Fuji – Race 1: Tsuboi wins ahead of Iwasa, Kobayashi back on the podium five years later

By winning for the second time this season, in the first race held at Fuji this weekend, Sho Tsuboi is back to within half a point of championship leader Tomoki Nojiri.

Published 12/10/2024 à 10:48

Dorian Grangier

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Fuji – Race 1: Tsuboi wins ahead of Iwasa, Kobayashi back on the podium five years later

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  • The 2024 Super Formula Championship is living up to its promise and it can't get any tighter than this! Winner of Race 1 at Fuji, which hosts a double-header this weekend, Sho Tsuboi is putting pressure on Tomoki Nojiri in the Drivers' standings: thanks to his second win this season – the first having already taken place at Fuji, last July – the Team TOM'S driver is just half a point behind the championship leader before the last three races!
  • Starting from 7th place, Sho Tsuboi made a great start and gained several positions in the first laps and found himself in the exhausts of his championship rival from the start of the race. The TOM'S driver managed a one-lap overcut and was able to resist Tomoki Nojiri despite cold tires coming out of the pits.
  • Sho Tsuboi then got the better of Kakunoshin Ota and Ayumu Iwasa, who had nevertheless succeeded in the undercut by stopping much earlier. The clan's protégé Red Bull However, he took 2nd place and a third podium this season, and is now in 4th place in the Super Formula championship, 13,5 points behind the leader.
  • Five years after his last podium in the discipline, Kamui Kobayashi regained his place on the box by finishing 3rd with Team KCMG, thanks to a successful staggered strategy with a stop quite early in the race. The driver Toyota en WEC had not won a podium in Super Formula since Motegi 2019!
  • For his second appearance in Super Formula, Nyck de Vries failed to reach the points, in 11th place, despite a nice rise of seven places compared to his starting position on the grid.

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Dorian Grangier

A young journalist nostalgic for the motorsport of yesteryear. Raised on the exploits of Sébastien Loeb and Fernando Alonso.

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