“I think that could be my Japanese philosophy or the culture, community team, your senpai, but they’re so important,” says Ikuzawa. “And Hiroshi has been so important in my career path. He’s also a godfather to one of my children as well, Uncle Hiroshi. He’s been so important in my life, opening doors, helping me, just design judgment, everything. Everybody around me is so important, I think. And you have to always remember to give as much as you get back as well.” 

“We really look after each other because Team Ikuzawa is very small. It’s just me and two other people in the company. I’m too embarrassed to even call it a company. It’s really a passion project. Just getting the right racing drivers, getting the right projects together—it’s all because of the right community, the friendships. So every project has to be very, very authentic and really good fun.”