Super Formula

Russian driver and F2 Veteran Artem Markelov will race in Super Formula with Toyota for the 2019 season with Team LeMans.

Japanese Formula 2 drivers Tadasuke Makino and Nirei Fukuzumi are set to both move into Super Formula next year instead of continuing in F1’s support series.

Current Super GT and Super Formula champion Naoki Yamamoto is being considered for a Free Practice outing in Formula 1 next year.

Japanese driver Nobuharu Matsushita is pushing Honda for him to make a return to the FIA Formula 2 next year, as he still aims to make it into Formula 1 in the near future.

The German was dropped by Sauber ahead of the 2018 F1 season, and upon his return to the DTM, is already plotting his way back.

Pierre Gasly has been praised for the way he came into Super Formula and performed in 2017 by the team-mate he made feel miserable by consistently beating him, Naoki Yamamoto.

Nirei Fuzukumi has become Arden Motorsport’s first confirmed driver for the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship.

Oliver Rowland will head to Japan next week to visit Team LeMans as he continues to look at where his future lies in 2018.

Pierre Gasly looks set to return to the Super Formula championship to fight for the title, rather than race for Toro Rosso at the United States Grand Prix.

Pierre Gasly’s participation in the United States Grand Prix later this month remains uncertain as the finale of the Super Formula championship takes place on the same weekend in Japan.

Rene Rosin believes Charles Leclerc, Pierre Gasly and Antonio Giovinazzi are deserving of Formula 1 rides in 2018.

Pierre Gasly completed 107 laps in total and was tenth fastest in the second day at the post-Hungarian Grand Prix test with Red Bull Racing.

Pierre Gasly admitted that the rumours at last year’s Italian Grand Prix that he would replace Daniil Kvyat at Toro Rosso unsettled him but it made him be more careful to what he says to the Media.

Felix Rosenqvist could add a Super Formula campaign alongside his Formula E commitments after being linked to the vacant drive at Team Le Mans.

Pierre Gasly and Niko Kari will remain as part of the Red Bull Junior Team programme in 2017, but Sergio Sette Câmara and Luis Leeds have lost their backing.