Yuto Nomura
| Yuto Nomura | |
|---|---|
 Nomura in 2025 | |
| Nationality |  Japanese |
| Born | 12 November 2005 Nagoya, Japan |
| Super GT - GT500 career | |
| Debut season | 2025 |
| Current team | Real Racing |
| Car number | 17 |
| Former teams | UpGarage |
| Starts | 8 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Podiums | 1 |
| Poles | 1 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | 11th in 2025 |
| Super Formula Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2026 |
| Current team | B-Max Racing |
| Car number | 50 |
| Starts | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | TBD in 2026 |
| Previous series | |
| 2025 2025 2023–2024 2022 | Super Formula Lights Super GT - GT300 Formula 4 Japan Formula 4 France |
| Championship titles | |
| 2025 2024 | Super Formula Lights F4 Japanese Championship |
Yuto Nomura (野村勇斗, Nomura Yuto; born 12 November 2005) is a Japanese racing driver who currently competes in the Super Formula Championship for B-Max Racing. He has won back-to-back titles in Super Formula Lights and the F4 Japanese Championship in 2025 and 2024.
Career
Formula 4
Nomura made his formula racing debut in the French F4 Championship alongside his compatriot Souta Arao as part of winning the HRS Formula Scholarship.[1] Nomura won 2 races and got 2 podiums, but only managed to rack up 7th in the standings.[2] He was also a member of the Red Bull Junior Team for that season only. Nomura returned to Japan to compete in F4 Japanese Championship with Honda Formula Dream Project, alongside Yusuke Mitsui & Tosei Moriyama. He claimed fourth in the standings with just a win and 8 podiums.[3] Nomura then race in the same series, but move to HFDP with B-Max Racing Team after the HFDP F4 team discontinued their running.[4][5] Nomura wins the title from his teammate Ryota Horachi, with seven wins to his name, and clinch lots of podiums.
Super Formula Lights
After won the F4 Japan title, Nomura promoted to Super Formula Lights with HFDP with B-Max Racing Team.[6]
Super GT
GT300
Nomura will make GT300 debut with Team UpGarage alongside Takashi Kobayashi in 2025.[7]
Racing record
Racing career summary
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | French F4 Championship | FFSA Academy | 19 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 100 | 7th |
| 2023 | F4 Japanese Championship | Honda Formula Dream Project | 14 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 167 | 4th |
| 2024 | F4 Japanese Championship | HFDP with B-Max Racing Team | 13 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 236 | 1st |
| 2025 | Super Formula Lights | B-Max Racing Team | 18 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 153 | 1st |
| Super GT - GT300 | Team UpGarage | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 61.5 | 11th | |
| Super Taikyu - ST-Q | Team HRC | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | NC | |
| 2026 | Super Formula | San-Ei Gen with B-Max | |||||||
| Super GT - GT500 | Astemo Real Racing |
Complete French F4 Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | NOG 1 7 |
NOG 2 1 |
NOG 3 10 |
PAU 1 Ret |
PAU 2 DNS |
PAU 3 DNS |
MAG 1 9 |
MAG 2 1 |
MAG 3 Ret |
SPA 1 7 |
SPA 2 10 |
SPA 3 6 |
LÉD 1 5 |
LÉD 2 5 |
LÉD 3 Ret |
CRT 1 Ret |
CRT 2 6 |
CRT 3 4 |
LEC 1 9 |
LEC 2 7 |
LEC 3 11 |
7th | 100 |
Complete F4 Japanese Championship results
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Honda Formula Dream Project | FUJ1 2 Ret |
FUJ1 1 2 |
SUZ1 1 3 |
SUZ1 2 3 |
FUJ2 1 2 |
FUJ2 2 3 |
SUZ2 1 3 |
SUZ2 2 2 |
SUG 1 1 |
SUG 2 24 |
AUT 1 6 |
AUT 2 5 |
MOT 1 Ret |
MOT 2 5 |
4th | 167 |
| 2024 | HFDP with B-Max Racing Team | FUJ1 2 2 |
FUJ1 1 DNS |
SUZ1 1 1 |
SUZ1 2 1 |
FUJ2 1 3 |
FUJ2 2 8 |
SUG 1 7 |
SUG 2 4 |
AUT 2 1 |
MOT 1 1 |
MOT 2 1 |
MOT 3 1 |
SUZ2 1 1 |
SUZ2 2 2 |
1st | 236 |
Complete Super Formula Lights results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | B-Max Racing Team | SUZ 1 2 |
SUZ 2 2 |
SUZ 3 2 |
AUT 1 8 |
AUT 2 7 |
OKA 1 1 |
OKA 2 1 |
OKA 3 1 |
SUG 1 1 |
SUG 2 1 |
SUG 3 1 |
SUG 4 1 |
FUJ 1 1 |
FUJ 2 3 |
FUJ 3 1 |
MOT 1 1 |
MOT 2 1 |
MOT 3 1 |
1st | 153 |
* Season still in progress.
Complete Super GT results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Team UpGarage | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | GT300 | OKA 21 |
FUJ 23 |
SEP 1 |
FS1 (10) |
FS2 7 |
SUZ 11 |
SUG 7 |
AUT 8 |
MOT 10 |
11th | 61.5 |
| 2026 | Astemo Real Racing | Honda Prelude-GT | GT500 | OKA |
FUJ |
SEP |
FUJ |
SUZ |
SUG |
AUT |
MOT |
‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
(Number) Driver did not take part in this sprint race, points are still awarded for the teammate's result.
* Season still in progress.
Complete Super Formula results
| Year | Team | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | San-Ei Gen with B-Max | Honda | MOT |
MOT |
AUT |
SUZ |
SUZ |
FUJ |
FUJ |
SUG |
FUJ |
FUJ |
SUZ |
SUZ |
* Season still in progress.
References
- ^ "Red Bull to have five F1 juniors on 2022 F2 grid". .the-race.com. 14 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Honda's Nomura wins on debut F4 weekend in reversed grid Nogaro race". Formula Scout. 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ "Nomura and Urabe win but Mitsui takes Japanese F4 lead at Sugo". Formula Scout. 17 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ "Honda 2024 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Racing. 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ "'No Third Year' Battle; Three HFDP Drivers Take on FIA-F4". Honda Racing. 19 June 2023.
- ^ "French F4 champion Taito Kato to race in FRegional with ART GP". fFormula Scout. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Klein, Jamie (10 January 2025). "Team UpGarage Reveals Switch to Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo". Sportscar365. John Dagys Media. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
External links
- Yuto Nomura career summary at DriverDB.com