Super Formula

Daniel Ticktum’s results in the Japanese-based Super Formula championship were not good enough for Red Bull to keep him in their Junior Team programme, according to Christian Horner.

The Checkered Flag looks back at the Super Formula round at Sugo and the race weekend at Suzuka for the Asian Formula 3 drivers.

The Checkered Flag looks back at the race weekends in Pau for EuroFormula Open and French F4, Autopolis for Super Formula and Misano for Italian Formula 4.

The Checkered Flag looks back at the opening weekend of Super Formula at Suzuka, while the French F4 championship also begun at Nogaro.

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.