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Super Formula Motegi: Makino heads Dandelion 1-2 in opener

Tadasuke Makino scored his second Super Formula victory of the season in Saturday’s opening race at Motegi, as Dandelion Racing continued its winning streak.

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How fears over Super Formula's 2025 tweaks proved to be unfounded

‘There's no tyre degradation!’ ‘There won’t be any strategy!’ ‘Almost everybody will pit on lap one!’ Ahead of last weekend’s Super Formula season opening double-header at Suzuka, there were no shortage of people in the paddock airing concerns about how the first weekend of the new season would go.

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Super Formula Suzuka: Makino completes Dandelion clean sweep

Tadasuke Makino completed a Dandelion Racing sweep of the opening weekend of the Super Formula season at Suzuka, but team-mate Kakunoshin Ohta was demoted out of the points by a penalty.

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How to watch Super Formula in 2025: Schedule, line-up and more

The 2025 Super Formula championship commences this weekend at Suzuka, where Sho Tsuboi will kickstart his title defence. The 29-year-old became just the sixth driver to complete the Super GT and Super Formula double as he clinched both of Japan’s top championship titles in 2024. It firmly warranted his switch from Inging to TOM’S in Super Formula and he…

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #40 Tadasuke Makino

Tadasuke Makino breaking down in tears upon scoring his first victory at Autopolis must rank as one of the moments of the Super Formula season.

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Makino tops Suzuka Super Formula test as Bearman stars

Tadasuke Makino was fastest across three days of post-season Super Formula testing at Suzuka, as Haas Formula 1 signing Oliver Bearman went third-fastest on the final day.

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Antonelli, Bearman headline Super Formula Suzuka test as full entry list is revealed

Super Formula has released the entry list for this week’s post-season test at Suzuka, headlined by 2025 Formula 1 drivers Oliver Bearman and Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

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Antonelli, Bearman headline Super Formula Suzuka test as full entry list revealed

Super Formula has released the entry list for this week’s post-season test at Suzuka, headlined by 2025 Formula 1 drivers Oliver Bearman and Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

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Super Formula Suzuka: Tsuboi crowned champion, Ota wins finale

Sho Tsuboi wrapped up the Super Formula title with second place in Sunday’s final race of the season at Suzuka, as Kakunoshin Ota completed a dominant double victory.

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Super Formula Suzuka: Ota wins race of attrition, Tsuboi closes on title

Sho Tsuboi took a step closer to the Super Formula title in Saturday’s opening round of the final weekend at Suzuka with a second-place finish behind a dominant Kakunoshin Ota.

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Super Formula Fuji: Tsuboi snatches points lead with back-to-back wins

Sho Tsuboi made it a double Super Formula victory at Fuji on Sunday to grab the championship lead heading into the final weekend of the season next month at Suzuka.

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Super Formula Fuji: Tsuboi victory applies pressure on points leader Nojiri

Sho Tsuboi scored his second win of the Super Formula season in Saturday’s opener at Fuji Speedway to close to within half a point of championship leader Tomoki Nojiri.

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Super Formula Motegi: Makino wins after Ota's spin, de Vries 13th

Tadasuke Makino scored his second Super Formula victory of the season after a charging drive at Motegi, but only after team-mate Kakunoshin Ota spun out of the lead.

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Super Formula Fuji: Tsuboi charges back to end four-year win drought

Sho Tsuboi ended a Super Formula victory drought dating back to 2020 with a first win of the season for TOM'S in Sunday’s fourth round at Fuji Speedway.

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How to watch Super Formula: schedule, line-up and more

The 2024 Super Formula season kicks off this weekend at Suzuka, so here is how and when you can watch this weekend's action.

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Super GT 2024: Nissan, Honda and Toyota's GT500 line-ups

On Thursday, Nissan announced a major overhaul of its line-up, ending the decade-long partnership between Ronnie Quintarelli and Tsugio Matsuda.

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The Top 10 SUPER GT/Super Formula drivers of 2023

Super Formula fans were treated to their best title battle in years after some one-sided contests in 2021 and '22, and while SUPER GT had a more turbulent year filled with red flags and incidents, the series still produced a championship battle that went down to the wire. This year's…

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Yamamoto released from hospital two months on from Super GT crash

Yamamoto was forced to miss the final two races of 2023 after the incident, which took place exiting the final corner at Sugo as he made contact with Teppei Natori's Kondo Racing Nissan GT300 car.

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Yamamoto released from hospital two months on from Sugo crash

Yamamoto was forced to miss the final two races of 2023 after the incident, which took place exiting the final corner at Sugo as he made contact with Teppei Natori's Kondo Racing Nissan GT300 car.

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How Honda rookie Ota broke SF’s ‘big three’ stranglehold

Ota’s first win may have been slightly overshadowed by the drama of the title battle, but the 24-year-old rookie deserves plaudits for becoming only the fourth different driver to stand on the top step of the podium in 2023 after Lawson, Tomoki Nojiri and Ritomo Miyata.

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Honda SUPER GT boss lavishes praise on GT500 rookies

Both top-class debutant Kimura in the #100 Team Kunimitsu Honda and Ota in the #64 Nakajima Racing NSX-GT were singled out for praise by Saiki in his post-race press conference following the penultimate round of the season.

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Honda’s Yamamoto GT500 stand-in faces steep learning curve

Kimura has been recruited to join Tadasuke Makino aboard the Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT at both Autopolis and next month's Motegi season finale in the wake of Yamamoto's major crash last time out at Sugo.

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Sugo SUPER GT race suspended after major Yamamoto crash

Yamamoto was running in eighth place in the #100 Honda NSX-GT at the time of the crash, having just taken over at the wheel from team-mate Tadasuke Makino.

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Nissan fastest as 2024 GT500 cars continue testing at Motegi

A total of 10 cars have been in action across the two-day test, which concludes on Wednesday, with seven current cars joined by a single development car each from Nissan, Toyota and Honda.

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Suzuka SUPER GT: Fukuzumi puts Honda on pole, Toyotas struggle

On what will be the last visit for the NSX to Honda’s home track before it is replaced by the new Civic Type R-GT next year, Fukuzumi posted a 1m46.385s at the end of the Q2 pole shootout to grab the top spot in the #16 ARTA car he shares…

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