KCMG has introduced an uncommon car-sharing association involving Giuliano Alesi and Seita Nonaka for subsequent week’s Tremendous Method triple-header at Fuji Speedway.
The Toyota-powered workforce revealed on Thursday that Alesi, the son of Method 1 cult hero Jean, will drive the workforce’s #9 automobile for Rounds 6 and seven, whereas Nonaka will contest Sunday morning’s dash race, the substitute for the cancelled Autopolis spherical.
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KCMG is obliged to run Nonaka for the dash race, which shall be run over a decreased distance of 25 laps with no necessary pit cease, as he certified the automobile at Autopolis.
Nonetheless, it’s anticipated that the Japanese driver’s solely alternative to drive the Hitech-run machine previous to the race would be the reconnaissance laps, as KCMG prioritises giving Alesi as a lot monitor time as potential to organize for his Tremendous Method comeback.
After the Fuji spherical, Alesi will occupy the seat that ought to have initially gone to Kalle Rovanpera earlier than his withdrawal resulting from sickness for the rest of the yr.
Alesi returned to Tremendous Method motion for the primary time in three years for the in-season check at Fuji, which marked his first look within the championship since he was discarded by TOM’S halfway by means of the 2023 season.
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The French driver made headlines in 2021 when he received in simply his second look at Autopolis in moist situations, however after that his greatest end was eighth.
Seita Nonaka, KCMG
Seita Nonaka, KCMG
Since shedding his TOM’S drive, Alesi has centered largely on racing in SUPER GT for a similar workforce, though he was a part of Rookie Racing’s 2024 title-winning Tremendous Taikyu effort and extra not too long ago has contested each the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Nurburgring 24 Hours.
Nonaka’s greatest end in 4 makes an attempt in 2026 has been seventeenth, and he’s set to begin fifteenth for the substitute race because the qualifying outcomes from Autopolis shall be used to set the grid.
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The 2021 Japanese F4 champion’s solely factors end got here final yr at Motegi, when he substituted for an absent Kamui Kobayashi at KCMG and completed eighth.
He subsequently failed to attain in seven begins for TGM Grand Prix and misplaced his seat on the finish of the yr, solely incomes a reprieve when Rovanpera was pressured to face down.
Nonaka will return to being KCMG’s reserve driver for the remainder of the yr.
KCMG’s solely factors end of the yr thus far has been a seventh place for Kenta Yamashita within the second leg of the season-opening Motegi double-header in April.
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