2024 Super Formula Lights

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The 2024 Super Formula Lights Championship will be the fourth Super Formula Lights Championship season, after the Japanese Formula 3 Championship was rebranded following the end of the 2019 season.

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After being a multi-engine championship throughout all of its history, dating back to 1979, this will change in 2024 with the introduction of a spec Toyota engine. [1]

Teams and drivers

All cars will run a Toyota TGE33 engine developed by TOM'S and based on the Toyota GR Yaris three cylinder 1.6-litre turbo engine. [2] All cars will run on Kumho Tires, switching over from Yokohama Tire. [3]

TeamNo.DriverStatusRounds
B-Max Racing Team 1 Flag of the United States.svg Kaylen Frederick TBC
4 Flag of Japan.svg Nobuhiro Imada [4] MTBC
8 Flag of Japan.svg Yasuhiro ShimizuMTBC
13 Flag of Japan.svg Makoto FujiwaraMTBC
30 Flag of Japan.svg "Dragon" [4] MTBC
50 Flag of Japan.svg Syun Koide TBC
TBA Flag of Japan.svg Rin ArakawaTBC
Toda Racing 2 Flag of Japan.svg Souta Arao TBC
TOM'S 35 Flag of Japan.svg Jin Nakamura TBC
36 Flag of Japan.svg Seita Nonaka [5] TBC
37 Flag of Japan.svg Yuga Furutani [6] TBC
38 Flag of Japan.svg Rikuto Kobayashi TBC
IconClass
MMasters' Cup.

Driver changes

Reigning Teams' Champion B-Max Racing Team will have five new drivers. 2023 champion Iori Kimura will step up to the teams' Super Formula outfit, with his seat in the No. 50 car filled by Syun Koide, who will depart Toda Racing after coming third in his debut season with the team. [7] [6] Igor Fraga and David Vidales left the championship after coming fourth and ninth in 2023, respectively. Fraga will focus on his reserve driver duties for PONOS Nakajima Racing in Super Formula and his Super GT program with Arnage Racing, while Vidales will join AF Corse for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. [8] [9] To replace the pair, B-Max signed Kaylen Frederick, who will make his debut in Japan after coming 21st with ART Grand Prix in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and Rin Arakawa, who will embark on a part-time campaign after coming sixth in last years' F4 Japanese Championship with Zap Speed. [4] Togo Suganami and Takashi Hata, who did three and four rounds with the team in 2023 respectively, will be replaced by two Masters' Class competitors in 2023 F4 Japanese Championship Independent Cup champion Makoto Fujiwara and Yasuhiro Shimizu, who last raced in Super GT GT300 Class in 2011. [4]

TOM'S signed two Toyota juniors in 2023 F4 Japanese champion Rikuto Kobayashi and runner-up Jin Nakamura. Both rookies replace last season's runner-up Hibiki Taira, who is currently scheduled to continue driving in the Super GT series' GT300 class with INGING, and Enzo Trulli. [5] [6]

Souta Arao will take over Syun Koide's former seat at Toda Racing, returning to Japan after a stint in GB3 with Hitech Pulse-Eight, where he came 17th. [10]

Race calendar

The calendar for the 2024 season was announced on 24 November 2023. It will once again consist of eighteen races held over six weekends at six circuits. Four of the events will support the parent Super Formula Championship. [11] When the Super Formula season finale was brought forwards by two weeks, the Super Formula Lights amended its calendar accordingly. [12]

RoundCircuitDateSupportingMap of circuit locations
1R1 Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi 26–28 AprilMotegi Champion Cup
R2
R3
2R4 Autopolis, Hita 17–19 May Super Formula Championship
R5
R6
3R7 Sportsland Sugo, Murata 21–23 June Super Formula Championship
R8
R9
4R10 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 19–21 July Super Formula Championship
Kyojo Cup
R11
R12
5R13 Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka 13–15 September
R14
R15
6R16 Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka 8–10 November Super Formula Championship
R17
R18

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