#tomoki nojiri

[starlightiing]

This is what it means to other Japanese drivers. People who raced alongside him, too.

Imagine what it must mean to Japanese fans.

Please use your energy to support Yuki as hard as you can during this time. If anyone CAN do it, Yuki can.

[sformula]

so tomoki has this youtube series called nojiri theory where he explains a bunch of super formula related things and he said that in hindsight it feels wrong of him to be the one crying at naoki's retirement (that it should've been tadasuke instead) and frankly i am shaking the screen

[kakunology]

Sena Sakaguchi, Toshiki Oyu (Vertex Partners Cerumo-Inging), Ayumu Iwasa, and Tomoki Nojiri (Team Mugen) ahead of the 2025 Super Formula test || Photographer Credit

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[ryo-hirakawa]

we (non-japanese watchers of superformula) need to put some respect on tomoki's name bc bro is fighting for a title despite missing a round due to PNEUMOTHORAX. if he was at 100% health the other guys would barely be in this title fight like...when they call him the undisputed champion it is serious

[penguinotaku]

Now introducing the Super Formula racers in Alice in Wonderland

Feat:

Alice Liddell- Juju Noda

White Rabbit- Iori Kimura

The Dodo- Naoki Yamamoto

Bill the Lizard- Hiroki Otsu

The Caterpillar- Kenta Yamashita

The Duchess- Nirei Fukuzumi

Cheshire Cat- Kamui Kobayashi

Mad Hatter- Toshiki Oyu

March Hare- Kazuto Kotaka

Dormouse- Ayumu Iwasa

Queen of Hearts- Manami Tsuboi

King of Hears- Sho Tsuboi

Mock Turtle- Yuji Kunimoto

The Griffon- Sena Sakaguchi

Tweedledee- Kakunoshin Ohta

Tweedledum- Takasuke Makino

Knave of Hearts- Ukyo Sasahara

The Red Queen- Tomoki Nojiri

The White Queen- Ren Sato

The Walrus- Atsushi Miyake

The Carpenter- Kazuya Oshima

A reimagining of the Jabberwock Poem by Lewis Carroll with the former Alpha Tauri racers.

With Liam as the Beamish Boy and Yuki, Nyck and Pierre as the Jubjub Bird, the Bandersnatch and the Jabberwock respectively.

Mayor Horner has tasked the newly appointed knight Liam Lawson with slaying the terrible trio of monsters that reside in Tulgey Woods.

Tulgey Woods however carries its secrets close to its chest and the beamish boy turned knight might start to question everything that he's heard.

Feat. a very messy budding Alpha Tauri polycule.

Oh my goodness, what a concept!

Now that makes me wonder who'll be Alice (and as a result, the rest of the characters in Wonderland such as the Red Queen, the White Queen, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, and so forth). Perhaps we may extend it to the Super Formula or Red Bull extended family

[nick-cassidy]

btw super formula has a double header finale this weekend, liam lawson is 8 points behind current title leader ritmo miyata

[yuki-tsunodas]

⸢ hi i'm yun (they/them)! ⸥

faves: ─ f1: yuki tsunoda, oscar piastri, liam lawson, alex albon ─ fe: mitch evans, max gunther, jev, sam bird + others...i love most of the grid! ─ wec: cadillac jota 12, cadillac jota 36, porsche 6, bmw 15, toyota 7, toyota 8 ─ imsa: whelen cadillac 31, bmw 24 ─ super formula: tomoki nojiri, sacha fenestraz, ayumu iwasa, nirei fukuzumi ─ others: callum ilott, marcus armstrong, logan sargeant, sebastian vettel, zhou guanyu

⸢ carrd, gifs/gfx, ao3 ⸥

[recentanimenews]

Gundam Breaker Battlogue Web Anime to Start Streaming Worldwide on October 19

    The official website for the forthcoming six-chapter web anime Gundam Breaker Battlogue has announced that it will start streaming worldwide on October 19, 2021. It will be streamed on the Gundam franchise's official YouTube channel "Gundam Channel" in Japan, and on Gundam.info overseas.

  The anime Gundam Breaker Battlogue is produced as part of the "Gundam Breaker Battlogue Project," which aims to further strengthen the linkage between the Gundam plastic models and the "Gundam Breaker" series inspired by them. It features the project's original mobile suits and characters from the Gundam Breaker Mobile smartphone game app and the Gundam Breaker 3 PlayStation4/PlayStation Vita game.

  Also, it was announced that the anime's theme song "Breaking Blazing" is performed by three-member Japanese rock band Mr.FanTastiC. Ahead of the digital release on October 20, the song's teaser music video is now streamed on YouTube.

    "Breaking Blazing" teaser MV:

    Mr.FanTastiC artist photo:

      "Gundam Breaker Battlogue" key visual:

    PV:

    Main staff:

  Planning and Production: Sunrise

Original Story: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino

Director: Masami Ohbari

Screenplay: Yuichiro Kitaoka (Repton), Hajime Mayumi (Repton)

"Gundam Breaker 3 Character Design: Yuriko Senba

"Gundam Breaker Mobile" Character Design: taiki

Character Design: Kenichi Onuki, Tamari Toida

Mechanical Design: Kunio Okawara, Kanetake Ebikawa, Kotaro Ando (Studio GS), Kyoryu, Kyoshi Takigawa, Naohiro Washio

Chief Mechanical Animator: Shinya Kusumegi 

Art Director: Kenta Masuda

Color Designer: Hiroyasu Kanemitsu

CG Director: Yuki Murozono

Director of Photography: Daichi Nogami

Editing: Yukiko Nojiri

Sound Director: Hitoshi Akitagawa

Planning Cooperation: NAMCO BANDAI Entertainment, BANDAI SPIRITS, Sotsu

    Main voice cast:

  Satsukino Misa: Yuka Iguchi

Fudou Ryusei: Kensho Ono

Miyama Sana: Takahashi Rie

Eisen Touma: Tomoki Ono

Kadomatsu: Tomokazu Sugita

    Source: "Gundam Breaker Battlogue" official website

  ©SOTSU, SUNRISE

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

[starlightiing]

Aquarium date! A collection of photos shared from Ren Sato, Nobuharu Matsushita, and Hiroki Otsu's posts/stories on instagram!

[sformula]

tomoki nojiri

[kakunology]

Tomoki Nojiri gets his 21st pole position, making recent history for most poles. He needs a few more poles to beat the all time record, but with the streak he's on, that may happen very soon!

Congratulations, Tomoki Nojiri!

[tattlepress]

Sho Tsuboi stays on top as Super Formula's Suzuka test ends

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Sho Tsuboi stays on top as Super Formula's Suzuka test ends

The Inging Toyota driver, who caused a surprise by topping the timesheets on Monday, was once again the driver to beat, setting a best time of 1m35.769s during the two-hour morning session.

That was almost exactly three tenths slower than his best time from Monday, with the reduced pace due in part to somewhat higher temperatures on a clear, sunny day at the Japanese Grand Prix venue.

Nakajima Racing’s Toshiki Oyu, who paced last December’s post-season test at Suzuka, was second-quickest and the only other driver to break into the 1m35s, 0.169s off the pace of Tsuboi.

Yuhi Sekiguchi was third-fastest for defending teams’ champion Impul, ahead of Dandelion newcomer Hiroki Otsu, three-time champion Naoki Yamamoto (Nakajima) and the second Impul car of Ryo Hirakawa.

Much like on Monday, the bulk of the best times were set in the morning, with afternoon pacesetter Ritomo Miyata (TOM’S) one of just four drivers of the 21 present to improve in the second session.

Ritomo Miyata, Kuo VANTELIN TEAM TOM’S

Photo by: Masahide Kamio

Miyata’s best time of 1m36.466s put him 0.247s clear of Kondo Racing’s Kenta Yamashita, but only seventh overall, with Yamashita eighth on the strength of his morning time.

Nirei Fukuzumi was an encouraging ninth for the minnow Drago Corse squad, while the second TOM’S machine of Giuliano Alesi completed the top 10.

Reigning champion Tomoki Nojiri (Mugen), second on Monday, could only manage the 11th-fastest time on Tuesday, the best part of a second slower than Tsuboi.

Besides Miyata, the only other drivers to improve in the afternoon were Sacha Fenestraz (Kondo), Tadasuke Makino (Dandelion) and Tsuboi’s Inging teammate Sena Sakaguchi.

Fenestraz caused the day’s first red flag when he went off at the S-curve in the morning, albeit sustaining little to no damage in the impact, which led to five minutes of extra running being added to the session.

Makino was likewise in the wars at the end of that session as he made light contact with Kamui Kobayashi’s KCMG car approaching the hairpin, ruining his hot lap and causing his engine to shut off in the process. However, he parked up on the inside of the hairpin, and the session stayed green.

The second and final stoppage came in the afternoon when B-Max Racing’s Nobuharu Matsushita spun exiting the hairpin, but he was able to keep the engine running and return to the pits under his own steam once the car had been recovered.

Super Formula Lights also held its first running of the year during the break between the two Super Formula sessions. TOM’S driver and Toyota junior Seita Nonaka set the pace ahead of Honda protege Kakunoshin Ota (Toda Racing) and Hibiki Taira (TOM’S).

Another TOM’S driver, Kazuto Kotaka, is sitting out this week’s test following a positive COVID-19 test.

Super Formula Lights testing continues with two more sessions on Wednesday, while the next running for Super Formula takes place at Fuji Speedway on March 22-23.

Suzuka testing times:

[ryo-hirakawa]

basic post for if you want to get into superformula

superformula is the top flight of motorsport in japan, home to the fastest single seaters after f1. it's been around since 1973, which is quite a while!

4 races of the season may have passed but it is not too late and since there is increased interest this year i thought people might want to know, so...

the format

there are 22 cars and 2 groups of qualifying, Q1A and Q1B. the top 6 of each group then go on to fight for pole in Q2. each session is 7 min long.

the polesitter gets 3 points, starting p2 gets you 2 points, starting p3 gets you 1 point. this makes qualifying more important than other series imo

the races are typically 40ish laps; over 250km. you are given 2 sets of tyre compounds and you need to use both during the race, which means everyone must pit at some point. expect strategies like an f2 feature race.

the race winner gets 20 points. p2 gets 15, p3 gets 11, p4 gets 8, p5 gets 6. p6 down to p10 gets 5 to 1 point.

the drivers

they are mostly japanese, clearly. the radio and bulk of the onsite interviews are in japanese, but english comms will translate so i think it's not a problem. also the interviewer switches languages at the drop of a hat she's insane (in a good way).

i'm going to introduce the names you might have heard of in other series. but shoutout to tomoki nojiri, the current reigning champion.

ok. if you're reading this chances are you've heard of liam lawson (#15) and his exploits in this series thus far. one of marko's twinks-in-waiting and arguably the most promising one rn. has had a decent amount of lore in his career for his age thanks to dtm. and twitch 💀 bffs with yuki tsunoda and appeared on dts bc of it

ryo hirakawa (#20), the beloved little brother in the toyota gazoo racing #8, won le mans and the wec wdc as a rookie. youngest ever super formula driver. has come close, but has never won the championship. which he should bc he's won super gt and japan f3 already and if he wins this it's the japanese triple crown. bffs with nick cassidy of fe championship leader fame (sorry i had to mention it somehow)

kamui kobayashi (#7), who is somehow driving and being his own team principal in wec (where he coincidentally also drives a toyota #7). was in f1, has multiple wec titles to his name. but no super formula title either. in fairness i doubt it was ever his main focus. still fun to have him around.

if you've followed f2 since like 2018? you'll recognise some names such as nirei fukuzumi #12 (cousin nirei if you follow albon_pets, also has been sf vice-champion), nobuharu matsushita #50 (the embodiment of that tomato girl aesthetic on tiktok), giuliano alesi #36 (son of the jean alesi), and cem bolukbasi #55 (most recent f2 to sf grad alongside liam)

the calendar

ok there are only 5 races left.

sugo, 16-18 june

fuji, 14-16 july

motegi, 18-20 august

suzuka double header, 27-29 october

that's it! i'm new to this too tbh and i understand the timezones are pretty ass for people that aren't in the asia pacific region but i hope this helps you out regardless!

[yuki-shipnoda]

Do the other Yurem members besides Yuki and Juju also get cooed and petted by the grid girls on the Super Formula paddock?

Liam's cockatoo form is also very popular with the WAGS, especially Tomoki Nojiri's wife much to Tomoki's chagrin.

Kazuto is the only one that does not regularly get pets because he is a raptor, which scares off the general public. That's not to say he doesn't get pets at all, he does get pets but it's not very often. The ones that do are raptor enthusiasts and ornithologists (take it from me, someone whose favourite animal is a barn owl and has held & petted a live barn owl with my own hands).

Adding on, imagine cockatoo Liam rizzing the WAGs and grid girls by doing all sorts of cute tricks

[tkmedia]

Real Racing Honda has "found something" at Suzuka

The #17 Real NSX-GT shared by Baguette and Koudai Tsukakoshi was the only car running with a fuel restrictor to make it out of the opening segment of qualifying, as the other championship frontrunners all fell in Q1. While Dunlop Honda teams Nakajima Racing and Mugen locked out the front row in Q2, Baguette was only a tenth of a second slower than the ARTA Honda of Tomoki Nojiri, which is also on Bridgestone rubber but running a 26kg handicap compared to the Real car's 52kg.  "To be the second-fastest Bridgestone car with the weight we have on the car and the fuel flow restrictor, we can only be happy about that, especially because all the guys fighting with us for the championship are behind," Baguette told Motorsport.com. "I’m also happy with my Q2 lap because I had to go with different tyres to my teammate. We had some issue on the tyre management in free practice, but still the laptime was there. "The biggest part of the job is tomorrow, but in every race we have been playing catch-up and starting at the back, even with a good race pace, so it was nice to qualify well for once. "It looks like we have found something. Koudai also did a great lap in practice and we were the best Bridgestone car. We were quite surprised about that. "The set-up is completely different to what we used in the first three races, a different concept unique to Suzuka, but it seems to be working well here."

Prospects uncertain if it rains

While Baguette is targeting a solid haul of points for Sunday's race, the possibility of rain at Suzuka continues to loom, despite Saturday's qualifying session taking place entirely in dry conditions. The last wet SUPER GT race came almost two years ago at Sugo, which was won by the Michelin-shod NDDP/B-Max Nissan (pictured below) ahead of Nakajima Racing's Dunlop-shod Honda.

  "The last time I drove this car in the wet was Sugo in 2019!" admitted Baguette. "Since the switch to the front-engined , I didn’t do even a single lap in the wet. "They had the tyre test this year and apparently the Bridgestone was fast, so looks like we should have some pace. But Michelin and Dunlop will be quite strong. It’s difficult to predict the exact ranking. It depends on the amount of water on track and the temperature. "For the Dunlop heavy rain is good as it cools down their tyre and keep the grip longer, if it’s just a bit damp they lose grip. Michelin is good in all conditions, especially in low water. "Bridgestone is more ok in all conditions but not the best. I think Bridgestone has the widest window. The good news is if the Bridgestone is struggling, at least you have eight other cars in the same situation!" For his part, poleman Takuya Izawa said he is confident the Dunlop tyre will perform well if it rains on Sunday. "Looking at the situation of the other manufacturers in tyre tests and so on, I'm confident," said the Nakajima Racing driver. shares comments Read the full article