2023 Super Formula Championship

The 2023 Japanese Super Formula Championship will be the fifty-first season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing,[1] and the eleventh under the moniker of Super Formula. It is scheduled to start in April 2023 and is due to be contested over seven race meetings.[2] Tomoki Nojiri enters the season as the two-time and defending series champion.

2023 will be the first season for the new Dallara SF23 chassis. The SF23 is constructed from Bcomp bio-composite material aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 75 percent, and features updated aerodynamic features aimed at reducing turbulent air and promoting more wheel-to-wheel racing.[3] Series tyre supplier Yokohama Rubber will debut a new "carbon neutral racing tyre" made from 33 percent recycled and renewable raw materials.

Teams and drivers

All teams use identical Dallara-built SF23 chassis.

Entrant Engine No. Driver name Rounds
Team Mugen Honda 1 Tomoki Nojiri[4] TBA
15 Liam Lawson[4] TBA
Docomo Team Dandelion Racing 5 Tadasuke Makino[4] TBA
6 Kakunoshin Ohta[4] TBA
ThreeBond Drago Corse 12 Nirei Fukuzumi[4] TBA
B-Max Racing 50 Nobuharu Matsushita[4] TBA
51 Raoul Hyman[4] TBA
TCS Nakajima Racing 64 Naoki Yamamoto[4] TBA
65 Ren Sato[4] TBA
TGM Grand Prix[5] TBA TBA TBA
TBA TBA TBA
Kondō Racing Toyota 3 Kenta Yamashita[6] TBA
4 Kazuto Kotaka[6] TBA
KCMG 7 Kamui Kobayashi[6] TBA
18 Yuji Kunimoto[6] TBA
ROOKIE Racing 14 Kazuya Oshima[6] TBA
Team Impul 19 Yuhi Sekiguchi[6] TBA
20 Ryō Hirakawa[6] TBA
Kuo Vantelin Team TOM’S 36 Giuliano Alesi[7] TBA
37 Ritomo Miyata[6] TBA
P.mu/Cerumo・INGING 38 Sho Tsuboi[6] TBA
39 Sena Sakaguchi[6] TBA

Team changes
  • Red Bull has split up with Team Goh and moved its sponsorship efforts to Lawson's Team Mugen entry. The loss of this sponsorship left Team Goh in doubts whether they would be able to continue their participation in the championship for 2023.[8] Servus Japan, the organization behind the team, later announced a relaunch under the "TGM Grand Prix" guise and announced the running of two cars in the 2023 season.[5]
  • After two seasons running one car, B-Max Racing will expand to operate two cars for this season.[4]

Driver changes

Race calendar

The provisional calendar was announced on 8 August 2022.[10] After three weekends were made to double-header events in 2022, the season opener and finale were both announced to have two races again.[11]

Round Circuit Location Date
1 Fuji Speedway Oyama, Shizuoka 7–9 April
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3 Suzuka International Racing Course Suzuka, Mie 21–23 April
4 Autopolis Hita, Oita 19–21 May
5 Sportsland SUGO Shibata, Miyagi 16–18 June
6 Fuji Speedway Oyama, Shizuoka 14–16 July
7 Mobility Resort Motegi Motegi, Tochigi 18–20 August
8 Suzuka International Racing Course Suzuka, Mie 27–29 October
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References
  1. ""SUPER FORMULA NEXT 50" Project Start Announcement Japan Race Promotion, Honda, and TOYOTA are the core members of a newly formed mobility & entertainment technical development partnership | SUPER FORMULA Official Website". superformula.net. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  2. "2023 Race Schedule | SUPER FORMULA Official Website". superformula.net. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  3. "SUPER FORMULA Celebrates 50 YEARS Japan's top formula introduces major sustainability and new action in 2023 the New Carbon-Neutral "SF23" the New Digital Platform "SFgo" | SUPER FORMULA Official Website". superformula.net. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  4. "Honda 2023 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Racing. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  5. "Reborn TGM Super Formula team announces two-car 2023 entry". motorsport.com. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  6. "TOYOTA GAZOO Racing announced its 2023 motorsport team setups". Toyota Gazoo Racing. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  7. "Toyota signs Sasahara, but Alesi keeps Super Formula drive". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  8. "Team Goh announces split with Red Bull Junior Team". www.motorsport.com. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  9. "Nissan announces Nato and Fenestraz for Season 9". FIA Formula E. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  10. "Super Formula outlines 2023 calendar". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  11. "2023年全日本レース選手権カレンダー". motorsports.jaf.or.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-11-30.
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