F2 2027 Car Unveiled: New Wings, Same Chassis, Same Job

FIA Formula 2 has unveiled the car it will use from 2027 to 2029, retaining the current Dallara chassis but introducing redesigned front and rear wings, a new on-board starter and updated F1-inspired styling. The aim across all of it is to control costs, improve the racing and keep F2 doing what it is supposed to do: prepare drivers for Formula 1.

Key Points: FIA F2 2027 car

• New car confirmed for the 2027, 2028 and 2029 F2 seasons, unveiled in the F1 paddock at Monza
• Retains the 2026 Dallara chassis to manage costs, with redesigned front and rear wings for closer racing and F1-style styling
• New on-board starter fitted via a Hewland gearbox evolution, letting drivers restart after a spin or stall without external assistance
• Mecachrome 3.4-litre turbo engine, Aramco sustainable fuel and Pirelli tyres all continue unchanged
• FIA 2024 braking, steering and cockpit specifications retained; full F1 2024 safety standards including Titanium Halo carried over
• First kit delivered to teams in December 2026, second kit in January 2027

Same Chassis, New Wings

The 2027 car keeps the 2026 Dallara chassis. That decision is deliberate and it is a cost call first. What changes is the front and rear wing package, redesigned to improve aerodynamic characteristics and give drivers a better chance of closely following the car ahead. The new styling also brings the car visually closer to current Formula 1 design philosophy, aligning the look of the championship with the series it feeds.

The On-Board Starter and Gearbox Evolution

The headline technical addition for 2027 is an on-board starter. Hewland has developed an evolution of the current six-speed longitudinal sequential gearbox to accommodate it, alongside the existing ZF SACHS carbon clutch and non-hydraulic ramp differential. In practice it means a driver who spins or stalls on track can restart the car without external help, simplifying things for teams and potentially reducing the need for marshals to recover a stalled car.

Engine, Fuel and Tyres

Power comes from the same 3.4-litre single turbo Mecachrome V6, rated to 620 HP at 8750 rpm with maximum torque of 570 Nm at 6000 rpm, running on fly-by-wire throttle and rebuilt after 8000 km. It continues to run on Aramco’s advanced sustainable fuel, first introduced to the series in 2025, held in a 125-litre ATL FT5 fuel cell built to FIA standard. Pirelli remains F2’s exclusive tyre supplier, a relationship in place since 2017, continuing to produce slick and wet compounds developed specifically for the championship.

Safety and Retained Specifications

Braking performance, steering effort and cockpit ergonomics stay on the FIA’s 2024 specification, keeping the car accessible to a broad range of drivers while retaining the same physical requirements introduced with the current generation. The Marelli electronic and hydraulic systems package is unchanged, including the EM Motorsport marshalling system. On safety, the car fully complies with the latest FIA standards, carrying full FIA F1 2024 specification protection and a Titanium Halo built to F1 spec.

Timeline to 2027

The 2027 car first ran at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in June 2026 and has since gone through an intensive development programme jointly with Dallara, including wind tunnel and aero testing. Teams will receive a first kit in December 2026, with a second kit following in January 2027, giving teams the winter to prepare before the car makes its competitive debut in 2027.

The Pathway to F1

F2 was formed in 2017 as the penultimate stage of the FIA single-seater pyramid, and 2026 marks its tenth season. The 2024 graduating class showed exactly why that pathway matters: champion Gabriel Bortoleto, Oliver Bearman, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Isack Hadjar all stepped up to Formula 1 with strong rookie seasons, joining alumni including Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, who in 2025 became the first F2 graduate to win the Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship. Arvid Lindblad made his F1 debut in 2026 having come through the same system.

Coffee Corner Take

Keeping the chassis is the real story. A completely new one would have been the easy headline. Instead, F2 has kept the proven base and focused the development money on areas that should actually improve the championship: aero, racing quality and the operational headache of stalled cars. That is probably the smarter use of the budget.

And the pathway itself hardly needs reinventing. The recent graduate list already includes Bortoleto, Bearman, Antonelli and Hadjar, while Norris became the first F2 graduate to win the F1 title in 2025. The car doesn’t need to be radically different. It needs to keep producing drivers who are ready for the next step.

The on-board starter is a small detail that will matter more than it sounds. Every stalled car that needs recovering can cost the field track time and turn a simple mistake into a much bigger interruption. Fixing that without touching the chassis or the cost base is exactly the kind of unglamorous improvement a proper pathway series should be making.

This is the other job F2 does that gets less credit than the driver pipeline. It gives the sport somewhere to develop and prove systems lower down the ladder before similar ideas ever need to be considered at Formula 1 scale. The starter is a good example of the sort of change that can be introduced here, understood properly and refined without rebuilding the whole car around it.

Keep doing that well enough and nobody outside the paddock notices it’s happening. Which is probably the point.