F2 Monza Feature Race 2026: Duerksen Sweeps the Weekend

Joshua Duerksen swept the Monza weekend at the F2 Monza Feature Race 2026, surviving three lead swaps with teammate Rafael Câmara before the pit stops settled it, then holding off a late charge to add a Feature Race win to Saturday’s Sprint victory. It’s his fourth win of the 2026 season and, on the numbers in the weekend’s own reporting, a record-equalling eighth Formula 2 win overall. Câmara closed to within 0.3 seconds at Parabolica on the final lap but couldn’t find a way past, finishing second on the day and moving up to second in the championship off the back of it. Noel León completed the podium in third for Campos Racing, continuing a strong run of form. Colton Herta was the race’s only retirement, a spin into the Parabolica gravel trap bringing out the Safety Car at half distance. Nikola Tsolov finished seventh and heads to Madrid still leading the championship, though Câmara has cut the gap to eleven points.

Key Points: F2 Monza Feature Race 2026

• Duerksen sweeps the Monza weekend, adding Feature Race victory to Saturday’s Sprint win for his fourth win of the 2026 season
• Câmara closes to within 0.3 seconds of his teammate into Parabolica on the final lap but can’t find a way through, finishes second
• Duerksen and Câmara trade the lead three times before the mandatory pit-stop phase settles the order
• Safety Car deployed at half distance after Colton Herta spins into the Parabolica gravel trap, the race’s only retirement
• León completes the podium in third for Campos Racing, continuing a strong run of form
• Tsolov finishes seventh but heads to Madrid still leading the championship, now eleven points clear of Câmara

Race Recap: F2 Monza Feature Race 2026

The Invicta Fight for the Lead

Câmara made the better launch off the line. It didn’t hold. He missed his braking point into the first corner and had to cut across the chicane to rejoin, handing the lead to Duerksen before the race was a lap old. Neither driver let it go easily from there. Câmara passed him at Turn 1 on Lap 4 to take it back. Duerksen had it again a lap later. Câmara took it once more on Lap 6. Three changes of the lead between the two Invictas inside the opening six laps, each one about protecting position rather than settling anything.

Further back, Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak dispatched both Rodin Motorsport cars at Turn 1 to move up to third, Alexander Dunne ran fourth, and Noel León passed Martinius Stenshorne for fifth inside the first sector.

The Pit Stops Settle It

The order that mattered came from the pit lane, not the track. Duerksen was called in the moment the window opened at the end of Lap 6, an early stop that traded short-term track position for a tyre advantage while Câmara stayed out. Dunne reacted immediately with a stop of his own, locking up badly under braking on the way in. Câmara held the lead until the end of Lap 8, two laps after Duerksen’s stop, then pitted himself with most of the top ten following him in. Duerksen’s earlier stop had done its job. Câmara emerged behind his teammate, and for the first time the Invicta fight had a settled order.

Behind them, León worked his way past Inthraphuvasak with a dive to the inside of the first Lesmo on Lap 9. Bennett, Miyata, Tsolov and Stenshorne all came through on the Thai driver across consecutive laps, dropping him to eleventh, before a double overtake at Turn 1 lifted him back to eighth by Lap 12.

Herta Resets the Race

Colton Herta spun into the gravel trap at Parabolica, bringing out the Safety Car and the race’s only retirement. Racing resumed heading into Lap 17 with half the Feature Race still to run.

Câmara’s Second Attack

Duerksen got the stronger restart and held the lead. Câmara had Dunne to deal with first, the Irishman setting up a switchback into Turn 4 before locking up and running through the runoff, dropping him to fourth behind León. Duerksen pulled more than a second clear in the laps that followed. Câmara hauled it back down to half a second by Lap 23, with León running equidistant behind him in third. Miyata took sixth from Inthraphuvasak with DRS on Lap 19, and slight contact between Tsolov and Stenshorne exiting the second chicane cost the Norwegian a front wing endplate. Bennett passed Dunne for fourth with DRS on Lap 25, a fight that ran into the closing laps as Miyata and Tsolov joined in.

On the penultimate lap Câmara forced a defensive move from Duerksen into the first corner, the gap down to half a second. He had it to three tenths heading into Parabolica on the final lap but couldn’t find a way through. Duerksen took the win, doubling up at Monza. León completed the podium in third, Bennett and Miyata followed in fourth and fifth, and Dunne held off Tsolov in the closing laps to keep sixth. Inthraphuvasak, Goethe and Varrone rounded out the points down to tenth.

Classification: F2 Monza Feature Race 2026

Rafael Câmara set the overall fastest lap of the race, a 1:32.884 on Lap 22, which also carried the bonus point as the fastest lap set inside the points-paying positions.

Championship Standings: F2 Monza Feature Race 2026

Dunne sits fourth on 118 points, just four clear of León in fifth on 114. In the Teams’ standings, Campos Racing leads on 291 points ahead of Invicta Racing on 244, with MP Motorsport third on 184, four points clear of Rodin Motorsport in fourth. ART Grand Prix round out the top five on 151.

F2 heads to Madrid and the new Madring circuit for Round 11, September 11-13.

Coffee Corner Take

Duerksen won Monza twice. Sprint on Saturday, Feature on Sunday, and a fourth win of the season. He went into the weekend on 42 points. He leaves it on 77, still 100 behind Tsolov’s 177. That’s not a title conversation. It’s a driver who’s made himself relevant again, and Invicta will take that over the alternative.

Câmara had enough pace to make Duerksen work for it. He was still fending off Dunne at the restart while his teammate pulled more than a second clear. By Lap 23 he’d hauled that back to half a second. By Parabolica on the final lap it was three tenths, and nowhere to put the car. That’s the margin between Duerksen sweeping Monza and the Invicta teammates leaving with a win apiece. Câmara leaves Italy second in the championship anyway, jumping Minì in the process, eleven points off Tsolov and eleven closer than he was heading in. That gap is the story now.

Tsolov’s seventh was hardly spectacular, but it mattered. On a weekend where Câmara started from pole and finished second, the championship leader still banked points and leaves Monza with an eleven-point cushion heading to Madrid. That’s championship management, not a highlight reel.

León’s third continues a run that’s starting to look less like a good patch and more like a pattern, and it’s helping Campos stretch their Teams’ lead to nearly fifty points over Invicta.

Madrid and the Madring circuit next. Brand new track, no history to lean on, and a title fight that’s suddenly a lot closer than it was a few weeks ago.