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Suzuka Super Formula: Nojiri leads Miyata in practice

Team Mugen driver Nojiri set a best lap of 1m38.895s in the closing moments of Friday afternoon's 90-minute session, which was the only running ahead of qualifying for the first of two races at Suzuka on Saturday morning.

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Miyata set for Super GT exit in favour of Lexus WEC seat

Miyata is expected to embark on a full campaign in the 2024 WEC as part of an anticipated factory-backed Lexus effort in the new LMGT3 class that will replace GTE Am.

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Miyata set for SUPER GT exit in favour of Lexus WEC seat

Miyata is expected to embark on a full campaign in the 2024 WEC as part of an anticipated factory-backed Lexus effort in the new LMGT3 class.

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How to be an ace engineer: Experienced designer Andrew Thorby

Andrew Thorby didn’t heed the best advice he says he was ever given in a motorsport career that has spanned over four decades designing and engineering cars across the spectrum of single-seaters and sportscars.

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TOM'S #37 car risks making dubious piece of SUPER GT history

While the #36 TOM’S machine of Sho Tsuboi and Ritomo Miyata is in the thick of the title fight, the same can’t be said of the sister #37 car crewed by Ukyo Sasahara and Giuliano Alesi, who have mustered a mere nine points in the first six races of the…

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Toyota faces dilemma over WEC junior Miyata's 2024 plans

When Miyata was unveiled earlier this year as Toyota’s latest Japanese protege in the World Endurance Championship, he was optimistic his new role wouldn’t prevent him from continuing to race in Super GT with the TOM’S squad.

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Toyota facing dilemma over WEC junior Miyata’s 2024 plans

When Miyata was unveiled earlier this year as Toyota’s latest Japanese protege in the World Endurance Championship, he initially was optimistic that his new role wouldn’t prevent him from continuing to race in SUPER GT with the TOM’S squad.

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TOM’S braced for points swing towards Lawson at Motegi

With three rounds left this season, TOM’S driver Miyata sits a single point clear of Mugen rival Lawson in the drivers’ standings.

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Assessing Super Formula's main title contenders at halfway

Yellow flag controversy at Sugo aside, Miyata has been the revelation of the season so far in his third year at TOM’S. Although he has always been regarded as one of the more promising talents in the Toyota junior stable, at the start of the season you would still have…

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Why Toyota’s top SUPER GT team is looking difficult to stop

After winning the second round of the season at Fuji, TOM’S duo Sho Tsuboi and Ritomo Miyata talked down their prospects of doing the same in the following race at Suzuka. That’s to be expected; cars rarely win races carrying 40kg of success ballast, after all.

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Opinion: TOM’S benching Alesi brutal, but the right move

The news that Giuliano Alesi is stepping down from his TOM’S Super Formula drive was both surprising and unsurprising in equal measure. Few expected he would survive beyond the end of 2023 with his current form, but equally a mid-season change of drivers didn’t seem to be on the cards…

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The miscommunication that cost Lawson dearly at Sugo

“I don't know what to say... how we can go from where we were to... I don't understand what the hell just happened."

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How Tsuboi has finally unlocked his Super Formula potential

Last weekend at Autopolis, the Inging driver scored his first pole in 35 attempts, and went on to finish third, marking his third trip to the podium in succession.

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How Miyata missed clear chance to beat Lawson at Autopolis

Around 15 laps into the 41-lap race at the flowing Kyushu track, Lawson’s decision to pit early looked like it wasn’t going to pay dividends. With the majority of drivers opting to extend their first stints amid fears of heavy tyre degradation, the Mugen driver soon caught up to a…

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Miki Koyama: What's next for Japan's top female driver?

Koyama made headlines last year when she won the Formula Regional Japanese Championship title, making her the first-ever female champion of an FIA-sanctioned, mixed-gender single-seater championship anywhere in the world.

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SUPER GT Fuji: TOM'S pair deliver Toyota's first win of 2023

The occupants of the #36 Toyota GR Supra came through from sixth on the grid to beat the pole-sitting Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT of Naoki Yamamoto and Tadasuke Makino by 28 seconds in the 450km race, which ran completely caution-free.

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Fuji SUPER GT: TOM'S pair deliver Toyota's first win of 2023

The occupants of the #36 au-liveried Toyota GR Supra came through from sixth on the grid to beat the pole-sitting Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT of Naoki Yamamoto and Tadasuke Makino by 28 seconds in the 100-lap, 450km race, which ran completely caution-free.

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How Toyota’s Miyata is staking his claim to an overseas future

If you were to make a list of drivers yet to win a Super Formula race that were most likely to break their duck in 2023, TOM’S driver Ritomo Miyata would probably have been at the top.

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Super Formula Suzuka: Miyata gets first win, Nojiri crashes out

TOM'S driver Miyata came from 12th on the grid to pass Tsuboi around the outside of Turn 1 on the penultimate lap of the 31-lap race to seal his first win in the Japanese single-seater category.

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Corrie's Catherine Tyldesley shares urgent message after husband's cancer scare

Coronation Street star Catherine Tyldesley took to her Instagram page to share an important message about checking for cancer symptoms

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Fuji Super Formula: Red Bull junior Lawson wins on debut

Having qualified third on the grid, Lawson passed the TGM car of Toshiki Oyu following a safety car restart on lap 8 of 41 before settling in behind pole-sitter and Mugen teammate Nojiri.

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How Toyota's newcomer is faring after flying the Honda nest

After two seasons as a ‘super-sub’ in the Honda Super Formula stable, 2022 was supposed to mark the year that Sasahara became part of the furniture at the Sakura brand. Handed the chance to join Tomoki Nojiri at Team Mugen, Sasahara finally had the platform he had so desperately craved…

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Shoppers ridicule £40 black trainers – saying they look just like 'school PE shoes'

Uniqlo fans were shocked to see the brand selling shoes that looked like those worn at 'school' for 'PE' for £40 - despite the children's version retailing for less than £10

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The signs Toyota can still threaten Honda in Okayama opener

SUPER GT pre-season testing times have always been tricky to get a read on, but the introduction of the new for 2023 carbon-neutral fuel (CNF) has made it harder than ever to discern which of the three GT500 manufacturers has the advantage.

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