Hitech’s Nikita Mazepin took his maiden Formula 2 win in the Silverstone feature race, prevailing over a rotation of challengers behind.
The race started with a slow launch for polesitter Felipe Drugovich, allowing Mick Schumacher to take the lead into Turn 1 while Mazepin jumped Christian Lundgaard for third. Drugovich, starting on the hard tyres compared to the medium runners around him, continued to struggle for pace through lap 1 and dropped to fourth behind Mazepin and Lundgaard.
Mazepin quickly got his own tyres up to temperature, closing up to Schumacher on lap 3 and then passing the Prema for the lead shortly after. By lap 5, Mazepin had already broken the DRS range to Schumacher, while Schumacher himself seemed to drop back towards Lundgaard.
Mazepin and Schumacher made their stops for hard tyres on lap 8, followed by Lundgaard a lap later. Although Schumacher gained time on Mazepin in the pitlane, he struggled more than the Russian when making his way through traffic.
On lap 12 Schumacher lost half a second passing Guilherme Samaia, then got stuck behind Artem Markelov. On lap 15 Lundgaard overtook Schumacher for net second, while Louis Deletraz closed to four tenths behind him.
Deletraz eventually passed Schumacher on lap 24, which prompted a fall through the order as the German lost out to Guanyu Zhou, Yuki Tsunoda and Callum Ilott over the next two laps.
Deletraz didn’t stay in third for long, being passed himself by Zhou and Tsunoda on lap 25. Zhou and Tsunoda were running the alternate strategy with hard tyres, and lapping much faster than those on mediums. On lap 27 Zhou quickly caught and passed Lundgaard for second, while Tsunoda demoted the ART off the podium on the final lap.
But despite their pace advantage, Zhou and Tsunoda ran out of laps to catch Mazepin and had to settle for second and third respectively behind the Hitech.
Lundgaard finished fourth, while Ilott recovered from stalling on the formation lap and starting from the pitlane to take fifth ahead of Deletraz. Polesitter Drugovich suffered a slow pit stop and eventually finished down in seventh ahead of Dan Ticktum. Schumacher finished ninth, and Nobuharu Matsushita took the final point in tenth after passing Jehan Daruvala through the final corner of the last lap.
Full race result:
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Points |
| 1 | Nikita Mazepin | Hitech | 25 |
| 2 | Guanyu Zhou (FL) | UNI-Virtuosi | 20 |
| 3 | Yuki Tsunoda | Carlin | 15 |
| 4 | Christian Lundgaard | ART | 12 |
| 5 | Callum Ilott | UNI-Virtuosi | 10 |
| 6 | Louis Deletraz | Charouz | 8 |
| 7 | Felipe Drugovich | MP Motorsport | 6 |
| 8 | Dan Ticktum | DAMS | 4 |
| 9 | Mick Schumacher | Prema | 2 |
| 10 | Nobuharu Matsushita | MP Motorsport | 1 |
| 11 | Pedro Piquet | Charouz | |
| 12 | Jehan Daruvala | Carlin | |
| 13 | Jack Aitken | Campos | |
| 14 | Robert Shwartzman | Prema | |
| 15 | Sean Gelael | DAMS | |
| 16 | Marcus Armstrong | ART | |
| 17 | Luca Ghiotto | Hitech | |
| 18 | Artem Markelov | HWA | |
| 19 | Giuliano Alesi | HWA | |
| 20 | Marino Sato | Trident | |
| 21 | Guilherme Samaia | Campos | |
| Ret. | Roy Nissany | Trident |