Williams F1 junior O’Sullivan lands 2025 Super Formula seat with Kondo

Williams Formulation 1 junior driver Zak O’Sullivan has been introduced at Kondo Racing as a part of a 13-strong Toyota roster for the 2025 Tremendous Formulation season.

After driving on the ultimate day of the Suzuka post-season take a look at earlier this month, O’Sullivan will race Kondo’s #4 automobile full-time subsequent season, becoming a member of Kenta Yamashita on the squad.

The ex-Formulation 2 racer was certainly one of three worldwide drivers who participated within the Suzuka take a look at together with fellow Briton James Hedley and his former F2 rival Juan Manuel Correa.

O’Sullivan replaces Kazuto Kotaka at Kondo, however Kotaka will stay on the grid as a part of the newly-created TGMGP TGR-DC staff.

The staff, which carries the identify of Toyota’s home younger driver programme and boasts sponsorship from communications firm KDDI, will utilise employees from Servus Japan, which ran the TGM effort this 12 months with Honda engines.

Kotaka is joined within the staff by fellow Toyota junior Hibiki Taira, whereas Seita Nonaka, who impressed testing for KCMG at Suzuka this month, is known as as reserve.

Sacha Fenestraz, VANTELIN TEAM TOM’S

Picture by: Masahide Kamio

Elsewhere within the Toyota line-up, Sacha Fenestraz is confirmed as Sho Tsuboi’s team-mate at TOM’S because the Argentinian driver takes on a double programme that will even see him return to the marque’s SUPER GT roster with Workforce SARD.

Ex-Jota World Endurance Championship racer Oliver Rasmussen has additionally earned a full-time seat with Workforce Impul off the again of his take a look at displaying this 12 months.

The Danish driver joins Mitsunori Takaboshi at Impul, because the Nissan SUPER GT common steps up from his earlier position driving Toyota’s growth automobile.

KCMG (Kamui Kobayashi/Nirei Fukuzumi), Inging (Sena Sakaguchi/Toshiki Oyu) and Rookie Racing (Kazuya Oshima) all function equivalent line-ups to this season.

There isn’t any room within the expanded Toyota roster for Ukyo Sasahara, who was one other driver to check for Kondo however misplaced out to O’Sullivan in his bid for a full-time seat with the staff.

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