The championship battle was between
McLaren junior programme drivers
Kevin Magnussen and
Stoffel Vandoorne. Magnussen clinched the championship title with a race to spare,[1] and ultimately finished sixty points ahead of Vandoorne. Despite having less wins than in 2012,
António Félix da Costa improved to the third place in the drivers' standings.
Nico Müller,
Marco Sørensen and
Carlos Huertas were the only other winners outside the top three.
Oliver Webb, who competed in
Indy Lights in 2012, returned to the series with Fortec Motorsports.[8]
Christopher Zanella, who finished third in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship signed with ISR team.[10]
Mid-season changes
FIA Formula Two runner-up
Mathéo Tuscher replaced Emmanuel Piget at Zeta Corse after the first round.[26]
Carlos Sainz Jr. joined Zeta Corse for the third round of the championship in
Monaco, replacing Marinescu.[24] Sainz races for the team again for the final three rounds.
BVM Target was demoted from racing team to reserve team when series organisers released a provisional entry list in November 2012. The team was divided into two entries; Zeta Management and MT Motorsport, which was previously known as the Max Travin Racing Team.[32] The team was later accepted onto the grid under the name
Zeta Corse and registered as an Italian team.[22]
Polesitter for each race in bold. No points are awarded.
Driver who recorded fastest lap denoted in italics. No points are awarded.
Driver who retired but was classified denoted by †.
Footnotes
^The team competed as
P1 Motorsport for the first round at
Monza, before
Nick Leventis purchased the team's assets and renamed it as "P1 by Strakka Racing".
^Both qualifying and the race for the second event at Aragon were shortened and the mandatory pit-stop cancelled after problems with
Zytek engines were detected.[39]
^
abSirotkin missed the first race at Le Castellet, due to commitments with
Sauber in
Sochi, Russia.[40]
^
abJaafar missed the final round at Barcelona after suffering from severe parotiditis.
^
ab"Buller con Zeta Corse a Mosca" [Buller with Zeta Corse in Moscow]. ItaliaRacing.net (in Italian). Inpagina. 14 June 2013. Archived from
the original on 5 July 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
^Allen, Peter (27 September 2013).
"Magnussen heads first practice at Paul Ricard". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 28 September 2013. Zanella's ISR team-mate Sergey Sirotkin is set to be absent until Sunday morning's qualifying while he makes his F1 debut with Sauber at a demonstration run in Sochi.
The championship battle was between
McLaren junior programme drivers
Kevin Magnussen and
Stoffel Vandoorne. Magnussen clinched the championship title with a race to spare,[1] and ultimately finished sixty points ahead of Vandoorne. Despite having less wins than in 2012,
António Félix da Costa improved to the third place in the drivers' standings.
Nico Müller,
Marco Sørensen and
Carlos Huertas were the only other winners outside the top three.
Oliver Webb, who competed in
Indy Lights in 2012, returned to the series with Fortec Motorsports.[8]
Christopher Zanella, who finished third in the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship signed with ISR team.[10]
Mid-season changes
FIA Formula Two runner-up
Mathéo Tuscher replaced Emmanuel Piget at Zeta Corse after the first round.[26]
Carlos Sainz Jr. joined Zeta Corse for the third round of the championship in
Monaco, replacing Marinescu.[24] Sainz races for the team again for the final three rounds.
BVM Target was demoted from racing team to reserve team when series organisers released a provisional entry list in November 2012. The team was divided into two entries; Zeta Management and MT Motorsport, which was previously known as the Max Travin Racing Team.[32] The team was later accepted onto the grid under the name
Zeta Corse and registered as an Italian team.[22]
Polesitter for each race in bold. No points are awarded.
Driver who recorded fastest lap denoted in italics. No points are awarded.
Driver who retired but was classified denoted by †.
Footnotes
^The team competed as
P1 Motorsport for the first round at
Monza, before
Nick Leventis purchased the team's assets and renamed it as "P1 by Strakka Racing".
^Both qualifying and the race for the second event at Aragon were shortened and the mandatory pit-stop cancelled after problems with
Zytek engines were detected.[39]
^
abSirotkin missed the first race at Le Castellet, due to commitments with
Sauber in
Sochi, Russia.[40]
^
abJaafar missed the final round at Barcelona after suffering from severe parotiditis.
^
ab"Buller con Zeta Corse a Mosca" [Buller with Zeta Corse in Moscow]. ItaliaRacing.net (in Italian). Inpagina. 14 June 2013. Archived from
the original on 5 July 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
^Allen, Peter (27 September 2013).
"Magnussen heads first practice at Paul Ricard". Paddock Scout. Retrieved 28 September 2013. Zanella's ISR team-mate Sergey Sirotkin is set to be absent until Sunday morning's qualifying while he makes his F1 debut with Sauber at a demonstration run in Sochi.