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How Atsushi Miyake earned his Team Goh chance

How Atsushi Miyake earned his Team Goh chance

As announced last week, Miyake and Honda junior Ren Sato will form an all-rookie line-up at Goh as the Servus Japan-run team splits from Team Mugen and sets up on its own for the 2022 campaign.

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There’s a certain irony in the two youngsters being paired up, as Miyake can justifiably point the finger at his new teammate for losing his Honda backing at the end of 2019.

That’s because Sato completely dominated that year’s Japanese Formula 4 season, winning 11 out of 14 races – and that’s despite not being a fully-paid up Honda junior at the time. Miyake had that status, having been the chief graduate from the marque’s Suzuka Racing School in 2018, but managed just a single win, ending up a distant second overall.

It meant Sato got the chance to go to Europe and race in French F4 the following season along with 2019 SRS scholar Ayumu Iwasa, while Miyake was shown the door by Honda.

“There were some races that I got pole, but always I messed up the start and…

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