Prema indicators Montoya to finish 2025 F2 line-up

Sebastian Montoya has earned a promotion to System 2 and can contest the 2025 season with Prema Racing, returning to the squad he final raced for in 2022.

The 19-year-old son of seven-time grand prix winner Juan Pablo Montoya will associate Gabriele Mini on the Italian squad, which completed fifth within the 2024 standings.

Montoya first joined Prema in 2020 to compete in System 4 and System Regional, earlier than becoming a member of Hitech Grand Prix for his transfer to System 3 in 2023.

He spent two seasons within the sequence, transferring to Campos in 2024 the place he completed seventeenth within the standings with a podium within the Spa-Francorchamps function race.

“I’m very excited to hitch Prema for the 2025 FIA System 2 season,” stated Montoya, who’s a Crimson Bull junior.

“It was the primary workforce I labored with and that makes it very cool to see how they advanced.

“It is without doubt one of the greatest groups in feeder sequence racing and now on the earth. I’m delighted to hitch forces with them once more and can’t wait to get began.”

Prema has received three F2 drivers’ titles because the championship re-branded in 2017, serving to Charles Leclerc, Mick Schumacher and Oscar Piastri all declare glory.

Its drivers this 12 months, Oliver Bearman and Andrea Kimi Antonelli, have each moved to System 1 for 2025 with the outcome that Prema may have an all-new line-up subsequent season.

Montoya’s fellow rookie, Mini, stays with Prema after ending second to Leonardo Fornaroli within the F3 standings.

The Alpine junior will return to F2 after ending third within the Baku dash race when referred to as as much as substitute Bearman, who was subbing for the banned Kevin Magnussen on the Haas F1 workforce, on a powerful debut outing.

Prema boss Rene Rosin stated of Montoya: “It’s nice to be working with Sebastian once more.

“We actually loved the collaboration in System 4 and System Regional, and heading into the 2025 FIA System 2 Championship, we’re certain there’s good potential to be put to fruition.

“The step to F2 is rarely straightforward, however we’re decided to arrange nicely collectively at house and in testing and construct on that.”

Montoya is the fifteenth driver confirmed for the 2025 F2 marketing campaign following a flurry of bulletins since final weekend’s Abu Dhabi season finale, the place F1-bound Gabriel Bortoleto received the title for Invicta.

On Tuesday, Hitech introduced that Dino Beganovic will associate Luke Browning, the Swede transferring throughout after a powerful finish to the season with DAMS.

Dino Beganovic, DAMS

Picture by: James Sutton / Motorsport Photographs

ART additionally introduced Ritomo Miyata as its first signing, the 2023 Tremendous System champion becoming a member of from Rodin Motorsport for a second season in F2.

Roman Stanek and Kush Maini will return for a 3rd F2 season at Invicta and DAMS respectively, whereas F3 race winner Sami Meguetounif has been introduced at Trident to associate Max Esterson, the duo among the many 9 drivers up to now making the full-time step-up from F3.

2025 System 2 grid up to now

Invicta Racing: Leonardo Fornaroli, Roman Stanek
Campos Racing: Arvid Lindblad, TBC
MP Motorsport: Richard Verschoor, Oliver Goethe
Hitech Pulse-Eight: Dino Beganovic, Luke Browning
Prema Racing: Gabriele Mini, Sebastian Montoya
DAMS: Jak Crawford, Kush Maini
ART Grand Prix: Ritomo Miyata, TBC
Rodin Motorsport: Christian Mansell, TBC
AIX Racing: TBC, TBC
Trident: Max Esterson, Sami Meguetounif
Van Amersfoort Racing: TBC, TBC