León disqualified from F2 Feature Race at Spa; full results here
- Vyas Ponnuri
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
Campos racer Noel León has been disqualified from the Formula 2 Feature Race at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, with the Spanish team also reprimanded over the course of the weekend, due to a major infraction during the red flag period.
It caps off a disappointing weekend for the Mexican driver, who was found to be the sole cause of a red flag in Friday's qualifying session. This saw the stewards relegate him to the rear of the grid for both races. While León made up ground early in the sprint on Saturday, he would eventually retire from the race.
Sunday's Feature Race at Spa would be the first to feature a red flag interruption in 2026, due to Trident's Laurens van Hoepen spinning into the barriers after Malmedy corner, and leaving significant damage to the barriers along the way.
With a fire also reported on his car, race control red flagged the session to clear up the debris and the stricken Trident along the way.
It was during this period when a member termed as "Non-operational personnel" had been observed as wearing a headset fitted with a microphone on the Campos pit wall. As per the regulations, such personnel on the team pitwall must be wearing a listen-only microphone.
While the guest had been advised to take off the headset by a member on the scrutineering panel for this weekend, he continued to use it.
The stewards later summoned team manager Adrian Campos Jr, and both drivers Nikola Tsolov and Noel León for a hearing. However, with the Mexican having left the circuit, it was only the former two who visited the stewards office for explanations.
It was later revealed that the guest in question had taken the wrong headset prior to the session, and had been associated exclusively to León's side of the garage.
With the hearings completed, the stewards opted to disqualify León from the Feature Race results, given it was only during the Sunday race that the infraction had occurred. Moreover, Campos have also been docked a penalty of 25 championship points, a suspended sentence subject to no further breach of the rules over the course of the 2026 F2 season.
The stewards also noted that the team must exercise greater caution when handing out headsets to guests, as non-operational personnel with a microphone and a headset could be considered as someone communicating to the team on the pit wall, and potentially having an impact on the outcome of the race.
Several drivers received track limit related penalties over the course of the race, including León, Rodin's Alex Dunne, Hitech's Colton Herta, AIX's Cian Shields and ART's Kush Maini penalised for exceeding the white lines on the circuit.
Furthermore, MP Motorsport's Gabriele Minì had received a penalty for his Lap 1 incident with Dino Beganovic, that would see the Swedish driver out of the race. The DAMS man would also be penalised for moving before the start lights went out.
As such, these are the final results from F2's Feature Race at Spa:
Classification - F2 Feature Race at Spa
Rafa Câmara (Invicta Racing)
Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak (ART Grand Prix)
Nikola Tsolov (Campos Racing)
Alex Dunne (Rodin Motorsport)
Gabriele Minì (MP Motorsport)
Rafael Villagómez (Van Amersfoort Racing)
Colton Herta (Hitech TGR)
Ritomo Miyata (Hitech TGR)
Mari Boya (PREMA Racing)
Martinius Stenshorne (Rodin Motorsport)
Sebastián Montoya (PREMA Racing)
Cian Shields (AIX Racing)
Nicolás Varrone (Van Amersfoort Racing)
Joshua Dürksen (Invicta Racing)
John Bennett (Trident)
Kush Maini (ART Grand Prix)
Roman Bilinski (DAMS) - DNF
Emerson Fittipaldi Jr (AIX Racing) - DNF
Laurens van Hoepen (Trident) - DNF
Dino Beganovic (DAMS) - DNF
Ollie Goethe (MP Motorsport) - DNF
Noel León (Campos Racing) - DSQ
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