2022 Astyrian Formula One Championship

2022 Astyrian Formula One Championship
Drivers' Champion: Lauren Blake Constructors' Champion: Raamaker-FMK
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The 2022 Astyrian Formula One Championship was a motor racing championship marking the 63rd running of Astyrian Formula One. It was the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars by the Astyrian Motorsport Federation (AMF). The season began in February and end in November, covering 21 grands prix in 20 countries throughout Astyria. Drivers and constructors competed to win the Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship, respectively.

Pekka Koivu's retirement in 2021 means that it was the second season in a row that a reigning Drivers' Champion will not be competing, the first being the 2020 season with Simo Rassinen.

Entries

Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Race Drivers
				No.	Driver name	Rounds
AMZ Grand Prix Racing	AMZ	AMZ S22	AMZ MH 1.6 S1	5 16	Henri Makitalö Aleksander Valiny
Angelbridge Racing	Angelbridge-Phaeton	Angelbridge AB15	Phaeton T72	4 8	Athan Lille Octavius Clearwater
Breuer NidEnergie Racing Team	Breuer	Breuer BR10	Breuer BH10-16	14 26	Nicolas Von Siedel Maximilian Frentzen
Delaney Grand Prix Team	Delaney-Sidus	Delaney RD47	Sidus 616M-2	3 31	Devin Acker Nick Hardy
Kappaksturslid F1 Team	Kappaksturslid-Breuer	Kappaksturslid KP18	Breuer BH10-16	48 97	Maríón Álfheiður Ólafur Guðestersson
LZS F1 Racing Team	LZS-FMK	LZS F1.22	FMK WW6-14 H-power	2 72	Stefan Lakowski Ivan Jovanović
MacGregor F1 Team	MacGregor-Sidus	MacGregor MG2022	Sidus 616M-2	24 75	Conway Prescott Sarah Musgrove
Stabulum Phaeton	Phaeton	Phaeton SPT73	Phaeton T72	59 90	Gianpiero Santoro Decius Whitewall
Raamaker F1 Team	Raamaker-FMK	Raamaker RM-26	FMK WW6-14 H-power	13 38	Robert van Grol Bram Dichter
Sevir F1 Team	Sevir-FMK	Sevir SE-07	FMK WW6-14 H-power	11 89	Phillip Rollins Matthew Martins
Sidus Telenid F1 Racing Team	Sidus	Sidus FS-222	Sidus 616M-2	6 95	Lauren Blake Guy Bassett
Urbina Grand Prix	Urbina	Urbina WY10	Urbina CHE1	18 66	Mitchell Townsend Dominic Hudnall

Team changes

• Merlin was sold to Urbina in August 2021 and was renamed as Urbina Grand Prix for 2022. This marks Urbina's return to AstyF1 as a works constructor since their departure in 2017.

• AMZ will be officially competing in 2022 with their own works engine, called the MH 1.6 S1. Prior to this, they used rebadged Sidus engines for the 2021 season while the team was still developing their own powertrains.

Driver changes

• Phaeton will be debuting an all-new driver lineup for the 2022 season, with Gianpiero Santoro and Decius Whitewall due to replace the outgoing Tertius DiParadisa and Pekka Koivu, respectively. Rookies Mitchell Townsend and Athan Lille will in turn fill in Santoro's and Whitewall's seats at their respective teams. Townsend will graduate from Astyrian F2 as that year's champion while Lille will graduate from the WGP2 Championship. The latter would become the first ever Lisanderian driver to compete in the sport.

• Astyrian F2 runner-up Henri Makitalö will also graduate to F1 with AMZ Grand Prix Racing, replacing Dalriny Mikov.

Technical changes

Due to Steven Grey's accident at the 2021 Caprican Grand Prix which paralyzed him from the waist down, the AMF brought about a number of changes to further bolster driver safety for the 2022 season. These changes combined brought up the minimum weight of the cars to 790 kg, the heaviest in AstyF1's history.