If somebody had beaten Liam Lawson, Yuki Tsunoda and Franco Colapinto to a junior-level single-seater title, you might think that driver would have a good chance of making it to Formula 1. And perhaps there’s an alternate universe somewhere where Igor Fraga, who did exactly that in the Toyota Racing Series in 2020, is now a fully-fledged grand prix driver.
Born in Japan to Brazilian parents, a prolific racer in both the real world and the virtual one, speaking English, Japanese, Portuguese and some Spanish to boot, 26-year-old Fraga is in many ways a marketeer’s dream. And in early 2020, just after his TRS triumph and with a Red Bull junior contract in his pocket, he seemed to have the world at his feet.
