Photo: Super Formula Lights
The 2025 Super Formula Lights season gets underway at Suzuka this weekend, and is set for a grid of 14 drivers.
It is the second season to feature the Dallara 324 car, and it is already an increase on last year’s grid sizes which peaked at 13 cars and averaged 12.
Toyota announced which of its juniors would be racing in SF Lights last December, placing three drivers at TOM’S. That team’s line-up will be completed by Yuga Furutani, who was Formula Regional Japanese champion in 2021 and has claimed over 10 SF Lights podiums but no wins in the years since.
Entering two cars is Delightworks Racing, which was established by gaming company Delightworks and made its first steps in racing via FRJC last year. It will field former Red Bull junior Souta Arao, already a SF Lights podium-finisher and a French Formula 4 race-winner, and fellow Honda protege Yusuke Mitsui who was the 2022 Japanese F4 runner-up.
B-MAX Racing will run seven cars at Suzuka, including two for international talents. Staying for a second season is 22-year-old American racer Kaylen Frederick, who won one race last year, and stepping up to join them is Zachary David.
The 17-year-old Filipino has won races in F4 and spent last year in FRegional. He came fourth in the Middle East championship, making the podium four times, and was 13th in the European championship with one podium.
Their team-mates are reigning Japanese F4 champion and Honda junior Yuto Nomura, team boss “Dragon”, FRJC podium-finisher Kazuhisa Urabe, Japanese F4 race-winner Tosei Moriyama and Yasuhiro Shimizu.
Completing SF Lights’ round one grid is LM Corsa’s Reimei Ito, who was Porsche Carrera Cup Japan champion in 2024 in addition to racing in single-seaters.