Azerbaijan

Baku's walls produced the usual carnage. Crawford took Feature pole after Martins crashed at Turn 3, deleting his lap and bringing out a red flag. The Sprint was Beganovic's maiden F2 win, leading a Hitech one-two from Browning with Dunne third despite a Turn 1 lock-up. Two safety cars punctuated the race, the first for a Turn 1 melee after Martí spun Villagómez, the second tied to Stenshorne's retirement, with light rain arriving in the closing stages. The Feature went to Crawford, his fourth win of the year, who lost the lead at the start but regained it through the safety car and pit sequence and held off Dürksen's late DRS attacks by barely two-tenths. Dürksen recovered from deep on the grid despite early front-wing damage. Beganovic completed the podium after Fornaroli, third on the road, took a ten-second penalty for hitting Dunne and dropped to fifth. A safety car for Stenshorne's crash reshuffled the strategy, and Fornaroli's earlier unsafe release left him fighting on a difficult tyre. The champion-elect still extended his lead, now nineteen clear of Crawford.