{"id":336393,"date":"2025-12-09T04:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336393\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:33:10","slug":"doohan-becomes-last-minute-addition-to-super-formulas-suzuka-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336393\/","title":{"rendered":"Doohan becomes last-minute addition to Super Formula’s Suzuka test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex-Formula 1 driver Jack Doohan<\/a>, Freddie Slater and Ugo Ugochukwu have all been added to the line-up for this week\u2019s post-season Super Formula test at Suzuka.<\/p>\n

Series organiser JRP released a final entry list for the test on Tuesday, confirming the identity of all 36 drivers that will participate in the three-day test that starts on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

As previously reported by Motorsport.com<\/a>, Doohan looks certain to drive in Super Formula next season as he seeks to rebuild his career in the wake of losing his Alpine F1 seat to Franco Colapinto<\/a> after the opening six races of the campaign.<\/p>\n

He will drive at Suzuka \u2013 where he raced in this year\u2019s Japanese Grand Prix \u2013 for the Toyota-powered Kondo Racing<\/a> team on all three days of the test, the Australian driver taking over the #3 car raced this season by Kenta Yamashita.<\/p>\n

Although not yet formally confirmed by Toyota, Doohan is set to form part of an all-new international combination at Kondo together with Williams F1 junior Luke Browning.<\/p>\n

They will replace Yamashita, who is set to join KCMG<\/a>, and Zak O\u2019Sullivan, who looks well-placed to land a seat with what could become a one-car Team Impul<\/a> operation.<\/p>\n

\"Zak <\/p>\n

Zak O’Sullivan, Kondo Racing<\/p>\n

Photo by: Super Formula<\/p>\n

As revealed last Friday, Browning joins Kondo for the second and third days of the test in the sister #4 Dallara-Toyota, and will head to Japan directly from taking part in the F1 young driver test in Abu Dhabi for Williams on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Formula Regional European champion Slater will drive for TOM’S<\/a> on the third and final day of the test, which is reserved for drivers with fewer than four Super Formula starts.<\/p>\n

He will pilot the #37 car that will be driven on the first two days by Sacha Fenestraz, while 2024 Macau Grand Prix winner Ugochukwu will drive Sho Tsuboi\u2019s regular #1 car.<\/p>\n

Both Slater and Ugochukwu belong to the same ADD Management stable as Fenestraz, with newly-crowned F1 world champion Lando Norris<\/a> also part of the same group.<\/p>\n

Rallying star Kalle Rovanpera (KCMG), FIA Formula 3 racer Charlie Wurz (Team Goh), and Super Formula Lights champion Yuto Nomura (B-Max Racing) are among the other drivers who are set to sample Super Formula machinery for the first time this week.<\/p>\n

The test will comprise six sessions totalling 12 hours, with four-and-a-half hours of running taking place on Wednesday and Thursday and three hours on Friday.<\/p>\n

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