2026 Super Formula Championship

The 2026 Japanese Super Formula Championship will be the fifty-fourth season of premier Japanese single-seater motor racing, and the fourteenth under the moniker of Super Formula. Team Mugen driver Ayumu Iwasa enters the season as the defending series champion.

Teams and drivers

All teams use identical Dallara-built SF23 chassis with either Honda or Toyota engines. Every Honda-powered car uses a Honda HR-417E engine and every Toyota-powered car uses a Toyota TRD-01F engine. All teams compete with tyres supplied by Yokohama.

Team changes

• Super Formula Lights team Delightworks Racing will join the series. The team will use Honda engines and receive operational support from Toda Racing.

• TGM Grand Prix will expand to three Toyota-powered cars, adding a single car entered under the Team Goh name which returns to Super Formula after a three-year absence.

• Team Impul will downsize from two cars to one after the team failed to score points in 2025. The team acquired a new title sponsor in industrial equipment company SDG and will enter as Wecars Impul with SDG.

• Transport and logistics company Realize Corporation, a longtime sponsor of Kondo Racing, will officially become the team's title sponsor, with the team entering as Realize Kondo Racing. Kondo Racing also will expand to three Toyota-powered cars, adding a single car sponsored by used vehicle marketplace Navikuru running under the name Navikuru Buzz MK Racing.

• Automotive parts and accessories retailer Autobacs Seven will officially become Team Mugen's title sponsor, and entering as Team Mugen Autobacs.

Driver changes

• Nobuharu Matsushita will return to Super Formula for the first time since 2024 with the new Delightworks Racing team after a year on the sidelines where he competed in Super GT GT500 with ARTA.

• Two-time FIA World Rally Champion Kalle Rovanperä announced he would switch to single-seater racing and debut in Super Formula in 2026, before being confirmed to drive for KCMG. Ahead of the season, the team announced his withdrawal from the campaign after he was diagnosed with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. KCMG's reserve driver Seita Nonaka will replace him for the opening round, before the team decides on its lineup afterwards. The other KCMG car will be piloted by Kenta Yamashita, who departed Kondo Racing after nine seasons. Both drivers effectively replaced Kamui Kobayashi and Nirei Fukuzumi, who moved to TGMGP TGR-DC and Rookie Racing respectively.

• Following Yamashita departure to KCMG, Zak O'Sullivan also left Kondo Racing after his rookie season to join Team Impul. That saw Kondo take on two new drivers in Williams F1 Junior Driver Luke Browning, who will make his series debut after one and a half seasons in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, and Ukyo Sasahara returns to Super Formula after a year away from the series, where he competed in Super GT GT500 with Deloitte TOM'S.

• Rookie Racing signed Nirei Fukuzumi from KCMG to replace Kazuya Oshima, who retire from the series after 13 seasons of competition.

• Both Oliver Rasmussen and Mitsunori Takaboshi left Team Impul after one season, with Takaboshi focusing on his Super GT GT500 efforts with NISMO. The Team recruited former Kondo Racing driver, Zak O'Sullivan for his sophomore season.

• TGMGP also renewed their lineup as Kazuto Kotaka, Hibiki Taira, and Seita Nonaka all left the team, with Kotaka and Taira focusing on their Super GT GT300 campaigns and Nonaka moving to KCMG. Kamui Kobayashi left KCMG after nine seasons and will drive for TGMGP TGR-DC, using the number 7, the same number he has used in KCMG, and Rikuto Kobayashi will make his full-time Super Formula debut with the team after two seasons in Super Formula Lights and two one-off Super Formula entries for Team Impul in 2025.

• Second-generation driver Charlie Wurz will make his series debut with Team Goh after two seasons in the FIA Formula 3 Championship.

• Reigning Super Formula Lights champion and Honda Formula Dream Project graduate Yuto Nomura will make his series debut with B-Max Racing Team. He will replace Syun Koide, who joined ThreeBond Racing to replace Atsushi Miyake, who departs after two seasons to focus on his Super GT GT500 efforts with Kondo Racing.

• After 3 seasons in FIA Formula 2 Championship, Roman Staněk will make his series debut for Kondo's Buzz MK Racing outfit.

Race calendar

The provisional calendar was announced on 5 August 2025, with 12 races held across seven weekends at five venues.

Calendar changes

• The first Suzuka race will move from March to May, with Motegi set as the first round.

Race results

Championship standings

Scoring system

Race points

Qualifying points

Drivers' championship

Teams' championship

References

External links

• Super Formula official website