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TGR-DC
The Toyota Gazoo Racing Driver Challenge Program (TGR-DC) formerly known as the Toyota Drivers Academy and Toyota Young Drivers Programme (TDP), is a driver development programme by Toyota Gazoo Racing. It is meant to promote talent in different racing series by helping them with funds, hoping to find drivers who will race for the team in the future. Notable graduates of the scheme are Kazuki Nakajima, Kamui Kobayashi; who made their F1 debuts for Williams and Toyota, respectively. The program was launched in 2001 when Toyota entered Formula 1, and wants to promote young drivers from Japan, and other countries that are able to reach F1. Current drivers TGR-DC drivers * Championship titles highlighted in bold. TGR-DC Racing School drivers The TGR-DC Racing School is a team for young Toyota drivers who compete in F4 Japanese Championship The is a formula racing series held in Japan regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations. The inaugural season was held in 2015. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F4 Japanese Championship
The is a formula racing series held in Japan regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations. The inaugural season was held in 2015. History Gerhard Berger and the FIA Single Seater Commission launched the current FIA Formula 4 in March 2013. The goal of FIA Formula 4 was to make the ladder to Formula 1 more transparent. Besides sporting and technical regulations, costs are regulated too: Any eligible car may not exceed a purchase price of €30,000. A single season in Formula 4 may not exceed €100,000 in costs. The F4 Japanese Championship was launched by the GT Association on 16 December 2014, as one of the second phases of Formula 4 championships to be launched following the Italian F4 Championship and Formula 4 Sudamericana which launched in 2014. All rounds are support events to the Super GT Series. Japanese race car constructor Dome was contracted to design and build the spec F110 chassis. The cars are constructed out of carbon fibre and feature a monocoque chass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Sano
is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in Super Formula Lights. He is part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program. Career Formula 4 Sano started his Formula 4 career in 2023 with TGR-DC Racing School. Sano achieved two podiums in his rookie season, ending the year seventh in the standings. Sano remained in the championship for 2024, taking his first win in Formula 4 in the opening round of the season. Formula Regional Japanese Championship At the end of 2024, Sano will compete in Formula Regional Japanese Championship with TGR-DC Racing School for the last 2 rounds at Fuji Speedway alongside Kazuhisa Urabe. Super Formula Lights Sano set to compete in the Super Formula Lights with 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 ... for 2025. Super GT Sano woul ... [...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] |
Seita Nonaka
is a racing driver from Japan who currently competes in Super GT and Super Formula Lights. He was the former 2021 F4 Japanese Championship, F4 Japanese Championship title winner in 2021. He is part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program. Career F4 Japan Nonaka started racing in 2019, competing in F4 Japanese Championship with TOM'S, TOM'S Spirit and managed to claim 8th in his rookie season. He stayed in the same series, but joined TGR-DC Racing School. In that season, he claimed 3rd place in the final standings. Nonaka once again continues to compete in the same series for the third season for 2021 F4 Japanese Championship, 2021 with the same team from 2020. That season he clinches the title from Rin Arakawa & Iori Kimura in the last round at Fuji Speedway. Super Formula Lights In the same year of 2021 Super Formula Lights, 2021, he competed in Super Formula Lights where he replaces Kazuto Kotaka who originally should compete in the series, but have to race in 2021 Super Formul ... [...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] |
2025 Super Formula Championship
The 2025 Japanese Super Formula Championship is the fifty-third season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the twelfth under the moniker of Super Formula. The season started in March at Suzuka Circuit and is due to be contested over 12 rounds in seven race weekends, ending in November at Suzuka. Vantelin Team TOM’S driver Sho Tsuboi entered the season as the defending champion. Teams and drivers All teams use identical Dallara-built SF23 chassis with either Honda or Toyota engines. Every Honda-powered car uses a Honda HR-417E engine and every Toyota-powered car uses a Toyota TRD-01F engine. All teams compete with tyres supplied by Yokohama. Team changes * The entry co-run by Inging Motorsport and Cerumo added another title sponsor alongside Vertex Partners, with Industrial manufacturer Sanki Shokai joining the series and the team competing under the name ''Sanki Vertex Partners Cerumo・Inging''. * TGM Grand Prix underwent substantial changes withi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibiki Taira
is a Japanese racing driver who most recently competed in Super GT for Hyper Water Racing Inging and in Super Formula for TGMGP. He is the champion of the 2020 F4 Japanese Championship, as well as a two-time class winner in the Super Taikyū Series. He is part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program. Early career Karting Taira began his karting career in 2009, and became champion in the Okinawa series the following year. He would remain at prefectural level competition until its cancellation in 2014 and travelled annually to compete in the national Rotax Max Challenge, claiming a best finish of eighth. In 2015, Taira made his international karting debut at the Rotax Max Grand Finals at the Algarve International Circuit, where he impressed against the likes of Caio Collet but crashed out in the grand final. Taira's karting career concluded in 2018 after two years racing in the All-Japan Karting Championship. Formula 4 After making his formula racing debut by invitation in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuto Kotaka
is a Japanese racing driver for Toyota Gazoo Racing who currently competes in Super Formula for Kondo Racing and Super GT for apr. He won the Super Formula Lights championship in 2022. He is part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program. Career Early career Kotaka made his debut in formula racing in 2015, racing for TOM'S from the second race weekend in the F4 Japanese Championship. He regularly finished in the top 10, with a fourth-place finish at the Suzuka International Racing Course as his best result. He finished sixth in the championship with 50 points. In 2016, Kotaka remained active in Japanese Formula 4 with TOM'S. He won two races at Fuji Speedway and another at Sportsland SUGO. He later took another podium finish at Fuji, but achieved erratic results for the remainder of the season. He finished fifth overall with 113 points. In 2017, Kotaka did not race, but in 2018 he returned to Japanese Formula 4 at TOM's. He missed the first race weekend, but nevertheless he won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
Miki Koyama
is a Japanese people, Japanese racing driver, currently racing in the Super GT, Super GT Series GT300 class for Apr (racing team), äpr. She is best known for her time racing in the W Series (championship), W Series from 2019 W Series, 2019 to 2021 W Series, 2021, and for becoming the first woman to win an FIA-sanctioned, all-gender single-seater championship when she won the 2022 Formula Regional Japanese Championship. She is part of the TGR Driver Challenge, Toyota Gazoo Racing Driver Challenge program. Biography Early Career Having started racing in karts, Koyama attended the Formula Toyota Racing School before moving to Japanese F4 in 2015. She was the first champion of the all-women's Kyojo Cup series in 2017, and repeated as champion in 2018. W Series In 2019, Koyama was announced as one of the 18 permanent drivers for the 2019 W Series, inaugural season of the W Series (championship), W Series. At the first W Series round at Hockenheim, Koyama qualified 17th and finished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Formula 2 Championship
The 2025 FIA Formula 2 Championship is a motor racing championship for Formula 2 cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship is the fifty-ninth season of Formula 2 racing and the ninth season run under the FIA Formula 2 Championship moniker. Formula 2 is an open-wheel racing category serving as the second tier of formula racing in the FIA Global Pathway. The category is run in support of selected rounds of the 2025 Formula One World Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams and drivers competing in the championship run the same car, the Dallara F2 2024. Invicta Racing entered the championship as the reigning Teams' Champions, having secured their title at the final race of the 2024 season in Abu Dhabi. Entries The following teams and drivers compete in the 2025 Formula 2 Championship. As the championship is a spec series, all teams compete with an identical Dallara F2 2024 chassis using a V6 turbo engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
