2025 Super Formula Lights

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The 2025 Super Formula Lights Championship is scheduled to be the sixth Super Formula Lights Championship season, after the Japanese Formula 3 Championship was rebranded following the end of the 2019 season.

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Teams and drivers

TeamNo.DriverStatusRounds
B-Max Racing Team 1 Flag of Japan.svg Kazuhisa Urabe TBC
4 Flag of Japan.svg Nobuhiro Imada [1] MTBC
8 Flag of Japan.svg Yasuhiro Shimizu [1] MTBC
30 Flag of Japan.svg "Dragon" [1] MTBC
51 Flag of the Philippines.svg Zachary David TBC
58 Flag of the United States.svg Kaylen Frederick [1] TBC
DELiGHTWORKS Racing2 Flag of Japan.svg Souta Arao TBC
3 Flag of Japan.svg Yusuke Mitsui TBC
TOM'S 38 Flag of Japan.svg Rikuto Kobayashi [2] TBC
TBA Flag of France.svg Esteban Masson TBC
TBA Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Sano TBC
HFDP with B-Max Racing Team 50 Flag of Japan.svg Yuto Nomura TBC
LM corsa 60 Flag of Japan.svg Reimei Ito TBC
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MMasters' Cup

Team changes

B-Max Racing Team extended its collaboration with the Honda Formula Dream Project, which began in the 2024 F4 Japanese Championship, into its Super Formula Lights outfit, entering one further car into the championship under the HFDP with B-Max Racing Team guise. [3] B-Max will also return to entering all its other cars under the B-Max Racing Team guise, so the JMS Racing Team, GNSY Racing and Team Dragon names will not return in 2025. [1]

LM corsa will make their full-season debut in the series after entering two rounds in 2024. [4]

DELiGHTWORKS Racing, a new team established in 2024, where they competed in the last round of Formula Regional Japan, will join the series. [5]

Driver changes

Reigning Teams' Champion TOM'S saw Jin Nakamura and Seita Nonaka leave the series as Nakamura moved to Formula Regional Europe with R-ace GP and Nonaka focused on his continued Super GT GT300 efforts with Saitama Green Brave. The team signed 2023 Eurocup-3 champion Esteban Masson, who came 27th in the WEC's LMGT3 class with Akkodis ASP in 2024, and Yuki Sano, who finished fourth in the 2024 F4 Japanese Championship driving for the TGR-DC Racing School. [2]

B-Max Racing Team saw reigning Drivers' Champion Syun Koide graduate to the team's Super Formula outfit while Rin Arakawa joined Tomei Sports in Super GT GT300 and Makoto Fujiwara left the series. [3] [6] B-Max signed Zachary David, who came 13th with R-ace GP in FRECA in 2024 and will debut in SFL alongside a sophomore FRECA campaign with CL Motorsport, and Kazuhisa Urabe, who steps up from Japanese F4 after finishing 11th in 2024 with TGR-DC Racing School. [1]

HFDP with B-Max Racing Team promoted 2024 F4 Japanese champion Yuto Nomura to the team. [3]

Reigning Porsche Carrera Cup Japan champion Reimei Ito will make his full-season debut with LM corsa after entering two rounds with the team in 2024 and finishing the season in ninth. [4]

New team DELiGHTWORKS Racing signed two former HFDP drivers for their SFL debut. One will be a series rookie in 2022 F4 Japanese runner-up Yusuke Mitsui, who spent 2024 racing in Super Taikyu ST-2 with Team Spoon and Super GT - GT300 with Team UpGarage, while the other will be a returnee in Souta Arao, who finished the 2024 season in seventh driving for Toda Racing. [5]

Race calendar

The calendar for the 2025 season was announced on 11 November 2024. It will once again consist of eighteen races held over six weekends at six circuits. Two of the events will support the parent Super Formula Championship. [7]

RoundCircuitDateSupportingMap of circuit locations
1R1 Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka 7–9 March Super Formula Championship
Honda N-One Owner's Cup
R2
R3
2R4 Autopolis, Hita 16–18 May Super Formula Championship
Honda N-One Owner's Cup
R5
R6
3R7 Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka 20–22 June
R8
R9
4R10 Sportsland Sugo, Murata 29–31 August Formula Regional Japanese Championship
SUGO Champion Cup Race Series
R11
R12
5R13 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 5–7 SeptemberFuji Champion Race Series
R14
R15
6R16 Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi 28–30 NovemberMotegi Champion Cup Race
R17
R18

Championship standings

Points will be awarded as follows:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2025 SFライツ参戦体制". B-Max Racing Team. 20 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 "TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Presents its 2025 motorsport team setups in Japan". Toyota Gazoo Racing. 25 December 2024. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Honda 2025 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  4. 1 2 O'Connell, RJ (7 February 2025). "Giancarlo Fisichella To Drive LM Corsa Ferrari At Suzuka 1000KM". dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  5. 1 2 "＜DELiGHTWORKS RACING＞全日本スーパーフォーミュラ・ライツ選手権 2025に2台体制で参戦". DELiGHTWORKS Motorsports. 25 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  6. ↑ Hirano, Ryuji (26 February 2025). "RUNUP SPORTSが2025年スーパーGT／ジャパンカップ参戦体制を発表。GT300は清水啓伸が加入". Auto Sport Web. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "2025 年全日本レース選手権カレンダー一覧" (PDF).
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