If foreign drivers have become scarce in Super Formula and SUPER GT recently, non-Japanese engineers are an even rarer breed. Indeed, since the days of the late, great Ricardo Divila, foreign engineers working in the upper echelons of Japan’s two premier categories can almost be counted on a single hand.
There was the Australian Matt Harvey, who spent a single season working for Nakajima Racing in 2016 in Super Formula, then in 2019-20, B-Max Racing had European engineers supplied by partner team Motopark. Last year, Toyota GT500 squad Racing Project Bandoh employed the services of Briton Varun Srinivasan before parting ways mid-season.
