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Super Formula Motegi: Ohta scores back-to-back wins

Ohta doubles up in the Motegi season opener after early battle with Oyu

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Super Formula Motegi: Kakunoshin Ohta makes it two wins in a row

Ohta doubles up in the Motegi season opener after early battle with Oyu

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Why Super Formula could be on the edge of an independents resurgence

Manufacturer-backed teams have controlled Super Formula in recent years, but after an announcement that new independent team Delightworks Racing is preparing to expand into the series, the balance of power could soon be restored

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Why there is hope for a Super Formula independents resurgence

In recent years the independent teams and drivers on the Super Formula grid have dwindled, while manufacturer backers Toyota and Honda have controlled the shape of the line-ups. But following an announcement of a new independent team in Delightworks Racing, it provides fresh impetus which should restore the balance

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Kakunoshin Ohta overcomes three-way Super Formula battle to win at Fuji

Kakunoshin Ohta brought Sho Tsuboi’s Super Formula winning streak at Fuji to an end by scoring his third victory of 2025 in a thrilling second race on Sunday.

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Ohta wins in thrilling three-way Super Formula battle at Fuji

Kakunoshin Ohta brought Sho Tsuboi’s Super Formula winning streak at Fuji to an end by scoring his third victory of 2025 in a thrilling second race on Sunday.

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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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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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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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Noda secures Super Formula drive with Honda squad TGM

Noda will drive the #53 Honda-powered SF23 in all nine Super Formula races this year, taking the place originally occupied by Toshiki Oyu and then Riki Okusa in 2023.

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Kobayashi fastest as 32 drivers take part in Super Formula test at Suzuka

Kobayashi, who now looks set to stay on in the Japanese series next year after hinting at an exit previously, posted a time of 1m36.296s in his Toyota-powered KCMG SF23 on Thursday afternoon to end the three-day test on top.

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Pourchaire, Barnicoat headline Super Formula rookie test entry list

Both Pourchaire and Barnicoat have been named on the entry list for the post-season test at Suzuka that will run from December 6-8 and feature one day of running dedicated exclusively to rookies.

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Juju Noda lands Super Formula test chance with TGM

Noda will sample TGM’s Honda-powered SF23 at the Suzuka Circuit on December 6-8, a homecoming of sorts for the 17-year-old who has spent her entire professional career in Europe so far.

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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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Honda must aim for title in first year with Civic, says Nojiri

Earlier this year, Honda announced it retire the NSX-GT in favour of a radical new GT500 model based on the Civic Type R road car, which made its first on-track appearance at Okayama in July (pictured top).

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Nojiri takes heart from Alonso after Super Formula title defeat

Team Mugen driver Nojiri went into the final double-header of the season 10 points behind series leader Ritomo Miyata aiming to become Japanese top formula racing’s first driver to win three consecutive titles since Satoru Nakajima in 1984-86.

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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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Autopolis SUPER GT: ARTA Honda on pole as Nissan struggles

With the top three teams in the standings failing to progress into Q2, ARTA driver Fukuzumi made the most of his rivals’ troubles to clinch a second pole in the space of three rounds.

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"Mixed feelings" for Nojiri after inheriting Sugo SUPER GT win

Real pair Koudai Tsukakoshi and Nobuharu Matsushita took the win on the road after a thrilling battle with the #8 ARTA Honda shared by Nojiri and Toshiki Oyu, only to be disqualified following post-race inspection for a worn skid block.

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Super GT Sugo: Real Honda disqualified, ARTA inherits win

Real pair Koudai Tsukakoshi and Nobuharu Matsushita had come through to take victory at the end of a thrilling 300km race, beating the #8 ARTA Honda of Tomoki Nojiri and Toshiki Oyu by seven seconds.

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Real Racing Honda disqualified, ARTA inherits Sugo win

Real pair Koudai Tsukakoshi and Nobuharu Matsushita had come through to take victory at the end of a thrilling 300km race, beating the #8 ARTA Honda of Tomoki Nojiri and Toshiki Oyu by seven seconds.

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Super GT Sugo: Real Honda victorious in red-flagged thriller

Tsukakoshi came out on top in a pulsating battle with Toshiki Oyu in the closing stages of the 300km race following an earlier red flag.

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Sugo SUPER GT: Real Honda victorious in red-flagged thriller

Tsukakoshi, who shares the #17 Real Honda NSX-GT with Nobuharu Matsushita, came out on top in a pulsating battle with Toshiki Oyu in the closing stages of the 300km race following an earlier red flag.

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Sugo SUPER GT – schedule, how to watch, entry list

A total of 40 cars, 15 in GT500 and 25 in GT300, are entered for the sixth round of the season, slated to begin at 1.30pm local time on Sunday (GMT +9).

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