2026 Super Formula Championship

The 2026 Japanese Super Formula Championship will be the fifty-fourth season of premier Japanese single-seater motor racing, and the fourteenth under the moniker of Super Formula. Team Mugen driver Ayumu Iwasa enters the season as the defending series champion.

All teams use identical Dallara-built SF23 chassis with either Honda or Toyota engines. Every Honda-powered car uses a Honda HR-417E engine and every Toyota-powered car uses a Toyota TRD-01F engine. All teams compete with tyres supplied by Yokohama.

Entrant	Engine	No.	Driver name	Rounds	Ref.
Team Mugen	Honda	1	Ayumu Iwasa	TBC	[1]
		16	Tomoki Nojiri	TBC	[1]
Realize Kondo Racing	Toyota	3	Luke Browning	TBC	[2]
		4	Ukyo Sasahara	TBC	[3]
Docomo Team Dandelion Racing	Honda	5	Tadasuke Makino	TBC	[1]
		6	Kakunoshin Ohta	TBC	[1]
KDDI TGMGP TGR-DC	Toyota	7	Kamui Kobayashi	TBC	[4]
		28	Rikuto Kobayashi	TBC	[4]
Team Goh		53	Charlie Wurz	TBC	[4][5]
KCMG	Toyota	8	Kenta Yamashita	TBC	[4]
		69	Kalle Rovanperä	TBC	[4]
Hazama Ando Triple Tree Racing	Honda	10	"Juju"	TBC	[1]
ThreeBond Racing	Honda	12	Syun Koide	TBC	[1][6]
NTT Docomo Business Rookie	Toyota	14	Nirei Fukuzumi	TBC	[4]
Wecars Impul with SDG	Toyota	19	Zak O'Sullivan	TBC	[4]
Delightworks Racing	Honda	22	Nobuharu Matsushita	TBC	[7]
Vantelin Team TOM'S	Toyota	36	Sho Tsuboi	TBC	[4]
		37	Sacha Fenestraz	TBC	[4]
Sanki Vertex Partners Cerumo・Inging	Toyota	38	Sena Sakaguchi	TBC	[4]
		39	Toshiki Oyu	TBC	[4]
San-Ei Gen with B-Max	Honda	50	Yuto Nomura	TBC	[1]
Ponos Nakajima Racing	Honda	64	Ren Sato	TBC	[1]
		65	Igor Omura Fraga	TBC	[1]

• Super Formula Lights team Delightworks Racing will join the series. The team will use Honda engines and receive operational support from Toda Racing.^[7][8]

• TGM Grand Prix will expand to three Toyota-powered cars, adding a single car entered under the Team Goh name which returns to Super Formula after a three-year absence.^[9]

• Team Impul will downsize from two cars to one after the team failed to score points in 2025.^[4] The team acquired a new title sponsor in industrial equipment company SDG and will enter as Wecars Impul with SDG.^[10]

• Transport and logistics company Realize Corporation, a longtime sponsor of Kondo Racing, will officially become the team's title sponsor, with the team entering as Realize Kondo Racing.^[4]

• Nobuharu Matsushita will return to Super Formula for the first time since 2024 with the new Delightworks Racing team after a year on the sidelines where he competed in Super GT GT500 with ARTA.^[7]

• Two-time FIA World Rally Champion Kalle Rovanperä announced he would switch to single-seater racing and debut in Super Formula in 2026. Rovanperä was then confirmed to drive for KCMG, using his personal number 69 from his time in the WRC.^[4][11] He was joined at KCMG by Kenta Yamashita, who departed Kondo Racing after nine seasons. Both drivers effectively replacing Kamui Kobayashi and Nirei Fukuzumi, who move to TGMGP TGR-DC and Rookie Racing respectively.^[4]

• Following Yamashita departure to KCMG, Zak O'Sullivan also left Kondo Racing after his rookie season to join Team Impul.^[4] That saw Kondo take on two new drivers in Williams F1 Junior Driver Luke Browning, who will make his series debut after one and a half seasons in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, and Ukyo Sasahara returns to Super Formula after a year away from the series, where he competed in Super GT GT500 with Deloitte TOM'S.^[2][3]

• Rookie Racing signed Nirei Fukuzumi from KCMG to replace Kazuya Oshima, who retire from the series after 13 seasons of competition.^[12][4]

• Both Oliver Rasmussen and Mitsunori Takaboshi left Team Impul after one season, with Takaboshi focusing on his Super GT GT500 efforts with NISMO.^[13][14] The Team recruited former Kondo Racing driver, Zak O'Sullivan for his sophomore season.^[4]

• TGMGP also renewed their lineup as Kazuto Kotaka, Hibiki Taira, and Seita Nonaka all left the team to focus on their Super GT GT300 campaigns. Kamui Kobayashi left KCMG after nine seasons and will drive for TGMGP TGR-DC, using the number 7, the same number he has used in KCMG, and Rikuto Kobayashi will make his full-time Super Formula debut with the team after two seasons in Super Formula Lights and two one-off Super Formula entries for Team Impul in 2025.^[4]

• Second-generation driver Charlie Wurz will make his series debut with Team Goh after two seasons in the FIA Formula 3 Championship.^[4]

• Reigning Super Formula Lights champion and Honda Formula Dream Project graduate Yuto Nomura will make his series debut with B-Max Racing Team.^[1] He will replace Syun Koide, who joined ThreeBond Racing to replace Atsushi Miyake, who departs after two seasons to focus on his Super GT GT500 efforts with Kondo Racing.^[6][13]

The provisional calendar was announced on 5 August 2025, with 12 races held across seven weekends at five venues.^[15]

Round	Circuit	Location	Date	Support bill	Map of circuit locations
1	Mobility Resort Motegi	Motegi, Tochigi	4 April	Honda N-One Owner's Cup All Japan Road Race Championship	Fuji Suzuka Sugo Autopolis Motegi
2			5 April
3	Autopolis	Hita, Oita	25 April	Super Formula Lights Honda N-One Owner's Cup
4	Suzuka International Racing Course	Suzuka, Mie	23 May	Super Formula Lights Formula Regional Japanese Championship
5			24 May
6	Fuji Speedway	Oyama, Shizuoka	18 July	Porsche Carrera Cup Japan Kyojo Cup
7			19 July
8	Sportsland SUGO	Shibata, Miyagi	9 August	Porsche Carrera Cup Japan Honda N-One Owner's Cup
9	Fuji Speedway	Oyama, Shizuoka	10 October	Formula Regional Japanese Championship Kyojo Cup
10			11 October
11	Suzuka International Racing Course	Suzuka, Mie	21 November	Toyota Gazoo Racing Yaris Cup - Kansai
12			22 November

• The first Suzuka race will move from March to May, with Motegi set as the first round.^[16]

Race points

Qualifying points

• Super Formula official website