is a Japanese

racing driver Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including non ...

, who competes in the

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for

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as part of the

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, and serves as a reserve driver in the

FIA World Endurance Championship The FIA World Endurance Championship, abbreviated as WEC, is a world championship for automobile endurance racing organized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The se ...

for

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. In Japanese motorsport, Miyata won the

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and

Super GT Super GT (stylized as SUPER GT) is a sports car racing series that began in 1993. Launched as the , generally referred to as the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC), the series was renamed to Super GT in 2005. It is the top level of ...

, both in 2023 with

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. A member of the

from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025, he last competed in the series in with

Rodin Motorsport Rodin Motorsport is a New Zealand motor racing team based in the United Kingdom. It currently competes in six championships: FIA Formula 2 Championship, FIA Formula 3 Championship, BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, GB3 Championship, F1 Aca ...

. He previously won the

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championship, as well as back-to-back titles in the

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Early and personal life

Miyata is a graduate of Yokohama High School. His name comes from the

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, named as such by his parents as they were car enthusiasts. He was diagnosed with

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early in his childhood and was unable to adjust to school life during his kindergarten and elementary schooling years, spending much of his early life receiving counseling at various hospitals; he uses racing as a method of subduing his traits. Miyata is an avid gamer, bringing his computer and consoles to races. As of September 2023, Miyata has over 500 race wins from 1,000 starts in ''

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'' official events and also participates in esports racing events for BS+COMPETITION.

Early career

Miyata started his motorsport career in karting in 2004, winning the All-Japan Kart Championship KF class title in 2014. In 2015, after his 16th birthday, he made his formula racing debut in the Formula 4 Japanese Championship with the RSS team at the last three race weekends of the season. Despite his limited experience, he finished in the top ten in three of the six races, including a podium finish at

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. He finished 15th in the standings with 24 points.

First Japanese F4 championship (2016)

In 2016 he made his full-time Japanese F4 debut with Toyota-backed TOM'S Spirit. He won two races at

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and took podium finishes in three other races, and won the championship by just four points over Honda-sponsored driver

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All-Japan Formula Three debut and second Japanese F4 championship (2017)

In 2017, Miyata raced a dual program in Japanese F4 and the

All-Japan Formula Three Championship was a national motor racing championship that takes place in Japan. It is a junior-level feeder formula that uses small single seater Formula Three chassis. As a result of Formula 3 naming regulations by the FIA, on 13 August 2019, series pr ...

, driving in both series with

(TOM'S Spirit in F4). He won his second consecutive F4 title with four wins and 11 podiums, including a sweep of the two races at Fuji during the Golden Week holiday. He defeated Sasahara for the second year, this time by a margin of seven points, while finishing 58 points ahead of third-place driver

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. In his debut Formula 3 season, he achieved ten podium finishes and finished fourth in the championship with 79 points, behind

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Sho Tsuboi is a Japanese racing driver for Toyota Gazoo Racing and TOM'S, TOM'S Racing, who currently competes in the Super GT, Super GT Series GT500 class and Super Formula Championship.DriverDB Internetseite: Tsuboi is a three-time Super GT GT500 champ ...

and

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. At the end of the year he made his debut in the

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, finishing 12th.

All-Japan F3/Super Formula Lights (2018–2020)

Miyata continued in All-Japan F3 for a second season with TOM'S. He won his first race at Fuji on 8 July, followed by a second win at

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on 28 July. These two wins propelled him to second in the championship behind his teammate Tsuboi, who won the championship and the other 17 races that year. Miyata finished 13th in his second Macau Grand Prix start. He returned for a third season of All-Japan F3 in

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. Miyata won eight races, including five of the last eight, but finished second in the standings again, this time to former Renault Sport Academy driver

Sacha Fenestraz Sacha Fenestraz Jules (born 28 July 1999) is a French Argentines, French-Argentine racing driver competing in the 2025 Super Formula Championship, driving for TOM'S, TOM'S Racing. He is the 2017 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 champion. Early caree ...

B-Max Racing Team B-Max Racing Co., Ltd also known as B-Max Racing Team and B-Max Engineering is a Japanese race car constructor and racing team headquartered in Ayase, Kanagawa, Japan. History Byobugaura Kogyo Co., Ltd. established the race division "B-Max Engi ...

. 2019 was the last season for the All-Japan Formula Three Championship, which was renamed

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. Miyata returned for a fourth season in this category. Beginning with a sweep of the opening round at

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, Miyata won 12 out of 17 races and clinched the championship with a win in the penultimate race meeting at

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Super GT and Super Formula career

Super GT

GT300 (2018–2019)

Miyata made his debut in Super GT in 2018, driving in the GT300 class for

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customer team

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. At 18 years old, he recorded his first podium finish at

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in Buriram, Thailand, where he and co-driver

Hiroki Yoshimoto (born 2 September 1980 in Osaka) is a Japanese race car driver. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the BCN Competicion team, alongside the Venezuelan E. J. Viso. For 2006 he was initially teamed with the more experienced Timo Glock of Germ ...

finished third.

changed tyre suppliers from

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to Dunlop in 2019, and Miyata returned for his second season. In the sixth round at Autopolis, Miyata took his first career win after a late-race charge from Yoshimoto to take the lead with four laps to go. Miyata and Yoshimoto also won both races of the ''auto sport Web'' Sprint Cup, a GT3 and GT300-only support race held during the inaugural Super GT x DTM Dream Race weekend at Fuji Speedway. Earlier that season, Miyata made his one-off GT500 debut at the Fuji GT 500 km Race, when he substituted for

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at TOM'S, driving the number 36

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alongside

Yuhi Sekiguchi is a Japanese Auto racing, racing driver. He currently competes in the GT500 class of the Super GT, Super GT Series for Toyota Gazoo Racing, TGR SARD, Team SARD. Sekiguchi won the 2011 Japanese Formula 3 Championship and the 2021 Super GT Serie ...

GT500 (2020–2023)

In 2020, Toyota Gazoo Racing confirmed that Miyata would step up to GT500 full-time with TGR Team WedsSport Bandoh, driving the new

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GT500 alongside

Yuji Kunimoto is a Japanese racing driver for Toyota Gazoo Racing who is currently competing in Super GT for Racing Project Bandoh and in Super Formula for Team Impul. He is the champion of the 2016 Super Formula Championship and the 2010 Japanese Formula ...

. Miyata scored five top-ten finishes including a best finish of seventh place in round five at Fuji. Miyata remained at the WedsSport Bandoh team for a second season in 2021. He scored his first pole position at the Fuji 500 km, and finished second at the following round in Motegi for his first GT500 podium. Miyata and Kunimoto would finish second again in the seventh round at Motegi, ending the season 11th in the drivers' standings. After two seasons, Miyata transferred to TOM'S for the 2022 season. He joined the number 37 team, replacing World Endurance Championship-bound

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and forming a new partnership with his one-time F3 rival Sacha Fenestraz. The combination of Miyata and Fenestraz had an impressive season highlighted by both drivers' first career GT500 wins, during the Fuji GT 450 km Race in August. Miyata and Fenestraz finished sixth in the drivers' championship with six top-ten finishes and two podiums. In 2023, Miyata moved over to the number 36 car, this time on a permanent basis with Sho Tsuboi as his co-driver. Miyata and Tsuboi won the Golden Week 450 km race at Fuji in only their second race together, then finished second in the following round at Suzuka. The pair won their second race at Autopolis in the penultimate round of the season, which gave them a seven-point lead going into the final race at Motegi. Late in the race, Miyata was running in second place, which would have given TOM'S the championship ahead of NDDP Racing drivers

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and Mitsunori Takaboshi. Takaboshi spun off while leading, and Miyata took the lead with five laps to go. Miyata and Tsuboi clinched the championship with their third win of the season. This made Miyata the fifth driver to win both the Super GT GT500 and Super Formula championships in the same year, joining

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(1997),

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(2003), Richard Lyons (2004), and Naoki Yamamoto (2018 and 2020).

Super Formula (2020–2023)

Due to

's commitments in the

and the travel restrictions mandated during the

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, Miyata made his Super Formula championship debut in 2020, replacing Nakajima at Vantelin Team TOM'S for two races. He qualified on the front row for his series debut at

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, finished ninth in the race, then finished eighth in his second start at

. After winning the Super Formula Lights championship, Miyata earned a full-time Super Formula drive with TOM'S in 2021, replacing the departing

Nick Cassidy Nicholas Robert Cassidy (born 19 August 1994) is a New Zealand racing driver, currently competing in Formula E for Jaguar TCS Racing. He previously raced for Envision Racing in the series for three seasons, becoming the runner-up during the ...

. Miyata had six top-ten finishes in seven races, and finished tenth in the championship with a best finish of fourth in a rain-shortened race at Autopolis. Miyata took another step forward in 2022, the last season for the

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chassis. He got his first podium finish, a third place, in the second round at Fuji. He finished the season with another third place in the final round at Suzuka, and was fourth in the final championship standings. The new

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made its debut in 2023, Miyata's fourth season in Super Formula. In the third round of the season at Suzuka, Miyata took his first career win. He got his second win in round five at Sugo, ahead of two-time series champion

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. A third-place finish at the season-ending

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at Suzuka was enough for Miyata to clinch the championship ahead of

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reserve driver

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and Nojiri. Miyata scored a total of six podium finishes and finished all nine races inside the top five.

FIA Formula 2 career (2024–)

2024

On 14 November 2023, Toyota announced that Miyata would enter the 2024 FIA Formula 2 Championship. Two weeks later, he would be confirmed to drive for

(formerly Rodin Carlin) alongside

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. Miyata recorded his first points-paying finish at

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2025

Miyata continued in

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for 2025, this time moving over to

Formula One Career

Thanks to the technical partnership agreement that

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and

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signed in October 2024, Miyata had the opportunity to drive a Haas VF-23 of the American team in private tests in

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in January 2025 alongside the team's official drivers,

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and

Oliver Bearman Oliver James Bearman (; born 8 May 2005) is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for Haas F1 Team, Haas. Born in London and raised in Chelmsford, Bearman began competitive kart racing aged seven, winning several national and cont ...

. In 2025, Miyata also conducted tests with

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in May at

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and in June at

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Endurance racing career (2023–present)

2023 season: WEC debut

On 30 May 2023, Toyota Gazoo Racing announced that Miyata was selected as a WEC Challenge programme driver, with the goal of developing a career path towards the top category of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Miyata joined Toyota Gazoo Racing in a non-driving role at the

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and the

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later that season. At the

6 Hours of Fuji The 6 Hours of Fuji (formerly the Fuji 1000 Kilometres) is a sports car race held at Fuji Speedway in Oyama, Shizuoka, Japan. The race was held for the first time in 1967, and in 1977 became part of the new Fuji Long Distance Series. In 1982 a se ...

, Miyata made his WEC race debut in the LMGTE Am class, driving a Ferrari 488 GTE Evo for

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with the blessing of Toyota. Miyata finished third in class, after he was demoted from second place following a post-race time penalty for not reducing his speed in time during a Full Course Yellow. He returned to the WEC at the

2024 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps The 2024 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (formally known as the 2024 TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps) was an endurance sportscar racing event held on 11 May 2024, as the third of eight rounds of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championshi ...

, replacing

Kelvin van der Linde Kelvin van der Linde (born 20 June 1996) is a South African and German sports car racing driver for BMW Motorsport. He is a two-time champion of the ADAC GT Masters, having won the championship in 2014 and 2019, and won the 24 Hours of Nürbur ...

in the #78 Akkodis ASP Team Lexus RC F LMGT3.

2024 season: ELMS

In November 2023, Miyata was confirmed to race in the

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LMP2 class with Cool Racing, alongside

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development driver

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and

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. Miyata won in his first start in the series at the

4 Hours of Barcelona The 4 Hours of Barcelona (formerly the 1000 Kilometres of Catalunya and the Coppa Montjuich) was a sports car race held at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló, Catalunya, Spain. The race began as a non-championship event at the Montjuïc ci ...

Other series

Miyata entered the

2019 World Touring Car Cup The 2019 World Touring Car Cup was the second season of the World Touring Car Cup and 15th overall of World Touring Cars promoted by Discovery Sports Events, which dates back to the 2005 World Touring Car Championship. The drivers' championship ...

Race of Japan at Suzuka, driving an

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for

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Team Hitotsuyama as a wildcard entry. Miyata was scheduled to compete in the 2020

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for Hitotsuyama in an

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, but the race was cancelled due to the effects of the

. Beginning in 2018, Miyata began competing in the

Super Taikyu Series Super Taikyu (スーパー耐久, ''Super Endurance''), formerly known as the Super N1 Taikyu Series prior to 2005 and N1 Endurance Series prior to 1995, and currently named the Eneos Super Taikyu Series Empowered by Bridgestone for sponsorship ...

. He made his debut in the ST-3 class with Le Beausset Motorsports, where he helped the team to a runner-up finish in the championship. He then competed the ST-4 class with Endless Sports from 2019 to 2020. From 2021 to 2023, he drove Audi Team Hitotsuyama, beginning with a one-off ST-X class drive at the

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in an

, then in the ST-Z class in an Audi R8 LMS GT4 in 2022 and 2023. Miyata made his

IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship The IMSA SportsCar Championship, currently known as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship under sponsorship, is a sports car racing series based in the United States and Canada and organized by the International Motor Sports Association (I ...

debut at the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona, driving a Lexus RC F GT3 for

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. Miyata and co-drivers

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Parker Thompson Parker Thompson (born 2 March 1998) is a Canadian race car driver from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Career Early career Thompson began racing at the age of eight, competing in the Calgary Kart Racing Club a short distance from his family resi ...

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started from pole position in the GT Daytona (GTD) class but retired in the final hour after the car caught fire after a pit stop.

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Racing career summary

Season still in progress.
† As Miyata was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
‡ Team standings.