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Tsuboi demands Super Formula engine overhaul as Toyota 'can't compete with Honda'

The 2024 champion claims Super Formula drivers in Toyota-powered cars now have their own “Toyota championship”

Autosport · Aug 18

Sho Tsuboi calls for Super Formula engine overhaul as Toyota “can’t properly compete with Honda”

The 2024 champion claims Super Formula drivers in Toyota-powered cars are now fighting their own “Toyota championship”

Motorsport · Aug 18

Super Formula Autopolis round cancelled by heavy rain

Super Formula considering replacement event after rain forces cancellation of Sunday's Autopolis race

Autosport · Apr 26

How fears over Super Formula's 2025 tweaks proved to be unfounded

‘There's no tyre degradation!’ ‘There won’t be any strategy!’ ‘Almost everybody will pit on lap one!’ Ahead of last weekend’s Super Formula season opening double-header at Suzuka, there were no shortage of people in the paddock airing concerns about how the first weekend of the new season would go.

Autosport · Mar 10, 2025

How to watch Super Formula in 2025: Schedule, line-up and more

The 2025 Super Formula championship commences this weekend at Suzuka, where Sho Tsuboi will kickstart his title defence. The 29-year-old became just the sixth driver to complete the Super GT and Super Formula double as he clinched both of Japan’s top championship titles in 2024. It firmly warranted his switch from Inging to TOM’S in Super Formula and he…

Autosport · Mar 6, 2025

Super Formula still targeting international expansion despite Korea cancellation

Super Formula has insisted that the removal of its planned South Korea race from the 2025 calendar does not mark the end of its plans to expand its footprint in Asia.

Autosport · Oct 24, 2024

Super Formula scraps planned 2025 South Korea race

Super Formula has cancelled next season’s planned visit to South Korea’s Inje Speedium, and will instead race entirely within Japan in 2025.

Autosport · Oct 12, 2024

The promising signs of Japanese motorsport's belated bounceback

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, Super GT is venturing beyond Japanese shores next year. The championship’s first-ever night race at Sepang in Malaysia, which should have taken place in 2020 only to be scuppered by the onset of the global health crisis, was part of the series’…

Motorsport · Aug 6, 2024

The factors behind Super Formula losing its international lustre

Last weekend’s Super Formula round at Sugo was the first in almost 50 years to feature no international representation. All 20 drivers who lined up on the grid, plus Naoki Yamamoto who couldn't take the start due to a warm-up crash, were of Japanese nationality.

Motorsport · Jun 25, 2024

The factors behind Japan's proving ground losing its international lustre

Last weekend’s Super Formula round at Sugo was the first in almost 50 years to feature no international representation. All 20 drivers who lined up on the grid, plus Naoki Yamamoto who couldn't take the start due to a warm-up crash, were of Japanese nationality.

Autosport · Jun 25, 2024