Koyama participated in the first two seasons of W Series, finishing seventh overall in the inaugural season in 2019 but slumping to 14th last year, and therefore missing out on an automatic invitation to return in 2022.
But now the 24-year-old from Yokohama has been signed as the first-ever female driver on Toyota’s TGR-DC young driver scheme, and will race in Formula Regional Japan for the Super License team.
Koyama previously raced in the championship in 2020 at Fuji in a one-off outing for Zap Speed, scoring a best finish of fifth. Last year, she also made one Super Formula Lights appearance for B-Max Engineering before returning to Europe to contest W Series.
Miki Koyama, B-Max Engineering
Photo by: Masahide Kamio
Super License took another female racer, Ai Miura, to second in the Formula Regional Japan standings last year behind Yuga Furutani.
Koyama joins a trio of TOM’S Super Formula Lights racers on the TGR-DC roster for this season: Kazuto Kotaka, Hibiki Taira and…
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