{"id":780895,"date":"2026-07-05T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780895\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:19:10","slug":"f2-red-bull-junior-nikola-tsolov-achieves-the-double-after-dominating-2026-silverstone-feature-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780895\/","title":{"rendered":"F2: Red Bull Junior Nikola Tsolov achieves the double after dominating 2026 Silverstone Feature Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Nikola Tsolov made it two from two at Silverstone, as the Red Bull Junior followed his Sprint Race victory up with a dominant win in Sunday\u2019s Feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Starting in P5, the Campos Racing driver made a brilliant start to reach second by Turn 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">From there, Tsolov bided his time behind Kush Maini, and after passing the ART Grand Prix, drove off into the distance to win for the sixth time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The Bulgarian also became the first driver in Formula 2 history to win three consecutive races, having taken top spot in the Austria Feature, with his success at Silverstone moving him into the lead of the <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiZHJpdmVycydfY2hhbXBpb25zaGlwX2xpbmtfY2xpY2tlZCIsImNsaWNrVGV4dCI6dHJ1ZSwicGF0aCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZpYWZvcm11bGEyLmNvbS9TdGFuZGluZ3MvRHJpdmVyIiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJleHRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula2.com\/Standings\/Driver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Drivers&#8217; Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Van Amersfoort Racing\u2019s Rafael Villag\u00f3mez joined him on the podium for the second consecutive race, using the alternative strategy well to finish in P2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Maini finished third as Rodin Motorsport driver Alexander Dunne finished fourth behind his fellow Alpine Academy member, with Invicta Racing\u2019s Rafael C\u00e2mara fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">MP Motorsport\u2019s Gabriele Min\u00ec finished sixth, and he was followed by the second Campos of Noel Le\u00f3n, with Roman Bilinski in eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Joshua Duerksen finished ninth for Invicta, as ART rookie Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">To read a full report of the FIA Formula 2 Feature Race on the official website, click <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiaGVyZV9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5maWFmb3JtdWxhMi5jb20vIiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJleHRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Tsolov made it two from two at Silverstone, as the Red Bull Junior followed his Sprint Race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-780895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}