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2025 Super Formula Lights
The 2025 Super Formula Lights Championship is the sixth Super Formula Lights, Super Formula Lights Championship season, after the Japanese Formula 3 Championship was rebranded following the end of the 2019 season. Teams and drivers As the championship is a spec series, all teams compete with an identical Dallara 324 chassis with a Toyota GR Yaris three cylinder 1.6-litre turbo engine. All teams compete with tyres supplied by Kumho Tire. Team changes B-Max Racing Team stopped running its No. 30 car under the ''Team Dragon'' guise, instead entering it as a normal B-Max Racing Team entry. LM corsa made their full-season debut in the series after entering two rounds in 2024. Delightworks Racing, a new team established by gaming company DELiGHTWORKS in 2024, where they competed in the last round of 2024 Formula Regional Japanese Championship, Formula Regional Japan, joined the series. The team took over Toda Racing's entry as that team, a series mainstay ever since 1988, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Formula Lights
is a national formula racing championship that takes place in Japan. It is a junior-level feeder formula that uses the same single seater chassis as the pan-European Euroformula Open Championship. The series will be the first with the new branding as a feeder series for the Super Formula championship. The nomenclature is similar to that of IndyCar, whose support series as formerly used the "Lights" moniker. Origins The Super Formula Lights championship started in 1979 as a Formula 3-based series originally known as the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, because of changes with FIA nomenclature ("Formula Regional" is now used for all regional F3-based series to prevent confusion with the FIA Formula 3 Championship), and the change from Formula Regional standards used in such series (such as the Formula Regional European Championship and Formula Regional Americas Championship; in Japan, K2 Planet acquired the rights to run a Formula Regional championship in Japan, the Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TOM'S
is an automotive aftermarket parts manufacturer and tuner of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, as well as a factory-backed racing team. The TOM'S head office is located in Tokyo, Japan. TOM'S most prominently produces aftermarket parts for current Toyota vehicles, and has also created its own special edition of certain current Lexus models. In motorsport, the company is currently heavily involved with Super GT, Super Formula and Super Formula Lights. TOM'S Racing has won the Japanese Formula 3 Championship 21 times, the Super GT series ten times, the Super Formula Championship four times, and the Super Formula Lights series three times. History The name stands for Tachi Oiwa Motor Sport, as the company was established in 1974 by Nobuhide Tachi and Kiyoshi Oiwa. Despite an oil crisis at the time, the two were able to show productive results and a healthy development of motorsports for Toyota. With the support of Toyota, TOM'S went into business in 1974. In 1975 the Toyota Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Super GT Series
The 2025 Autobacs Super GT Series is a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars. The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). It will be the thirty-third season of the JAF Super GT Championship, which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship era, and the twenty-first season under the Super GT name. It will be also the forty-third overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Endurance/Sports Prototype Championship. TGR Team au TOM'S of Sho Tsuboi and Kenta Yamashita entered the season as the defending champions of the GT500 class. And JLOC Takashi Kogure and Yuya Motojima entered the season as the defending champions of the GT300 class. Calendar The provisional calendar for 2025 was confirmed on 1 August 2024, which consists of eight races. The series will race abroad for the first time since 2019, and they will return to Sepang Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R-ace GP
R-ace GP is an auto racing team from France, involved in many areas of motorsport, specifically those involving Renault. They are currently competing in the Formula Regional European Championship, Formula Regional Middle East, F4 Middle East, Italian F4, Euro 4 and Michelin Le Mans Cup in LMP3. History R-ace GP was founded in 2011 by Thibaut de Merindol and Cyril Comte. They partook in the Eurocup and NEC championships of Formula Renault 2.0. Their driver line-up included Norman Nato, Pieter Schothorst and Côme Ledogar. In its first year of Formula Renault 2.0, the team scored eighth in the Eurocup championship, with Nato taking two podiums, and ninth in NEC, with Nato and Ledogar taking podiums. In 2012, the team entered with a line-up of Andrea Pizzitola, Red Bull Junior Pierre Gasly and the McLaren-backed Nyck de Vries. The team climbed up to fifth in both standings, with de Vries taking the team's maiden victory in the NEC championship. 2013 - 2015: The following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Formula Regional European Championship
The 2025 Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine is a multi-event, Formula Regional Open-wheel car, open-wheel single seater Motorsport, motor racing championship held across Europe. The championship features a mix of professional and amateur drivers, competing in Formula Regional cars that conform to the FIA Formula Regional regulations for the championship. This is the seventh season of the championship and the fifth after a merger with Formula Renault Eurocup which resulted in the change of the engine supplier to Automobiles Alpine, Alpine. Teams and drivers All teams compete using identical Tatuus FR-19 cars powered by 1.8l Renault engines on Pirelli tyres. Nine of the eleven teams that contested the 2024 season were also confirmed to be pre-selected for 2025. Team changes Iron Dames, who entered the championship in 2024 with a two-car all-female driver lineup, did not continue their entry into 2025. MP Motorsport, a series mainstay ever since its inception, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Nakamura
is a Japanese racing driver who is currently competing in the Formula Regional European Championship with R-ace GP. He was runner up in the 2023 F4 Japanese Championship and previously raced in Super GT and Super Formula Lights. He is also part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program. Career Formula 4 Nakamura made his formula debut in 2022 F4 Japanese Championship with TGR-DC Racing School. He did on to win a race and have 2 podiums. Nakamura continues to compete in the series for 2023, where he claimed runners up behind of the eventual champion Rikuto Kobayashi & ahead of Honda's Yusuke Mitsui. He racked up couple of wins and podiums. Nakamura, and Kobayashi took part in WEC Challenge Program training session for young drivers has been announced for the 2023 Le Mans 24 Hours. Both participated and experience firsthand how WEC drivers and engineers take on the challenge of Le Mans. Super Formula Lights Nakamura step up to Super Formula Lights with TOM'S. Nakamura ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toda Racing
TODA RACING Co., Ltd. is a Japanese automotive parts supplier and racing engine constructor. It also operates its own racing team. History Founded in 1971 by Yukio Toda. Since it was founded, the company has been tuning Honda engines, so it has a deep relationship with Honda, but it also tunes engines for Toyota, BMW, and other manufacturers. The company also actively sells aftermarket parts to general users. Since its founding, the company has supplied its own engines and chassis for junior formula races such as FJ1300 and FL500. Since it began competing in the All-Japan F3 Championship with its own team in 1988, it has continued to compete intermittently to the present day, and has been competing for many years with TOM'S, DOME, INGING Motorsport, and others as a major user of the Mugen MF204 engine. In particular, since M-TEC the developer of the MF204 engine withdrew from All Japan F3 in 2007, the company has developed its own engines and participated in the race since 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Formula Regional Japanese Championship
The 2024 Formula Regional Japanese Championship was a multi-event, Formula Regional Open-wheel car, open-wheel single seater Motorsport, motor racing championship held in Japan. The drivers competed in Formula Regional cars that conform to the FIA Formula Regional regulations for the championship. This was the fifth season of the series, promoted by K2 Planet, and the 46th overall season of an FIA ladder series (dating to the 1979 Japanese Formula 3 Championship). The season started on 9 March at Suzuka International Racing Course and ran over six weekends, until 13 October. All three titles were wrapped up at the penultimate round of the season, with Michael Sauter becoming the first foreign driver to win the Drivers' Championship, while his team Birth Racing Project【BRP】took the Teams' Championship and N-SPEED driver "" topped the Masters' class. Teams and drivers All teams and drivers competed using the Dome (constructor), Dome F111/3 Regional F3 car, powered by an Alfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reimei Ito
is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in the Porsche Carrera Cup in Japan. He is set to compete in Super GT as a third driver, and also in Super Formula Lights is a national formula racing championship that takes place in Japan. It is a junior-level feeder formula that uses the same single seater chassis as the pan-European Euroformula Open Championship. The series will be the first with the new ... with LM corsa. Career Formula 4 Ito started his F4 career in 2020 with OTG Motor Sports competing until 2022. Super Formula Lights Ito would compete with the Super GT team LM corsa at the rounds at Okayama and Motegi, with both driver and team making their series debut. Ito finished 9th in the standings with a point. Ito then continue to race full time for 2025. Super GT In 2023, Ito competed in Super GT, with new team Yogibo Racing alongside F4 driver Yugo Iwasawa. Ito did not continue to race as Yogibo Racing withdrew its entry for the 2024 seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LM Corsa
LM corsa is a racing team based in Osaka Prefecture and the team is run by Osaka Toyopet Group's OTG Motor Sports. History OTG Motor Sports Osaka Toyopet, is a company who runs Toyota car dealer in Osaka founded OTG Motor Sports. The team runs Super GT GT300 under the LM Corsa guise. OTG also competes in F4 Japanese Championship since 2017. In their first two seasons, with Togo Suganami as their driver, the team won two races. From 2020 until the present day, the team has run Reimei Ito, Yuto Nozawa and currently Kenta Kumagai. LM Corsa Super GT GT300 In 2014, OTG Motor Sports entered the Super GT GT300 Class under the LM Corsa name, running the BMW Z4 GT3 with Akira Iida and Hiroki Yoshimoto as their drivers. The team won its first race at the Suzuka 1000 km that year. Yoshimoto placed 6th in the drivers' ranking (Iida also had the same points as Yoshimoto, but was placed 7th due to missing the final race), and 5th in the team ranking. In 2015, the team's main car beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikuto Kobayashi
is a Japanese racing driver and sim racer currently competing in Super Formula Lights and Super GT. A member of the TGR Driver Challenge Program, Kobayashi won the F4 Japanese Championship in 2023. He is not related to the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Kamui Kobayashi. Career Formula 4 Kobayashi started his formula racing in 2022 at F4 Japanese Championship with TGR-DC Racing School as a part from he got TGR-DC RS Scholarship Driver He ended up finish 6th in the standings. He continued to compete for the 2023 season, and he won the title ahead of Jin Nakamura and Yusuke Mitsui. On 30 May 2023, Toyota Gazoo Racing announced that Kobayashi took part in WEC Challenge Program training session for young drivers who are deemed to have a future in the Le Mans 24 Hours. He participated and experienced firsthand how WEC drivers and engineers take on the challenge of Le Mans. Super Formula Lights Following his Formula 4 championship victory, Kobayashi stepped up to Super ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuga Furutani
is a Japanese racing driver who most recently competed in Super GT for Anest Iwata Racing and in Super Formula Lights for TOM'S. He was the champion of the Formula Regional Japanese Championship in 2021. Career F4 Japanese & Formula Regional Japanese Championship Furutani started his formula racing career in 2020, where he competed in both F4 Japanese Championship, and Formula Regional Japanese Championship with TOM'S Youth respectively for both series. Even though his debut in F4 Japan didn't go well with 5 points, and 16th in the standings, his results in Formula Regional Japanese were better as he racked up runners up in the standings just losing out to Sena Sakaguchi who won all but three races. He took no wins, but grabbed 11 podiums throughout the season. In 2021 Furutani continued to compete in Formula Regional Japanese Championship with the same team. He clinched the title ahead of the only other full time driver in the series, apart from the masterclass group, Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
