Toshiki Oyu scores his second Super Formula pole position of the season at Sugo, beating Ritomo Miyata and Tomoki Nojiri. Full Sformula qualifying report:
TGM Grand Prix’s Toshiki Oyu claimed his second pole position of the 2023 Super Formula season at Sugo, beating TOM’S driver Ritomo Miyata in qualifying.Oyu set his best time of 1m05.648s right at the end of the seven-minute Q2 session, edging out practice pacesetter Miyata by just 0.031s as the leading 12 drivers were separated by just eight tenths of a second.
Reigning champion Tomoki Nojiri had looked set for pole when he lapped the circuit in 1m05.681s, the fastest time of the weekend until that driver, but the Mugen driver eventually qualified third after first Miyata and then Oyu went to the top of the times during the final seconds of qualifying. Ryo Hirakawa, fresh off his podium finish at the Le Mans 24 Hours, guided his Impul car to fifth, just 0.012s slower than the time he needed to qualify inside the first two rows.
Rookie Racing’s Kazuya Oshima qualified five tenths off the pace in eighth, separating Dandelion duo Makino and Kakunoshin Ota, with Nakajima Racing’s Ren Sato completing the top 10.The first part of qualifying featured a big crash for Cem Bolukbasi, the TGM driver going over the grass coming out of Turn 8 and crashing into the barriers with just seconds left on the clock.
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