunne down the inside. Two cars in one in the melee there. Up the inside of Mellany, up the inside of Leon. Ten second penalty for Rafa Kamara for causing a collision. So he's going to try and make progress through the rest of this race, but will lose ten seconds at the line. Back green for the sprint race here at Baku. Down towards the first corner they go. Solove ahead of Biganovic. We're side by side in the background. That looks like Kamara going around the outside of Sebastian Montoya to grab fourth place on the road. Montoya trying to fight him into the next braking zone. And Kamara just about managing to get around the outside as they charge towards turn three. Just enough space. Let's try again on the way down towards turn three. Kamara will finally have a right-hander to play with. Dino Biganovic thought about it a couple of times and Dunne to the inside of the pair of them once more. Does he make it on camera? No, he doesn't, but he manages to get by Montoya on the apex of three. Villegomes has dropped off the back of the field. You'll see him just at the top of screen. So he's had a little bit of trouble on this restart, somewhere at the start of the lap. But Joshua Dirksen up to 11th place. Is he going to get in just a little bit deep and have to cut to the run-off area? Yes, he is. Solov and Biganovic. And here we go. Dams driver with the DRS availability towards turn one. What can Solov do to defend the place? Biganovic trying to go around the outside and he'll clear Solov before they hit the braking zone. And Dino Biganovic is into the lead of the race. What a start it's been from the Ferrari Junior. Nikola Solov now second. Lorenz van Hoopen right there. Dunne has cleared camera. Yeah, we're hearing camera might have made a mistake there. And Alex Dunne will now be focusing on van Hoopen and a possible podium finish. And van Hoopen's got the run on Nikola Solov. Has he made a mistake out of turn 16? Surely he has, as van Hoopen now drives by him. I think, yeah, just has a little moment on the way in. And that is a very difficult exit. You can see why he was under pressure down towards one. And an easy drive-by then for Lorenz van Hoopen and a costly mistake in terms of championship points. Is Nikola Solov now going to lose third place? Heading down towards the first corner. Alex Dunne charging towards the inside this time. And that'll be third place for Alex Dunne. Nikola Solov now off the podium places. He's got his championship rival Rafa Kamra just ahead, carrying that 10-second penalty. But Kamra is going to go straight through at turn two. Kamra with a move to the inside. Solov retains the inside as they make their way down towards turn three. Both have DRS and the two championship contenders in very close proximity on the racetrack. But it's a virtual race really. What can Kamra do now to be the biggest possible problem for Nikola Solov in this race? Solov has now lost the DRS to Kamra as well. That's Roman Belinsky going by Noel Leon. So the other Campos driver just struggling a little bit here and is going to lose another place to Gabriele Mini who's now in the top 10 and a little bit closer to getting in the points. This has been a good recovery drive for him so far. Now setting up a move on Roman Belinsky. Yeah, great stuff from Mini. 14th on the grid, difficult qualifying as a few of them have been throughout this year. He's now driven it to the brink of the points and looks like he's going to be able to challenge. Yeah, I think he might be able to into the next corner. Gabriele Mini sends it in. The barrier was coming very fast at him, but just about got it stopped in time. Roman Belinsky doesn't like that and he's going to respond straight away to the next corner. Alex, Gabriele Mini will have to go again, but I'll tell you what, that a corner where we often see drivers go for moves and find the barrier straight away and that was almost the case there for Gabriele Mini. This is going to be an opportunity for Stenchon. He is right behind Montoya. Montoya has the DRS on Solov. Stenchon's going to try this time. To the inside goes the road in driver and that'll be P6 for him. Next up is Nikola Solov. Yeah, Stenchon, we saw him do this move last time around to grab the place on Montoya. This time it's going to be a little bit easier. Martinius Stenchon is going to use the DRS and go straight by Solov. He can't fight that one in the background. That's Kushminey going by Montoya to get himself up to seventh. Roman Belinsky is right there as well. Gabriele Mini seems to have dropped away from this. He's now having to fend off Miata as Belinsky goes through to put himself into eighth place and into the points. Just got to have the pace in this one. Yellow flag is out. That's track set to 10. Oh, Dirksen in the wall. Joshua Dirksen, that's at the first corner, isn't it? He's gone wide through there, but will he be able to get going is the question. Is he stuck in the barrier? Is this going to be a move down the inside that goes a right? Joshua Dirksen passes him, then passes the apex, then passes the corner. Exactly that. Dino Biganovic, his lead, has now gone. And it looks like Rafa Kammerer might be doing just what you said here, Alex. He's going to come through the pit lane and put some super soft tyres on that car. Yeah, so do they hold him here and serve the penalty in the pit lane and then put a set of super soft tyres on the car and see? So no immediate work then for Rafa Kammerer. They wait for 10 seconds to make sure the penalty is cleared and then he'll battle again to the end of the race with the super soft tyre on. And that's really the only call that they can make. Dino Biganovic will take us up to the line. Our sprint race winner from last year, our feature race winner at the Madring. Can he go and get back-to-back victories? He's got Lorenz van Hoopen in his mirrors, getting ready to go. Alex Dunn, fourth in the championship there in third place. And Dino Biganovic has now got his foot down as we have one to go in the sprint race. Who is going to end on the top step of the podium? Alex Dunn trying to line up a move on van Hoopen and Olly Girth has got it all wrong. Who's he going to take with him? It's going to be Gabriele Mini, the driver third in the championship. He's all gone off into that first corner. Rafa Kammerer was involved in that with, I think, Rotomo Miata. And there's going to be some big beneficiaries of that, including Colton Hurter, who's up into the top ten. Yeah, so it's Leon who's hit Miata in the first corner. Rafa Kammerer stopped in the middle of the racetrack. Has he kept the engine going? Looks like he can continue. But any idea of driving back through to the top ten is now lost for Kammerer. Dunn still retaining third position, but he's under pressure. Has his money from Belinsky down the inside. Great move there from Belinsky. Montoya getting through as well, taking full advantage. Van Hoopen still within a second of Biganovic trying to get through. But really, he'll have the pressure from behind of Alex Dunn. He has his teammate, Martini Estench, on there. Nikola Solov in fifth place. And then this is the battle for sixth with Belinsky and Montoya. Got the orange MP of Olli Goerthe, who's going to come skickling down the inside and connect with Gabriele Mini. Then a second incident where Noel Leon is closed at the apex by Rotomo Miata. And so that's what played out there. And that's the second one is what actually caught out Rafa Kammerer. Yeah, the two MP teammates coming together there. And then let's have a look at it on board from Rafa Kammerer. Not a huge amount of visibility is there for Kammerer. And just has to check up. Nowhere to go. Does well, actually. It's going to be back-to-back sprint race wins here at Baku for Dino Biganovic and back-to-back victories in Formula 2. What form the Swedish driver is on as he comes across the line to take the sprint race win here at Baku. Lorenz van Hoopen finishing in second and great championship points for Odin's Alex Dunne, who is on fire this weekend. Charged through from the fifth row of the grid to get himself a podium finish. But once again, on the top step is Dino Biganovic. That was a good one. We didn't think that before the race, did we? And you can be calm. Thank you, guys. Amazing job. Great, great job. Back-to-back. Let's go. It is back-to-back victories in Baku for Dino Biganovic. A huge congratulations to him. He'll be very happy with that one. Showing such great form at the moment. The Ferrari Junior flying with confidence will be one to watch for the rest of the weekend, no doubt. Dino Biganovic it is, who takes the victory in the first of three races coming up at Baku this weekend. Lorenz van Hoopen in second and a charge through from both Alex Dunne and Martinis Stensjoon from row five to finish third and fourth. And Solov in fifth. Crucial points for the championship leader. Well done to Dino Biganovic. Gap at the front of the championship. Now 11 points between Niklas Solov and Rafa Kamara. But today was all about Dino Biganovic. Brilliant drive, just hunting for victories now, isn't he?