Noel Leon Wins Montreal Sprint for First F2 Standings Victory

Noel Leon won the Montreal Sprint Race for his first FIA Formula 2 victory, and the result shifted the f2 standings in Campos Racing’s favor. He started third, was knocked back by early contact at Turn 1, then recovered to finish 3.7 seconds clear.

Leon’s Montreal charge

Leon’s path to the win turned on one restart and one clean pass. After the Turn 1 hit with Joshua Duerksen left him back in P3, he re-passed Duerksen and then closed on Gabriele Mini as the race settled into its middle phase.

A Safety Car brought the field back together, and that reset gave Leon his opening. One lap after the restart, he used the slipstream and DRS into Turn 12 to take P1 from Mini and never give it back.

Mini, Dunne, and the podium

Mini finished second after being passed by Alexander Dunne on the final lap. Dunne received a 10-second time penalty for an earlier incident and contact at Turn 10, which left the result in Leon’s hands once the penalty was applied. Martinius Stenshorne took third for Rodin Motorsport after surviving contact with Nikola Tsolov and John Bennett at the hairpin.

The finishing order mattered beyond the podium. Campos Racing recorded its third win of 2026, and Leon’s victory moved him up to fourth in the Drivers’ Championship. For a driver who started the race on the back foot after the Turn 1 clash, the margin at the flag was the cleaner statement.

Campos Racing and the standings

The win also pushed Campos Racing further clear at the top of the Teams’ Standings. Leon now sits fourth in the championship, while Mini heads into Sunday’s Feature Race leading the standings ahead of Rafael Camara, with Nikola Tsolov third and Laurens van Hoepen fifth.

That leaves Montreal with a clear next layer of pressure. Leon already converted a messy start into his first Formula 2 victory, and the Sunday Feature Race now opens with the title picture compressed around Mini, Camara, Tsolov, Leon, and van Hoepen.