Williams System 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 System season.
After driving on the ultimate day of the Suzuka post-season check 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-System 2 racer was one in all three worldwide drivers who participated within the Suzuka check 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 crew.
The crew, which carries the title 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 crew by fellow Toyota junior Hibiki Taira, whereas Seita Nonaka, who impressed testing for KCMG at Suzuka this month, is called as reserve.
Sacha Fenestraz, VANTELIN TEAM TOM’S
Photograph 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 can even see him return to the marque’s SUPER GT roster with Staff SARD.
Ex-Jota World Endurance Championship racer Oliver Rasmussen has additionally earned a full-time seat with Staff Impul off the again of his check displaying this 12 months.
The Danish driver joins Mitsunori Takaboshi at Impul, because the Nissan SUPER GT common steps up from his earlier function driving Toyota’s improvement automobile.
KCMG (Kamui Kobayashi/Nirei Fukuzumi), Inging (Sena Sakaguchi/Toshiki Oyu) and Rookie Racing (Kazuya Oshima) all function similar line-ups to this season.
There is no such thing as a 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 crew.
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Jamie Klein
Tremendous System
Zak O’Sullivan
Kondo Racing
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