The chances of Sasahara finding a berth in Japan’s top single-seater series this season took a blow earlier this week, when rookie Atsushi Miyake was unveiled as Team Goh’s second driver for its first season as an independent team.
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It leaves only the second seat at B-Max Racing unassigned with less than a month to go until the start of pre-season testing at Suzuka.
Sasahara’s only confirmed programme for 2022 so far is in SUPER GT with Honda outfit Team Mugen, with which he also contested the 2020 Super Formula season as a substitute for absent Red Bull junior Juri Vips.
He then filled in for an unwell Tadasuke Makino at Dandelion Racing for the opening two races in 2021, scoring a podium at Suzuka, but was passed up for a full-time seat at the team this year in favour of Hiroki Otsu – who also replaced him at Mugen for 2021.
B-Max had been targeting a foreign driver with a budget to fill its second seat alongside Nobuharu Matsushita, but with Japan’s…
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