Makino tops Suzuka Super Formula test as Bearman stars

Tadasuke Makino was quickest throughout three days of post-season Tremendous Components testing at Suzuka, as Haas Components 1 signing Oliver Bearman went third-fastest on the ultimate day.

Dandelion Racing driver Makino was in motion for the primary two days of the take a look at, and set a brand new unofficial document at Suzuka for the reason that SF23’s introduction with a finest time of 1m35.597s within the afternoon session on Thursday.

That was simply 0.059s away from team-mate Kakunoshin Ota, who skipped Wednesday’s working to attend Honda’s 2025 presentation in Tokyo earlier than returning to motion on Thursday.

Ota’s absence on Wednesday afforded Makino a uncommon likelihood to drive each Dandelion automobiles, swapping between the #5 and #6 automobiles a number of occasions, though all his finest laptimes had been recorded on the wheel of the #5 automobile.

Friday’s closing day of working was reserved for rookies, with Bearman the star attraction as he took over the #7 KCMG automobile pushed this season by Kamui Kobayashi.

The 2025 Haas F1 driver set the third-fastest time of the day within the morning session, a 1m36.940s, placing him behind Nakajima Racing’s Igor Fraga and Seita Nonaka, who switched to KCMG’s #8 automobile for Friday after driving the #7 on Thursday.

Oliver Bearman, Youngsters com Staff KCMG

Photograph by: Masahide Kamio

Nonetheless, turbo failure introduced Bearman’s afternoon session to an early finish, though enhancements had been few and much between as Inging driver Yuui Tsutsumi, who drives for the crew in SUPER GT, suffered a crash within the closing phases.

Fraga, who’s the overwhelming favorite to take over the retired Naoki Yamamoto’s drive at Nakajima Racing in 2025, was the quickest on the ultimate day, together with his lap of 1m36.077s placing him fifth general for the take a look at behind Sena Sakaguchi (Inging) and Tomoki Nojiri (Mugen).

The opposite Nakajima automobile of Ren Sato, whose place within the crew for subsequent season was confirmed by Honda on Wednesday, was sixth, forward of Toshiki Oyu (Inging), this yr’s champion Sho Tsuboi (TOM’S), Nonaka and Atsushi Miyake (ThreeBond).

Sacha Fenestraz was Eleventh-fastest for TOM’S as he made his Tremendous Components return after shedding his Nissan Components E drive on the finish of final season, simply forward of Pink Bull junior Ayumu Iwasa within the second of the Mugen automobiles.

Bearman ended up fifth-fastest of the rookies for your entire take a look at behind Tremendous Components Lights champion Shun Koide (B-Max) and Oliver Rasmussen (Impul).

Of the opposite worldwide newcomers, Williams F1 junior Zak O’Sullivan was eighth-fastest on Friday and twenty fourth general for Kondo Racing, simply forward of fellow Briton James Hedley, son of early Nineties British F3 racer Grey, additionally driving for Kondo.

Juan Manuel Correa additionally drove for Kondo on the second day of the take a look at within the #4 automobile that his former F2 rival O’Sullivan took over on Friday, going 18th-fastest on that day and twenty seventh of the 31 drivers entered for the take a look at.

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