2025 Super Formula Championship

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The 2025 Japanese Super Formula Championship is scheduled to be the fifty-third season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the twelfth under the moniker of Super Formula. The season will start in March at Suzuka Circuit and is due to be contested over 12 rounds in seven race weekends, ending in November at Suzuka. [1]

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Teams and drivers

All teams used identical Dallara-built SF23 chassis with either Honda or Toyota engines. Every Honda-powered car used a Honda HR-417E engine and every Toyota-powered car used a Toyota TRD-01F engine.

EntrantEngineNo.Driver name
Flag of Japan.svg Vantelin Team TOM’S Toyota 1 Flag of Japan.svg Sho Tsuboi [2]
37 Flag of Argentina.svg Sacha Fenestraz [2]
Flag of Japan.svg Kondo Racing Toyota 3 Flag of Japan.svg Kenta Yamashita [2]
4 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Zak O'Sullivan [2]
Flag of Japan.svg Docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda 5 Flag of Japan.svg Tadasuke Makino [3]
6 Flag of Japan.svg Kakunoshin Ohta [3]
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Kids com Team KCMG Toyota 7 Flag of Japan.svg Kamui Kobayashi [2]
8 Flag of Japan.svg Nirei Fukuzumi [2]
Flag of Japan.svg ThreeBond Racing Honda 12Flag of none.svg TBA
Flag of Japan.svg docomo business ROOKIE Toyota 14 Flag of Japan.svg Kazuya Oshima [2]
Flag of Japan.svg Team Mugen Honda 15 Flag of Japan.svg Ayumu Iwasa [3]
16 Flag of Japan.svg Tomoki Nojiri [3]
Flag of Japan.svg Team Impul Toyota 19 Flag of Denmark.svg Oliver Rasmussen [2]
20 Flag of Japan.svg Mitsunori Takaboshi [2]
Flag of Japan.svg KDDI TGMGP TGR-DC Toyota 28 Flag of Japan.svg Kazuto Kotaka [2]
29 Flag of Japan.svg Hibiki Taira [2]
Flag of Japan.svg Sanki Vertex Partners [a] Toyota 38 Flag of Japan.svg Sena Sakaguchi [2]
39 Flag of Japan.svg Toshiki Oyu [2]
Flag of Japan.svg San-Ei Gen with B-Max Honda 50Flag of none.svg TBA
Flag of Japan.svg PONOS Nakajima Racing Honda 64Flag of none.svg TBA
65 Flag of Japan.svg Ren Sato [3]

Team changes

The entry co-run by Inging Motorsport and Cerumo saw its previous title sponsor Vertex Partners take on a bigger role in the team, as well as taking on new sponsorship by Sanki, with the team competing under the name Sanki Vertex Partners. [2]

TGM Grand Prix changed both their name and their engine supplier. The team will no longer run Honda engines and instead now joined ROOKIE Racing in serving as Toyota Gazoo Racing's junior team, called TGR-DC. The team also acquired a new title sponsor in telecommunications operator KDDI, with the team entering the 2025 season under the name KDDI TGMGP TGR-DC. [2]

Driver changes

Vantelin Team TOM’S saw 2022 Super Formula runner-up Sacha Fenestraz return to the series after a two-year stint in Formula E with Nissan. [2] He replaces Ukyo Sasahara.

PONOS Nakajima Racing saw three-time series champion Naoki Yamamoto retire from the series after 15 seasons. [4]

Kondo Racing replaced TGMGP-bound Kazuto Kotaka with former Williams Academy driver Zak O'Sullivan, who moves to Japan after coming 16th in Formula 2 with ART Grand Prix. [2]

Team Impul will have an all-new line up as 2016 series champion Yuji Kunimoto retired from the series after 14 seasons and neither of the four drivers who drove the No. 19 car in 2024 returned. [5] The team signed Oliver Rasmussen, who came 19th in the WEC's Hypercar class with Jota Sport in 2024 and will make his series debut, and NISMO works driver Mitsunori Takaboshi, who will make his full-season debut after a one-off Super Formula appearance for Team Impul in 2021. [2]

Newly rebranded team TGMGP also took on two new drivers as Juju Noda and Hiroki Otsu both left the team following its switch from Honda to Toyota engines. Kazuto Kotaka joins the team after coming 14th with Kondo Racing in his second Super Formula season in 2024. Hibiki Taira, who drove Team Impul's No. 19 car on four occasions in 2024, will complete TGMGP's lineup on his full-time debut in the series. [2]

San-Ei Gen with B-Max saw Iori Kimura leave the team after Honda ended its association with him. [6]

Race calendar

The provisional calendar was announced on 1 August 2024. [1] All weekends except the ones at Autopolis and Sportsland Sugo will be double-headers, making this the longest calendar in Super Formula history. The series originally planned its first race outside Japan since 2004 with a round held at Inje Speedium. [7] These plans, however, were cancelled in October 2024. It marked the second time that a planned round at Inje was cancelled. [8]

RoundCircuitLocationDateSupport billMap of circuit locations
1 Suzuka International Racing Course Suzuka, Mie 7–9 March Super Formula Lights
2
3 Mobility Resort Motegi Motegi, Tochigi 18–20 April
4
5 Autopolis Hita, Oita 17–18 May Super Formula Lights
6 Fuji Speedway Oyama, Shizuoka 18–20 July
7
8 Sportsland SUGO Shibata, Miyagi 9–10 August
9 Fuji Speedway Oyama, Shizuoka 10–12 October
10
11 Suzuka International Racing Course Suzuka, Mie 21–23 November
12

Notes

  1. ↑ Operated by Cerumo and INGING

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