Ex-Formulation 1 driver Jack Doohan, Freddie Slater and Ugo Ugochukwu have all been added to the line-up for this week’s post-season Tremendous Formulation take a look at at Suzuka.
Sequence organiser JRP launched a remaining entry record for the take a look at on Tuesday, confirming the identification of all 36 drivers that may take part within the three-day take a look at that begins on Wednesday.
As previously reported by Motorsport.com, Doohan appears to be like sure to drive in Tremendous Formulation subsequent season as he seeks to rebuild his profession within the wake of shedding his Alpine F1 seat to Franco Colapinto after the opening six races of the marketing campaign.
He’ll drive at Suzuka – the place he raced on this 12 months’s Japanese Grand Prix – for the Toyota-powered Kondo Racing workforce on all three days of the take a look at, the Australian driver taking on the #3 automobile raced this season by Kenta Yamashita.
Though not but formally confirmed by Toyota, Doohan is about to type a part of an all-new worldwide mixture at Kondo along with Williams F1 junior Luke Browning.
They’ll change Yamashita, who is about to hitch KCMG, and Zak O’Sullivan, who appears to be like well-placed to land a seat with what may grow to be a one-car Staff Impul operation.
Zak O’Sullivan, Kondo Racing
Photograph by: Tremendous Formulation
As revealed final Friday, Browning joins Kondo for the second and third days of the take a look at within the sister #4 Dallara-Toyota, and can head to Japan instantly from participating within the F1 younger driver take a look at in Abu Dhabi for Williams on Tuesday.
Formulation Regional European champion Slater will drive for TOM’S on the third and remaining day of the take a look at, which is reserved for drivers with fewer than 4 Tremendous Formulation begins.
He’ll pilot the #37 automobile that will likely be pushed on the primary two days by Sacha Fenestraz, whereas 2024 Macau Grand Prix winner Ugochukwu will drive Sho Tsuboi’s common #1 automobile.
Each Slater and Ugochukwu belong to the identical ADD Administration steady as Fenestraz, with newly-crowned F1 world champion Lando Norris additionally a part of the identical group.
Rallying star Kalle Rovanpera (KCMG), FIA Formulation 3 racer Charlie Wurz (Staff Goh), and Tremendous Formulation Lights champion Yuto Nomura (B-Max Racing) are among the many different drivers who’re set to pattern Tremendous Formulation equipment for the primary time this week.
The take a look at will comprise six periods totalling 12 hours, with four-and-a-half hours of operating happening on Wednesday and Thursday and three hours on Friday.
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