{"id":366179,"date":"2025-12-23T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366179\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:14:10","slug":"honda-reveals-2026-super-formula-roster-as-iwasa-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366179\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda reveals 2026 Super Formula roster as Iwasa returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honda has confirmed Ayumu Iwasa<\/a> will defend his Super Formula title next season alongside ongoing Formula 1 reserve duties.<\/p>\n

Iwasa will spend a third season with Team Mugen<\/a> in the Japanese single-seater series in 2026 after winning this year\u2019s championship at his second attempt.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old has never hidden his ambition of racing in F1 with the backing of Red Bull, which co-sponsored him along with Honda through much of his junior career and continued to employ him as a reserve and simulator driver across its two teams this year.<\/p>\n

However, Iwasa lost out in the race to replace Isack Hadjar at Racing Bulls to Arvid Lindblad, and faces another year of racing in Japan in a bid to prove himself for a step up in 2027.<\/p>\n

He will once again partner two-time champion Tomoki Nojiri<\/a> at Mugen.<\/p>\n

The remainder of Honda\u2019s roster sees few changes, with Dandelion Racing<\/a> retaining Tadasuke Makino<\/a> and Kakunoshin Ohta<\/a> for a fourth season and rookie of the year Igor Fraga<\/a> earning a second campaign at Nakajima Racing<\/a> alongside Ren Sato<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One change is that Yuto Nomura, who won this year\u2019s Super Formula Lights title, will join B-Max Racing in place of Shun Koide, who is expected to move over to ThreeBond Racing<\/a>, although this remains unconfirmed.<\/p>\n

\"Jack <\/p>\n

Jack Doohan, Alpine<\/p>\n

Photo by: Sam Bagnall \/ Motorsport Images<\/p>\n

Last Friday, Toyota revealed 11 of the 13 drivers that will race its cars in Super Formula, confirming several driver moves that were previewed by the Suzuka test.<\/p>\n

It confirmed Kenta Yamashita<\/a>\u2019s switch from Kondo Racing<\/a> to KCMG<\/a>, where he will partner two-time World Rally champion Kalle Rovanpera, Zak O\u2019Sullivan joining the one-car Impul<\/a> squad, and Kamui Kobayashi<\/a> leaving KCMG in favour of a move to TGM Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Charlie Wurz was also confirmed as Team Goh\u2019s sole driver for its comeback to Super Formula, which was announced just prior to the test.<\/p>\n

Kondo Racing\u2019s line-up was left as TBD, although the team is still expected to field Alpine F1 outcast Jack Doohan and Formula 2 race winner Luke Browning in 2026.<\/p>\n

Wurz\u2019s younger brother Oscar was also confirmed for a season of Super Formula Lights with TOM\u2019S alongside Japanese youngsters Kiyoshi Umegaki and Tokiya Suzuki.<\/p>\n

Formula Regional European race winner Akshay Bohra appears to be the frontrunner for the final TOM\u2019S Lights seat after driving for the team in testing at Suzuka last week.<\/p>\n

Another frontrunner from that series, Evan Giltaire, could also be in line for a move to Japan after topping three of four sessions at Suzuka driving for B-Max Racing.<\/p>\n

2026 Super Formula driver lineup so far:<\/p>\n

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– The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honda has confirmed Ayumu Iwasa will defend his Super Formula title next season alongside ongoing Formula 1 reserve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,198825,85,39693],"class_list":["post-366179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-honda-reveals-2026-super-formula-roster-as-iwasa-returns","tag-sports","tag-super-formula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}