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Ayumu Iwasa, a member of the Mugen team, is featured in a photograph taken during the first round of the Super Formula series at the Suzuka Circuit on March 8, 2024. Red Bull junior driver Ayumu Iwasa will have the opportunity to participate in a Formula 1 race weekend for the first time. He will take over Daniel Ricciardo’s RB car during the FP1 session at the Japanese Grand Prix. Since 2022, the FIA has implemented a regulation that requires each of the 20 drivers on the grid to give up an FP1 session for a rookie driver who has participated in fewer than two Grand Prix races. While most teams chose to fulfill this obligation in later stages of the previous season, RB decided to fulfill one of its two obligations in the fourth round. During the first hour of practice in Suzuka, RB will have a team entirely made up of Japanese drivers, with Yuki Tsunoda remaining in the cockpit of the VCARB 01. Iwasa expressed his happiness and excitement to participate in an official F1 session in his home country, seeing it as the first step towards achieving his dream of winning races and becoming a world champion in F1, the most prestigious motorsport series in the world. Iwasa had his first experience testing an F1 car during the post-season test in Abu Dhabi last year with the team known as AlphaTauri at the time. RB team principal Laurent Mekies praised Iwasa’s performance in the Abu Dhabi test and highlighted the valuable work he has been doing since then, including live support in simulator races. Mekies believes that this track experience will be crucial for Iwasa’s development as a young driver and will provide useful real-world track data for the team’s engineers. Iwasa competed in Formula 2 last season with DAMS and achieved three victories, finishing fourth in the championship. He is now competing in the Japanese Super Formula with the Mugen team, where he finished ninth in his first race in Suzuka.
