Fresh off the back of a successful end to his 2025 Super Formula Championship season, former Gran Turismo champion Igor Fraga has already confirmed a busy racing calendar for 2026.
Fraga raced in both Super Formula and the GT300 class of Super GT in 2025, with some mixed fortunes. In his third season with Anest Iwata Racing in Super GT started off well, with a second-place at the opening round at Okayama in April being the team’s best result in its entire history.
That was a high point though, and while the team did secure more points finishes than any previous season it could only place 17th overall in the final standings — and was one of several to miss the flyaway round at Sepang due to the garage space limitation and preference given to GT500 cars.
It was the opposite case for Fraga’s Super Formula season, his first at this level, which started off more slowly with regular points finishes (save a podium at Motegi) before ending on a very high note indeed. Fraga took his first victory in the fog-delayed tenth round — which took place at Suzuka instead of its original Fuji venue — in a weekend that saw him comfortably take rookie of the year honors in sixth overall.
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Having now completed three seasons in Super GT’s GT300 class, his Super Formula outfit, (Ponos) Nakajima Racing, has elected to promote him up to its (Modulo) Nakajima Racing GT500 roster, where he’ll race with new team-mate Riki Okusa.
Along with making his debut in this category, Fraga will also be driving a car that’s making its own as he becomes one of the ten racers to take the wheel of the brand-new Honda Prelude-GT, replacing the Civic Type R-GT in 2026. The Prelude model was recently revived after almost 25 years since its last generation, and forms the basis for a Super GT race car for the very first time — though three Preludes contested the N1 class in the 1993 JGTC Suzuka 1000km.
Interestingly, the Fraga/Okusa car will be the only one of the five Prelude-GTs on the grid to run Dunlop tires, before the switch to a single tire-supplier for the series in 2027. Dunlop has, of course, recently become the official tire partner for Gran Turismo, and Fraga still carries Gran Turismo sponsorship.
However Fraga won’t be the only name well known to Gran Turismo players competing in the GT500 class in 2026. He’ll be joined by Rikuto Kobayashi, runner-up in the 2023 Gran Turismo World Series Nations Cup as part of Team Japan, who’ll be driving the GR Supra GT500 of the Cerumo team in a factory-backed drive.
Fraga and Kobayashi are also both set to race in Super Formula again in 2025, with Fraga remaining at Nakajima Racing and Kobayashi in one of the Team Goh cars for his first full season.
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