{"id":264392,"date":"2025-07-14T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264392\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:06:12","slug":"haas-to-run-fuji-f1-test-with-sho-tsuboi-and-ryo-hirakawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264392\/","title":{"rendered":"Haas to run Fuji F1 test with Sho Tsuboi and Ryo Hirakawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Haas Formula 1 team has announced that Super Formula champion Sho Tsuboi will take part in a TPC test with its VF-23 at Fuji Speedway next month.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota factory driver Tsuboi will join Haas reserve Ryo Hirakawa for the two-day test at the Japanese track, which last hosted a grand prix in 2008, on 6-7 August.<\/p>\n<p>It will mark Tsuboi\u2019s first-ever experience of grand prix machinery, and follows his maiden Super Formula title triumph with Toyota flagship team TOM\u2019S last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old wrote on social media: \u201cThank you to Team Haas and TGR [Toyota Gazoo Racing] for giving me this wonderful opportunity. Of course, I\u2019m very much looking forward to driving the F1 car. I want to make this the perfect day and take this once-in-a-lifetime chance to make my dreams come true!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsuboi\u2019s maiden F1 test opportunity is the latest manifestation of the collaboration between Haas and Toyota that was announced last year.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sho-tsuboi-vantelin-team-tom-s.jpg\" alt=\"Sho Tsuboi, VANTELIN TEAM TOM'S \" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Sho Tsuboi, VANTELIN TEAM TOM&#8217;S<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Masahide Kamio<\/p>\n<p>Hirakawa has already driven for the team on multiple occasions, including FP1 outings this year in Bahrain and Spain, while Tsuboi\u2019s predecessor as Super Formula champion Ritomo Miyata also drove for Haas at Jerez in January.<\/p>\n<p>Tsuboi took last year\u2019s Super Formula title after replacing Miyata at TOM\u2019S following the latter\u2019s move to Formula 2, winning three races at Fuji on his way to the crown.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>He currently sits third in the Super Formula standings ahead of this weekend\u2019s sixth and seventh rounds at Fuji, behind Tadasuke Makino and Kakunoshin Ohta.<\/p>\n<p>Tsuboi is also a three-time title winner in Super GT with TOM\u2019S, and leads the standings in that championship in his bid for a fourth title in the space of five years.<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Haas Formula 1 team has announced that Super Formula champion Sho Tsuboi will take part in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[41621,4199,92869,707,4200,79,101048,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-264392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-british-gp","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-british-grand-prix-2025","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-super-formula","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114851976608340229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}