page_title: Nicholas Latifi
section_title: Formula 2 Championship
hierarchical_section_title: Nicholas Latifi / Career / Formula 2 Championship
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: 06 NAME beim Rennwochenende in Österreich 2018 (1)
context_page_description: Nicholas Daniel Latifi is an Iranian-Canadian racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Williams under the Canadian flag. He made his Formula One debut at the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix.
context_section_description: The GP2 Series was re-branded as the Formula 2 Championship for 2017, and Latifi retained his seat at DAMS, now alongside Oliver Rowland. 2017 proved to be a far more successful year for Latifi. He took his first GP2/F2 podium at the sprint race in Barcelona, finishing 3rd as well as recording the fastest lap. Two more 3rd places came in Baku, before Latifi achieved a 2nd-place finish in the feature race at the Red Bull Ring. He took victory in the sprint race at Silverstone, marking his first race win in any racing series since 2012. 2nd and 3rd place finishes came in the feature races at the Hungaroring and at Monza respectively, in which Latifi set both fastest laps. He finished 2nd at the sprint race in Jerez, before ending the season with 3rd place and the fastest lap in the final round at Yas Marina. Latifi ended the season in 5th place with 178 points, two places and 13 points behind teammate Rowland.
  He continued with DAMS in 2018, now partnering future Formula One competitor Alexander Albon in a season that proved less successful than 2017. Latifi took his first podium of the season at Baku with 3rd place in the sprint race. He achieved the second victory of his Formula 2 career at Spa-Francorchamps, winning the sprint race from reverse-grid pole and setting the fastest lap. He later took 2nd place at the feature race in Sochi. Latifi ended the season in 9th place with 91 points, six places and 121 points behind teammate Albon.
  Latifi remained at DAMS for the fourth consecutive season in 2019, alongside Sérgio Sette Câmara. A strong start to the season saw Latifi take three victories in the first five races, winning the feature races in Bahrain and Barcelona and the sprint race in Baku. After the first three rounds, Latifi led the championship, 30 points clear of 3rd-placed Nyck de Vries. However, a poor showing at the fourth round in Monaco, during which Latifi finished the races in 12th and 10th, saw de Vries close the gap to just one point. Latifi would not finish on the podium again until the seventh round at Silverstone, in which he finished the feature race 2nd. By this point, de Vries had extended his championship lead to 27 points. Latifi scored his final victory of the season at the feature race of the next round in Hungary, before failing to score at Monza, and then taking two 2nd-place finishes at Sochi and Yas Marina. He ended the season as the championship runner-up to de Vries, two places and 10 points ahead of teammate Sette Câmara, achieving four wins, four other podium finishes and four fastest laps.
caption: Latifi racing in Austria in the 2018 Formula 2 Championship, retaining his DAMS seat.
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