The brightest lights in F2's departing six-year warhorse

It might not have as many people pining for it as does the March 782, but the Dallara F2 2018 car launched a host of special talents. Time to assess the best

When Amaury Cordeel crossed the finish line to take 16th place in the Formula 2 finale at Yas Marina last month, the Belgian became the last driver to take a race chequered flag in a car that had given six years of service. Following the subsequent week’s three-day post-season test, the Dallara F2 2018 was banished to obsolescence after 70 weekends of competition featuring 147 races.

While the teams waited to take delivery of the new-for-2024 cars, we thought it might be fun to rate the leading drivers from the 2018-23 era, and call their teams for comments about them…

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Author Marcus Simmons

Marcus Simmons is the Deputy Editor of Autosport magazine. As a child he was a regular on the chalk banks of Thruxton – hence his unhealthy obsession with 1970s Formula 2 and F3 – before he became an MSA timekeeper at the age of 17. At 19, his reporting debut for Motoring News arguably overshadowed Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal as the sporting moment of June 1986, and he joined the staff in 1990 after graduating from his degree course in Plymouth. A parallel Formula First career – which was as incident-packed as his childhood exploits in show-jumping and hunter trials – finished when he wrote off his car and put himself in hospital in 1991.

Marcus moved to Autosport in the summer of 1996. Since then he has had two stints as a freelancer and a brief spell as editor of Motor Sport magazine, during which the revered green cover was revived, before he rejoined Autosport in 2008. He lives in Teddington with his wife (who, gratifyingly, grew up within earshot of Castle Combe), daughter, stepson, dog, cat and guitars, and additionally has an adult daughter and stepson.