Rodin Motorsport 2025 Season Review: Keeping the momentum going

Seventh in the 2025 Teams’ Standings betrays how competitive Rodin Motorsport were across the season.

The team secured two race victories, both coming in the opening four rounds of the year and it would have been three but for a time penalty in Spa for Alexander Dunne.

Reflecting on the year overall, Sporting Director Benn Huntingford says that the team were on the right track despite results not always going their way.

“It was a mixed year,” he explained in the paddock after the final round. “From our side, we had a lot of highlights and some really strong results with Alex. Right from the beginning of the season we were competitive. There were some races that didn’t quite pan out the way we wanted in terms of penalties and results and things like that.

“But on the whole, it was a positive rookie year for Alex. It’s put him in good stead for 2026 and we’re quite excited to build on everything we’ve done and take the good things into next year and hopefully be a bit closer to the front of the standings.”

Dunne was the stand-out for Rodin, on the pace from the first race of the year in what was his rookie campaign and he maintained that competitiveness that took him into the Championship fight.

While the Irishman ultimately ended up fifth, similarly to the team’s end result in the Standings, it is perhaps an unfair reflection of the season he put together.

Those hits in Spielberg – where a post-race disqualification cost him P2 – and Spa in particular, were a difficult blow to an otherwise impressive maiden effort in Formula 2, and Huntingford says the signs were there right from the word go.

“I wouldn’t say it was a surprise. He didn’t have the year he wanted in F3 but throughout his whole junior career, it’s been clear the speed is there. He got to grips with the F2 car quite quickly.

“It was clear by the second race – really the first race after Melbourne – he was straight on the pace. It was promising right from those pre-season tests.

“There’s always that element when it’s your first season that there’s lots to learn, things you have to learn on the F2 car that you don’t have to in the lower categories that you need to get to grips with. He’s done a really good job of that. Hopefully, going into next year, those small issues that we have had are behind us.”

Looking ahead to 2026, Rodin is already working hard to make adjustments in order to fight their way further up the Standings. However, there will be no tearing up plans based on P7 in 2025.

The Rodin Sporting Director says that the results in 2025 were a strong sign that what they are doing currently is working, and that it’s more a matter of ironing out the smaller details in order to achieve more next time around.

With Dunne signed back up for another go around, he will be joined by Martinius Stenshorne, who has already had bright spots in his cameo appearances towards the end of the ’25 season.

Huntingford believes that all the pieces are in place for Rodin to take a step forward for next year. It will now be about executing and achieving what he feels they are already capable of.

“I think we’ve got to look back at what didn’t go our way and what we didn’t maximise in the way we could have done. We’ve had the pace to be a lot nearer the front than the results actually show.

“As a team, I think going into next year it’s just a case of carrying on doing what we’re doing and appreciating that some of the stuff was out of our hands, and we shouldn’t try and change everything we do based on this year’s results. But we want to be a step closer to the front.

“We have our two drivers for next year and they’re going to be a big factor for next year. They’re also good friends which is helping the atmosphere within the team, which is great. Hopefully it’ll stay that way but they’re already working well together and pushing each other on.”